Economics professor Oliver S.D. Hart was made a knight by King Charles III, the British government announced last week. Hart, who received a 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in contract theory, was made a Knight Bachelor as part of the King’s birthday honors. The Knight Bachelor is the oldest knighthood in the United Kingdom. The…Continue Reading Economics Professor Oliver Hart Knighted By King Charles III
Mashail Malik was always interested in human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics. On a June evening in 2009, militants detonated a car bomb packed with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives near the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 17 and injuring…Continue Reading Car bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers
Two Harvard professors have won prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association. Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, was selected for the 2023 James Madison Award, a triennial honor recognizing a lifetime of distinguished scholarly contributions to the field of political science. “I understand it’s probably the highest…Continue Reading Theda Skocpol, Daniel Carpenter land prestigious political science awards
NYT Editorial by Tiya Miles It’s been two years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, one we can celebrate together as a nation. The signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021 was an expression of real progress in the collective understanding of Black struggle that reinforced our national ideals of…Continue Reading As Juneteenth Goes National, We Must Preserve the Local
Their eyes filled with tears, their mouths with accusations after losing a game of European handball. The fourth- and fifth-graders were so upset that they soon received counsel from a gym teacher. “You need to accept that this is how it goes, and not just say that they cheated,” he told them. “But they were…Continue Reading How schools teach children about their social station
My guest is Yuhua Wang, professor of Government here at Harvard. We are going to be talking about your new book published by Princeton University Press in October entitled, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 8: Yuhua Wang
The crown jewel of the Inequality in America Initiative is our postdoctoral scholars program, and today we are featuring two members of our fifth cohort: Peter Harvey talking on education and Jessica Katzenstein talking on police reform. Two of our august faculty…Continue Reading 5th Dean’s Symposium: Inequality in America
I’m delighted to have with me as a guest for the discussion Frank Dobbin, who is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology and who is co-author of the really important new book –Getting to Diversity– What Works and What Doesn’t….Continue Reading Podcast Episode 7: Frank Dobbin
Today’s symposium is ‘China in Focus: New Social Science Approaches,’ which should be especially timely and interesting. China, of course, is of increasing importance as a global economic force, as a technological leader, and as a geopolitical actor on the world stage….Continue Reading 4th Dean’s Symposium: China in Focus
