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Information for prospective graduate students
Like all of my colleagues, I receive a large number of email queries from prospective students about the application process to Harvard's Government Department. In case it's helpful, then, a couple of pieces of advice specific to the graduate program here at Harvard, before some more general advice about graduate school applications, including some thoughts from friends and colleagues in the discipline:
You may wish to consult the information posted on the Government department website , which has more details about the program and admissions process, as well as descriptions of research interests of current graduate students and faculty members. Unlike PhD programs in other disciplines/countries, our admissions process does not rely on faculty sponsors: that is, if you’re admitted, you’re admitted to the program more generally, rather than to work with a specific faculty member. In this sense, because the admissions process is centralized, and there aren't particular slots reserved for particular supervisors, you don’t need to go through the hassle of contacting individual faculty members to tell them that you're applying, ask them if they're taking graduate students (we are!), or ask them to sign off on your application or research interests. (There is a misperception that contacting faculty of interest increases your odds of getting in; it does not. The application website at Harvard includes a box where applicants can indicate which faculty they've been in touch with, but to my knowledge, no one looks at this.) Similarly, the sheer number of applications we receive (in a 1993 PS article, King, Bruce and Gilligan report the Government department was receiving ~700 applications a year) means that it's logistically impossible for us to meet with all of the prospective applicants who might wish to do so. The good news is that because the admissions process is centralized, this isn't something you need to do anyway! If you're admitted to the program, we'll fly you in to meet with us, so you'll have ample chance to meet with us then, figure out if the program is a good fit, and so on.
General advice about graduate school applications in political science
One of the challenges about offering more general advice about applying to PhD programs in political science is that the process is so idiosyncratic, both across subfields (a competitive file in political theory might look very different than in American politics), across institutions (some schools care a lot about subfield divisions, and others don't believe in subfields altogether), across time (who happens to be on the admissions committee that year often determines which files make it to the top), and across space (the information below is probably the most useful for applications to schools in the United States). Moreover, given structural changes in post-secondary education that have shrunk the size of the academic job market, there are plenty of good arguments against doing a PhD! The advice below, then, is focused less on the question of whether you should apply to PhD programs (though some of the advice from colleagues below speaks to this point), and more on demystifying the admissions process itself. In general you can think of graduate school applications as a signaling problem. Admissions committees are looking through hundreds upon hundreds of applications spanning thousands upon thousands of pages, trying to predict from your file whether you'll be able to succeed in their graduate program. At many of the top PhD programs, then, it's not about trying to figure out whether you're smart, but about trying to figure out if you're ready. So, committees are going to be looking for signals to help gauge how ready you are, both in your materials, and in letters from your letter writers. Here are a couple of things I wish I knew about this process when I was applying to graduate school.
Signaling you understand the field
Sometimes advisors will tell you about the importance of asking an interesting question in your research statement, but this isn't very actionable advice, because few of us deliberately study things we think are boring — and how do you know if your question will count as interesting to admissions committees? A better way to think about this is as an encouragement to do some reading. Academic disciplines are collective enterprises, in which scholarship is produced in conversation with others. Your research statement is a chance to show that you understand where the conversation is going. If you take a look at the recent books published in your subfield of interest at Princeton University Press or Cambridge University Press , for example, and read the first chapters of the ones that interest you (often times the first chapters are available free online!), what sorts of questions are they about? Take a look at articles published recently in the journals where the faculty you want to work have published. If some of them seems interesting to you, read them, along with some of the other articles they cite. Read pieces written by the faculty you want to work with too. The more you read, the better the sense you'll have of the landscape of the field, and the better sense you'll have about how to "sell" your interests. This is also helpful because sometimes the way we're exposed to the field in the introductory undergraduate classes that first hook us on the topic may not represent the state of the discipline. Similarly, when I was applying to PhD programs, the field looked very different in Canada, where I was from, than in the United States. You should ask one of your advisers to take a look at your research statement to solicit their feedback before you send off your application. Signaling you understand the field also matters in other ways: in your statement of purpose, if all of the faculty members you indicate you're interested in working with are outside of your subfield of interest, or who do work of a very different style (e.g. you want to do game theory, and they do critical theory, or vice versa), or are all in a different department, that can be a sign to admissions committees that you haven't done your homework.
Signaling you understand how to do research
If being a successful undergraduate student is typically about being a skilled consumer of research, being a successful graduate student is typically about being a skilled producer of research. Having previous research experience is valuable not only because it will teach you whether you really want to apply for grad school in the first place, but also because it will help you better understand the field , help you produce a strong writing sample , and help you get stronger letters . Not everyone gets the chance to do a lot of research in college, but research experience can take a variety of forms, from writing a senior or master's thesis, to working as a research assistant, either in college or afterwards. The kind of research experience you'd want to have is likely is going to vary based on the kind of work you're interested in doing (e.g. in parts of comparative politics, many applicants often have spent a year working as an RA or predoctoral associate running studies and analyzing data, which isn't necessarily the norm in quadrants of the field that don't rely as heavily on field experiments), but more experience is usually better than less. There are also a number of programs that offer research opportunities to college graduates from historically underrepresented groups. If this applies to you, you should speak to one of your advisers.
What makes an informative writing sample?
Some writing samples are more informative than others. If possible, your writing sample should be a solo-authored piece (i.e., isn't coauthored with one of your advisors, whereupon admissions committees might be unsure about how much of the work you did, even if you did the whole thing!), written in the subfield you're interested in studying (i.e. if you want to study American politics, your writing sample should ideally be about American politics, not IR). Ideally, it should also be consistent with the norms of academic research in whatever subfield you're studying (for most subfields, it shouldn't just be a literature review, political commentary, or a book report, say).
What makes a useful letter of reference?
The most helpful letters come from faculty members who can speak to your ability to conduct academic research in the discipline you want to study. Letters from celebrities, politicians, your boss in a non-research-based job, and so on, are going to be less useful to you, since they can't credibly speak to what you need your letters to speak to. This is another reason why having research experience before applying to graduate school is useful, since letter writers who you work as a research assistant for are well positioned to speak to your abilities in this front. Similarly, although it's not at all the case that you need to be a political science major in college in order to get into political science PhD programs, you do want to have at least one of your letters come from a political scientist, ideally in the subfield you want to study. (Chemists and comparative literature professors, say, can speak to your ability to do research, but not necessarily your ability to conduct research in political science).
Strong GRE scores
When I was applying to graduate school, I assumed that everyone understood that standardized tests were noisy and imperfect measures and that admissions committees wouldn't place much weight on them. Suffice it to say, the admissions committees at the schools I applied to disagreed! Regardless of how much weight committees should place on the GRE (although many critiques of the diagnostic value of the GRE suffer from some methodological flaws ), however, many do take them into account (although some departments have made them optional in recent cycles). For those programs that do require GREs, these scores are useful because they provide one of the few metrics in common across files that typically differ from one another along a large number of dimensions. (When I'm on admissions, I might not know how to compare a 3.9 GPA at school X with a 3.7 GPA in a different program of study at school Y, but I know how to compare a 168 GRE with a 160). You're unlikely to get into a graduate program just because of your GRE score (we reject applicants with 170/170 GREs all the time!), but doing well on the GRE (especially the quantitative score, since that's the part of the test that applicants tend to perform the most poorly on in relative terms) will be helpful. What counts as doing well will depend on the program to which you're applying (see some of the suggestions below for details).
Skills relevant to your proposed program of study
To some extent, your GPA matters less than the courses you've taken, or skills you've acquired. Admissions committees want to know whether you have the skills you need to do the research you're interested in. If you're interested in doing political economy-style work, a 4.0 GPA without any economics or math classes will be less helpful than a lower GPA that includes more technical coursework. Similarly, it's hard to study East Asian politics if you don't speak or have never studied any East Asian languages.
Additional resources
Finally, a number of friends and colleagues in the discipline have put together some helpful resources with advice about applying to PhD programs in political science in general, and in international relations in particular: "Should I Get a PhD?" is an interview-based site run by Tim Hopper that isn't specific to political science, but offers lots of helpful suggestions more generally about the more fundamental question of whether you should apply for a PhD in the first place. Dan Nexon has helpful advice at the Duck of Minerva on applying for a PhD in political science, and how to make your application more competitive. Nuno Monteiro has great advice both on how to decide whether to go to graduate school, and the tradeoffs between PhD programs (like those offered by the Government department) and MA programs (which the Government department doesn't currently offer as a standalone degree). Erica Chenoweth has similarly helpful advice; her discussion of the difference between policy-oriented degrees (like those offered at the Harvard Kennedy School ) versus academic degrees (like those offered in the Government department) is especially valuable. Steven Wilkinson has useful advice especially relevant for international applicants. Terri E. Givens has a series of helpful articles at Inside Higher Education on her graduate school experiences, especially relevant for first-generation students, and students of color. Duke's Sociology Department has a helpful FAQ page that's technically about applying to sociology PhD programs, but many of its suggestions apply to social science PhD programs more generally. Dan Drezner has a series of helpful posts at Foreign Policy on PhD programs in political science: see here for advice for undergraduates , here for advice for students who have already graduated , and here for advice on PhD applications for aspiring policymakers . Erin Simpson and Andrew Exum have helpful advice on the CNAS blog from the perspective of policymakers. Bradley Potter, Nathaniel Allen, and Torrey Taussig have helpful advice at War on the Rocks about good and not-so-good reasons to pursue a policy-oriented PhD. Chris Blattman has extensive advice on many of the above topics from a political economy perspective. Cyrus Samii has helpful advice on much of the above; his advice about applying to "boutique" departments is also particularly helpful. Justin Esarey has a helpful post on The Political Methodologist about how to know whether to apply to grad school in the first place, and if so, how to choose where to apply. Austin Carson has helpful advice on whether to go to grad school, along with what to do when you get there. Once you've been admitted to a PhD program, Chris Kennedy has useful advice about how to prepare for your first semester. Finally, here's some advice for early career researchers I was asked to put together by International Society of Political Psychology's Early Career Committee .
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Jiahua liu (economics track).
Dissertation Title: Essays on International Trade and Firm Growth in Developing Countries Advisor: Gordon Hanson Job Placement: Economist, Cornerstone Research
kristen McCormack (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics Advisor: David Cutler Job Placement: Economist, U.S. Treasury
dayea oh (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Applied Microeconomics Advisor: Will Dobbie Job Placement: Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
lauren russell (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on the U.S. Criminal Legal System and Black-White Inequality Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Economist, Labor Markets Section, Federal Reserve Board
Samuel stemper (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Auckland
Amy wickett (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Diversity Advisor: Desmond Ang Job Placement: to be confirmed
Shweta Bhogale
Dissertation Title: Essays on Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, King Climate Action Initiative, J-PAL
Kevin Carney
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development and Behavioral Economics Advisor: Gautam Rao Job Placement:
- Post-Doctoral Fellow (one year), Department of Economics, University of Chicago
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Two Essays on Legal Entanglements and One Essay on Worker Voice Advisor: Will Dobbie Job Placement: Research Director, People Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Stuart Iler
Dissertation Title: Essays on Shock Propagation in Economic Production Networks: Applications to U.S. Oil Price Episodes and Green Jobs Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Consultant, Resources for the Future
frina Lin (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Care and Inequality Advisor: Marcella Alsan Job Placement: to be confirmed
Grace McCormack
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics Advisor: David Cutler Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Southern California
José Morales-Arilla
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Political Economy of Development Advisor: Edward Glaeser Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Felix Owusu (Economics track)
Dissertation Title: Policy and Inequality in the Criminal Legal System Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
James Reisinger
Dissertation Title: Social Spillovers in Beliefs, Preferences, and Well-being Advisor: Michela Carlana Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Furman Center, New York University
Elizabeth Spink (economics track)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Water Utility Quality and Access Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Economist, Environmental Protection Agency
Yazan Al-Karablieh
Dissertation Title: Essays on Corporate Taxation Advisor: Stefanie Stantcheva Job Placement: Economist, Economist Program, International Monetary Fund
Sebastián Bustos
Dissertation Title: Essays in International Economics, Development, and Globalization Advisor: Ricardo Hausmann Job Placement: Senior Fellow, Growth Lab , Center for International Development , Harvard Kennedy School
Holly Dykstra
Dissertation Title: Essays in Behavioral Economics Advisor: Brigitte C. Madrian Job Placement: Junior Professor, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz
Marie-Pascale Grimon
Dissertation Title: Essays in Labor Economics and Child Welfare Advisor: Amanda Pallais Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Blake Heller
Dissertation Title: Essays on Late Investment in Human Capital Advisor: Joshua Goodman Job Placement:
- Assistant Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston
- Post-Doctoral Fellow 2021-2022, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
Shefali Khanna
Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy and Development Economics Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Economics and Public Policy Department, Imperial College London
Kunal Mangal
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Public Sector Recruitment in India Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Visiting Fellow, Azim Premji University
Niharika Singh
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Daniel Stuart
Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Associate, Analysis Group
Andrew Bacher-Hichs
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Boston University
Megan Bailey
Dissertation Title: Essays in Climate Policy and Innovation Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
Patrick Behrer
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Environmental and Development Economics Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University
Elijah de la Campa
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Provision of Local Public Goods Advisor: Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Senior Research Associate in Economics and Urban Analytics, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Charlie Dorison
Dissertation Title: Essays on Emotion and Decision Making Advisor: Jennifer Lerner Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Management and Operations Department, Northwestern University
Madeleine Gelblum
Dissertation Title: Essays on Labor and Personnel Economics Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Labor Market Analyst, Facebook
Guthrie Gray-Lobe
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics Advisor: Michael Kremer Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Asad Liaqat
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Research Scientist, Novi Economics team, Facebook
Heidi Liu
Dissertation Title: Essays in Behavioral Economics, Gender and Employment Advisor: Iris Bohnet Job Placement: Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Sharan Mamidipudi
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy Advisor: Gautam Rao Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
Aroop Mukharji
Dissertation Title: Sea Change: McKinley, Roosevelt, and the Expansion of U.S. Foreign Policy 1897-1909 Advisor: Fredrik Logevall Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Christine Mulhern
Dissertation Title: Personalized Information and College Choices: The Role of School Counselors, Technology, and Siblings Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement: Associate Policy Research, RAND
Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy and Development Economics Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Applied Scientist, Uber
Rebecca Sachs
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Care Markets and the Safety Net Advisor: David Cutler Job Placement: Analyst, Health Studies Unit, Congressional Budget Office
Chris Umphres
Dissertation Title: Essays on Judgement and Decision Making Advisor: Jennifer Lerner Job Placement: United States Air Force
Bradley DeWees
Dissertation Title: Essays on Judgment and Decision Making Advisors: Jennifer Lerner , Julia Minson Job Placement: Assistant Director of Operations, United States Air Force
Abraham Holland
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics Advisors: Edward Glaeser , Rohini Pande Job Placement: Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses
Ariella Kahn-Lang
Dissertation Title: Essays in Labor Market Inequality Advisors: Christopher Avery , Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Researcher, Human Services, Mathematica
Jennifer Kao
Dissertation Title: Essays in the Economics of Health and Innovation Advisors: Pierre Azoulay , Amitabh Chandra , David Cutler Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Strategy Unit, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Stephanie Majerowicz
Dissertation Title: Essays in Education and Development Economics Advisors: Asim Khwaja , Michael Kremer Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality)
Emily Mower
Dissertation Title: Algorithms and Applied Econometrics in the Digital Economy Advisors: Kris Johnson Ferreira , Joshua Goodman , Shane Greenstein Job Placement: Senior Data Scientist, edX
Gabriel Tourek
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development and Public Economics Advisors: Nathaniel Hendren , Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Associate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Daniel Velez-Lopez
Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Lead Analyst, Venture Fellowship Program, National Grid Partners
Rohit Chandra
Dissertation Title: Adaptive State Capitalism in the Indian Coal Industry Advisor: José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
Juan Pablo Chauvin
Dissertation Title: Essays in Urban Economics and Development Advisor: Edward Glaeser Job Placement: Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Cuicui Chen
Dissertation Title: Essays on Environmental Economics and Industrial Organization Advisors: Joseph Aldy , Ariél Pakes Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany
Stephen Coussens
Dissertation Title: Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics Advisors: David Cutler , Brigitte Madrian Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Raissa Fabregas
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics and Education Advisors: Michael Kremer , Rohini Pande Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Todd Gerarden
Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics and Industrial Organization Advisors: Ariél Pakes , Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Sarika Gupta
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics and Governance Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Young Professionals Program, The World Bank
Alicia Harley
Dissertation Title: Why Does Technology Fail to Benefit the Poorest Farmers? A Sociotechnical Approach to the Study of Innovation and Poverty Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Janhavi Nilekani
Dissertation Title: Essays at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics Advisors: Rema Hanna , Rohini Pande Job Placement: Founder, Aastar
Dissertation Title: Essays on Structural Transformation and Trade Advisors: Melissa Dell , Martin Rotemberg Job Placement: Harvard Graduate Students Union, United Auto Workers
Martin Abel
Dissertation Title: Essays on Labor Markets in Developing Countries Advisors: Rema Hanna , Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middlebury College
Jonathan Baker
Dissertation Title: Essays in Water Conservation and Water Quality Programs Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement: Economist, Analysis Group
Tomoko Harigaya
Dissertation Title: Delivering Financial Services to the Poor: Constraints on Access, Take-up, and Usage Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Research Associate, Precision Agriculture for Development
Laura Quinby
Dissertation Title: Compensation and Employment Policies in the U.S. Public Sector Advisor: Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Research Economist, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College
Dissertation Title: State Strategies Under Global Rules: Chinese Industrial Policy in the WTO Era Advisor: Peter A. Hall Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon
Samura Atallah
Dissertation Title: Studies in Labor Economics, Organizational Economics, and Development Advisor: Ellen J. Langer Job Placement: Associate, McKinsey & Company
Tara Grillos
Dissertation Title: Participation, Power, and Preferences in International Development Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University
Nils Hägerdal
Dissertation Title: Ethnic Cleansing as Military Strategy: Lessons From Lebanon, 1975-1990 Advisor: Robert H. Bates Job Placement: Junior Research Fellow, Brandeis University
Elizabeth Linos
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Human Capital in the Public Sector Advisor: Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation Advisor: Lant Pritchett Job Placement: Founder and CEO, StellarEmploy
Yusuf Neggers
Dissertation Title: Essays in Economic Development and Political Economy Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Watson Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brown University
Oyebola Okunogbe
Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy and Development Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
Trisha Shrum
Dissertation Title: Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment Advisors: Joseph Aldy , David Laibson Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Lab, University of Colorado
Samuel Stolper
Dissertation Title: Oil and Water: Essays on the Economics of Natural Resource Usage Advisors: Joseph Aldy , Robert Stavins Job Placement:
- Fall 2016 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Energy Initiative, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Fall 2017 > Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Maria Cecilia Acevedo
Dissertation Title: Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development Advisors: Rohini Pande , James Robinson Job Placement: Consultant, Poverty Global Practice Division, The World Bank
Natalie Bau
Dissertation Title: Essays at the Intersection of Development and Education Advisors: Asim Khwaja , Nathan Nunn Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Syon Bhanot
Dissertation Title: Field Experiments in Behavioral and Public Economics Advisors: Brigitte Madrian , Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Swarthmore College
Gabriel Chan
Dissertation Title: Essays on Energy Technology Innovation Policy Advisors: William Clark , Laura Díaz Anadón Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology and Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Sarah Cohodes
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis, Teachers College, Columbia University
A. Nilesh Fernando
Dissertation Title: Land, Labor and Technology: Essays in Development Economics Advisors: Lawrence Katz , Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame (Post-Doc at Harvard University)
Daniel Honig
Dissertation Title: Navigating by Judgment: Organizational Structure, Autonomy, and Country Context in Delivering Foreign Aid Advisor: Peter A. Hall Job Placement: Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Mahnaz Islam
Dissertation Title: Essays on Development Economics Advisors: Rema Hanna , Rohini Pande Job Placement: Economist, Amazon
joo Julia A. lee
Dissertation Title: Essays in Organizational Behavior Advisor: Francesca Gino Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institutional Corruption Program, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Andry Liscovich
Dissertation Title: Essays in Experimental and Labor Economics Advisor: Nicholas A. Christakis Job Placement: Director of Technology, RA Capital Management
Richard Sweeney
Dissertation Title: Essays on Industry Response to Energy and Environmental Policy Advisors: Ariél Pakes , Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College
Elizabeth Walker
Dissertation Title: Essays at the Intersection of Environment and Development Economics Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Consultant, Energy, Environment, and Network Industries Practice, NERA Economic Consulting
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Transmission and Diffusion of Productive Knowledge in International Economics Advisor: Elhanan Helpman Job Placement: Senior Associate Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Ariel Dora Stern
Dissertation Title: Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology Advisor: Amitabh Chandra Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School
Alexandra van Geen
Dissertation Title: Essays in Experimental Economics and the Improvement of Judgment and Decision Making Advisor: Iris Bohnet Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Erasmus School of Economics
Clara Monika Zverina
Dissertation Title: Essays in Public and Labor Economics Advisor: Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Disability Research, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Will Dobbie
Dissertation Title: Essays in Labor Economics Advisor: Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Department of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Jeffrey Friedman
Dissertation Title: Cumulative Dynamics and Strategic Assessment: U.S. Military Decision Making in Iraq, Vietnam, and the American Indian Wars Advisor: Stephen Walt Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Security and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
Marie E. Newhouse
Dissertation Title: Kant's Typo, and the Limits of Law Advisor: Arthur Applbaum Job Placement: Residential Lab Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School
Olga Rostapshova
Dissertation Title: Pushing a Troika of Development: Promoting Investment, Curbing Corruption, and Enhancing Public Good Provision Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Specialist, Social Impact, Social Science Genetics Association Consortium, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Senior Evaluations
Laurence Tai
Dissertation Title: Hierarchical Game-Theoretic Models of Transparency in the Administrative State Advisor: Daniel Carpenter Job Placement: Residential Lab Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School
Christopher Carrigan
Dissertation Title: Structured to Fail? Explaining Regulatory Performance Under Completing Mandates Advisor: Daniel Carpenter Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
Souman Hong
Dissertation Title: Online Institutions, Markets, and Democracy Advisor: Matthew Baum Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Yonsei University
Avinash Kishore
Dissertation Title: Essays on Economics of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution in India Advisor: Dale Jorgenson Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi, India
Robyn Meeks
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Household Water Access in Developing Countries Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Karl Neumar
Dissertation Title: Essays on Optimal Management of Portfolios Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement:, Founding Partner, HNC Advisors
Philip Osafo-Kwaako
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David Deming
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Brooke Kelsey Jack
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- 2010–2011 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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David J. Lynch
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Starting this summer, Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth will join the long list of royals who have decamped to the United States. But unlike Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the future queen’s stay will likely be temporary. On Tuesday, the Belgian Monarchy announced that Elisabeth is planning to enroll at Harvard Kennedy School of Government to get a master’s degree.
“She recently passed the entrance tests for the Master in Public Policy,” read a statement on the monarchy’s website. “This two-year master’s degree will complement her university education after her bachelor's degree in history and politics at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College). The Princess was also selected for an Honorary Award from the Fulbright Program, the US State Department’s international educational exchange program.”
The 22-year-old princess is first in Belgium’s line of succession, as the oldest of four children born to King Phillippe and Queen Mathilde. Before beginning her studies at Oxford, Elisabeth attended UWC Atlantic, a boarding school in Wales sometimes referred to as “ Hippie Hogwarts ” and spent a year training at the country’s Royal Military Academy. Though she left the academy after a year, she continued to return for summer training camps and was sworn in as an officer last September.
According to the Fulbright commission for Belgium and Luxembourg, 25 students are given grants for graduate study in the United States annually. The program, which began funding students from Belgium in 1948, aims to foster cooperation and academic exchange.
The tests Elisabeth passed likely included either the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), along with an exam proving her proficiency in English. In addition to those qualifications, the Harvard MPP program also asks applicants to provide “evidence of quantitative proficiency” in the form of success in undergraduate level mathematics, economics, and statistics courses.
The princess is not the first member of the Belgian royal family to attend graduate school in the US. In 1985, her father received a master’s degree in political science from Stanford University, following two years as a student in Palo Alto.
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We will first review applications to ensure selection criteria are met. Then, we will randomly select from this pool by sub-discipline (i.e., American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory) to form a cohort for the event. We are using random selection to comprise the final cohort of attendees to ensure a maximally equitable selection process.
Important Dates:
Friday, November 3rd, 2023 : PS-Prep applications are due
Monday, November 6th, 2023 : you will receive email notification of PS-Prep admission decision
Saturday, November 11th, 2023 : the informal, live event will take place virtually (via Zoom)
Week of November 13th : Peer/faculty feedback on application materials
Eligibility Requirements:
At least 18 years of age
Important Notes:
Priority will be given to individuals who are planning on applying for Ph.D. programs in political science THIS CYCLE (i.e., applying in Fall 2023 to begin a PhD program in Fall 2024).
If you have questions about this event or the application, please email [email protected] .
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University News | 5.10.2024
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2024-2025 Fellows
Scholars will pursue interdisciplinary research on climate change, the supreme court, and more. .
From left: Myisha S. Eatmon, Sandra Susan Smith, Tracy K. Smith | PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY; FROM LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH BY NEAL HAMBURG, PHOTOGRAPH BY MARTHA STEWART, PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW KELLY
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will welcome 52 fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year as part of its twenty-fifth anniversary class. The incoming fellows—who include scholars, journalists, writers, and playwrights—will pursue interdisciplinary work on subjects ranging from artificial intelligence to political philosophy to climate change.
The fellowship provides participants the opportunity to pursue creative projects while regularly convening with one another and the public. “In the current moment,” said former fellow and Radcliffe dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin , “I have never felt more certain that Radcliffe’s approach—its embrace of interdisciplinary research and discourse across difference—is crucial to generating transformative art, scholarship, and writing.”
The fellows include 13 Harvard faculty members:
- Myisha S. Eatmon ( profiled in the January-February 2024 issue ), assistant professor of African and African American studies and of history. She plans to complete a book on black Americans’ use of tort law to seek justice during the Jim Crow era, and to begin a second project on the legal relationship between black Americans and American Jews during Jim Crow and the Holocaust.
- Sandra Susan Smith ( profiled in the May-June 2021 issue ), Guggenheim professor of criminal justice. She will finish a book examining why spending more than one day in pretrial detention can dramatically impact life outcomes.
- Tracy K. Smith , professor of English and of African and African American studies and Wallach professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, who served as the 22 nd poet laureate of the United States. She will examine conscience and consciousness in the works of the poet Lucille Clifton.
- Daphna Renan, Munroe professor of law. She will collaborate with Nikolas Bowie on a book that contests judicial supremacy—the notion that the Supreme Court has the final say on interpreting the Constitution—and recovers a tradition rooted in abolitionism that allows the American people to define the Constitution democratically.
- Nikolas Bowie, Brandeis professor of law. He will collaborate with Daphna Renan on the above book.
- Shelly F. Greenfield , professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She will study rising rates of substance use among American women and girls.
- Tracey E. Hucks, Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute and Thomas professor of Africana religious studies. She will study “lived religion,” or religion that is practical and experiential, focusing on vernacular, esoteric, and healing practices in black religion.
- Kelly Irwin, assistant professor of psychiatry. She will examine narratives of patients, families, and clinicians affected by mental illness and cancer, with the goal of decreasing the mortality gap experienced by individuals with mental health conditions, and addressing mental health discrimination in health care.
- Gabrielle Oliveira, associate professor of education and Brazil studies. She will work on a book that examines how migrant children conceptualize climate change, land loss, and mobility in Venezuelan and Brazilian schools.
- Brandon M. Terry, Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, who will work on two books about the political thought of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Lauren K. Williams , Robinson professor of mathematics and Seaver professor at Radcliffe. She will write a book about cluster algebras and work on combinatorial problems from statistical physics, mirror symmetry, and scattering amplitudes.
- Melanie Matchett Wood, Radcliffe alumnae professor. She will examine how mathematicians can expand on the classical probability theory of numbers to study distributions on more highly structured objects.
- Laura Weinrib, Fishman professor of constitutional law and Murray professor at Radcliffe. She will write a book on labor unions, corporations, and money’s role in politics in the United States.
Other fellows include Daniel L. Chen ’99, J.D.’09, who will use artificial intelligence to identify inefficiencies and biases in judicial systems, and Tracy R. Slatyer, Ph.D. ’10, who will use the James Webb Space Telescope to study cosmic history and dark matter. This year’s cohort also includes two Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellows: Holly Buck, who will write a book about how rural communities engage with technology-oriented visions of the future, and Rachel Morello-Frosch, who will research the health and equity benefits of climate change policies.
The full list of the 2024–2025 fellows can be viewed here.
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