Episodes
Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Published 03/20/14
Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and Founding Director of the The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University and Research Institute (HARI) at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
Published 03/20/14
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
Published 03/20/14
Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning; faculty director, HarvardX; director, Life Sciences Education
Published 03/20/14
Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Santiago Ramón y Cajal Professor of Arts and Sciences
Published 03/20/14
Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, as well as a senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Published 03/20/14
Emma Dench serves as a professor for several Classics and History classes here at Harvard, including History 1011: The World of the Roman Empire and Classical Philology 226: Memories of the Roman Republic. She specializes in Hellenistic, Roman Republic, and early Roman imperial history while her current research interests focus on Roman 'imperialism' and the retrospective writing of the Republican and Augustan periods. Her other interests include questions about identity in classical...
Published 02/28/13
Katie Hinde teaches several classes in the Human Evolutionary Biology Department including The Neurobiology of Sociality and Building Babies: Developmental Trajectories from Conception to Weaning. She investigates how variation in the composition of mother's milk influences infant behavioral, biopsychological, and physical development. She also maintains "Mammals Suck... Milk!" a blog showcasing research on mother’s milk, breastfeeding, and lactation that is accessible to the general public,...
Published 02/28/13
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is the Roscoe Pound Professor of Law. He is a philosopher, and social and legal theorist. He recently served as Minister of Strategic Affairs in the government of President Lula in Brazil. His work ranges over many fields and emphasizes the search for alternatives to established institutions and to dominant ways of thinking about society and human nature. Three of the courses that he teaches this Spring semester are co-offered with FAS: Self, Serenity, and...
Published 02/28/13
Michael Puett serves as a professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, teaching several courses, including ER18: Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory and The Historiography of Early Chinese History. He also has published several books, including To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. His research interests involve Chinese history, Chinese religions, historical anthropology, comparative history, comparative anthropology...
Published 02/28/13
Joe Blitzstein teaches the popular statistics class Stat 110, which provides a comprehensive introduction to probability as a medium to understand statistics, science, risk, and randomness. It has grown to over 300 students per year at Harvard and over 200,000 subscribers on iTunes U. His main research interests are in statistical inference for complex networks, with applications to social science and public health. Personally, he enjoys playing chess and is ranked in the Expert range by the...
Published 02/28/13
Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. She is also the Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, which was founded to promote social development through arts and humanities. Her research includes 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate Latin American republics, the aesthetics of minority literature, including multilingual virtuosity, and she is now focused on art's...
Published 02/28/13
Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History
Published 03/14/12
Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Harvard Medical School) and and Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School)
Published 02/21/12
Kaia Stern Director of the Prison Studies Project Professor at Harvard Divinity School Professor in Sociology at Harvard University
Published 02/17/12
Eleanor Duckworth Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published 02/17/12
Daniel Lieberman Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
Published 02/17/12
Doug Melton Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Published 02/17/12
Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
Published 03/06/11
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Published 03/04/11
Caroline Elkins, Professor of History; Chair of the Standing Committee on African Studies; Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies
Published 03/04/11
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law
Published 03/03/11
Joshua Greene, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Published 03/03/11
Steven Hyman, Provost; Member of the Board of Snydics of Harvard University Press; Professor of Neurobiology; Peter Davis '12 and Zachary Richner '11, Co-Producers and Co-Hosts of Harvard Thinks Big
Published 03/03/11
Richard Beaudoin, Lecturer on Music
Published 03/03/11