Government Department concentrators, Ryan Doan-Nguyen ’25 and Jamaal Willis ’25, were selected as Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows. This is a special fellowship that allows a small cohort of sophomores to engage in research and professional development. Congratulations to Ryan and Jamaal!! To learn more about the Mellow Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, please click here….
Government Class of 2023 Prize Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the following prizes awarded to graduating Harvard seniors. Congratulations to all! GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT PRIZES JAMES GORDON BENNETT PRIZE This is one of six prizes offered for subjects in various fields of political science. A prize from a fund established by the late James Gordon Bennett is offered…
Government Professor, Joshua Kertzer, Named John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Government and Awarded Harvard’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize
Government professor, Joshua Kertzer, was named the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government. In addition to all the wonderful work he does as Director of Graduate Studies, he was also awarded the 2023 Harvard Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Congratulations!…
Sabrina Goldfischer ’23 wins Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies
Sabrina Goldfischer is one of the winners of the Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies, which is awarded to an outstanding senior thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in Jewish and Hebrew studies by a Harvard student. Her undergraduate thesis is “The Death of Discourse: Antisemitism at Harvard College.” Congratulations! Abstract: Antisemitism is on the…
Forty-Eight Seniors in Class of 2018 Chosen for Phi Beta Kappa
Sonya G. Jacobs, Government Andrew F. Miner, Government Romana Pilepich, Government Elena D. Sokoloski, Government http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/27/pbk-senior-48-2017/…
Government Hoopes Prize Winners 2018
May 3, 2018 Marie Becker ’18, Sally Marsh ’18, Yousra Neberai ’18, and Caroline Tervo ’18 have won the Hoopes Thesis Prize. Congratulations! Marie Becker, “The United Space: Transnational Expert Networks and Cooperation in Space between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War” Sally Marsh, “How Manistee Flipped: Understanding the 2016 Trump and Clinton Campaigns…
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 selected for “Junior 24” Phi Beta Kappa
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 is one of the Harvard College students selected as a “Junior 24” inductee into Phi Beta Kappa: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/4/19/junio-24-pbk/…
Statement of Principles, and Moving Forward
Harvard University Department of Government Jennifer Hochschild, Chair Statement of Principles, and Moving Forward Recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education have reported allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct by Professor Jorge Dominguez, a faculty member in our department. We in the Department of Government were appalled to hear of these concerns and to…
Voting-roll vulnerability Study points to potential security weakness in many online registration systems Harvard Gazette article
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/study-points-to-potential-vulnerability-in-online-voter-registration-systems/ For as little as a few thousand dollars, online attackers can purchase enough personal information to perhaps alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard study. Dubbed “voter identity theft” by study authors Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, research analyst Ji Su…
Eliza DeCubellis ’17 Wins Hoopes Prize
Eliza DeCubellis ’17 has won the Hoopes Thesis Prize for her thesis “Activism Under Authoritarianism: Breaking Ground on Domestic Violence in China.” Congratulations!…