Harvard Professor Michael Sandel recently addressed 1,500 people in Moscow’s Manege Central Exhibition Hall, adjacent to the Kremlin, about ethics, markets, and democracy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/sandel-discusses-markets-and-morals-in-moscow-lecture/…
11 faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences ‘The Harvard Gazette’ article
Harvard’s inductees to the class of 2018 are Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Susan M. Dymecki, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School (HMS); Naomi E. Pierce, Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology, curator of…
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 selected for “Junior 24” Phi Beta Kappa
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 is one of the Harvard College students selected as a “Junior 24” inductee into Phi Beta Kappa: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/4/19/junio-24-pbk/…
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…
The big squeeze on American democracy The Harvard Gazette article
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard professors and authors of “How Democracies Die,” believe the polarization in the U.S. over issues involving race, religion, and culture could threaten democracy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/the-rising-pressures-on-american-democracy/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020180130…
The Harvard Gazette article on ‘The Space Between Us’
Ryan Enos talks about his new book “The Space Between Us,” in which he explores how geography shapes politics and how members of racial, ethnic, and religious groups think about each other. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/new-book-explores-the-impact-of-geography-on-politics-psychology-behavior/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020180124b…
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the authors of the new book ‘How Democracies Die,’ join Morning Joe to discuss why they write in their book about the danger of leaders ‘who subvert the very process that brought them to power.’
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the authors of the new book ‘How Democracies Die,’ join Morning Joe to discuss why they write in their book about the danger of leaders ‘who subvert the very process that brought them to power.’ http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-eroding-credibility-of-us-institutions-authors-of-how-democracies-die-1139688003679?v=a…
What Donald Trump has in common with Napoleon III – The Boston Globe an article by Cheryl Welch
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/10/17/what-donald-trump-has-common-with-napoleon-iii/qnX812fKJeRneVsLX8A1JM/story.html…
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…