Current Research Workshops

The GSAS Workshops Committee funded 5 new research workshops from the proposals submitted for the March 2012 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.

New Workshops for 2012–2013

“The Discovery of the Classical World(s)”
(A. Staehli and P. Kosmin)

“EC 2480hf Public Finance and Economics Lunch Workshop and EC 2812hf Labor Economics Lunch Workshop”
(R. Chetty and D. Cutler)

“The Middle East Beyond Borders: Culture, Religion, Politics”
(M. Zeghal and A. Ragab)

“Advances in Integrating Statistics and Sciences”
(X. Meng and M. Parzen)

“Law and Politics Workshop”
(S. Ansolabehere and M. Stevenson)

Renewals of Existing Workshops

African and African American Studies

“American Literature in Comparative and Ethnic Perspectives”
(G. Carpio and W. Sollors)

Anthropology

“Current Research in Anthropology”
(J. Ur and M. Liebmann)

“East Asian Archaelogy Seminar (EAAS)”
(R. Flad and M. Puett)

“Latin American and Caribbean Working Group”
(K. Theidon and G. Urton)

“Political Ecology Working Group”
(S. Caton and A. Subramanian)

Celtic Languages and Literatures

“The Harvard Celtic Colloquium and its Proceedings”
(C. McKenna and T. O Cathasaigh)

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

“Central Eurasia Working Group”
(T. Colton and L. Adams)

Economics

“Ec 3011: The Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop”
(D. Laibson and A. Roth)

“Ec 2001: Behavior in Games and Markets Seminar”
(D. Fudenberg and D. Laibson)

“Environmental Economics Workshop”
(J. Green and D. Jorgenson)

“Ec333gHF: The Harvard Economic History”
(C. Goldin and G. Chamberlain)

“Economics 2162: Research in Econometrics”
(G. Imbens and G. Chamberlain)

“Research in Economic Development Lunch (Econ 3390hf)”
(M. Kremer and N. Nunn)

“Economics 2770hf: Research in Financial Economics”
(J. Campbell and J. Stein)

“Research in Industrial Organization”
(A. Pakes and G. Lewis)

“EC 2420hf: Research in Macroeconomics”
(R. Barro and N. Mankiw)

“Research Workshop in International Economics”
(R. Cooper and G. Gopinath)

English

“American Literature Colloquium”
(A. Claybaugh and L. Buell)

“The British Literature Colloquium”
(L. Price and M. Kaiser)

“British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century of Romanticism”
(J. Engell and M. Garber)

“Drama Colloquium”
(M. Puchner and J. Kim)

“English Department Renaissance Doctoral Conference”
(M. Garber and S. Greenblatt)

“Networked Materiality”
(J. Schnapp)

Government

“Government 3004: American Politics Research Workshop”
(D. Carpenter)

“Chinese Politics Research Workshop”
(E. Perry and I. Johnston)

“Graduate Student Workshop in Political Economy and Rational Choice”
(J. Alt and K. Shepsle)

“Political Economy Research Workshop (Gov 3007)”
(J. Alt and H. Hiscox)

“Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop”
(R. Enos and S. Ansolabehere)

“Post-Communist Politics and Economics”
(T. colton and G. Ekiert)

“Research Workshop in Applied Statistics (GOV 3009)”
(G. King and A. Abadie)

“GOV 3006: Research Workshop in Comparative Politics”
(S. Pharr and G. Ekiert)

“Research Workshop in International Relations (Government 3005)”
(D. Tingley and M. Bas)

“Workshop in Political Theory (GOV 3008)”
(M. Rosen and E. Nelson)

Health Policy

“Graduate Workshop in Ethics and Health”
(N. Daniels and F. Kamm)

“Health Economics Workshop”
(T. McGuire and J. Newhouse)

History

“Early America Colloquium”
(L. Ulrich and J. Chaplin)

“Early Modern History Workshop”
(A. Blair and D. Armitage)

“Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality”
(A. Najmabadi and T. Yoda)

“Medieval History Workshop”
(D. Small and M. McCormick)

“Russian and East European History Workshop”
(T. Marin and S. Plokhii)

“Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism”
(S. Beckert and C. Desan)

History of American Civilization

“American Civilization Dissertation Colloquium”
(J. Stauffer and J. Kloppenberg)

“North American Religions Colloquium”
(D. Hempton and A. Braude)

History of Art and Architecture

“Graduate Student Medieval Workshop”
(J. Hamburger and D. Dalrymple)

History of Science

“Early Modern Sciences Working Group”
(S. Kuriyama and A. Ragab)

“History of Medicine Working Group”
(J. Greene and D. Jones)

“Modern Sciences Working Group”
(J. Browne and J. Canales)

“Science, Technology, and Society Circle at Harvard”
(S. Jasanoff and V. Narayanamurti)

Human Evolutionary Bio

“Current Issues in Human Evolutionary Biology”
(D. Pilbeam and R. Wrangham)

Linguistics

“Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
(J. Jasanoff and J. Rau)

“Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork”
(M. Polinsky and K. Ryan)

“Linguistic Circle: A workshop on syntax/semantics/prosody interfaces”
(G. Chierchia and C. Huang)

Music

“Composers' Colloquium”
(H. Tutschku and C. Czernowin)

“Musicology Workshop”
(T. Kelly and S. Clark)

Near Eastern Lang. and Civ

“Modern Jewish Worlds”
(R. Wisse and R. Greenblatt)

“Reading the Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East”
(P. Steinkeller and B. Studevent-Hickman)

“Semitic Philology Workshop”
(E. Feinstein and W. Heinrichs)

“The Study of the Hebrew Bible”
(P. Machinist and R. Saley)

Philosophy

“Modern Jewish Worlds”
(R. Wisse and R. Greenblatt)

“Reading the Past: The History and Historiography of the Ancient Near East”
(P. Steinkeller and B. Studevent-Hickman)

“Semitic Philology Workshop”
(E. Feinstein and W. Heinrichs)

“The Study of the Hebrew Bible”
(P. Machinist and R. Saley)

Physics

“Graduate Workshop in Modern Theoretical Physics and String Theory”
(A. Strominger and C. Vafa)

Psychology

“Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Research Seminar”
(G. Alvarrez and Y. Xu)

“Concepts Seminar”
(A. Caramazza and Y. Xu)

“Leadership and Group Behavior”
(R. Hackman and A. Edmondson)

“Developmental Studies Research Seminar”
(J. Snedeker and S. Carey)

“Decision-Making Workshop”
(J. Buckholz and D. Gilbert)

“Language and Cognition Research Workshop”
(J. Snedeker and G. Chierchia)

“Research Seminar in Clinical Science”
(J. Buckholz and C. Hooker)

“Research Seminar in Visual Cognition”
(Y. Xu and K. Nakayama)

“Research Workshop in Social Psychology”
(D. Gilbert and J. Greene)

“Social Neuroscience Workshop”
(J. Mitchell and J. Buckholz)

Slavic Languages and Lituratures

“Current Research in Slavic Literature and Culture”
(S. Sandler and J. Buckler)

Sociology

“Culture and Social Analysis Workshop”
(M. Lamont and B. Bonikowski)

“Graduate Workshop in the Sociology of Education”
(M. Brinton and N. Warikoo)

“Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop”
(M. Waters and J. Hochschild)

“Urban Social Processes”
(R. Sampson and C. Winship)

“Work, Organization and Markets Seminar”
(P. Marsden and C. Marquis)

“Workshop in Economic Sociology”
(F. Dobbin and J. Beckfield)

“Workshop in History, Culture, and Society”
(O. Patterson and J. Stauffer)

South Asian Studies

“South Asia Across Disciplines”
(P. Patil and A. Ahmed)

Visual and Environmental Studies

“Screen Studies and Media Archaeology”
(D. Rodowick and T. Conley)

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

“Graduate Workshop on Latin American Politics”
(S. Levitsky and J. Dominguez)