Publications

The Lifting Gales of Spring: Australian Students at Harvard University (1876–1945) by former Junior Fellow David Haig The Lifting Gales of Spring tells the stories of the eighty students from Australia who attended Harvard University, from the first...

The Language of Bees by former Junior Fellow James Nieh The Language of Bees invites readers into the hidden world of bee communication, a realm where creatures less than an inch long use scent, vibration, movement, and sound to cooperate, share...

Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose Translated and edited by Junior Fellow Colton Valentine This volume, translated and edited by Colton Valentine , presents a selection of fiction, open letters, and essays by Victorian writer Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)...

Speaking Parts: Conversation, Character, and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century British Novels by former Junior Fellow Tara Menon In Speaking Parts , former Junior Fellow Tara Menon (2019-21, 2022-23) explores how direct speech —words enclosed in...

Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings by former Junior Fellow Jared Diamond From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel comes a a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports. Seeking to...

Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well by former Junior Fellow Daniel Lieberman (1992 - 95) In Fed Up, Daniel E. Lieberman draws from evolutionary biol­ogy, physiology, anthropology, anatomy, medical science, and history...

Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us by Senior Fellow Maria Tatar In Arachnomania , Maria Tatar explores how these creatures became our totem animals, our significant others, and our curved mirrors; spiders are found throughout our...

Israel: What Went Wrong? by former Junior Fellow Omer Bartov (1989 - 92) In this book, Bartov , currently the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, explores the transformation of Zionism from a movement of Jewish...

The Republic of Love: Opera and Political Freedom by former Junior Fellow Martha Nussbaum (1972 - 75) In this book, philosopher Martha Nussbaum presents an original vision of opera's contribution to political thought. Drawing on her deep knowledge of...

Philo of Alexandria: Every Good Man is Free by former Junior Fellow Maren Niehoff This book by former Junior Fellow Maren Niehoff (1989 - 92) is volume 9 in a series providing commentary on the works of Philo, a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher born roughly...