Harvard Department of Government

@Harvard_GovDept

We are a world leader in the study of politics, home to a vibrant and diverse intellectual community of faculty, students, fellows, and staff.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joined February 2020

134Following

2KFollowers

Pinned

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jul 10

"Many Americans think public opinion will protect the judiciary from executive overreach. Evidence from other democracies suggests otherwise" says Andrew O'Donohue (@AOD_PhD) in a recent @lawfare article. #HarvardGov #GovGrads lawfaremedia.org/article/public…

198

Pinned

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 11

Congratulations to Raul Duarte González (@rduartegonzalez) on your achievement👏

DDRCLAS @ Harvard@HarvardDRCLAS · Jun 2

We’re excited to announce the 2025–2026 DRCLAS Graduate Student Associates! This group of Harvard doctoral students will join us this fall as they explore the political, social, and cultural questions shaping Latin America today. drclas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06/f…

295

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jul 24

Jerry Min, a Ph.D. candidate in Government and A.M. candidate in Statistics at Harvard, has been awarded the APSA Best Poster Award for his insightful poster “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties” 👏 #GovGrads buff.ly/eclERby

279

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jul 15

Congrats to Justin L. Brooks, who has received the prestigious Christian Bay Award from @APSAtweets Critical Political Science section for his paper “Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor, and Private Law” 👏 #GovGrads buff.ly/FEsVNY2

620

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 26

The Department of Government staff have been awarded the Dean’s Distinction Team Recipient Award for 2025! 🎉 The award recognizes the FAS’s highest-achieving staff members and was celebrated at the Dean’s Distinction event, held at Lowell House. #HarvardGovCommunity

Harvard_GovDept's tweet image. The Department of Government staff have been awarded the Dean’s Distinction Team Recipient Award for 2025! 🎉 The award recognizes the FAS’s highest-achieving staff members and was celebrated at the Dean’s Distinction event, held at Lowell House. #HarvardGovCommunity

515

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 25

Sergio Imparato & Ph.D. candidate Hannah Kunzman joined The Lyceum Project in Athens, engaging global experts on building child-centered #AI. Imparato spoke on Age-Appropriate AI Design; Kunzman presented on children’s agency in the AI age. #HarvardGov buff.ly/egTAk3u

Harvard_GovDept's tweet image. Sergio Imparato &amp; Ph.D. candidate Hannah Kunzman joined The Lyceum Project in Athens, engaging global experts on building child-centered #AI. Imparato spoke on Age-Appropriate AI Design; Kunzman presented on children’s agency in the AI age. #HarvardGov buff.ly/egTAk3u

2.0K

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 13

“You go where the knowledge is, and the knowledge is in the field. The knowledge is in the lived experience of communities and people,” said Dustin Tingley (@dustintingley) in a Harvard Gazette article this week, part of its new 'lifework' series. buff.ly/w8J7dwH

Harvard_GovDept's tweet card. Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities.

131

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 12

ICYMI, the Harvard Gazette recently profiled Feyaad Allie (@FeyaadAllie) and his appointment to the 2025 @CIFAR_News Azrieli Global Scholars Program 👏 #HarvardGov #AcademicExcellence news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Harvard_GovDept's tweet card. Feyaad Allie, assistant professor of government, has been selected to join a prestigious group of researchers tackling some of the world’s most urgent challenges. The Canadian Institute for Advanced...

2.0K

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 11

Jennifer Hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) and Stephanie Ternullo (@StephanieTern) have been named 2025 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. This prestigious honor recognizes FAS faculty members for their groundbreaking publications and #scholarship gov.harvard.edu/2025/06/11/jen…

192

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 9

Katherine Irajpanah, a recent Ph.D. graduate, discusses her prize-winning #dissertation, “The Balance of Restraint: An Analysis of Warfighting Norms and Patterns in Global Conflict” and the inspiration behind it in a recent @HarvardGSAS article. buff.ly/FM8stGf

192

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 5

“There are things that Big Data can’t tell me, so it was important to talk directly to people about their experiences over time, and to do archival work,” says Elizabeth Thom in a new @HarvardGSAS article discussing her prize-winning dissertation. buff.ly/rOiS1Hg

Harvard_GovDept's tweet card. Elizabeth Thom, who graduates this May with a PhD in government and social policy, carries an interest in regional politics into her work on responses to policy initiatives in Central Appalachia.

167

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 5

We're proud to celebrate our 20 senior thesis award winners! Their creative, rigorous research tackled some of today’s biggest challenges and earned top honors. Congrats to our fantastic students👏 #AcademicExcellence buff.ly/Fo3QP8k

228

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 4

A recent first-of-its-kind livestreamed event featured the all-star panel of Steven Levitsky (@levitsky2), Daniel Ziblatt (@dziblatt), and Feyaad Allie (@FeyaadAllie), with 2025 Nieman Fellow David M. Herszenhorn moderating the conversation 👇 buff.ly/hvNxyhn

3.0K

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · Jun 2

Celebrating the Department of Government’s graduating Ph.D. Class of 2024-25 🎉 21 of our students graduated this academic year. We are immensely proud of each graduate and look forward to watching the remarkable impact they will have on the world. #HarvardGov #GovGrads #PhD

Harvard_GovDept's tweet image. Celebrating the Department of Government’s graduating Ph.D. Class of 2024-25 🎉

21 of our students graduated this academic year. We are immensely proud of each graduate and look forward to watching the remarkable impact they will have on the world.

#HarvardGov #GovGrads #PhD

4.0K

Harvard Department of Government Retweeted

CIFAR@CIFAR_News · May 22

➕ Feyaad Allie (@FeyaadAllie), Debra Karhson (@UofNO) and Roni Porat (@HebrewU) will be joining the Boundaries, Membership & Belonging program. cifar.ca/cifarnews/2025…

638

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · May 21

Looking forward to the Dean’s Symposium: Democracy Around the World online #roundtable this Friday, with three Gov Professors - Steven Levitsky (@levitsky2), Daniel Ziblatt (@dziblatt), Feyaad Allie (@FeyaadAllie) - taking part in the conversation. buff.ly/z4oxoQU

Harvard_GovDept's tweet image. Looking forward to the Dean’s Symposium: Democracy Around the World online #roundtable this Friday, with three Gov Professors - Steven Levitsky (@levitsky2), Daniel Ziblatt (@dziblatt), Feyaad Allie (@FeyaadAllie) - taking part in the conversation. buff.ly/z4oxoQU

640

Harvard Department of Government Retweeted

Bosco Hung@boscohung_ · May 20

Great to have hosted Prof Kosuke Imai from @Harvard_GovDept @HarvardStats @IQSS currently visiting @NuffieldCollege with @midhanachiket for the first event of the Oxford Computational Political Science Group @Politics_Oxford on causal representation learning🤖

853

Harvard Department of Government@Harvard_GovDept · May 16

📣 Congratulations to Melani Cammett (@MelaniCammett) and Andrew O'Donohue (@AOD_PhD), who have been named Harvard Radcliffe Institute (@RadInstitute) 2025–2026 Fellows #HarvardGov buff.ly/VRpRDF9

Harvard_GovDept's tweet image. 📣 Congratulations to Melani Cammett (@MelaniCammett) and Andrew O'Donohue (@AOD_PhD), who have been named Harvard Radcliffe Institute (@RadInstitute) 2025–2026 Fellows #HarvardGov buff.ly/VRpRDF9

3.0K