About the Department

Carlos E. Díaz Rosillo is Allston Burr Resident Dean of Dunster House and Lecturer on Government. His research focuses on the American presidency, public policy, and comparative chief executive politics. His work examines the different instrument of power that chief executives have at their disposal to affect policy. He has extensive teaching experience in the Department of Government, where he received his Ph.D. As in previous years, he is teaching a popular research seminar on chief executive politics in the Fall: Presidents, Governors, and Mayors: Chief Executive Power in Comparative Perspective, and a lecture course in the Spring: Presidential Power in the United States. He holds undergraduate degrees summa cum laude in International Relations (BA) and Civil Engineering (BSCE) from Tufts University, as well as graduate degrees in Public Policy (MPP) and Government (AM, Ph.D.) from Harvard University.