GSAS News

To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our blood: with effort, with empathy, and with a willingness to be changed by the encounter. 

Graduating student Andrew Bair discusses his research challenging the accepted chronology of Irish settlement in the Middle Ages, and how his study of archaeology and computer science at Columbia led him eventually to Harvard Griffin GSAS.

PhD student Anne-Michelle Engelstad draws on Inuit philosophy—and her anthropologist mom—to reframe how we understand difference.

When he graduates from Harvard Griffin GSAS this spring, journalist Pawel Pieniążek will leave with a new perspective on the dynamics he encountered first-hand in war zones, informed by rigorous social science training. 

Graduating student Avi Moorthy reflects on his childhood in Toronto, his parents’ journey from India to North America, and his quest to understand how Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender enabled one of the largest mass migrations in American history.

Does humanitarian aid or national security framing increase support for Ukraine? New research from graduating Harvard Griffin GSAS student Anastasiia Pereverten reveals the strongest predictors of US public opinion.