We are pleased to announce two co-recipients of the Best Poster Award atthe joint conference of the 6th Asian Political Methodology Meeting and thesecond annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience, which was held at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, on January5 and 6, 2019. (The award is sponsored by the Japanese Journal…
Volha Charnysh PhD graduate won the Best Dissertation award from the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, for “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland”
Volha Charnysh PhD graduate won the Best Dissertation award from the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, for “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland”…
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…
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…
Sheena Greitens’ (PhD graduate) 2016 book, “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence” is the co-winner of the 2017 International Studies Association’s annual “Best Book” Award.
Sheena Greitens’ (PhD graduate / Assistant Professor University of Missouri / Harvard Academy Fellow 2017-18) 2016 book, “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence” is the co-winner (along with Jessica Stanton’s book (“Violence and Restraint in Civil War: Civilian Targeting in the Shadow of International Law”) of the 2017 International Studies Association’s…
Ranjit Lall PhD candidate has been awarded a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science in the Emerging Researchers category
http://www.bitss.org/people/ranjit-lall/ 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Ranjit Lall is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests are in the area of international political economy, with a focus on international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, and quantitative methods. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a…
The following Phd students were named as 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipients
The following Government Department Phd students were named as 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipients. http://www.apsanet.org/mfp/2017_2018 Kaneesha Johnson Pamela Adaugo Nwakanma Shannon Parker…
Daniel Koss’s dissertation has been selected for the Walter Dean Burnham Best Dissertation Award of the section on History and Politics of the American Political Science Association
Daniel Koss’s dissertation, Where the Party Rules: Party-Based Authoritarianism and the Reach of the Chinese State has been selected for the Walter Dean Burnham Best Dissertation Award of the section on History and Politics of the American Political Science Association….