Affiliated Programs & Centers
HARVARD DEPARTMENTS
| The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations offers The Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations administers |
Social Studies is an interdisciplinary concentration in the social sciences at Harvard College. For more than six decades it has brought together outstanding teachers and intellectually engaged students who share not only a fascination with social science research and theory but also concerns about pressing social, political, and economic problems facing contemporary societies.
| The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offers eleven distinct graduate programs in different fields of study, all of which are concerned in some way with the peoples and civilizations of the Near East. |
CENTERS, INSTITUTES, & PROGRAMS AT HARVARD
| The Business, Government and the International Economy unit conducts research on, and teaches about, the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in economics, political science, and history; in its work, it draws on perspectives from all three of these disciplines. |
| Led by an interdisciplinary group of political scientists, sociologists, economists, and historians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) fosters discussion, research, public outreach, and pedagogy about all aspects of modern U.S. politics. |
| The Center for History and Economics was established at Harvard University and King's College, Cambridge in 2007 to promote research and education on subjects of importance for historians and economists. |
| The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) offers a wide range of programs and activities about the Middle East with the goal of increasing awareness and understanding of the region, both historically and in contemporary perspective. |
| The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (CWC) mission is to advance research and teaching in the broad range of American historical inquiry, and to serve as a nexus for the community of Americanists at Harvard and in the Boston area. |
| The Committee on Medieval Studies promotes and coordinates work on late antique, medieval, and Byzantine and sponsors events and activities for medieval enthusiasts at Harvard University and in the Boston area generally. |
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| The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies works to increase knowledge of the cultures, economies, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of past and present Latin America. |
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| The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is a locus for interdisciplinary research and study of Russia and the countries surrounding it. It has over 200 affiliates working in disciplines ranging from anthropology to sociology, and whose regional interests span virtually all of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. |
| Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, DC, is an institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships, meetings, exhibitions, and publications. |
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| The Fairbank Center sponsors nine ongoing seminars on themes ranging from East Asian art history to Chinese current events, and organizes research projects and major international conferences on a wide variety of scholarly topics. It also provides a forum for regular dialogue between the academic and policy communities in China and the United States. |
| The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, culture and society at Harvard. |
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| The Harvard China Fund works to support interdisciplinary research and teaching about and in China, focus Harvard's considerable strengths in the field towards directly tackling challenges that face China and improve communication and collaboration with Chinese scholars and institutions. |
| The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History explores intellectual history is a diverse and thriving field of inquiry emphasizing the transformation of ideas, ideologies, intellectuals, and scholarly institutions over time. |
| The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute(HURI) serves as a focal point for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in Ukrainian language, literature, and history as well as in anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, political science, sociology, theology, and other disciplines. |
| The Harvard Yenching Institute is a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of education of higher education in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on culture, in East and Southeast Asia. |
| International and Global History at Harvard University includes the concerns of classic diplomatic history, but also encompasses such topics as international bodies, the movements of people, commodities or germs, and the transnational diffusion of ideas, ideologies, norms and cultural images or practices. |
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| The Mahindra Humanities Center seeks to foster collaborations between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences in the belief that the humanities make a unique contribution in establishing - through interpretation and conversation - communities of interest and climates of opinion. |
| The Program in Latin American & Caribbean History conducts a regular workshop, maintains a lively program of lectures, colloquia, conferences, and seminars, bringing together many Latin Americanist historians from neighboring institutions throughout the greater Boston area. |
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| The Program on the Study of Capitalism aims to identify emerging approaches to political economy and to facilitate interdisciplinary thinking on this important topic among students and faculty at Harvard. We seek to tap the energy of new scholarship, working across the conventional boundaries that have constrained past work. In particular, we hope to create a unique forum for intellectual exploration and productive research. |
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| Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas. It seeks to stimulate scholarly and public interest in Japan and Japanese studies at Harvard and around the world. |
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| Resources for Qualitive Social Sciences at Harvard is an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together resources for teaching, learning, and implementing qualitative research throughout the university. The website provides information about qualitative methods courses, funding, software, textbooks, and more. |
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| The South Asia Initiative at Harvard University focuses on the study of South Asia, particularly modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and comprehensively examines South Asia's economy and culture. |
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| The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) promotes global history as a critical humanistic enterprise in today’s world of coexisting and contending cultures through research, writing, teaching, and international exchange. By partnering with institutions around the world, we have created a new kind of network that embeds global history in global conversations. |
| The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) - Harvard University's research center dedicated to confronting complex international, transnational, global, and comparative issues. | Since 1958 |