A one day conference in honour of Ken Shepsle on ‘Political Economy, Formal Political Theory: The last 50 years, the Next 50’. The conference will survey the past and examine prospects for the future of a. formal political theory, b. political economy and c. political science. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/events/2016/11/shepsle_festschrift_conference/…
Danielle Allen named University Professor
Political theorist and classicist recognized for scholarly work on justice, citizenship – Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/11/danielle-allen-named-university-professor/…
We The Petitioners: Rewriting the History of Massachusetts’s Native Americans | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/10/6/native-american-petitions/…
Susan Pharr wins the 2016 Japan Foundation Award
Susan Pharr is to receive the Japan Foundation Award for 2016, which recognizes individuals who through their artistic contribution or scholarship, along with their work in promoting intellectual and cultural exchanges, contribute to building ties between Japan and the rest of the world. Previous awardees include Senator William Fulbright, originator of the Fulbright Program; Boston…
Post-Regulatory School Reform an article by Professor Paul E. Peterson in the Harvard Magazine
Post-Regulatory School Reform With many students still at risk, choice and competition remain the country’s best hope. http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/post-regulatory-school-reform…
Ariel White, Noah Nathan and Julie Faller receive the 2016 Heinz Eulau Award for their article in APSR
http://www.politicalsciencenow.com/ariel-white-noah-nathan-and-julie-faller-receive-the-heinz-eulau-award-for-their-article-in-apsr/…
The Democracy of Everyday Life – An article in the Harvard Magazine about Prof. Nancy Rosenblum’s new book Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
The Democracy of Everyday Life Nancy Rosenblum studies neighbors and the power of proximity. http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/democracy-of-everyday-life…
Announcing that the winners of the Society for Political Methodology’s 2016 Gosnell Prize are Marc Ratkovic (Princeton) and Dustin Tingley (Harvard)
for their paper, “Sparse Estimation with Uncertainty:Subgroup Analysis in Large Dimensional Designs.” The Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology is awarded for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year….
New Currier House faculty deans Latanya Sweeney and Sylvia Barrett
Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, and attorney Sylvia Barrett, A.L.B. ’95, have been appointed faculty deans of Currier House (the first leaders appointed to that post since the title was changed from House master). The couple, who met at MIT as undergraduates and subsequently founded a computer company together, have a son, Leonard, who…
Dustin Tingley’s new book, Sailing the Water’s Edge
Please follow this link to a Harvard Magazine article about Professor Dustin Tingley’s new book ‘Sailing the Water’s Edge http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/07/dustin-tingley…