NYT Editorial by Tiya Miles It’s been two years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, one we can celebrate together as a nation. The signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021 was an expression of real progress in the collective understanding of Black struggle that reinforced our national ideals of…Continue Reading As Juneteenth Goes National, We Must Preserve the Local
Their eyes filled with tears, their mouths with accusations after losing a game of European handball. The fourth- and fifth-graders were so upset that they soon received counsel from a gym teacher. “You need to accept that this is how it goes, and not just say that they cheated,” he told them. “But they were…Continue Reading How schools teach children about their social station
My guest is Yuhua Wang, professor of Government here at Harvard. We are going to be talking about your new book published by Princeton University Press in October entitled, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 8: Yuhua Wang
The crown jewel of the Inequality in America Initiative is our postdoctoral scholars program, and today we are featuring two members of our fifth cohort: Peter Harvey talking on education and Jessica Katzenstein talking on police reform. Two of our august faculty…Continue Reading 5th Dean’s Symposium: Inequality in America
I’m delighted to have with me as a guest for the discussion Frank Dobbin, who is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology and who is co-author of the really important new book –Getting to Diversity– What Works and What Doesn’t….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 7: Frank Dobbin
Today’s symposium is ‘China in Focus: New Social Science Approaches,’ which should be especially timely and interesting. China, of course, is of increasing importance as a global economic force, as a technological leader, and as a geopolitical actor on the world stage….Continue Reading 4th Dean’s Symposium: China in Focus
My guest for this discussion is Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy. And he is also currently chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies. We are focused on Professor Shelby’s newest book, The Idea of Prison Abolition….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 6: Tommie Shelby
Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1….Continue Reading Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president
It is my pleasure to be talking with William C Kirby today. He is the TM Chang Professor of China Studies as well as the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration. We’ll be talking about his new book, Empires of Ideas….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 5: William C. Kirby
My guest today is Caroline Elkins, and we will be talking about her major new book, Legacy of Violence, A History of the British Empire, published this year by Knopf. Professor Elkins, welcome. You are, of course, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Imperial Reckoning, The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 4: Caroline Elkins
