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GRADUATE SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (GSAA) COUNCILNaomi AndréReinier Beeuwkes

Thomas DavenportMia de KuijperStacy DickA. Barr DolanRichard Ekman

Yonatan EyalJohn C.C. FanKenneth FroewissHomer HagedornR. Stanton HalesDavid HarnettGeorge HeilbornKaren J. HladikDaniel R. Johnson

Gopal KadagathurAlan Kantrow

Gyuri KaradyRobert E. KnightImad KordabFelipe LarraínJill Levenson

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Suzanne Folds McCullaghJohn J. Moon

Sandra O. MooseF. Robert NakaBetsy M. Ohlsson-Wilhelm

Maury Peiperl

M. Lee Pelton

Nancy RamageJohn E. RiellyAllen Sanginés-Krause

David Staines

Marianne Steiner

Donald van DeventerLee ZhangGustavus Zimmerman

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Visual Dialogue

Siddhartha Mitter

Nicholas Nardini

Emiliano Ponzi

Celebrating the

impact of new

ideas, Harvard

Horizons will

select and

mentor eight

talented PhD

students, pre-

paring them for

a symposium

in Sanders

Theatre.

PhD student Jason Silverstein

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Marv Levy, AM ‘51FIELD OF STUDY:

HistoryTODAY:

Novelist, retired football coach

“Yes, there is a period where you mourn — not too long. And then there’s a period where you own up — what didn’t we do well enough that we can address? Then you recognize the good — look at the people around me. And then you make a plan.”

Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Testing Prayer

Voting in Fear: Electoral Vi-olence in Sub-Saharan Africa

American Genesis

Lee Kuan Yew

The Hemingway Short Stor

The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

In Paper Memory

Framed

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory

Will the21st century be “theChinese Century”?

The Chinese Century?

A look inside HarvardX, the ambitious, game-changing online

education experimentBy Nicholas Nardini Illustration by eBoy

As faculty director of HarvardX, Robert Lue oversees course content — and helps persuade the skeptics.

Each object of art tells its own story, on its own terms. Suzanne Preston Blier listens — and then weaves connections between its makers, their society, its journey, and ours. By Siddhartha Mitter

Suzanne Preston Blier

“I’m interested

in how images

construct

the world, and

also in how

the world in

which images

are made

constructs

those images.”

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