Research

Video

Cords of History: The Inkas

Mackinley FitzPatrick, a 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholar and PhD candidate in anthropology, highlights the role of khipus in Inka administration and in uncovering a hidden Andean past. 

Article

A New Standard of Care

Through her critical study of the foster care system, PhD student Emma Ebowe addresses larger questions about the role of the state in intimate family life, how to best support those in need, and how social service institutions could better work toward social justice.  

Article

Reframing the Landscape

A writer and historian of art, film, and visual culture, Becca Voelcker looks underneath aesthetics to understand the politics, economics, and social history of extraction and change.

Article

Gauging the "Pygmalion Effect”

Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, says an ancient myth lies at the core of a technology that is rapidly changing the way humans live and work: artificial intelligence.

Article

Doing As the Romans Did

Gender complexity and instability are frequently mapped as a contemporary development and an import of the ideological left. Historian Ben Dunning, '05, says the truth is far more interesting: early Christian texts saw sexuality and gender not as givens but rather as thorny questions to think through. 

Podcast

Colloquy Podcast: A Cheaper Way to Make Drugs?

PhD student Brandon Campbell's breakthrough in chemistry could make the production of many pharmaceuticals less expensive through a new method of fluorination.