Ryan Doan-Nguyen has been awarded the Marshall Scholarship, a program that enables intellectually distinguished young Americans to study in the United Kingdom. The 2025 Marshall Class will see Ryan – who is set to graduate in 2025 with a joint concentration in History & Literature and Government and a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights…
Marcel Roman, Assistant Professor of Government, has co-authored an article for The Washington Post with Amanda Sahar d’Urso, an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Department of Government. The piece explains how “Critics of the term “Latinx” argue that only 4 percent of Hispanics use it because most are offended by how it anglicizes Spanish or signals elitism. Our research shows…
Felix Chen, Ryan Doan-Nguyen, Addie Esposito, Eytan Goldstein, Anna MacLennan, and Kaleena Roeva have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha of Massachusetts at Harvard College. The five seniors join three Government concentrators in the class of 2025 – Ethan Jasny, Katalina Toth, and Kay Rollins – who were elected last spring. Established under…
Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government, returned to her alma mater Amherst College to deliver the inaugural Cummings Lecture in the new Cummings Lecture Series. Presented by the CHI and the Samuel B. Cummings Lecture Fund, the Cummings Lecture Series is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, and Classics. Each semester it will feature…
Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government, and Elliott Morris, Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News and 538, dissected the 2024 election data in a Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) and Institute of Politics (IOP) event – moderated by Ryan Enos, Professor of Government and director of CAPS. The well-attended…
Oren Cass – founder and chief economist at American Compass, a conservative think tank based in Washington D.C. – delivered the Fall 2024 Vik-Bailey Lecture. The presentation, titled “The Future of American Politics”, discussed the American tradition of conservatism and the history of Republican Presidents as well as their approaches to conservatism. Cass identifies as…
Ph.D. Candidate Sophia Anastazievsky has published an article in Ethics & International Affairs, titled “What We Owe to Ukrainians: A Moral Perspective on Nuclear Coercion and Military Intervention”. The piece discusses the moral obligations to intervene militarily in Ukraine to stop Russian human rights abuses and ensure that Ukraine achieves a military victory. Sophia argues that “Ukraine’s…
Peter A. Hall, the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, was recently interviewed on the Social Europe podcast. The episode was hosted by Henning Meyer, the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Social Europe, with the pair discussing how perceptions of…
Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, and Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, have published an op ed in the New York Times titled “There Are Four Anti-Trump Pathways We Failed to Take. There Is a Fifth.” The piece, which in itself has received much commentary, tackles the topic of authoritarianism…
Daniel Hopkins, the Julie and Martin Franklin Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Fall 2024 Sidney Verba lecture on October 24 at CGIS South. Daniel is a political scientist whose research centers on American politics and select other democracies, with a special emphasis on racial and ethnic politics, subnational…
