He was Leroy B. Williams Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at Harvard University. Professor MacFarquhar came to Harvard to pursue a master’s degree in East Asian Studies, graduating in 1955. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1981. He was appointed the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and…
Government Department Climate Survey Report
The Inclusive Climate Subcommittee of the Climate Change Committee released the findings of the Government Department Climate Survey fielded in October 2018. Read more: https://gov.harvard.edu/government-department-climate-survey…
AJPS Best Paper Award 2018 co-winner “Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition Canvassing” by Prof. Daniel Carpenter, Prof. Clayton Nall (Stanford), Prof. Benjamin Schneer (HKS)
AJPS Best Paper Award 2018 co-winner “Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition Canvassing” by Prof. Daniel Carpenter, Prof. Clayton Nall (Stanford), Prof. Benjamin Schneer (HKS) best article appearing AJPS Volume 62, Issue 1 (January 2018)….
“Primary Elections and Candidate-Centered Campaigns” has been named the Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award winner from the 2018 conference.
“Primary Elections and Candidate-Centered Campaigns” has been named the Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award winner from the 2018 conference. The SPSA presents this award annually to the best paper presented at the previous year’s meeting. The paper is by Professor James Snyder, Jaclyn Kaslovsky (PhD Candidate), Michael Olson (PhD Candidate), and Professor Shigeo Hirano (Columbia)….
Forty-Eight Seniors in Class of 2018 Chosen for Phi Beta Kappa
Sonya G. Jacobs, Government Andrew F. Miner, Government Romana Pilepich, Government Elena D. Sokoloski, Government http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/27/pbk-senior-48-2017/…
One election winner: the pollsters / The Harvard Gazette
Harvard’s Political Analytics Conference last week included “Measuring & Mapping the Midterms,” a panel featuring Nate Cohn and Amanda Cox of The New York Times’ column The Upshot and moderated by Kirk Goldsberry of ESPN (far left). https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/one-election-winner-according-to-harvard-conference-the-pollsters/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020181121…
King of Spain confers Spain’s highest prize on Michael Sandel
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/king-of-spain-confers-spains-highest-prize-on-michael-sandel/…
Ana Catalano Weeks — 2018 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award Recipient
The American Political Science Association (APSA) will present the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award to Dr. Ana Catalano Weeks at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Ana Catalano Weeks is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages, & International Studies at the University of Bath. Before joining Bath, she was a College…
Professor Dustin Tingley, together with the former graduate students Molly Roberts and Brandon Stewart, was announced as the winner of the 2018 Society for Political Methodology Statistical Software Award
Professor Dustin Tingley, together with the former graduate students Molly Roberts and Brandon Stewart, was announced as the winner of the 2018 Society for Political Methodology Statistical Software Award for stm: An R package for Structural Topic Models. Structural topic models have enhanced and advanced the use of topic modeling for diverse text corpora by encompassing metadata…