Centerpiece

Spring 2026, Volume 40 Number 2

Download: Spring 2026, Volume 40 Number 2 [ PDF: 2.21 MB ] or view online The Centerpiece newsletter highlights the various activities throughout the semester at Weatherhead. Read the newest " Message from the Executive Director" column to get an overview...

Fall 2025, Volume 40 Number 1

Download: Fall 2025, Volume 40 Number 1 [ PDF: 1.8 MB ] or view online The Fall 2025 issue of Centerpiece highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center, including events, publications, awards, and more. Executive Director Erin Goodman shares fall...

Spring 2025, Volume 39 Number 2

Download: Spring 2025, Volume 39 Number 2 [ PDF: 1.9 MB ] or view online The Spring 2025 issue of Centerpiece highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center, including events, publications, awards, and more. Weatherhead's executive director, Erin...

Fall 2024, Volume 39 Number 1

Download: Fall 2024, Volume 39 Number 1 [ PDF: 1.5 MB ] or view online The Fall 2024 issue of Centerpiece highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center, including events, publications, awards, and more. Weatherhead's executive director, Erin...

Spring 2024, Volume 38 Number 2

The Spring 2024 issue of Centerpiece highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center. Executive Director Erin Goodman summarizes the semester and shares important updates in her Message from the Executive Director column. The conflict in Israel...

Fall 2023, Volume 38 Number 1

The fall 2023 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including program updates, feature articles, new books, and more. Weatherhead's new executive director, Erin Goodman, shares Center updates in the Message from the Executive...

Spring 2023, Volume 37 Number 2

The spring 2023 issue of Centerpiece highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center. Acting Center Director Erez Manela shares important Center updates in the Message from the Director column. This spring semester crackled with energy, and we at...

Fall 2022, Volume 37 Number 1

The fall 2022 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including program updates, feature articles, new books, and more. The Center's acting director, Erez Manela, shares updates for the WCFIA in the Message from the Director column...

Spring 2022, Volume 36 Number 2

The spring 2022 issue of Centerpiece highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center. Director Melani Cammett shares important Center news, along with personal news, in the Message from the Director. Graduate Student Associate (GSA) Andi Zhou...

Fall 2021, Volume 36 Number 1

The fall 2021 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including program updates, feature articles, new books, and more. The Center's new director, Melani Cammett, shares her vision for the WCFIA in the coming months in the Message...

Spring 2021, Volume 35 Number 2

Center life soldiers on during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we remained busy as ever—just from afar. In her last Message from the Director column, Michèle Lamont writes about the changes that have taken place over the past six years. Over this summer, she...

Fall 2020, Volume 35 Number 1

The fall 2020 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, which are still going strong—albeit remote—during the pandemic. In her Message from the Director column, Michèle Lamont details how our various programs and intellectual...

Spring 2020, Volume 34 Number 2

Life at the Weatherhead Center—like the rest of the world—changed drastically over the past few months. In our Message from the Director column, Interim Director Melani Cammett shares the struggles and resilience of Center affiliates during the COVID-19...

Fall 2019, Volume 34 Number 1

The fall 2019 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities. Learn more about Acting Center Director Melani Cammett in her Message from the Director column, where she discusses a new project at the WCFIA and stresses the importance of...

Spring 2019, Volume 33 Number 2

The spring 2019 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities. In the Message from the Director, Michèle Lamont highlights the recent sharp decrease in students enrolling in foreign-language programs—and how the Weatherhead Center plans...

Fall 2018, Volume 33 Number 1

This fall, the Weatherhead Center celebrates its sixtieth anniversary! Center Director Michèle Lamont summarizes just how far the WCFIA has come over the years—and where it's headed in the future—in her Message from the Director. The fall 2018 issue also...

Spring 2018, Volume 32 Number 2

The spring 2018 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including updates on student programs and the SCANCOR-Weatherhead Partnership. In the Message from the Director, Michèle Lamont outlines some of the semester's highlights...

Fall 2017, Volume 32 Number 1

The fall 2017 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including program updates on the Weatherhead Scholars Program and The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Also included in the issue are new books published by...

Spring 2017, Volume 31 Number 2

The spring 2017 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including updates on student programs and the Canada Program. In the Message from the Director, Michèle Lamont outlines the busy year after starting to implement external...

Fall 2016, Volume 31 Number 1

The fall 2016 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including student program and Canada Program updates and new books published by Weatherhead Center affiliates. Included in the student programs section is a brief research...

Spring 2016, Volume 30 Number 2

The spring 2016 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including updates on several of our programs, including student programs, the Fellows Program, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and The Harvard Academy. The Message from...

Fall 2015, Volume 30 Number 1

The fall 2015 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including a high-profile visit from His Highness the Aga Khan, who delivered the 2015 Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture on the topic of " The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a...

Spring 2015, Volume 29 Number 2

The spring 2015 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including updates from the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and student programs. The Message from the Executive Director is a self-reflective look at the past twenty-two years...

Fall 2014, Volume 29 Number 1

The fall 2014 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including a profile on Fellow and cartoonist Shreyas Navare, tributes to three former Fellows who have recently passed away, and a student program update. The feature, “ The...

Spring 2014, Volume 28 Number 2

The spring 2014 issue of Centerpiece introduces newly appointed Center Director Michèle Lamont in the feature interview “ In Conversation with… .” The issue's second feature, “ Political Survival and the Modern African Prince ” by Brett L. Carter, focuses...

Fall 2013, Volume 28 Number 1

The fall 2013 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including program events, the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy, and the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture Series. The feature, “ Forging a...

Spring 2013, Volume 27 Number 2

The spring 2013 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including the Undergraduate Thesis Conference and the Fellows reunion. The feature, “ Local Governance and the Recentralization of Political Power in African States” by Janet...