Congratulation to former CAPS Faculty Director (and current affiliate) Dan Carpenter on being selected to receive the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA)! The award honors a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Prof. Carpenter will deliver the Gaus Lecture at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting. It is scheduled for 6:30 pm on Friday, September 1, 2023.
Prof. Carpenter joins a select list of Harvard Government faculty who have won this award, including former colleague Hugh Heclo and the last Gaus winner from the Department, the late James Q. Wilson. Other winners include the Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, Aaron Wildavsky, James March and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Steven Kelman.