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article Bruno Carvalho '04

June 30, 2020

Professor Bruno Carvalho, Harvard University works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, specializing on Brazil from the eighteenth century onward. Carvalho's interdisciplinary approaches bridge history, literary analysis, and urban studies. At Harvard, Carvalho is Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committees on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and in the Brazil Studies Program, as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, the Center for the Environment, the Graduate School of Design, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He recently published The Amazon Will Soon Burn Again, New York Times, May 27, 2020

article RMS Statement Endorsed by Comparative Literature

June 25, 2020

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made it clear that we have to think and act transformatively about race, oppression, and inequality in the U.S., especially in moments of crisis. His words are quoted at rallies and marches across the nation, and they are powerful.

article Language Palm Reading: Yuliya Komska on the handshake

May 04, 2020

The verbal tide has swallowed many poignant reminders that language extends far beyond semantics. In recent years, however, the handshake has shifted from a practice symbolizing equality to one designating the very opposite wrote Yuliya Komska in ArtForum.

article Faculty Named to Endowed Chairs

January 01, 2020

Congratulations Lawrence Kritzman, Eleven members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine, and Thayer School of Engineering began the summer term with new appointments to endowed professorships.