Professor Kenneth Shepslehas been named one of the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for 2018. Walter Channing Cabot Fellow fellowships are given annually to few faculty in recognition of their achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art. The award reflects Professor Shepsle’s outstanding contributions to his field, including the publication of hisrecent…
Sandel wins Asturias Award “The Harvard Gazette” article
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/06/michael-sandel-wins-astur… Political philosophy professor praised as “exemplary figure in the public use of reason in the search for truth”…
Professor Daniel Ziblatt is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Woodrow Wilson Award
Professor Daniel Ziblatt is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Woodrow Wilson Award, which is awarded annually for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs, for his book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy…
The following dissertation prizes were announced at the department’s doctoral cocktail party on May 23
The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace was awarded to Madhav Khosla for his dissertation, “Modern Constitutionalism and the Indian Founding” The two Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means…
Shanna Weitz: 2018 Derek C. Bok Award Citation
https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/shanna-weitz-2018-derek-c-bok-award-citation…
Government Hoopes Prize Winners 2018
May 3, 2018 Marie Becker ’18, Sally Marsh ’18, Yousra Neberai ’18, and Caroline Tervo ’18 have won the Hoopes Thesis Prize. Congratulations! Marie Becker, “The United Space: Transnational Expert Networks and Cooperation in Space between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War” Sally Marsh, “How Manistee Flipped: Understanding the 2016 Trump and Clinton Campaigns…
Debating markets and morals in Moscow ‘The Harvard Gazette’ article
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel recently addressed 1,500 people in Moscow’s Manege Central Exhibition Hall, adjacent to the Kremlin, about ethics, markets, and democracy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/sandel-discusses-markets-and-morals-in-moscow-lecture/…
11 faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences ‘The Harvard Gazette’ article
Harvard’s inductees to the class of 2018 are Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Susan M. Dymecki, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School (HMS); Naomi E. Pierce, Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology, curator of…
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 selected for “Junior 24” Phi Beta Kappa
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 is one of the Harvard College students selected as a “Junior 24” inductee into Phi Beta Kappa: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/4/19/junio-24-pbk/…
Statement of Principles, and Moving Forward
Harvard University Department of Government Jennifer Hochschild, Chair Statement of Principles, and Moving Forward Recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education have reported allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct by Professor Jorge Dominguez, a faculty member in our department. We in the Department of Government were appalled to hear of these concerns and to…