American Politics – Department of Government

The study of American Politics draws on a wide range of methodological approaches and intellectual traditions to address every manner of political issue facing the nation. The field of American Politics at Harvard University examines:

The social and economic roots of politics in the United States
The functioning of American democracy
The politics of the nation’s institutions, especially Congress, the Presidency, the Judiciary, and the bureaucracy, public opinion, and public policymaking

Department Faculty

Chase H. Harrison

Senior Preceptor

Daniel Carpenter

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government; Chair of the Department of Government

Daniel Ziblatt

Eaton Professor of the Science of Government

Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor

Dustin Tingley

Professor of Government

Gary King

Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor

James M. Snyder, Jr.

Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science

Jennifer Hochschild

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies

Latanya Sweeney

Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology

Marcel Roman

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mashail Malik

Assistant Professor of Government

Matthew Blackwell

Associate Professor of Government

Paul E. Peterson

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government

Ryan D. Enos

Professor of Government

Stephanie Ternullo

Assistant Professor of Government

Stephen Ansolabehere

Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government

Taeku Lee

Bae Family Professor of Government

Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology