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The department would like to congratulate the following students for their outstanding thesis work and academic achievements during the 2026 academic year: Fulton Prize Each year the Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897, Prize is presented to the senior who...

The department would like to congratulate three students for their outstanding thesis work. Fulton Prize Each year the Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897, Prize is presented to the senior who submits the best thesis ". . .judged by its contents," research...

Ellis Monk is featured in a PBS documentary about Walter White and the NAACP, debuting on February 25th.

The department would like to congratulate six graduating seniors who received the 2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. The Hoopes Prize is awarded to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research, usually in the form of a senior thesis...

Bernadette Blashill, Clayton Covington, and Siri Neerchal have each been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Fellowship (NSF GRFP) in 2024. Hannah Craig (pictured) was awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship in...

Harvard, Academic Freedom, and the New Wars of Religion, Christopher Winship contributes to Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard's column in The Crimson.

The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China has won BRONZE in Axiom's International Business / Globalization category. Congratulations, Ya-Wen!

The past shapes the present when it comes to Southern roots, race, and marriage trends, Deirdre Bloome's research highlighted at HKS.

Manja Klemencic was elected into the membership of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).

We are deeply disturbed by the false allegations of plagiarism made against our colleague Christina Cross. The allegations are absurd. The claim that may sound most serious involves a description of a widely used dataset, in which Dr. Cross describes its...