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Dept of Government at Harvard Office

Congratulations to Horacio Larreguy, Jeremy Bowles, and Gary King winners from the Harvard Data Science Initiative through the Research Fund for Trust in Science

Congratulations to Horacio Larreguy and Jeremy Bowles whose project Countering COVID-19 Misinformation Via WhatsApp in Zimbabwe (together with Kevin Croke, John Marshall and Shelly Liu), as well as Gary King’s Ensuring privacy in COVID-19 epidemiological mobility data sets (together with Salil Vadhan, Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee and Merce Crosas) were among the four winners who…

Congratulations to our 2019-20 PhDs!

This year, the department of Government awarded PhDs to an extraordinary group of 18 scholars.  They have made original contributions to knowledge and shown the creativity, skill, and perseverance necessary to earn a PhD from Harvard.  As Gary King reminds us – most people can never say this, it is an amazing accomplishment.  Please join…

Prof. Katrina Forrester’s book “In the Shadow of Justice: has been awarded the Merle Curti Award for Best Book in Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians

KATRINA FORRESTER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RECEIVES 2020 MERLE CURTI INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AWARD FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS BLOOMINGTON, IN—Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University, OAH President 2019–2020, and George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California, OAH President 2020–2021, announce that Katrina Forrester, Harvard University, receives the OAH’s prestigious 2020Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, which is given annually for the best…