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CHS Teaching Internship Info Session

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Do you want to teach Social Studies 10 material to high school students in Greece this summer? Join us for an info session about the Center for Hellenic Studies Teaching Internship Program! Interns will help teach a 2.5-week seminar in Nafplion, Greece in...

Rebecca Ploof on Leviathan and the Politics of Metaphor

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Lecturer Rebecca Ploof's article, "The Automaton, the Actor and the Sea Serpent: Leviathan and the Politics of Metaphor," was recently published in History of Political Thought. You can read the full article here.

Summer Study Abroad with Social Studies Faculty

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Harvard Summer Program in Hong Kong with Nicole Newendorp Spend eight weeks in Hong Kong learning about China’s current social and economic global interconnections. Two courses balance learning from different social science perspectives about global...

Declaration of Intent due January 28th

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Declarations of Intent for second semester sophomores are due January 28th at 12 noon.

Junior Tutorial Info Sessions - January 28th

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Junior tutorial information sessions will be held from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on January 28th. Click here for the full schedule. Please note that tutorial preference forms are due in hard copy in the Social Studies office by 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 29th.

Theory Matters! February 13th, 7pm

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Join us for Dr. Tracey Rosen's Theory Matters talk, " The Harvard Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," on Wednesday, February 13th in William James Hall 305.

Underground '68: A Movie Based on a Senior Thesis!

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Come see the first screening of “Underground ’68,” a movie based on Ariel Smolik-Valles’s 2017 Social Studies senior thesis! Directed by Peter Coonradt ‘68, produced by Professor Richard Thomas … screening at the Brattle Theater on Wednesday, February 27...

Jesus College Applications Due April 12th

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Applications to study abroad at Jesus College are due by 3 p.m. on Friday, April 12th.

Alumni Voices

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Social Studies graduates can be found in every career imaginable. Some continue working on the same concerns that animated their intellectual and extracurricular interests in college. Others forge pathways towards new areas of engagement. No matter what...

Arts/Entertainment

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Diane Paulus '88, Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater Thesis Title: The Living Theatre: A Case Study Analysis of the Interplay of Art and Politics in a Postwar Revolutionary Theatre Group “I deeply appreciated that the curriculum taught me how...

Journalism/Writing

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Zach Hughes '12 , Reporter, Alaska Public Media Thesis Title: Masks of Glamour, Screens of Discipline: The History of Sunglasses in America “Social Studies empowered me to be curious about lots of things and pursue a better understanding of them with the...

Politics and Policy

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Chloe Maxmin '15 , State Representative for District 88, Maine Thesis Title: The Rising: Political Mobilization for Climate Action “My time in Social Studies provided me with the analytical framework and intellectual resources to place the anger...