2020

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW

HARVARD

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WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHEREVER YOU ARE FROM, HARVARD WELCOMES YOU.

Harvard’s global work is a dazzling kaleidoscope, the result of a simple strategy for engagement with the world:

to attract talented students and faculty, wherever they might come from, and to empower them to pursue their

studies, research and teaching, wherever around the world they might lead.

Dozens of Harvard research centers cross

disciplinary boundaries in the search for broad

knowledge that is firmly grounded in local contexts,

from the University’s Center for African Studies,

to the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic

Governance and Innovation, to the Center for the

Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity

School. Many academic departments have an

inherently international mission, including Global

Health and Population in the Harvard T.H. Chan

School of Public Health, and East Asian Languages

and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Scientists and engineers from the Harvard Paulson

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well

as researchers at the Harvard Medical School, the

Harvard Business School, and the Graduate School

of Design, carry out work that is global by its very

nature, and enhanced by numerous collaborations

with international partners from Tokyo to Dubai and

Santiago to Mumbai. Small wonder that every year,

Harvard students, faculty, and staff travel to nearly

every country in the world.

Meanwhile, scholars and students from all over

the world come to Harvard by the thousands,

vastly enriching the University’s teaching and

research. From the Law School to the Graduate

School of Education to the Dental School, no part

of Harvard lacks global exposure: Nearly one quarter

of Harvard’s students hail from outside the

United States, and Harvard consistently hosts

more international scholars than any other American

university. The Harvard Summer School offers study

abroad courses in more than twenty locations,

from Santo Domingo to Seoul, and the Radcliffe

Institute routinely counts visitors from every

continent among its fellows.

Harvard faculty and students drive our global

activity. Working through schools, centers,

and a growing network of regional offices, and

collaborating with peers across the University

and around the world, Harvard scholars are

advancing the frontiers of knowledge in service

to humanity: One Harvard, One World.

This brochure provides just a sample of Harvard’s activity worldwide.

We invite you to explore, learn, and find inspiration.

Find more at worldwide.harvard.edu.

Harvard hosts 5,000+ international scholars, more than any other university in the United States.

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Harvard offers instruction in

over 80 languagesincluding Uyghur, Gullah, Lingala …

Over 6 million learners from

193 countries take courses through Harvard’s online learning platform,

HarvardX.

50% of Harvard’s

Nobel Prize winners in the last

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outside the U.S.

More than 50 international research centers and programs can be found on campus.

Notes:

• 152 additional international students were enrolled whose country of origin was not available.

• Student enrollment as of fall 2019

• International alumni source: Harvard Alumni Association

Harvard’s Research: Publications with International CoauthorsEach year, more and more Harvard scholars collaborate with colleagues in different countries.

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SPOTLIGHT: RELIGION, CONFLICT, AND PEACE INITIATIVE IN THE MIDDLE EASTThe Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative is a collaboration between Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School to explore the interplay between religions and political culture, public policy, and international affairs in the Middle East. Programming includes coursework, practitioner fellowships, internships, experiential learning, and research open to all Harvard graduate students building towards a more sophisticated understanding of religion and yielding fresh insights into challenges and opportunities for just peacebuilding.

SPOTLIGHT: ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMARTyler Giannini and Yee Htun, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School

The International Human Rights Clinic advances the rights of communities in Myanmar, focusing on gender justice and international accountability for those who have persecuted ethnic nationalities and religious minorities. The Clinic and its students have supported women leaders, law reform, and conducted workshops to counter Buddhist ultra-nationalism and hate speech with the goal of advancing peace and accountability in the country.

SPOTLIGHT: SEEKING THE ORIGINS OF THE BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICAJohn Kovac, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists from the Kovac Cosmic Microwave Background Group at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian use complex microwave telescopes to search the sky for the earliest traces of the Big Bang. The uniquely cold, dry environment at the South Pole provides the best view on earth of microwaves from outer space, making it the ideal place to look for the tiny signals from primordial gravitational waves generated fractions of a second after the universe began.

SPOTLIGHT: BUILDING ORAL HEALTH TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND SERVICE DELIVERY CAPACITY IN RWANDASince 2011, Harvard School of Dental Medicine has been a leading partner in the launch of the new School of Dentistry and bachelor of dental surgery degree program at the University of Rwanda, the country’s first-ever dental school. Through the Rwanda Human Resources for Health Program, HSDM faculty spend several months each year in Kigali to advance local dental education, research, and service delivery via capacity and infrastructure development to improve the oral health experience of all Rwandans.

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Regional OfficeSantiago, ChileEst. 2002

Center for Hellenic Studies in GreeceNafplion, GreeceEst. 2008

Richard Rogers House at Wimbledon–Harvard Graduate School of DesignWimbledon, UKEst. 2016

Harvard Business School Japan Research CenterTokyo, JapanEst. 2002

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Tunisia OfficeTunis, TunisiaEst. 2016

Africa Academyfor Public HealthDar es Salaam, TanzaniaEst. 2009

Harvard Business School Latin America Research CenterBuenos Aires, ArgentinaEst. 2000

Harvard Business School Asia–PacificResearch CenterHong KongEst. 1999

Botswana–HarvardPartnershipGaborone, BotswanaEst. 1996

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil OfficeSão Paulo, Brazil Est. 2006

Harvard Business School Latin America Research CenterSão Paulo, Brazil Est. 2015

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Mexico OfficeMexico City, MexicoEst. 2013

The Archaeological Exploration of SardisSart, TurkeyEst. 1958

Harvard Business School Middle East and North Africa Research CenterIstanbul, TurkeyEst. 2013

Harvard Center ShanghaiShanghai, ChinaEst. 2010

Villa I TattiHarvard University Center for Italian Renaissance StudiesFlorence, ItalyEst. 1959

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute India OfficeDelhi, IndiaEst. 2017

Center for African Studies Africa OfficeJohannesburg, South AfricaEst. 2016

Harvard Business School Africa Research CenterJohannesburg, South AfricaEst. 2019

Harvard Business School IndiaResearch CenterMumbai, India Est. 2006

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health India Research CenterMumbai, India Est. 2016

Harvard Business School Europe Research Center Paris, FranceEst. 2003

HARVARD AROUND THE WORLD

Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs Harvard University Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Suite 850

1350 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 617.495.0568 international_affairs@harvard.edu worldwide.harvard.edu

Student StatisticsSource: School RegistrarsPrepared by Office of Institutional Research and Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.“International” refers to students who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents.Degree and certificate-seeking students only.Enrollment as of October 15th of academic year.

Photo Credits Front CoverAmeerah Ahmad, class of 2019: Morocco Maya AlMoussa, class of 2021: Italy Anastasia Lamothe, class of 2021: Republic of KoreaHeide Rogers, class of 2021: Morocco Julia Canick, class of 2019: Israel Griffin Andres, class of 2021: Dominican Republic

Photo Credits Back CoverNatali Gale, class of 2021: IndiaDianne Lee, class of 2020: JapanZoe Hughes, class of 2020: ChileJenny Liu, class of 2021: Ecuador Taejung Song, class of 2020: France Jeffrey Cott, class of 2019: Japan

Thomas Bernhardt-Lanier, class of 2019: Uganda Emma Orcutt, class of 2019: FranceKatharine Schluntz, class of 2019: China