Inquiry, innovation, and impact come alive on April 14 and 15, 2023, during GSAS’s Alumni Days. This expanded celebration brings alumni, faculty, students, and friends together for two extraordinary days to take part in conversations with some of the world’s leading scholars, engage with alumni across the disciplines, and celebrate GSAS’s milestone anniversary!
You will also hear from Dean Emma Dench about the future of graduate education, get an inside look at the Harvard Art Museums, and delve into GSAS history at a special exhibit curated by the Harvard Archives. In between the talks and activities, network with your fellow alumni and recapture the magic of being back on campus with friends old and new.
In addition, some departments are planning program-specific activities around Alumni Days. Participating departments will reach out directly to their alumni to share more details. Stay tuned!
Don’t miss this celebration 150 years in the making! Register online by Friday, April 7.
Friday, April 14, 2023
10:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m.
Robotics Lab Tours at the Science and Engineering Complex
Scheduled tours of Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences' (SEAS) new building.
150 Western Ave, Boston, MA
1:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Check-In & Registration
Science Center Atrium, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Afternoon Sessions with Harvard Faculty & GSAS alumni
(speaker bios are available below)
2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Psychological Safety and Why It Matters Today More than Ever
Amy Edmondson, AB ’81, AM ’95, PhD ’96, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School
Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Left to their own devices, people hold back critical inputs at work. They don’t express their thoughts, ask questions, offer critique or dissent, or brainstorm out loud. And they certainly don’t admit to failures. Psychological safety describes a climate in which these kinds of interpersonal risks are no big deal, where mistakes are owned and corrected, and where ideas and concerns are shared freely. This session will give an overview of the research on psychological safety and why it matters for teaming, problem-solving, and innovation. I’ll explore how small acts of leadership can build psychological safety—through stage setting, inviting engagement, and responding in learning-oriented ways.
2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Working with Prints
Elizabeth Rudy, PhD ’07, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Join Elizabeth Rudy (PhD '07), Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, for an exploration of some of the masterpieces in the prints collection. Spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, prints comprise the largest collection within the museums’ overall holdings of roughly a quarter million objects. Rudy will share insights about specific prints and discuss how she works to increase the visibility of the overall collection for students and the general public alike.
3:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data
Raj Chetty, AB ’00, PhD ’03, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, and Director of Opportunity Insights
Science Center, Hall E, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Children’s chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90 percent to 50 percent over the past half century in America. How can we restore the American Dream of upward mobility for our children? In this talk, Raj Chetty, joined by Benny Goldman, will discuss recent work they have done to study this question. Among other topics, the talk will show how children’s chances of climbing the income ladder vary across neighborhoods, analyze the sources of racial disparities in intergenerational mobility, and discuss the role of social capital in creating greater income mobility.
4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Empires of Ideas: Will China Surpass America (including Harvard) in the World of Universities?
William C. Kirby, PhD ’81, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Germany defined the modern research university in the 19th century. American institutions set global standards in the 20th century. What are the prospects for Chinese leadership in the 21st century? In a changing global landscape, how can Harvard still be the “Harvard” of the 21st century?
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Networking and Cocktail Reception
B100, Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Dinner
B100, Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 15, 2023
8:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Check-In & Registration
Emerson Hall Lobby, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Breakfast Reception in the 150th Anniversary Exhibit
Harvard University Archives, Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Welcome and Conversation with the Dean
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
10:45 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Reflections Through 150 Years
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Luncheon
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Afternoon Sessions with Harvard Faculty & GSAS alumni
(speaker bios are available below)
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Strategies for Addressing Gun Violence
David Hemenway, AB ’66, PhD ’74, Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zirui Song, MD ’10, PhD ’12, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Internal Medicine Physician, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Beyond the Horizon
Past and present scholars
Emerson Hall, Room 210, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Conversations with current and former Harvard Horizons scholars about their research, how they learned to present their work to a broad audience, and the future of their disciplines.
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
The Ethics and Politics of Grief
Matthew Ichihashi Potts, MDiv ’08, PhD ’13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and the Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church
Mac Loftin, PhD candidate in theology in the Committee on the Study of Religion
Emerson Hall, Room 210, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
An exploration of how grief—the experience and acceptance of inevitable, irrevocable loss—can provide alternative foundations for both justice and politics, with close studies of both the practice of forgiveness and the rise of fascism in the West.
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Rethinking College Admissions in the Wake of SFFA v. Harvard
Natasha Warikoo, PhD ’05, Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology at Tufts University
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
A decision in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill cases in the US Supreme Court will land in May or June. What will it mean for affirmative action and for higher education more broadly? In this session Warikoo will draw from her book, Is Affirmative Action Fair? The Myth of Equity in College Admissions (Polity, 2023) to argue that we should move away from viewing college admission as a certification of individual merit, toward viewing it as a process that should be led by the mission of our universities. We’ll explore what a mission-driven admissions process might look like.
4:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Closing Reception
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Parking
We are currently arranging free parking for attendees in several garages across Harvard's campus. Specific details and addresses will be posted here once confirmed.
Hotels & Accommodations
The following hotels offer Harvard preferred rates. Please contact the hotel directly to coordinate your bookings and state that you are a Harvard GSAS alum attending Alumni Days on April 14 and 15.
Hotel Veritas
1 Remington St, Cambridge, MA 02138
P: 617-520-5000
Residence Inn by Marriott Boston Cambridge
120 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
P: 617-349-0700
Cambria Hotel Boston Somerville
515 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143
P: (617) 341-9040
*Harvard Rate 10% off with code "LHRVRD"
Questions? Email gsaa@fas.harvard.edu.
Speaker Biographies
Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the director of Opportunity Insights, which uses big data to study the science of economic opportunity: how we can give children from all backgrounds better chances of succeeding? Chetty’s work has been widely cited in academia, media outlets, and policy discussions in the United States and beyond.
Chetty received his PhD from Harvard University in 2003 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field.
Amy Edmondson
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.
Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley, 2019), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy and has been translated into 15 languages.
Benny Goldman
Benny Goldman is a PhD student in the economics department at Harvard University and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research uses administrative data to study intergenerational mobility in the United States. Recently he has focused on the role that family formation plays in determining economic opportunity across generations and the dynamics of racial inequality in the US. Benny is also a Linda G. Hammett Ory Fellow at the Harvard Education School, where he works with the EdRedesign Lab to study the later life impacts that “whole child” approaches to education have on children who grow up in high poverty neighborhoods.
David Hemenway
David Hemenway, AB ’66, PhD ’74, is professor of health policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. In 2012, he was recognized by the CDC as one of the twenty “most influential injury and violence professionals over the past 20 years.” His books include Private Guns & Public Health and While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention. He has won 10 HSPH teaching awards and the inaugural Student Association community engagement award, and was a Radcliffe Fellow from 2020-2021.
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor. Professor Kirby serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai. At Harvard he has served as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, chairman of the History Department, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His current projects include case studies of trend-setting Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States. His recent books include Can China Lead? (Harvard Business Review Press) and China and Europe on the New Silk Road (Oxford University Press). His latest book, Empires of Ideas: Creating Modern Universities from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press), is now available.
Mac Loftin
Mac Loftin is a PhD candidate in theology in the Committee on the Study of Religion, where he studies the relationship between Christian theology and political thought, principally in relation to far-right movements in interwar Europe and today.
Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Matthew Ichihashi Potts is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and the Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church. His book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, is recently available from Yale University Press.
Elizabeth M. Rudy
Elizabeth M. Rudy, AM ’02, PhD ’07, history of art and architecture, is the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, where she stewards a large collection spanning the 16th to 21st centuries. She has worked at the museum since 2011 and held previous fellowships at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a specialist of 18th and 19th-century prints, with a special focus on French and francophone artists and the technique of etching. Her recent exhibitions include Prints from the Brandywine Workshop: Creative Communities (March 4 – July 31, 2022), and Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings from the Age of Enlightenment (September 16, 2022 – January 15, 2023). The latter was accompanied by a major publication, co-edited by Elizabeth, Edouard Kopp, and Kristel Smentek; it was recently featured in The New York Times as one of the best art books of 2022.
Zirui Song
Zirui Song, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. His work focuses on health care spending and the effects of payment policy and social interventions on health and economic outcomes. He practices primary care and attends on the inpatient medicine teaching service at MGH.
Dr. Song directs the Health Policy track in the MGH Internal Medicine Residency Program and serves as the director of research at the HMS Center for Primary Care. He also co-directs the health policy course for first year Harvard dental and medical students and advises students and fellows in their research. He is an associate editor of JAMA Health Forum.
Dr. Song has worked on payment policy at the US Department of Health and Human Services and with the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. He received an MD, magna cum laude, from HMS and PhD in health policy (Economics) from Harvard. He completed residency at MGH, where he was a recipient of the Morton Swartz, MD Humanism in Medicine Award.
Natasha Warikoo
Natasha Warikoo is Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, at Tufts University. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Warikoo studies racial and ethnic inequality in education. Her book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools (May 2022, University of Chicago Press), explores the growth of Asian Americans in suburban communities. In the book, Is Affirmative Action Fair? The Myth of Equity in College Admissions, Warikoo argues that we should rethink college admissions, and walks readers through empirical evidence suggesting the important value of affirmative action. She is also the author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities. Warikoo is co-chair of Scholars Strategy Network Boston, which aims to connect scholars, policymakers, and community leaders to effect change. Warikoo earned her BSc/BA in mathematics and philosophy at Brown University, and her PhD in sociology at Harvard University. She is a former high school teacher. Follow her on Twitter @nkwarikoo.
Inquiry, innovation, and impact come alive on April 14 and 15, 2023, during GSAS’s Alumni Days. This expanded celebration brings alumni, faculty, students, and friends together for two extraordinary days to take part in conversations with some of the world’s leading scholars, engage with alumni across the disciplines, and celebrate GSAS’s milestone anniversary!
You will also hear from Dean Emma Dench about the future of graduate education, get an inside look at the Harvard Art Museums, and delve into GSAS history at a special exhibit curated by the Harvard Archives. In between the talks and activities, network with your fellow alumni and recapture the magic of being back on campus with friends old and new.
In addition, some departments are planning program-specific activities around Alumni Days. Participating departments will reach out directly to their alumni to share more details. Stay tuned!
Don’t miss this celebration 150 years in the making! Register online by Friday, April 7.
Friday, April 14, 2023
10:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m.
Robotics Lab Tours at the Science and Engineering Complex
Scheduled tours of Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences' (SEAS) new building.
150 Western Ave, Boston, MA
1:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Check-In & Registration
Science Center Atrium, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Afternoon Sessions with Harvard Faculty & GSAS alumni
(speaker bios are available below)
2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Psychological Safety and Why It Matters Today More than Ever
Amy Edmondson, AB ’81, AM ’95, PhD ’96, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School
Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Left to their own devices, people hold back critical inputs at work. They don’t express their thoughts, ask questions, offer critique or dissent, or brainstorm out loud. And they certainly don’t admit to failures. Psychological safety describes a climate in which these kinds of interpersonal risks are no big deal, where mistakes are owned and corrected, and where ideas and concerns are shared freely. This session will give an overview of the research on psychological safety and why it matters for teaming, problem-solving, and innovation. I’ll explore how small acts of leadership can build psychological safety—through stage setting, inviting engagement, and responding in learning-oriented ways.
2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Working with Prints
Elizabeth Rudy, PhD ’07, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Join Elizabeth Rudy (PhD '07), Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, for an exploration of some of the masterpieces in the prints collection. Spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, prints comprise the largest collection within the museums’ overall holdings of roughly a quarter million objects. Rudy will share insights about specific prints and discuss how she works to increase the visibility of the overall collection for students and the general public alike.
3:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data
Raj Chetty, AB ’00, PhD ’03, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, and Director of Opportunity Insights
Science Center, Hall E, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Children’s chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90 percent to 50 percent over the past half century in America. How can we restore the American Dream of upward mobility for our children? In this talk, Raj Chetty, joined by Benny Goldman, will discuss recent work they have done to study this question. Among other topics, the talk will show how children’s chances of climbing the income ladder vary across neighborhoods, analyze the sources of racial disparities in intergenerational mobility, and discuss the role of social capital in creating greater income mobility.
4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Empires of Ideas: Will China Surpass America (including Harvard) in the World of Universities?
William C. Kirby, PhD ’81, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Germany defined the modern research university in the 19th century. American institutions set global standards in the 20th century. What are the prospects for Chinese leadership in the 21st century? In a changing global landscape, how can Harvard still be the “Harvard” of the 21st century?
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Networking and Cocktail Reception
B100, Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Dinner
B100, Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 15, 2023
8:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Check-In & Registration
Emerson Hall Lobby, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Breakfast Reception in the 150th Anniversary Exhibit
Harvard University Archives, Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Welcome and Conversation with the Dean
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
10:45 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Reflections Through 150 Years
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Luncheon
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Afternoon Sessions with Harvard Faculty & GSAS alumni
(speaker bios are available below)
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Strategies for Addressing Gun Violence
David Hemenway, AB ’66, PhD ’74, Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zirui Song, MD ’10, PhD ’12, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Internal Medicine Physician, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Beyond the Horizon
Past and present scholars
Emerson Hall, Room 210, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Conversations with current and former Harvard Horizons scholars about their research, how they learned to present their work to a broad audience, and the future of their disciplines.
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
The Ethics and Politics of Grief
Matthew Ichihashi Potts, MDiv ’08, PhD ’13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and the Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church
Mac Loftin, PhD candidate in theology in the Committee on the Study of Religion
Emerson Hall, Room 210, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
An exploration of how grief—the experience and acceptance of inevitable, irrevocable loss—can provide alternative foundations for both justice and politics, with close studies of both the practice of forgiveness and the rise of fascism in the West.
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Rethinking College Admissions in the Wake of SFFA v. Harvard
Natasha Warikoo, PhD ’05, Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology at Tufts University
Emerson Hall, Room 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
A decision in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill cases in the US Supreme Court will land in May or June. What will it mean for affirmative action and for higher education more broadly? In this session Warikoo will draw from her book, Is Affirmative Action Fair? The Myth of Equity in College Admissions (Polity, 2023) to argue that we should move away from viewing college admission as a certification of individual merit, toward viewing it as a process that should be led by the mission of our universities. We’ll explore what a mission-driven admissions process might look like.
4:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Closing Reception
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Parking
We are currently arranging free parking for attendees in several garages across Harvard's campus. Specific details and addresses will be posted here once confirmed.
Hotels & Accommodations
The following hotels offer Harvard preferred rates. Please contact the hotel directly to coordinate your bookings and state that you are a Harvard GSAS alum attending Alumni Days on April 14 and 15.
Hotel Veritas
1 Remington St, Cambridge, MA 02138
P: 617-520-5000
Residence Inn by Marriott Boston Cambridge
120 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
P: 617-349-0700
Cambria Hotel Boston Somerville
515 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143
P: (617) 341-9040
*Harvard Rate 10% off with code "LHRVRD"
Questions? Email gsaa@fas.harvard.edu.
Speaker Biographies
Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the director of Opportunity Insights, which uses big data to study the science of economic opportunity: how we can give children from all backgrounds better chances of succeeding? Chetty’s work has been widely cited in academia, media outlets, and policy discussions in the United States and beyond.
Chetty received his PhD from Harvard University in 2003 and is one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the John Bates Clark medal, given to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field.
Amy Edmondson
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.
Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley, 2019), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy and has been translated into 15 languages.
Benny Goldman
Benny Goldman is a PhD student in the economics department at Harvard University and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research uses administrative data to study intergenerational mobility in the United States. Recently he has focused on the role that family formation plays in determining economic opportunity across generations and the dynamics of racial inequality in the US. Benny is also a Linda G. Hammett Ory Fellow at the Harvard Education School, where he works with the EdRedesign Lab to study the later life impacts that “whole child” approaches to education have on children who grow up in high poverty neighborhoods.
David Hemenway
David Hemenway, AB ’66, PhD ’74, is professor of health policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. In 2012, he was recognized by the CDC as one of the twenty “most influential injury and violence professionals over the past 20 years.” His books include Private Guns & Public Health and While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention. He has won 10 HSPH teaching awards and the inaugural Student Association community engagement award, and was a Radcliffe Fellow from 2020-2021.
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor. Professor Kirby serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai. At Harvard he has served as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, chairman of the History Department, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His current projects include case studies of trend-setting Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States. His recent books include Can China Lead? (Harvard Business Review Press) and China and Europe on the New Silk Road (Oxford University Press). His latest book, Empires of Ideas: Creating Modern Universities from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press), is now available.
Mac Loftin
Mac Loftin is a PhD candidate in theology in the Committee on the Study of Religion, where he studies the relationship between Christian theology and political thought, principally in relation to far-right movements in interwar Europe and today.
Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Matthew Ichihashi Potts is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and the Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church. His book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, is recently available from Yale University Press.
Elizabeth M. Rudy
Elizabeth M. Rudy, AM ’02, PhD ’07, history of art and architecture, is the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, where she stewards a large collection spanning the 16th to 21st centuries. She has worked at the museum since 2011 and held previous fellowships at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a specialist of 18th and 19th-century prints, with a special focus on French and francophone artists and the technique of etching. Her recent exhibitions include Prints from the Brandywine Workshop: Creative Communities (March 4 – July 31, 2022), and Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings from the Age of Enlightenment (September 16, 2022 – January 15, 2023). The latter was accompanied by a major publication, co-edited by Elizabeth, Edouard Kopp, and Kristel Smentek; it was recently featured in The New York Times as one of the best art books of 2022.
Zirui Song
Zirui Song, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. His work focuses on health care spending and the effects of payment policy and social interventions on health and economic outcomes. He practices primary care and attends on the inpatient medicine teaching service at MGH.
Dr. Song directs the Health Policy track in the MGH Internal Medicine Residency Program and serves as the director of research at the HMS Center for Primary Care. He also co-directs the health policy course for first year Harvard dental and medical students and advises students and fellows in their research. He is an associate editor of JAMA Health Forum.
Dr. Song has worked on payment policy at the US Department of Health and Human Services and with the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. He received an MD, magna cum laude, from HMS and PhD in health policy (Economics) from Harvard. He completed residency at MGH, where he was a recipient of the Morton Swartz, MD Humanism in Medicine Award.
Natasha Warikoo
Natasha Warikoo is Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, at Tufts University. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Warikoo studies racial and ethnic inequality in education. Her book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools (May 2022, University of Chicago Press), explores the growth of Asian Americans in suburban communities. In the book, Is Affirmative Action Fair? The Myth of Equity in College Admissions, Warikoo argues that we should rethink college admissions, and walks readers through empirical evidence suggesting the important value of affirmative action. She is also the author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities. Warikoo is co-chair of Scholars Strategy Network Boston, which aims to connect scholars, policymakers, and community leaders to effect change. Warikoo earned her BSc/BA in mathematics and philosophy at Brown University, and her PhD in sociology at Harvard University. She is a former high school teacher. Follow her on Twitter @nkwarikoo.