Each year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) recognizes outstanding faculty members through a series of annual awards, which honor excellence in teaching, advising, scholarship, and other contributions that further the academic mission of FAS. At the faculty meeting on May 7, FAS Edgerley Dean Hopi Hoekstra presented several awards to 40 faculty members…
The International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT) has awarded Shterna Friedman the 2024 Melvin Richter Prize for her doctoral dissertation: Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Systemic Social Theory. The Richter family established the Melvin Richter Prize as a tribute to Mel Richter, one of the founders of CSPT and a generous…
Paul E. Peterson, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance, and Senior Editor of Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research at Harvard University, has published an open letter to President Biden in The Hill. In the op-ed, titled ‘Mr. President, please pardon Trump for the country’s—and your…
A new study – led by Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government – has launched as part of Harvard Climate Action Week (June 10-14), hosted by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. The conference invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the climate crisis’s most…
Professor of Government Dustin Tingley and PhD alumni Harry Oppenheimer have both been named American Political Science Association (APSA) award winners for their fantastic respective work. Dustin Tingley and his co-author Alexander F. Gazmararian – a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University – have been awarded the APSA STEP Section Don…
