The American Academy of Sciences and Letters awarded Professor Danielle Allen with one of its 2025 Barry Prizes for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement. The prize, which is accompanied by a $50,000 cash award, was conferred by Academy President Donald W. Landry, interim president of the University of Florida, and Academy Board Chair Sanjeev R. Kulkarni of…
Ben TerMaat, a Ph.D. candidate in Government, is one of five recipients of the 2025 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, an award Harvard Griffin GSAS gives to graduate student teachers who inspire their undergraduate students to learn and discover. In GSAS’ announcement, they wrote that he “is the…
We are pleased to announce that Professor of Government Michael Sandel has won this year’s Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute describes the honor as “a $1 million award given annually to honor a thinker whose body of work has led us to find wisdom, direction, and improved self-understanding in a world…
Claudine Gay, Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, delivered a keynote in Amsterdam at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study on September 3. Her remarks examine intellectual freedom in an era when universities face surmounting external pressure. There’s something especially fitting about discussing the independence of academic institutions here,…
Jerry Min, a Ph.D. candidate in Government and A.M. candidate in Statistics at Harvard, has been awarded the APSA Best Poster Award. This award recognizes the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous year’s American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting and is chosen by a selection committee…
We are pleased to share that Ph.D. candidate Justin L. Brooks has been honored with the 2025 Christian Bay Award by the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Critical Political Science section. Brooks received this recognition for his paper “Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor, and Private Law”. The prestigious Christian Bay Award…
On June 20, Athens became the epicenter of scholarly dialogue on the intersection of philosophy and artificial intelligence, hosting The Lyceum Project – an annual initiative where world-leading academics and practitioners explore how technology can sustain and enrich society. Among the distinguished participants – which included Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Prime Minister of Greece – were…
We are pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Feyaad Allie has been named a 2025 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Allie joins an elite cohort of just 12 early-career researchers selected from a pool of 232 applicants worldwide for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s (CIFAR) highly competitive program. The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program brings…
The Department of Government proudly congratulates Professors Jennifer Hochschild and Stephanie Ternullo on being named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. This prestigious honor recognizes faculty members in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences whose groundbreaking publications and scholarship have significantly advanced the fields of literature, history, or art. Awarded annually, the Cabot Fellowships celebrate scholarly impact,…
The Department of Government is proud to honor our 2024-25 graduating Ph.D. students, whose academic curiosity, dedication, and resilience represent the very best of our scholarly community. This year, we celebrate Evelyn Boyden, Reed Rasband, Austin Jordan, Hunter Rendleman, Ye Helen Zhang, Brian Palmiter, Mafalda Pratas, Jordan Rudinsky, Juan Dodyk, Katherine Irajpanah, Sophie Pangle, Chris…
