Upending American Politics: Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo discuss their 2020 book “Upending American Politics” with Kluge Center Program Specialists Dan Turello and Janna Deitz. In the book, Skocpol and Tervo examine the actions of the Tea Party movement as well as the more recent progressive resistance movement, in addition…
CNN video: Professor Michael Sandel discusses his theory that credentialism is the last acceptable form of prejudice in today’s society
Harvard professor Michael Sandel discusses his theory that credentialism is the last acceptable form of prejudice in today’s society, and how that relates to President Trump’s political rise….
Danielle Allen Awarded the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress
Library of Congress to Award Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity to Danielle Allen Allen, who is Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, will Work with the Library to Share Expertise on Justice, Citizenship and Democracy with a Wide Audience Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Danielle…
The Charter School Advantage Wall Street Journal op-ed article By Paul E. Peterson and M. Danish Shakeel
The Charter School Advantage A new study shows African-Americans and children from poorer backgrounds outpace their peers in traditional district schools…
New research by Dr. Sparsha Saha Harvard and Dr Ana Catalano Weeks University of Bath scholars finds that voters don’t punish ambitious women candidates running for office
New research by Harvard and University of Bath scholars finds that voters don’t punish ambitious women candidates running for office. The study, published in the journal Political Behavior, challenges the long-held assumption that negative views about ambition are standing in the way of female candidates in politics. Following Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful bid for the White House in 2016,…
Prof. Kosuke Imai’s project for the Harvard Data Science Initiative was one of three to receive an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant
Prof. Kosuke Imai’s project for the Harvard Data Science Initiative was one of three to receive an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.https://datascience.harvard.edu/news/harvard-data-science-initiative-awarded-grant-alfred-p-sloan-foundation…
Congratulations to Horacio Larreguy, Jeremy Bowles, and Gary King winners from the Harvard Data Science Initiative through the Research Fund for Trust in Science
Congratulations to Horacio Larreguy and Jeremy Bowles whose project Countering COVID-19 Misinformation Via WhatsApp in Zimbabwe (together with Kevin Croke, John Marshall and Shelly Liu), as well as Gary King’s Ensuring privacy in COVID-19 epidemiological mobility data sets (together with Salil Vadhan, Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee and Merce Crosas) were among the four winners who…
Torben Iversen has been selected as a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Torben Iversen has been selected as a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow (https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/radcliffe-institute-announces-2020-2021-fellowship-class)…