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| Michael Griesdorf | GRIESDORF, Michael - It is with the greatest and most heartfelt sorrow that we announce the passing of Michael Griesdorf, after a sudden epileptic seizure. Beloved son of Jane and Gary Griesdorf, loving brother of Wendy Griesdorf and Jonathan Rowe. He will be forever loved and missed by... |
| The Gregory Leubbert Prize | Daniel Ziblatt will be awarded next week at the American Political Science Association (APSA) with the Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best article published in comparative politics in 2008: "Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?: A Test of the "Bread and Democracy" Thesis and the... |
| Alison Post won the 2009 APSA William Anderson Award | Allison Post is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s William Anderson Award for her dissertation, “Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization”, submitted by Nancy Rosenblum of Harvard... |
| Sheena Chestnut & Sabeel Rahman awarded APSA Wilson Carey McWilliams Prize | Sheena Chestnut, Sabeel Rahman, "The Literary Public Sphere in Post- Authoritarian Transitions," presented at APSA 2008, awarded the annual Politics, Literature, and Film section Wilson Carey McWilliams prize for the best paper presented to the section. |
| Jens Meierhenrich wins APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award | The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is awarded for the best book published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year on government, politics, or international affairs. |
| Harvard names two University Professors | Two faculty members have been named University Professors, Harvard’s highest professorial distinction. The new appointees are Gary King, the David Florence Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and Marc W. Kirschner, the Carl W. Walter Professor of Systems Biology... |
| Nancy Rosenblum has been interviewed for her new book, "On the Side of the Angels" | Nancy Rosenblum has been interviewed for her new book, "On the Side of the Angels". The book interview will be published as a Rorotoko cover feature on Friday, July 31, at around 8 AM EST http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/... |
| Harvard professor guides teachers through centuries of political thought on republics | Daniel P. Carpenter, who oversees Harvard's American Republic Initiative, led a four-day seminar on the origins of U.S. representative government, with an eye to the past and present fate of the republican ideal. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/07.23/republic.html |
| Nadira Lalji named Harvard-Cambridge Scholar for 2009-10 | Nadira Lalji '09 is one of four Harvard seniors who have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to the University of Cambridge for 2009-10. She will be the John Eliot Scholar at Jesus College. |
| BBC radio’s prestigious Reith Lectures delivered by Harvard’s Michael Sandel are now available on BBC Web site | Sandel first Harvard faculty member to be so honored since Galbraith in 1966 Harvard Professor Michael Sandel, chosen by the BBC to deliver its Reith Lectures for 2009, can be heard on the BBC Web site. The Reith Lectures, considered the most prestigious public lectures in Britain, were delivered... |