Current Research Workshops

Current Research Workshops

Research Workshops 2011-2012

The GSAS Workshops Committee funded 11 new research workshops from the proposals submitted for the March 2011 competition, in addition to the many previously existing workshops that were approved for continued funding. Topics are listed below; if you are interested in participating, contact one of the faculty sponsors or your department's administrator.

The aim of the GSAS workshops program is to encourage the establishment of ongoing collegial settings for graduate students who are learning to conceive and write scholarly articles, thesis prospectuses, and dissertations.  Workshops also offer faculty members an opportunity to share drafts of scholarly work in progress.

The next application deadline for proposals is March 16, 2012, for funding to begin in September of 2012. Get more details and download the application.

2011–2012 Workshops

“Concepts, Actions, and Objects”
(Alfonso Caramazza, Yaoda Xu)

“Graduate Workshop in the Sociology of Education”
(Mary Brinton, Natasha Warikoo)

“Iberoamerican Film Workshop”
(Bradley S. Epps, Luis Cifuentes, Mariano Siskind, Haden Guest, Sergio Delgado)

“Monte Carlo Methods and Statistical Applications”
(Xiao Li Meng, Edo Airoldi)

“Research Workshop on History, Institutions and Politics”
(Peter A. Hall, Daniel Carpenter, Daniel Ziblatt, Theda Skocpol)

“Screen Cultures and the Visual Turn”
(David Rodowick, Tom Conley)

“Uncertainty & Decision-Marking Workshop”
(Daniel Gilbert, Matthew Nock)

“Workshop in History, Culture, and Society”
(Orlando Patterson, John Stauffer)

“Social networks and social capital: advanced modelling and empirical applications”
(Bruce Western, Filiz Garip)

“Thinking with Technology”
(Jeffrey Schnapp, Leah Price, Stephen Greenblack)

“Reading the Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East”
(Piotr Steinkeller, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman)

Renewals of Existing Workshops

Anthropology

“Current Research in Anthropology”
(Jason Ur, Matthew Liebmann)

“East Asian Archaeology Seminar”
(Rowan Flad, Michael Puett)

“Ecology, History and Politics”
(Steve Caton, Ajantha Subramanian)

“South Asia Across Disciplines”
(Asad Ahmed, Parimal Patil)

Celtic

“The Harvard Celtic Colloquium and its Proceedings”
(Catherine McKenna, Tomas O Cathasaigh)

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

“Central Eurasia Working Group”
(Timothy Colton, Laura Adams, John Schoeberlein)

Economics

“EC2001 Behavior in Games & Markets”
(Drew Fudenberg, David Laibson)

“Environmental Economics Workshop”
(Jerry Green, Dale Jorgenson, Robert Stavins)

“Research in Econometrics”
(James Stock, Guido Imbens, Dale Jorgenson)

“Research in Economic Development Lunch”
(Michael Kremer, Sendhil Mullainathan, Erica Field, Richard Hornbeck)

“3723hf Research in Financial Economics”
(Jeremy Stein, John Campbell)

“Research in Industrial Organization”
(Ariel Pakes, Greg Lewis, Susan Athey)

“EC 2420hf Research in Macroeconomics”
(Robert J. Barro, N. Gregory Mankiw, David Laibson)

“Research Workshop in International Economics”
(Richard Cooper, Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, Marc Melitz)

“The Behavioral Experimental Economcs Workshop”
(David Laibson, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry Green, Atilla Ambrus)

English

“American Literature Colloquium”
(Lawrence Buell, Amanda Claybaugh)

“English Department Medieval Doctoral Conference”
(James Simpson, Daniel Donoghue, Nicholas Watson)

“English Department Renaissance Doctoral Conference”
(Marjorie Garber, Stephen Greenblatt, Gordon Teskey)

“Colloquium on British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century and Romanticism”
(James Engell, Andrew Warren, Marjorie Garber)

Government

“Government 3004: American Politics Research Workshop”
(Paul Peterson, James Snyder)

“Graduate Student Workshop in Political Economy and Rational Choice”
(James Alt, Kenneth Shepsle)

“Islam in the West”
(Ali Asani, Jennifer Hochschild, Joyce Cesari)

“Middle East Politics Workshop”
(Tarek Masoud, Pascal Menoret)

“Research Workshop in Applied Statistics”
(Gary King, Alberto Abadie, Adam Glynn, Guido Imbens, Lee Fleming, Donald Rubin, Christopher Winship)

“Research Workhop in Comparative Politics”
(Daniel Ziblatt, Prerna Singh)

“Research Workshop in International Relations (Government 3005)”
(Dustin Tingley, Steve Rosen)

“Research Workshop in Political Economy (Government 3007)”
(Kenneth Shepsle, Dustin Tingley, Beth Simmons)

“Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop”
(Ryan Enos, Stephen Ansolabehere)

“Political Theory”
(Michael L. Frazer, Nancy Rosenblum)

Govt/Davis Center

“Post-Communist Politics and Economics”
(Timothy Colton, Grzegorz Ekiert)

Health Policy

“Graduate Workshop in Ethics and Health”
(Norman Daniels, Frances Kamm, Daniel Wikler)

“Health Economics Workshop”
(Thomas McGuire, Joseph Newhouse, Michael Chernew)

History

“Early America Colloquium”
(Joyce Chaplin, Jill Lepore)

“Early Modern History Workshop”
(Ann Blair, James Hankins, Mark Kishlanskey, Steven Ozment, David Armitage)

“Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality”
(Nancy F. Cott, Afsaneh Najmabadi)

“Medieval History Workshop”
(Michael McCormick, Daniel Smail)

“Russian and East European History Workshop”
(Alison Frank, Kelly O'Neill, Serhii Plokhii, Terry Martin)

“Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism”
(Sven Beckert, Christine Desan)

History of American Civilization

“American Civilization Prospectus and Dissertation Colloquium”
(Jennifer Roberts, James Kloppenberg, John Stauffer)

History of Art and Architecture

“Graduate Student Medieval Workshop”
(Jeffrey Hamburger, Deanna Dalrymple, Nicholas Watson)

History of Science

“Early Sciences Working Group”
(Katharine Park, Ahmed Ragab)

“History of Medicine Working Group”
(Allan Brandt, Jeremy Greene)

“Modern Sciences Working Group”
(Janet Browne, Peter Galison, Jimena Canales)

“Science, Technology and Society (STS) Circle at Harvard”
(Sheila Jasanoff, Venky Narayanamurti, Michele Lamont)

Human Evolutionary Bio

“Current Issues in Human Evolutionary Biology”
(Dan Lieberman, David Pilbeam)

Linguistics

“Indo-European Linguistics”
(Jay Jasanoff, Jeremy Rau)

“Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork”
(Maria Polinsky, Amy Rose Deal)

“Linguistics Circles”
(Gennaro Chierchia, C.T. James Huang)

Music

“Composers' Colloquium”
(Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku)

“Musicology Workshop”
(Thomas Kelly, Alexander Rehding)

Near Eastern Lang. and Civ

“Judaism in Antiquity”
(Shaye Cohen, Peter Machinist, Jon D. Levenson)

“Modern Jewish Worlds”
(Ruth Wisse, Rachel Greenblatt)

“Semitic Philology Workshop”
(P. Machinist, W. Heinrichs)

“The Study of the Hebrew Bible”
(Peter Machinist, Richard Saley)

Philosophy

“Workshop on Metaphysics and Epistemology”
(Mark Richard, Bernhard Nickel)

“Workshop in Moral and Political Philosophy”
(Selim Berker, Douglas Lavin, Christine Korsgaard, Thomas Scanlon)

Physics

“Modern Theoretical Physics and String Theory”
(Andrew Strominger, Frederick Denef)

Psychology

“Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (CBB) Research Seminar”
(George Alvarez, Yaoda Xu, Alfonso Caramazza)

“Developmental Studies Research Seminar”
(Jesse Snedeker, Susan Carey, Elizabeth Spelke, Felix Warneken)

“Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Study of Religion”
(Mahzarin R. Banaji, Elizabeth Spelke)

“Language and Cognition Research Workshop”
(Jesse Snedeker, Gennaro Chierchia)

“Leadership and Group Behavior”
(J. Richard Hackman, Amy Edmondson)

“Research Seminar in Clinical Science”
(Matthew Nock, Christine Hooker)

“Research Seminar in Visual Cognition”
(Yaoda Xu, Ken Nakayama, George Alvarez)

“Research Workshop in Social Psychology”
(Jason Mitchell, Daniel Wegner)

“Social Neuroscience Workshop”
(Jason Mitchell, Joshua Greene)

Religion

“North American Religions Colloquium”
(David Hermpton, Ann Braude, Dan McKanan, Jonathan Walton)

Slavic

“Current Research in Slavic Literature and Culture”
(Justine Weir, Jonathan Bolton, Julie Buckler)

Sociology

“Culture and Social Analysis Workshop”
(Michele Lamont, Sheila Jasanoff)

“Urban Social Processes”
(Robert J. Sampston, Christopher Winship)

“Work, Organization and Markets Seminar”
(Peter Marsden, Christopher Marquis)

“Workshop in Economic Sociology”
(Frank Dobbin, Jason Beckfield)

“Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Romanticism”
(Mary Waters, Jennifer Hochschild)

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

“Graduate Workshop on Latin American Politics”
(Steven R. Levitsky, Jorge I. Dominguez)