The Serpent Mound of the Ohio Valley
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A close look at Harvard’s complex relationship to an ancient Indigenous monument.
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Remembering the Queen of Canada
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As part of the British Commonwealth, Canada has a complex relationship with the monarchy. A Canadian scholar examines the British Crown’s reliance on religious and military symbolism to invoke its authority, especially with regard to upholding treaties...
A Pacific Island's Response to COVID-19: Guam and the Movement Toward Food Sovereignty
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The pandemic has shaken the island territory of Guam, creating insecurity not seen since World War II. Graduate Student Affiliate Kristin Oberiano explains how the US’s imperial relationship with Guam has made its citizens uniquely vulnerable to infection...
Opening the Arctic
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Melting ice is bringing geopolitical and environmental challenges to the Arctic. Two scholars address recent events in the region and the impacts on scientific collaboration.
New Initiative on Afro-Latin American Studies Awarded
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Lauren McLaughlin, Communications Coordinator, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently awarded $250,000 to fund a new Weatherhead Initiative in Afro-Latin American Studies. The Center funds...
“Go Back and Get It”: A Year of Pandemic and Political Upheaval in the US and Africa
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Looking back at a tumultuous year, Visiting Fellow Georgette Ledgister shows how the social and political unrest in the US reverberated in Africa in 2020. By Georgette I. Mulunda Ledgister It was one of the most bizarre memes I had seen all year, and...
Exploring Commodity Frontiers
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We don’t think about commodities very much. They’re all around us: cotton, sugar, oil, gas, chickens, cattle, and so many other things we take for granted. But a closer look at the history of commodities tells a revealing story about the expansion of...
Negotiating with Terrorists (Part 2)
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Pulling out of Afghanistan was the top foreign policy event of 2021. Perhaps overlooked in the collective relief to be done with this twenty-year war is the fact that the US had to negotiate with terrorists to get there. In fact, it ceded an entire...
Looking for Green in the Desert, an Irishman is Lured to Bahrain
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In his new book, Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State, Gareth Doherty, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, captures the tension between staying green and being sustainable. To Gareth Doherty...
Absences in the “Archive of Dominicanidad”
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Harvard Professor Lorgia García-Peña returns to her roots to investigate the narratives that shaped a divide. The border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic forces a conspicuous dividing line between black and non-black, respectively. How the island...
In the Crosshairs of an Academic Crackdown
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Even when her colleagues at the American University in Cairo were getting arrested and sentenced to death, sociologist Amy Austin Holmes thought she had kept herself safely under the radar. She was wrong. By Michelle Nicholasen It was a straightforward...
Refugees are Brothers and Sisters in Uganda, Strangers in Tanzania
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How a nation sees its relationship to refugees can have a profound impact on social services and even infrastructure, as shown in new research on Uganda’s unique refugee-hosting model. By Yang-Yang Zhou Unlike the US borders many of us are familiar with...