The International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT) has awarded Shterna Friedman the 2024 Melvin Richter Prize for her doctoral dissertation: Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Systemic Social Theory. The Richter family established the Melvin Richter Prize as a tribute to Mel Richter, one of the founders of CSPT and a generous…
A new study – led by Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government – has launched as part of Harvard Climate Action Week (June 10-14), hosted by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. The conference invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the climate crisis’s most…
Professor of Government Dustin Tingley and PhD alumni Harry Oppenheimer have both been named American Political Science Association (APSA) award winners for their fantastic respective work. Dustin Tingley and his co-author Alexander F. Gazmararian – a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University – have been awarded the APSA STEP Section Don…
Many faculty, former students, and friends came together over the weekend of April 13-14 for a conference in honor of our distinguished colleague Richard Tuck. Held at Princeton University, the event celebrated not only Richard’s retirement but more than four decades of teaching, writing, and intellectual camaraderie. Political theorist and historian of political thought, Richard…
Understanding how local contexts determine why white voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right is the driving force behind Stephanie Ternullo’s first published book How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics. Stephanie Ternullo is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, joining the department after…
A dynamic group of spoken word artists will read and reinterpret powerful petitions from disenfranchised individuals seeking their rights in the 17th and 18th centuries at All the Voices in the House, a groundbreaking event created by Revolutionary Spaces. The petitions were curated by Daniel Carpenter, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Chair…
In our recent Vik-Bailey lecture, Antón Barba-Kay – the Robert B. Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College in California – took a deep dive into the topic of digital technology and its potential to end human nature. Hosted at CGIS South on April 11, the lecture was well attended – including a full…
The recent Sidney Verba lecture was delivered by Jamila Michener, an associate professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University, and titled Power from the Margins and the Promise of Democracy. The lecture, held April 18 at CGIS South, took a deep dive into Michener’s current thoughts and research around grassroots political organizing. Opening…
Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and Statistics, has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for research, joining the ranks of more than 19,000 Fellows honored since 1925. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, now in its 99th year, has recognized and awarded monetary prizes to the 2024 class of trail-blazing fellows, all of whom were…
Students in GOV 1013: GIS Analysis of Hazard Vulnerability, led by Dr. Connie Chen, will be presenting their final projects in Room S003 at the CGIS South building (1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge) on Thursday, April 18th, from 3 to 5 pm. The presentations will cover topics such as hazards, vulnerability, resilience, and communities. We welcome…
