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Photo of Philippe Aghion Philippe Aghion
Robert. C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Economic theory, development, and industrial organization. Research Topics: Economic growth, contract theory.

Philippe Aghion is Robert. C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His recent publications include: Aghion, P, Howitt P, and Mayer D (2004), the Effect of Financial Development on Convergence, forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; Aghion, P, and Alesina, A (2004) Endogenous Political Institutions, Quarterly Journal of Economics; Aghion, P (2002) Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Dynamics of Income Inequality, Walras-Bowley Lecture, Econometrica; Aghion P, Harris C, Howitt P and Vickers J (2001) Competition, Imitation and Growth with Step-by-Step Innovations, Review of Economic Studies; Aghion, P and Howitt, P (1998), Endogenous Growth Theory, MIT Press. Professor Aghion received the Yrjo Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association in 2001. He is a co-founder of the Center for Research and for Graduate Education (CERGE) in Prague; Founder and Editor of the journal The Economics of Transition (published by Blackwell). He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1987.

For more information:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/aghion/aghion.html

Photo of Benjamin Friedman Beatriz Armendáriz
Faculty Associate, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Research Interests: Development Economics, Microfinance, International Finance

Beatriz Armendáriz holds a PhD in Economics from l'EHESS ( Paris ), and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK). She is on leave from University College , London where she is a Senior Lecturer. Professor Armendáriz has worked as a Research Fellow to the OECD, Paris, as Lecturer at the London School of Economics, and as a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT. Her research focuses on economic development and finance. She co-authored the book The Economics of Microfinance with Jonathan Morduch (MIT Press 2005.) She is currently working on various field projects, notably, on gender empowerment with the Innovations for Poverty Action researchers, with Dean Karlan ( Yale University ) and Sendhil Mullainathan ( Harvard University ). Some relevant publications by Professor Armendáriz include "Peer Group Formation In An Adverse Selection Model" (with Christian Gollier), The Economic Journal , Vol. 110, No. 465 (2000), "Mircofinance Beyond Group Lending" (with Jonathan Morduch), The Economics of Transition , Vol 8, No. 2 (2000), "On the Design of a Credit Agreement with Peer Monitoring", Journal of Development Economics , Vol. 60 (1999), and "Development Banking", Journal of Development Economics , Vol. 58 (1999).

For more information:
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/armendariz

Photo of Benjamin Friedman Professor Benjamin Friedman
William Joseph Maier Professor of Economics
Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy. The role that financial markets play in determining the effects of monetary and fiscal policies on the non-financial economy, conceptual frameworks for planning and implementing monetary policy, social and moral consequences of economic growth.

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University. Mr. Friedman's research and writing have primarily focused on economic policy, and in particular on the role of the financial markets in shaping how monetary and fiscal policies affect overall economic activity. Specific subjects of his recent work include the effects of government deficits and surpluses on interest rates, exchange rates, and business investment; appropriate guidelines for the conduct of the U.S. monetary policy; the implication of electronic financial transactions for central banks' ability to carry out monetary policy; and appropriate policy actions in response to crises in a country's banking or financial system. He is also currently working on a new book on the moral consequences of economic growth. Mr. Friedman's best known book is Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After , which received the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics. Mr. Friedman received the A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University. In addition, he received the M.Sc. degree in economics and politics from King's College, Cambridge (U.K.). He joined the Harvard faculty in 1972.

For more information:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/friedman/friedman.html

Photo of Jerry Green Professor Jerry Green
John Leverett Professor in the University
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
in the Economics Department
Harvard University and Harvard Business School

Research interests: Microeconomic theory. Behavior under uncertainty, incentives and game theory, public finance: health care, technology, and environment.

Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1970, chaired the Economics Department from 1984 to 1987, and served as Provost of the University from 1992 to 1994. Professor Green is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and served on its Council from 1988 to 1994. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is an Oversees Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. In 1980, he received the J.K. Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching. Professor Green chaired the National Science Foundation's Information Sciences Advisory Panel in 1980, prepared the Foundation's Ten-Year Outlook for the Social Sciences in 1983 and served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Taxpayer Compliance in 1984. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston where he serves on the budget and finance committee and chairs the committee on conflict of interest policy. He has been an advisor to many universities and foundations. Professor Green is known for his work on the theories of incentives, rational expectations, and behavior under uncertainty. He has contributed to a number of areas in applied economics, including tax policy, finance, health economics, higher education, and patent policy. He is the author of Incentives in Public Decision Making (with Jean-Jacques Laffont, 1978), Microeconomic Theory (with Andreu Mas-Colell and Michael Whinston, 1995) and over eighty scientific articles.

For more information:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/green/green.html

Photo of Jennifer Hochschild Jennifer Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University
Harvard College Professor

Research interests: The intersection of American politics and political philosophy, especially with regard to race, ethnicity, immigration, education, and public opinion.

Hochschild is the co-author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003); and of Equalities (Harvard University Press, 1981). She wrote Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984); and What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 1981), and various articles. Her current research is on "Unstable Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, Multiracialism, and DNA in the American Racial Order." She is also co-editing a volume on "Immigrant Political Incorporation in the United States and West Europe," and working on a book manuscript on "Facts in Politics: What Do Citizens Know, and How Does It Matter?"

Hochschild was the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former vice-president of the American Political Science Association, former vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a former member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey. She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, and the Guggenheim, Spencer, and Mellon Foundations. Professor Hochschild also holds positions in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education.

For more information:
http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/jennifer_l_hochschild/index.html

Walter Johnson
Professor of History
History Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Nineteenth century focuses on slavery, capitalism, and, increasingly, imperialism.

Walter Johnson studies the history of the United States, particularly nineteenth-century slavery, capitalism, and imperialism. He is the author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market which was published in 1999 and which won prizes from the Organization of American Historians, the American Studies Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Since the book, his work has followed two courses. On the one hand, he has published a series of essays about social and historical theory: on notions of time in American slavery; on the idea of "agency" as the organizing theme of scholarship on slavery; on theories of capitalism and slavery; and on the idea of reparations for slavery as a historical narrative. On the other, he has been working on a history of the Mississippi Valley between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War entitled River of Dark Dreams : Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley. This book will embed the history of slavery in the U.S. in the histories of global capitalism (especially the cotton trade and the Atlantic money market) and U.S. imperialism (the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican War, and the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s). Johnson has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

For more information:
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ehistory/facultyPage.cgi?id=137

James Kloppenberg
Harvard College Professor and
David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History
History Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: American and European intellectual history and political thought; history of democracy in America and Europe; pragmatism old and new; history and critical theory.

James T. Kloppenberg is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Chair of the Committee on Advanced Degrees in the History of American Civilization. In recognition of his contributions to graduate and undergraduate teaching, he has been awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for Senior Faculty and has been designated a Harvard College Professor. His books include Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1986), awarded the Merle Curti Prize in intellectual history in 1987; The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998); and A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell, 1995), co-edited with Richard Wightman Fox. He has held research fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, and the Danforth, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. He serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of American History , Modern Intellectual History , and The Review of Politics , and he is a member of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Wellesley College Board of Trustees.

For more information:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~history/faculty/profiles/kloppenberg.html

Professor Michael Kremer
Gates Professor of Developing Societies
Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests : Development Economics. Research Topics: Economic growth, education and development, health and development, research incentives, immigration.

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship. Kremer's recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization. He and Rachel Glennerster have recently published Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases. His articles have been published in journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Kremer previously served as a teacher in Kenya. He founded and was the first executive director of WorldTeach, a non-profit organization which places more than two hundred volunteer teachers annually in developing countries (1986 1989).

For more information:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/kremer/

Jane J. Mansbridge
Adams Professor of Political Leadership
and Democratic Values
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Research Interests: Feminism, representation, trust, coercion, democratic deliberation, and the public understanding of collective action problems.

Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We Lost the ERA (co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award in 1987, and the Schuck Award in 1988); editor of Beyond Self-Interest; co-editor, with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism; and co-editor, with Aldon Morris, of Oppositional Consciousness. Mansbridge's current research includes work on feminism, representation, trust, coercion, democratic deliberation, and the public understanding of collective action problems.

For more information:
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/jane_mansbridge

Daryl J. Levinson
Fessenden Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Constitutional law and theory, political economy and constitutional design, moral and political theory as applied to public law.

For more information:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=520

Frank I. Michelman
Robert Walmsley University Professor
Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Constitutional law, legal theory, property law.

Frank Michelman is Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, where he has taught since 1963. He is the author of Brennan and Democracy (1999), and has published widely in the fields of constitutional law and theory, property law and theory, local government law, and jurisprudence. Professor Michelman is a past president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Association of Constitutional Law and of the National Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society. Over the past several years, he has maintained an active interest in matters of constitutionalism in South Africa.

For more information:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=43

Martha L. Minow
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Equality and inequality, human rights and transitional societies, law and social change, religion and pluralism.

Martha Minow, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, teaches Family Law and Civil Procedure. She is the author of Making all the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (Cornell University, 1990); Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics and Law (The New Press, 1997); Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998); and Partners Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (Boston: Beacon Press 2002). She has edited the book Family Matters: Readings on Family Lives and the Law (The New Press, 1993) and co-edited with Gary Bellow Law Stories (University of Michigan Press, 1996). Her scholarship includes articles about the treatment of women, children, persons with disabilities, and members of ethnic, racial, or religious minorities. She serves on the boards of The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the Covenant Foundation, and she is an advisor to Facing History and Ourselves. She has served on the board of several child welfare agencies, the American Bar Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation Task Force on Education in the Early Years. She also has served as co-chair of the Harvard Children's Initiative.

For more information:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=45

Photo of Sendhil Mullainathan Sendhil Mullainathan
Professor of Economics
Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Field experiments in development and psychology, notably India and South Africa, on discrimination, corruption, health and public policy.

Sendhil Mullainathan specializes in Behavioral Economics, Poverty, and Finance, and has been involved in integrating Psychology into Economics and using psychological principles to better design policies. He was a founding member of the Poverty Action Lab, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Board Member with the Bureau of Research in Economic Analysis of Development as well. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard. His research on race in the labor market with Marianne Bertrand, documented in their paper entitled Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? garnered much attention. In 2002, Sendhil Mullainathan won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the “Genius Grant”. He is currently working on issue of corruption, rural and micro-finance and drug compliance.

For more information:
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mullainathan/mullainathan.html

Nancy Rosenblum
Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government
Government Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: History of political thought and contemporary liberalism.

Nancy Rosenblum is the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government. In 2004 she became Chair of the Department of Government. Her field of research is political theory, both historical and contemporary political thought. She is the author most recently of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998), which was awarded the APSA David Easton Prize in 2000. Her recent edited works include Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair with Martha Minow (2002); Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies (2000); and Civil Society and Government, co-edited with Robert Post. Professor Rosenblum is working on two long-term projects: Primus Inter Pares, a study of the political theory of political parties, and The Quality of Life, a study of Henry David Thoreau. In addition to Government courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Professor Rosenblum offers a course on "legalism" in the moral reasoning core curriculum. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

For more information:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Enrosenbl/
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Rosenblum.htm

Professor Alvin Roth
George Gund Professor of Economics & Business Administration
Economics Department, Harvard University and
Harvard Business School

Research Interests: Game theory, experimental economics, market design.

Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known of the markets he has designed (or, in this case, redesigned) is the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately twenty thousand doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He advised on the design of the high school matching system used in New York City starting in 2003 to match approximately 90,000 students to high schools each year. He is presently working with New England kidney transplant surgeons to help establish kidney exchange among patients and donors when the intended recipients and donors are incompatible. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous scientific awards. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University, and came to Harvard from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Economics.

For more information:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/aroth/
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html

Professor Michael Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government
Department of Government, Harvard University

Research Interests: Morality, ethics, and political philosophy.

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1997; translated into eight foreign languages), Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996), Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (Harvard University Press, 2005), and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard University Press, 2007). His writings also appear in general publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times. Sandel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary political philosophy, including "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," "Markets, Morals, and Law," and "Globalization and Its Critics." His undergraduate course, "Justice," has enrolled over 12,000 students. In 1985, he was awarded the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, and in 1999 was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate teaching.

Photo credit: B.D. Colen.

For more information:
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/msandel/
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/index.html

Professor Thomas Scanlon
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
Philosophy Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Moral and political philosophy, including standards of welfare, the nature of rights, and the case for equality.

T.M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Harvard. In between, he studied for a year at Oxford as a Fulbright Fellow. He taught at Princeton from 1966 before coming to Harvard in 1984. Professor Scanlon's dissertation and some of his first papers were in mathematical logic, but the bulk of his teaching and writing has been in moral and political philosophy. He has published papers on freedom of expression, the nature of rights, conceptions of welfare, and theories of justice, as well as on foundational questions in moral theory. His teaching in the philosophy department has included courses on theories of justice, equality, and recent ethical theory. His book, What We Owe to Each Other, was published by Harvard University Press in 1998; a collection of papers on political theory, The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays on Political Philosophy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. Other recent publications include "Moral Theory, Understanding and Disagreement", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995) pp. 343-356, and "Intention and Permissibility I," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. 74 (2000), pp. 301-317.

For more information:
http://emerson.fas.harvard.edu/facultymember.php?key=13

Professor Amartya Sen
Lamont University Professor
Economics and Philosophy Departments,
Harvard University

Research Interests: Economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war.

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International Economic Association. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor. Born in Santiniketan, India, Amartya Sen studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, India, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an Indian citizen. He was Lamont University Professor at Harvard also earlier, from1988 - 1998, and previous to that he was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Delhi University and at the London School of Economics.

Amartya Sen's books have been translated into many languages, and include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), and Development as Freedom (1999), among others. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. His most recent book, Rationality and Freedom, published by Harvard University Press will be followed by a companion volume, Freedom and Justice.

Amartya Sen has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the awards he has received are the "Bharat Ratna" (the highest honour awarded by the President of India); the Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics; the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award; the Edinburgh Medal; the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz); the Presidency of the Italian Republic Medal; the Eisenhower Medal; Honorary Companion of Honour (U.K.); and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

For more information:
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/sen/sen.html

Professor Tommie Shelby
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy
Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Research Interests: African American philosophy; philosophical perspectives on race and racism; social and political philosophy; Marxist social theory. Professor Shelby, a philosopher and political theorist, joined the Department of African and African American Studies in 2000. He has most recently completed a book on African American political philosophy, entitled We Who Are Dark: Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard University Press, 2005) and co-edited, with Derrick Darby, Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Open Court Publishing , 2005). Other publications include "Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian Considerations," Fordham Law Review 72 (2004); "Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity," with Lionel K. McPherson, Philosophy & Public Affairs 32 (March 2004); "Two Conceptions of Black Nationalism: Martin Delany on the Meaning of Black Political Solidarity," Political Theory 31 (October 2003); "Ideology, Racism, and Critical Social Theory," The Philosophical Forum (2003); "Parasites, Pimps, and Capitalists: A Naturalistic Conception of Exploitation," Social Theory and Practice (2002); "Is Racism in the 'Heart'?" Journal of Social Philosophy (2002); and "Foundations of Black Solidarity: Collective Identity or Common Oppression?" Ethics (2002).

Professor Shelby earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1998, and his B.A. magna cum laude at Florida A & M University in 1990. Before coming to Harvard, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University (1998-2000).

Photo of Beth Simmons Beth Simmons
Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University

Research Interests: International relations; international political economy; international law; international human rights law compliance.

Professor Simmons is the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University . Her current research focus is on the effects of international law and institutions on state behavior and policy choice. Her publications include Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939 (Princeton University Press, 1994), winner of the 1995 American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the previous year in government, politics, or international relations. She has also published articles on international institutions in International Organization and World Politics .

For more information:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bsimmons/

Dennis Thompson
Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy
Government Department and John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Research Interests: Theories of democracy; political ethics; professional ethics; legal theory.

Dennis F. Thompson is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University with appointments in the Government Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Kennedy School of Government. He is the founding Director of the University Center for Ethics and the Professions. He served as the Associate Provost from 1996-2001, and has been the Senior Adviser to the President of the University since 2001. Thompson's most recent books are: Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Health Care (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States (Chicago, 2002); and (with Amy Gutmann) Why Deliberative Democracy? ( Princeton University Press, 2004). An earlier jointly authored book, also with Gutmann, Democracy and Disagreement (Harvard University Press, 1996), is the subject of numerous commentaries, including a book length collection of articles published in 1999. His other books include: Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption (Brookings, 1995), Political Ethics and Public Office (Harvard University Press, 1987); John Stuart Mill and Representative Democracy (Princeton, 1976), and The Democratic Citizen: Social Science and Democratic Theory in the 20 th Century (Cambridge University Press, 1970). He edited (with Robert Rotberg), Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (Princeton, 2000) ; and (with Stanley Hoffman) Redeeming American Political Thought: Collected Essays of Judith Shklar (Chicago, 1997). The 4 th edition of a casebook, Ethics and Politics, co-edited with Amy Gutmann, will be published next year.

Thompson has served as a consultant to the Joint Ethics Committee of the South African Parliament, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the U. S. Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Health and Human Services. He served for ten years as a member of Board of Trustees of Smith College, the last five as vice-chair.

For more information:
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Dennis_Thompson

Laurence H. Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor
Harvard Law School

Research Interests: The Constitution.

Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University (the chair previously held by Archibald Cox), has taught at Harvard Law School since 1968, was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000, and was ranked the most admired law professor still living in a 2003 survey of 13,000 Harvard Law School alumni. Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe lived in California from age 6, entered Harvard at 16, graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966), and clerked for the California Supreme Court (1966-67) and then for Justice Stewart (U.S. Supreme Court, 1967-68). Tenured at 30, Tribe was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at 38. Recipient of many honorary degrees, author of 115 books and articles, and a leading appellate advocate who has prevailed in three-fifths of the many U.S. Circuit Court cases and the 35 U.S. Supreme Court cases he has argued orally, Tribe also helped draft the Constitutions of South Africa, Russia, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands. His treatise, American Constitutional Law, was named the most outstanding legal scholarship in the nation (Coif Award) and has been cited more often than any other legal text since 1950. Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: "[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law," and the Northwestern Law Review opined that no-one else "in American history has. simultaneously achieved Tribe's preeminence. as a practitioner and scholar of constitutional law."

For more information:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=74

Richard Tuck
Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government
Government Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Political authority; human rights; natural law; toleration; Hobbes; Grotius; Selden; Descartes.

Richard Tuck is Professor of Government. Professor Tuck is a premier scholar of the history of political thought. His works include Natural Rights Theories (1979), Hobbes (1989), and Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993). They address a variety of topics including political authority, human rights, natural law, and toleration, and focus on a number of thinkers including Hobbes, Grotius, Selden, and Descartes. His current work deals with political thought and international law, and traces the history of thought about international politics from Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke, and Vattel, to Kant. He is also engaged in a work on the origins of twentieth century economic thought; in it he argues that the 'free rider' problem was only invented, as a problem, in recent decades. Thus his interests to a remarkable degree span concerns in all subfields of the discipline.

For more information:
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Tuck.htm

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