Nancy Rosenblum

Nancy L. Rosenblum, Chair of the Department of Government (2004 - present). Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973. Professor Rosenblum joined the Department of Government at Harvard University in January, 2001. Her fields of study are the history of modern political thought, contemporary political theory, and constitutional law. Her latest book is On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Her 2008 contribution to the APSA Taskforce on Religion and Democracy, "Faith in America: The Logic of Autonomy and the Logic of Congruence" is available here. She is winner of the 2002 David Easton Award (ASPA) for her book Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America . She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

David Blackbourn

Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard and director of CES. He teaches courses on modern German and European history and is the author of Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980); The Peculiarities of German History (with G. Eley, 1984); Populists and Patricians (1987); The German Bourgeoisie (co- edited with R. Evans, 1991); Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth- Century Germany (1994); The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780– 1918 (1997); and The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (2006). Blackbourn is on the editorial board of Past and Present and vice- president of the advisory board of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington. He was chair of the Harvard history department in 1998–1999 and 2000– 2002, and president of the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association in 2003–2004.

Bryan Hehir

J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. He is also the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. He served on the faculty of Georgetown University (1984 to 1992) and the Harvard Divinity School (1993 to 2001). His writings include: The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change, Military Intervention and National Sovereignty, Catholicism and Democracy, and Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition.

Robert Keohane

Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (third edition 2001), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry (1994). He has served as the editor of the journal International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 1989, and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2005. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Science Po in Paris, and is the Harold Lasswell Fellow (2007-08) of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer has written about a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state. He has played a part in the revival of a practical, issue focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. He is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms and also on a (collaborative) project focused on the history of Jewish political thought.

Peter A. Hall

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, a Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Co-Director of the Program on Successful Societies for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Hall is an editor of Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make, Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage,The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, Developments in French Politics I and II, European Labor in the 1980s and the author of Governing the Economy: as well as over sixty articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy. He serves on the editorial boards of many journals and the advisory boards of several European institutes. He is currently working on the methodology of political science, the institutional responses to economic integration in postwar Europe, and the contribution of social institutions to population health. Link: http://www.ciar.ca/web/home.nsf/pages/ss

Anne Sa’adah

“My reasons for wanting to be a political scientist are captured in the otherwise not very catchy title I gave my doctoral dissertation: "Conflict and Community? The Shaping of Liberal Politics in Revolutionary France, England, and America." I am interested in when, why, and how human communities—political movements, universities, countries—come to organize themselves in ways that maximize both productive conflict and inclusiveness. I am therefore particularly interested in what happens when societies face moments of deep and disorienting change, moments when democratic politics is a possibility, but sometimes only one possibility among others and in any case capable of taking a variety of forms (some more conflict-friendly and inclusionary than others): the revolutionary periods in England, America, and France, Reconstruction in the United States, and postwar and post-unification Germany (see "Germany’s Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democratization"). When, why, and how do democrats win? When do reformists, rather than revolutionaries or reactionaries, manage to prevail? For someone with my interests, modern France, with its multiple fractures, its vibrant nationalism, and its contested liberal tradition, has always seemed a goldmine— quite apart from the more obvious pleasures that derive from doing research there. My most recent book, "Contemporary France: A Democratic Education" uses modern French politics to analyze the recurrent challenges that attend the political project of combining conflict and community”

Suzanne Berger

Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science and Class of 1960 Fellow. Professor Berger works in comparative politics and in political economy. Her books include Peasants Against Politics; The French Political System: Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies (with Michael Piore); Organizing Interests in Western Europe (editor); National Diversity and Global Capitalism (with Ronald Dore); Made by Hong Kong (with Richard Lester) and Global Taiwan (with Richard Lester. A 2003 book Notre Premiere Mondialisation [Our First Globalization] analyzes political responses to capital mobility and trade in France,1870-1914. Her most recent work, How We Compete, presents the findings of a five-year-long study by MIT social scientists and engineers on the impact of globalization. She is Director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative Program. Professor Berger is a Research Associate and member of the Committee of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association and as founding Chair of the Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Western Europe. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her current research concerns the impact of globalization on domestic institutions.

Patrice Higonnet

Higonnet is Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard. He has written on seventeenth-century painting; eighteenth-century diplomacy; nineteenth-century French deputies, American nationalism, French immigrants to America, French rural life; and Vichy (1940-1944). His Class, Ideology, and the Rights of Nobles (1981) is a study of Jacobin politics. Sister Republics (1988) compares the French and American Revolutions. Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins in the French Revolution (1998) considers the genesis and evolution of Jacobinism during the French Revolution. His Paris: Capital of the World (2002, with a French edition in 2005 and a forthcoming Chinese edition) deals with the history of the French capital from 1750 to 1940. His Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism American History appeared in 2007. He is currently working on a survey of the French Revolution (The Sleep of Reason.) His biography of Marie Antoinette’s architect Richard Mique who designed her toy farm at Versailles, La Mort de Mique, le destin tragique de l’architecte de Marie Antoinette, will appear in November.

Ioannis Evrigenis

Professor Evrigenis teaches courses on ancient and medieval political thought, nationalism, and the social contract, as well as seminars on Plato, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. He holds a BA from Grinnell College, an MSc from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Herrnstein Prize. He is co-editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (Hackett, 2004), and the author of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 2008), as well as of articles on a wide range of topics in political theory. At present, he is working on a study of the concept of the state of nature in political thought, entitled Images of Anarchy (under contract with Cambridge University Press). He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, as well as five Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. During the 2008-2009 academic year, Professor Evrigenis will be a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.

Michael Smith

Michael Joseph Smith is the Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He grew up in Yonkers, New York, where he attended public schools. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1973. He was then awarded a British Government Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University and received a Master of Philosophy degree from Oxford in 1976. After serving as a Lecturer in Politics at Merton College, Oxford for two years, he returned to Harvard for his Ph.D., which he received in 1982. He then taught as an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard, and came to the University of Virginia in 1986.

At Virginia he currently directs the interdisciplinary, undergraduate Program in Political and Social Thought, and from 1994-99 he directed the Politics Department's Distinguished Majors program. He teaches courses on human rights, political thought, and on ethics and international relations; from 1988-99 he also taught in the Politics Honors program. In 1995, Professor Smith led a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar for college professors on Teaching Ethics and International Relations. He won the All-University Teaching Award in 2002. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York. In 2002-03, Prof. Smith was elected Chair of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate, and in 2003-04, President Casteen appointed him to co-chair the President's Commission on Diversity and Equity.

Professor Smith is the author of Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (LSU, 1987) and co-author and co-editor (with Linda B. Miller) of Ideas and Ideals (Westview, 1992). He has also written extensively on the ethical dilemmas raised by contemporary international politics, most recently contributing to the United Nations International Commission on Sovereignty and Intervention. With Stanley Hoffmann of Harvard University he is working on a long-term book project about human rights and the ethical dilemmas of modern international relations.

Louise Richardson

Louise Richardson (born 1958 in Ireland, affected by the Northern Ireland conflict) is a political scientist at Harvard University and executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is an accepted adept at security policy. Richardson received a bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College, Dublin. She earned master's degrees in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles and Harvard and in history from Trinity College, Dublin, and a doctoral degree in government from Harvard University. From 1989 to 2001, she was assistant professor and then associate professor of government at Harvard, specializing in international security. For eight years, Richardson was head tutor (director of undergraduate studies) of the Harvard government department. She served in numerous other administrative capacities at Harvard University, including the Faculty Council and various committees concerning such issues as undergraduate education, the status of women, and human rights. In July 2001, Richardson was appointed executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Richardson's academic focus has been on international security with an emphasis on terrorist movements. For several years, she taught Harvard's large undergraduate lecture course, Terrorist Movements in International Relations. For this, she won the Levenson Prize, awarded by the undergraduate student body to the best teachers at the University. This class, along with a number of graduate courses on terrorist movements and European terrorism, were for many years the only ones offered on the subject at Harvard. Louise Richardson is the author of "What terrorists want".

On 3 June 2008, it was announced that she had been appointed Principal of the University of St. Andrews, succeeding Brian Lang with effect from January 2009Louise Richardson (born 1958 in Ireland, affected by the Northern Ireland conflict) is a political scientist at Harvard University and executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is an accepted adept at security policy.

Richardson received a bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College, Dublin. She earned master's degrees in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles and Harvard and in history from Trinity College, Dublin, and a doctoral degree in government from Harvard University. From 1989 to 2001, she was assistant professor and then associate professor of government at Harvard, specializing in international security. For eight years, Richardson was head tutor (director of undergraduate studies) of the Harvard government department. She served in numerous other administrative capacities at Harvard University, including the Faculty Council and various committees concerning such issues as undergraduate education, the status of women, and human rights. In July 2001, Richardson was appointed executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Richardson's academic focus has been on international security with an emphasis on terrorist movements. For several years, she taught Harvard's large undergraduate lecture course, Terrorist Movements in International Relations. For this, she won the Levenson Prize, awarded by the undergraduate student body to the best teachers at the University. This class, along with a number of graduate courses on terrorist movements and European terrorism, were for many years the only ones offered on the subject at Harvard. Louise Richardson is the author of "What terrorists want".

On 3 June 2008, it was announced that she had been appointed Principal of the University of St. Andrews, succeeding Brian Lang with effect from January 2009.

Gary Bass

He works on international security, human rights and international justice. He is the author of Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention, just published by Knopf, and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. He has also written articles and book chapters on human rights and international justice. Before coming to Princeton, he was a reporter for The Economist. He has written often for The New York Times, as well as writing for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and other publications. He has won the Stanley Kelley teaching prize in the politics department.

Ph.D., Harvard University

Linda B. Miller

Linda B. Miller is Professor of Political Science, Emerita, at Wellesley College where she taught from 1969–2004. An international relations specialist, she also taught at Barnard, Harvard, and Brown and held research appointments at Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Brown, where she is currently Adjunct Professor (Research) at the Watson Institute. From 1999–2002, she was also Editor of the International Studies Review, an official journal of the International Studies Association and a collaborative project of Wellesley College and Brown.

Professor Miller's special interests include American foreign policy, the Middle East, European affairs, and international organization—subjects on which she has written two books and published major articles in U.S., British, and Israeli scholarly journals. Her research has been supported by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, NATO, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University.

At Wellesley, she served on the Faculty Awards Committee, the Admissions Committee, the Barnette Miller Foundation Committee, the Committee on Foreign Study, the General Judiciary, and the Davis Chair Committee. She lectured to more than 20 alumnae clubs in the U.S. and abroad, including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cape Cod, Honolulu, Bangkok, Tokyo, and London.