Research Groups
The Weatherhead Center supports several categories of research groups including: programs, projects, and Weatherhead Research Clusters. These groups provide a framework for faculty, students, visiting scholars, and practitioners to collaborate and work together on focused research projects.
Programs & Projects
The Weatherhead Center hosts formal programs that link faculty and affiliates working in similar research areas. Projects at the Weatherhead Center are discrete activities that connect interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and students working in a specific research area. Projects may include student internships, multiyear research activities, and more.
Canada Program
Presenting rich intellectual opportunities for Canadian studies at Harvard.
Program on International Relations and International Security
Supporting rigorous research on national security, international conflict, and foreign policy decision making.
Program on US-Japan Relations
Promoting social science research on Japan from comparative, global, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Project on Global History
Helping to transform the study of the past through research that examines historical processes, networks, identities, and events across the boundaries of the nation-states.
SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center
Sustaining organizational scholarship across boundaries.
STAR Lab
Designing and testing new ways for businesses to create positive social impacts, benefit communities, and protect the environment.
The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Dedicated to promoting innovative social science hand-in-hand with deepening our shared knowledge of the experiences and practices of the world’s regions and countries.
Weatherhead Scholars Program
Offering visiting faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and experienced practitioners the opportunity to spend up to one year at Harvard conducting research.
Student Programs
Nurturing the research of graduate and undergraduate students is one of the Weatherhead Center’s highest priorities. Weatherhead helps students financially and intellectually by supporting their research and by encouraging and facilitating collaboration among students and other Center affiliates including faculty, fellows, and visiting scholars.
Weatherhead Research Clusters
Born out of a need to complement the Center’s traditional focus of supporting individual faculty and student research, our Weatherhead Research Clusters revolve around hefty questions for the social sciences and the world. These research clusters represent core faculty interests, and aim to make a significant contribution by pushing the frontier of knowledge in their respective fields.
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government
The Political Economy of Firms and States in a Changing World
By better understanding the political economy of business-government relations in the contemporary world, this cluster hopes to provide new insights into how business influence can be a positive...
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion
This cluster draws on expertise from across disciplines to gain international and comparative perspectives on how to extend cultural membership within societies, better understand social and cultural processes behind recognition gaps, and determine ways...
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Climate Policy
In collaboration with the Global Climate Policy Project at the Salata Institute and MIT
Addressing climate change requires global collective action, underpinned by international institutions, frameworks, and policies. This cluster aims to accelerate the...
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights
In collaboration with the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
LGBTQI+ human rights have become a canary in the coal mine for broader authoritarian projects. This cluster examines the transnational networks and...
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict
Addressing Ethnic and Religious Conflict
Exploring ethnic, religious, and other forms of identity-based politics, as well as ways to improve intergroup relations in diverse settings, by bringing together a multigenerational cohort of Harvard and global...
