Comparative Politics Speaker Series

"Global Change and Civil Wars" Speaker: Stathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Contact: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez mmelend...

"The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War" Speaker: Ana M. Arjona, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University; Director, Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED), Universidad de los Andes; Visiting Associate...

"When the Church Votes Left: The Electoral Consequences of Progressive Religion" Speaker: Guadalupe Tuñón, Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Contact: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez mmelend@g.harvard.edu Lunch will...

"Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya" Speaker: Mai Hassan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan. Contact: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez mmelend@g.harvard.edu Lunch will be...

"The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms" Speaker: Christina L. Davis, Faculty Associate. Professor of Government, Department of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...

"The Decline and Rise of Democracy in Human History" Speaker: David Stasavage, Julius Silver Professor, Department of Politics, New York University. Contact: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez mmelend@g.harvard.edu Chairs: Yuhua Wang, Faculty Associate. Assistant...

"Marching on the Bastille: Combat Experience, Local Organizational Capacity and Political Change in Revolutionary France" Speaker: Saumitra Jha, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Contact: Casey Petroff petroff...

“The Nonmaterial Foundations of Identity Politics: Insights from Lebanon” Speakers: Melani Cammett, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University...

"Implicit Attitudes Toward an Authoritarian Regime" Speaker: Rory Truex, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Contact: Casey Petroff petroff@g.harvard.edu Chairs...

TBA Speaker: Jason Lyall, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University. Contact: Casey Petroff petroff@g.harvard.edu Chairs: Pia Raffler, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University. Yuhua Wang...