Ben TerMaat, a Ph.D. candidate in Government, is one of five recipients of the 2025 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, an award Harvard Griffin GSAS gives to graduate student teachers who inspire their undergraduate students to learn and discover. In GSAS’ announcement, they wrote that he “is the…
Jerry Min, a Ph.D. candidate in Government and A.M. candidate in Statistics at Harvard, has been awarded the APSA Best Poster Award. This award recognizes the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous year’s American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting and is chosen by a selection committee…
We are pleased to share that Ph.D. candidate Justin L. Brooks has been honored with the 2025 Christian Bay Award by the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Critical Political Science section. Brooks received this recognition for his paper “Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor, and Private Law”. The prestigious Christian Bay Award…
On June 20, Athens became the epicenter of scholarly dialogue on the intersection of philosophy and artificial intelligence, hosting The Lyceum Project – an annual initiative where world-leading academics and practitioners explore how technology can sustain and enrich society. Among the distinguished participants – which included Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Prime Minister of Greece – were…
The Department of Government is proud to honor our 2024-25 graduating Ph.D. students, whose academic curiosity, dedication, and resilience represent the very best of our scholarly community. This year, we celebrate Evelyn Boyden, Reed Rasband, Austin Jordan, Hunter Rendleman, Ye Helen Zhang, Brian Palmiter, Mafalda Pratas, Jordan Rudinsky, Juan Dodyk, Katherine Irajpanah, Sophie Pangle, Chris…
We are proud to announce that two distinguished members of our community—Melani Cammett and Andrew O’Donohue—have been named Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. They join the Institute’s 26th class of fellows, a highly selective group that includes leading voices across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Each fellow is selected…
Ph.D. Candidate Andrew O’Donohue has been granted the 2024 Best Conference Paper Award from the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Law and Courts Section. O’Donohue was recognized for his paper, “Law versus Democracy: Minoritarian Courts, Audience Costs, and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey”, an in-depth study examining how judicial institutions may inadvertently contribute to democratic erosion….
We are pleased to announce that two Ph.D. candidates from the Department of Government, Julio Solis Arce and Chengyu Fu, have been awarded competitive traveling research fellowships for the 2025–26 academic year. Administered by the Committee on General Scholarships at the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), these fellowships support…
The Department of Government is proud to announce that two of our Ph.D. candidates in political theory, Abbie LeBlanc and Jan-Paul Sandmann, have been selected as 2025–26 Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows at Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Abbie LeBlanc, a fourth-year graduate student, focuses on the history of political thought, particularly…
On Tuesday, April 8th, members of the Harvard Department of Government gathered at the 2025 Harvard Horizons Symposium to support and celebrate one of our own, Ph.D. candidate Andrew O’Donohue. Organized by Harvard Griffin GSAS, this prestigious annual event highlights the remarkable research of the selected 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholars, chosen by the Harvard Horizons…
