Congratulations to CAPS affiliate Justin L. Brooks for being honored with the 2025 Christian Bay Award by the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Critical Political Science section! Brooks, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Government, received this recognition for his paper “Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor, and Private Law”. The prestigious Christian Bay…
Daniell Allen awarded Barry Prize
Congratulations to CAPS affiliate Danielle Allen, who was awarded one of the 2025 Barry Prizes for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. The prize, which is accompanied by a $50,000 cash award, was conferred by Academy President Donald W. Landry, interim president of the University of Florida, and Academy Board…
Ben TerMaat receives Derek C. Bok Teaching Award
CAPS affiliate Ben TerMaat, a Ph.D. candidate in Government, is one of five recipients of the 2025 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, an award Harvard Griffin GSAS gives to graduate student teachers who inspire their undergraduate students to learn and discover. In GSAS’ announcement, they wrote that he “is…
Michael Sandel awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture
Congratulations to CAPS affiliate Michael Sandel who has won this year’s Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute describes the honor as “a $1 million award given annually to honor a thinker whose body of work has led us to find wisdom, direction, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social,…
Political Analytics 2025 video
CAPS hosted the Political Analytics 2025 conference at Harvard on Sept. 25 & 26, 2025. Video of Friday’s panels can be found on the CAPS YouTube channel. Read about the conference in the Harvard Gazette….
Political analytics conference convenes experts on voter trends, election forecasting, behavioral research
Read about the Political Analytics 2025 conference hosted by CAPS on September 25 & 26 in the Harvard Gazette article linked below. Video of the Friday conference panels can be found here. ‘Vibes’ or ‘hunches’ don’t help win elections – Harvard Gazette…
Think top 1% benefit most from U.S. inequity? Maybe not.
Check out the Harvard Gazette coverage of our recent event with Musa al-Gharbi where he discussed his book, “We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of the Cultural Elite.” Think top 1% benefit most from U.S. inequity? Maybe not….
Fifteen Questions: Theda Skocpol on The Election, The Ivory Tower, and The New England Patriots
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and former CAPS faculty director, sat down with The Crimson to discuss U.S. authoritarianism, campus protest, and her favorite football team. See linked article below. The Crimson: Fifteen Questions: Theda Skocpol on The Election, The Ivory Tower, and The New England Patriots….
ABC News’ Elliott Morris and Stephen Ansolabehere Talk Polling and Voting Trends in The Crimson
Check out The Crimson coverage below of the CAPs and IOP Nov. 18 event, Analyzing the 2024 Election: An In-Depth Conversation on the Numbers and the Outcome. ABC News’ Elliott Morris and Stephen Ansolabehere Talk Polling and Voting Trends….
Did Trump Election Signal Start of New Political Era? Coverage of Post-Election Round-Up event
Check out coverage below in The Harvard Gazette and The Harvard Crimson of the Post-Election Round-Up event on Nov. 7, 2024, with Harvey Mansfield, Bill Kristol, William Galston, and Ross Douthat. The Harvard Gazette: Did Trump election signal start of new political era? The Harvard Crimson: Ross Douthat, Bill Kristol Talk Harris’ Campaign Failures at…