News and Announcements

  • Government concentrators Sarah Akhtar, William Eger, Farha Faisal, Rachel Lipson, and Sara Plana from the graduating class of 2012 have won the prestigious Hoopes thesis prize. Congratulations! Sarah...
  • Professor Steve Ansolabehere has co-written the articles:  The Alternative Energy Future:  Challenges for Technological Change and The American Public's Energy Choice...
  • Eric Beerbohm was awarded the Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2011, and Arthur Spirling was awarded Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.  
  • Using history as lens to explore how events occurred, what's next:
  • Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a PhD candidate within the Government Department, has written the article "A North Korean Corleone,"which appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review on March 3...

Faculty Spotlight

  • Research Fellow in Political Science, associated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for American Politics at Harvard University

    Jocelyne Cesari, is an Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for European Studies and teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and Government Department. Dr. Cesari is a political scientist, specializing in the Middle East...

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Grad Student Spotlight

  • Graduate Student
    American Politics

    Shauna L. Shames is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Government at Harvard University. Her primary areas of academic interest are race, gender, feminism, and politics, and she has published articles, reports, and book chapters on women as...

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