The two Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace” are awarded to 1. Tyler Jost for his dissertation, “Decision by Design: National Security Institutions and Interstate Crisis” 2. Mayya…
Professor Peter A. Hall Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University, is elected to the 239th class of new members at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences….
Outcome of Title IX Investigation
Outcome of Title IX Investigation Dear Members of the FAS Community, I am writing to inform you that the Title IX investigation into allegations concerning Jorge Dominguez is now complete. The Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR) conducted a thorough and careful review of all formal allegations made against Dominguez, and concluded that he engaged in unwelcome…
Angie Bautista-Chavez (PhD student): 2019 Derek C. Bok Award Citation
As a PhD student in government, Angie Bautista-Chavez specializes in American politics and international relations. But that hasn’t stopped her from serving as a teaching fellow for classes in almost every subfield of political science. Her performance in the methodology classes “Survey Research” (Gov 1010) and “Qualitative Research Methods” (Gov 62) is particularly noteworthy: Despite the challenges…
Professor Emeritus Martin Kilson passed away yesterday
Professor Emeritus Martin Kilson passed away yesterday. He was the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from 1988 till his retirement in 1999. Professor Kilson was born in 1931, graduated from Lincoln University, and received his PhD. From Harvard in 1959. After Ford Foundation-supported research in West Africa, he became a Lecturer in Government in 1962…
‘A very, very dangerous moment in our country’s history’ The Harvard Gazette article
Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of “How Democracies Die,” discusses the current state of U.S. politics. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-author-a-dangerous-moment-in-our-countrys-history/?utm_medium=Feed&utm_source=Syndication…
‘Looking to China for lessons on helping the poor’ The Harvard Gazette article
Nara Dillon’s work in China seeks lessons from the country’s successful battle against poverty that might be applied elsewhere. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-china-connection-highlighted-by-president-bacow-visit/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%203-18-19%20(1)…
The War on Poverty Remains a Stalemate Education gaps between socioeconomic classes haven’t narrowed in the past half-century. By Eric A. Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson
The War on Poverty Remains a Stalemate – The Wall Street Journal articleEducation gaps between socioeconomic classes haven’t narrowed in the past half-century.By Eric A. Hanushek and Paul E. PetersonMarch 17, 2019 https://gov.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/gov/files/wsj_war_on_poverty_hanushek_peterson_03.18.19.pdf?m=1552933907…
Professor Sidney Verba The Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University passed away on Monday, March 4th 2019
Professor Sidney Verba The Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University passed away on Monday, March 4th 2019. He served as Director of the Harvard University Library for twenty-four years. At Harvard, he had also been chair of the Department of Government, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate…
Soichiro Yamauchi, PhD Candidate is co-winner for Best Poster Award at the joint conference of the 6th Asian Political Methodology Meeting and the second annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science
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…