A physician who specializes in infectious diseases, GSAS student Mitsuru Mukaigawara’s firsthand experience treating patients in developing countries inspired him to research how the outbreak of disease shapes political behavior and violence.

Lee Denson, PhD '67, is a graduate of the United States Military Academy West Point, a combat veteran, and a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He talks about his research on national security, his work on a nuclear arms control treaty that helped end the Cold War, and his PhD advisor’s surprising reaction to his dissertation.

Economist Eric Maskin discusses his work on mechanism design, which won him a share of the Nobel Prize, and the ways it can be applied to social problems like voting reform.

In the November 2022 episode of Colloquy , we discuss the history of our electoral system and the state of our democracy with Harvard Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar .

Despite the challenges of nearly 400 million guns in the hands of US civilians and 45,000 gun deaths in 2020, GSAS alumnus David Hemenway of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says that citizens can work together to improve gun safety and public health, even in places where gun rights are sacrosanct.

PhD student Naima Green-Riley studies the public diplomacy of the United States and China. She finds that engagement with foreign publics does deliver benefits—but not always the ones that policymakers hoped for.

What does the transportation infrastructure of tomorrow look like? Jinyan Zang, PhD ‘21, has an idea. The co-founder and COO of Axle, Zang has built a universal data platform to improve trucking logistics and streamline the supply chain.

In this episode of Colloquy , part one of a discussion about guns and public health in America. We want to move past the horrors of Uvalde—and El Paso, and Parkland, and Orlando, and Las Vegas, and Sandy Hook—and talk...

Historian of science Jamie Marsella discusses the American ideal of motherhood, its history, and its echoes in renewed wrangling over reproductive freedom.

When it comes to social mobility, neighborhoods matter asserts economist Raj Chetty, PhD '03. In the years to come, he hopes to make it possible for some families to change the trajectory of their children’s lives by changing where they live.