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About the Department
| Hoopes Prize Winners 2012 | 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 Akhtar, “The Government’s Children: Orphans’ Rights in Morocco and Tunisia” |
| Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Professor Steve Ansolabehere has co-written the articles: The Alternative Energy Future: Challenges for Technological Change and The American Public's Energy Choice as well as participating as a guest editor in the Spring 2012 edition of the Daedalus: ... |
| Harvard Professors Recognized for Teaching and Advising | 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. |
| Political science, in his marrow | Using history as lens to explore how events occurred, what's next: |
| A North Korean Corleone | 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, 2012. |
| Professor Nancy Rosenblum has been awarded a Fellowship | Nancy Rosenblum has been awarded a Fellowship at the |
| Creating a New Racial Order | I am delighted to announce that Jennifer Hochschild's book, "Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics and the Young Can Remake Race in America" (co-authored with Vesla Weaver and Traci Burch) has just been published by Princeton University... |
| Eric Nelson has been awarded the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies | The Nanovic Institute awards $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize to The Hebrew Republic |
| The Rachel Maddow Show: Reading the tea party | Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, co authors of the new book, "The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism," talk with Rachel Maddow about the results of their research into the characteristics of tea party members. |
| Daniel Carpenter to receive the Allan Sharlin Award | Daniel Carpenter's book "Reputation and Power" has been awarded the Allan Sharlin Award for the top book from the Social Science History Association. |