Arts & Humanities - FAS

Geo Week 2026 February 16–18, Colorado. Details DGI 2026 – Defence Geospatial Intelligence February 23-26, London, UK. Details Esri Developer & Technology Summit 2026 March 10-13, Palm Springs, California. Details AAG Annual Meeting 2026 March 17-21, San...

This project provided print publication maps and a dynamic web-map (in progress) in conjunction with the exhibit, " Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings" on display at the Harvard Art Museums from September...

A new collaboration between Zhejiang University and Harvard was launched on October 13th, 2017. The joint effort will build upon Harvard CGA's WorldMap to develop a Chinese Academic Mapping Platform for research, teaching, and data sharing. Please see the...

CGA staff created maps and videos related to the 1947 British Partition of India for presentation at the World Economic Forum, 2017. View the presentation at the Economic Forum by Tarun Khanna starting at minute 1:26 in the video, with the maps appearing...

CGA created a Haiti Earthquake Data Portal in support of geospatial information exchange for relief and reconstruction efforts after Haiti's 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010. The effort was described in the Harvard Magazine [1.19.2010], Boston...

Investigator Mike McCormick, FAS Department of History DARMC Project website From a general survey of the later Roman empire from ca. 250 to 700, the course "History 11111: The fall of Roman Empire" is shifting to an investigation of the question of the...

An archive of the datasets developed for the Regional Systems Analysis laboratory, under the direction of G. William Skinner. The core datasets, including GIS layers and tabular data, are being preserved in a repository on DataVerse. The archived...

The CHGIS project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. The data layers include nationwide coverages (for the years 1820 and 1911), and time series (for the Dynastic period from 221 BCE...