The Faculty of Arts and Science’s 45 academic centers and institutes serve as hubs of interdisciplinary research and innovation.
- Center for Advanced Imaging at Harvard
- Center for African Studies
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
- Center for American Political Studies
- Institute for Applied Computational Science
- Asia Center
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
- Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology
- Center for Brain Science
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
- Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
- Center for Research on Computation and Society
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
- Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
- Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard
- Harvard University Center for the Environment
- Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
- Film Study Center
- Harvard China Fund
- Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment
- Harvard College Observatory
- Harvard Data Science Initiative
- Harvard Forest
- Harvard Privacy Tools Project
- Harvard Quantum Initiative
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- Harvard University Herbaria
- Harvard-Yenching Institute
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
- Center for Integrated Quantum Materials
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
- The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Korea Institute
- Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- The Learning Incubator
- Mahindra Humanities Center
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Microbial Sciences Initiative
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
- Center for Nanoscale Systems
- Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures
- Origins of Life Initiative
- Center for Geographic Analysis
- Harvard-MIT Data Center
- Institute for Quantitative Social Science
- Rowland Institute
- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Society of Fellows
- Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
- Institute for Theory and Computation
- Ukrainian Research Institute
- Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications