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Professor Steven Caton steps down as a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy

June 30, 2021
On June 30, 2021, Professor Steven Caton steps down as a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Professor Caton has been a Senior Scholar since AY2008–2009 and he will continue at Harvard University as the Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies.
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Professor Susan J. Pharr steps down as a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy

June 30, 2021
On June 30, 2021, Professor Susan J. Pharr steps down as a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies due to her retirement from the faculty at Harvard University. Professor Pharr has been a Senior Scholar since AY1993–1994 and she will continue at Harvard University as the Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics. Congratulations to Professor Pharr on her retirement.
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Professor Melani Cammett steps down as Chair of the Harvard Academy & will be appointed Director of the Weatherhead Center

June 30, 2021
On June 30, 2021, Professor Melani Cammett stepped down as Chair of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, although she will remain a Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor Cammett will take up a new position as Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on July 1, 2021. Congratulations to Professor Cammett on her new appointment.
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Announcing the new Korea Foundation-Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-22, Dr. Yoolim Kim

June 29, 2021

Yoolim Kim is a psycholinguist researching language processing, and in particular, the ways in which the language's written form affects the mental representation of the language. She specializes in Hangul and is interested in how the relationship between Hangul and Hanja influences the structure of the mental lexicon. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2019, which explored the effects of Hanja on semantic processing in Sino-Korean. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher within the Minds and Traditions Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science...

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Celebrating a year of creativity and entrepreneurship

June 29, 2021

The Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship (LPCE) kicked off with a remarkable inaugural year, guided by the vision of the late Dr. Robert Lue. This new program, which was based at the Bok Center and inspired by Dr. Lue’s passion for making a positive social impact, reached hundreds of students this year.  We are grateful to the many Harvard students who hopped on board our new adventure in learning-and-doing. Our students’ creativity sparked promising venture teams and deepened our growing community. Students applied their ingenuity and academic knowledge to problems...

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