About the Department

At its recent annual meeting in San Francisco, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) named seven new directors and elected a slate of new officers.

Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, was named a director.

At Harvard, Skocpol has served as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and as director of the Center for American Political Studies.  She has served as president of the Social Science History Association.  Her research covers an unusually broad spectrup of topics including both comparative politics and American politics.

Information about AAC&U membership, programs, and publications can be found at http://www.aacu.org.