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Mary Brinton Conferred the Order of the Rising Sun

November 28, 2022
Faculty Associate Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, has been conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Government of Japan. She is honored for her contributions to the field of Japanese studies. The citation also commends Brinton’s observations and insightful arguments of Japanese society, including her research on labor markets and gender mainstreaming measures, which have had impact not only on Japanese scholars but also on policy makers and the broader public.

Jeffry Frieden Receives Career Achievement Award

November 8, 2022
Faculty Associate Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, received the 2022 Career Achievement Award at the annual conference hosted by the International Political Economy Society (IPES). Every year IPES provides an annual forum for scholars of international political economy to present their best new work in progress to an informed and critical scholarly audience. 

Ellis Monk Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

November 2, 2022
Faculty Associate Ellis Monk, associate professor of sociology at Harvard University, is one of the recipients of the 2022 New Innovator Awards. Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the award supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral, or social sciences within the National Institute of Health mission. Monk received the award for his project, “The Optics of Health: Race Skin Tone Minority Health and Health Disparities in the US.” 

Zach Sell Wins Paul E. Lovejoy Prize

October 26, 2022
Former Visiting Fellow Zach Sell, now an assistant professor in the history of slavery at the University of Notre Dame, is the recipient of the 2022 Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for excellence and originality in a major work on any theme related to global slavery published in 2021. The Journal of Global Slavery jury unanimously decided to award the prize to Sell for his book, Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). The Paul E. Lovejoy Prize is named after the esteemed slavery scholar and distinguished professor of African... Read more about Zach Sell Wins Paul E. Lovejoy Prize

Yeling Tan Wins Peter Katzenstein Book Prize

October 24, 2022
Former Graduate Student Associate Yeling Tan, now an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon, is the recipient of the 2022 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for her book, Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Cornell University Press, 2021). The Katzenstein Prize, in honor of Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, recognizes an outstanding first book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy.   

Daniel Carpenter Wins Two 2022 Book Prizes

October 5, 2022
Faculty Associate Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University, is the recipient of two book awards for his recent book, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). He won the 2022 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, given by the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, which recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years. He also won the 2022 James P. Hanlan Book Award, given by the New England Historical Association, which... Read more about Daniel Carpenter Wins Two 2022 Book Prizes

Emma Rothschild Wins Leo Gershoy Award

September 27, 2022
Faculty Associate Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2022 Leo Gershoy Award for her recent book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021). The prize, distributed by the American Historical Association, is awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of the fields of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century western European history. 

Panagiotis Roilos Appointed as President of the European Cultural Center of Delphi

September 13, 2022
Faculty Associate Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, was recently elected president of the European Cultural Center of Delphi, a major cultural center in Europe, which functions under the auspices of—and in collaboration with—the European Council and the Greek Ministry of Culture. The mission of the Center is "to support exchanges of international cultural interest and to promote the common cultural values that unite the peoples of Europe through the advancement of scholarship on European culture... Read more about Panagiotis Roilos Appointed as President of the European Cultural Center of Delphi

New WCFIA Values Statement

August 26, 2022
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is a diverse community of over 400 students, staff, visiting scholars, and faculty who are dedicated to social science research. This diversity makes us strong, and we are committed to a set of community values that help shape our decisions both large and small. We invite you to read our values statement, a working document thoughtfully crafted by the new Standing Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB). 

Welcome Message from Acting Director Erez Manela

August 23, 2022

Erez ManelaWelcome to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University! Our community of scholars researches complex international, transnational, global, and comparative topics at the frontier of the social sciences. We aim to support research on the most important questions facing societies across the globe. 

We are a large Center: our community spans twelve of Harvard’s fourteen schools and our affiliates include more than 200 Harvard faculty and over 150 graduate and undergraduate students, visiting scholars, fellows, and postdoctoral researchers. We offer our affiliates numerous opportunities to exchange ideas about their research as we maintain our tradition of theoretical and methodological pluralism.... Read more about Welcome Message from Acting Director Erez Manela