Government at Harvard University

61 faculty and 0 courses in Government at Harvard University.

Faculty

• Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies h-index 107
  Es on the political response to economic challenges in the developed political economies since World War II and the economic and cultural roots of support for populism.
• Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor h-index 93
• Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology h-index 74
• Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy h-index 57
• Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Emeritus h-index 56
• Stephen Ansolabehere, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government h-index 55
• Kenneth A. Shepsle, George D. Markham Professor of Government, Emeritus h-index 47
  Es on formal models of political institutions, rule-breaking, and political imagination.
• Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy h-index 43
• Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government h-index 43
• Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government h-index 37
• James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus h-index 36
• Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies h-index 34
• Joshua D. Kertzer, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government h-index 29
• Thomas F. Remington, Visiting Professor of Government h-index 26
• Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies h-index 26
• Michael J. Hiscox, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs h-index 24
  Es on applications of behavioral economics to the design of public policies and private sector sustainability initiatives addressing social and environmental issues.
• Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government; Chair of the Department of Government h-index 22
  Notable: “School culture and leadership of professional learning communities” (2015) · 168 citations
• Nancy Rosenblum, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Emerita h-index 22
• Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs h-index 21
• Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government h-index 21
• Taeku Lee, Bae Family Professor of Government h-index 21
• Alisha C. Holland, Gates Professor of Developing Societies; Director of Graduate Studies h-index 19
• Ryan D. Enos, Professor of Government h-index 18
• Christina Davis, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics h-index 17
• Stephen Peter Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Emeritus h-index 16
• Stephen Chaudoin, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 16
• Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor h-index 14
• Claudine Gay, Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies h-index 13
• Peter Buisseret, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences h-index 11
• Pia Raffler, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 10
• Katrina Forrester, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences h-index 10
• Eric Beerbohm, Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Government; Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics h-index 8
• Christoph Mikulaschek, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 8
• Nargis Kassenova, Lecturer on Government h-index 6
  Es on Central Asian politics and security, Eurasian geopolitics, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, governance in Central Asia, and the history of state-making in Central Asia. Kassenova is a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights
• Nara Dillon, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Senior Lecturer on Government h-index 6
• Marcel Roman, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 6
• Mashail Malik, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 4
• Chase H. Harrison, Senior Preceptor h-index 4
• Sarah Hummel, Lecturer on Government h-index 3
• Feyaad Allie, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 2
• Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs
• Christopher Rhodes, Lecturer on Government
• Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
  Es on the Chinese revolution and its implications for contemporary Chinese politics. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, she is the author or editor of more than 20 books in
• Eric Nelson, Robert M. Beren Professor of Government
  Es on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory. Particular interests include the history of republican political theory, the re
• Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
• Gabriel Katsh, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies; Lecturer on Government
• Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Emeritus
• Hojung Joo, Assistant Professor of Government
• Jack Huguley, Lecturer on Government
  Broadly, center around topics in nuclear weapons and international security. In my (fleeting ) free time, I love birding and reading science fiction.
• James M. Snyder, Jr., Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science
• Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Emeritus
• Jordan Ecker, Lecturer on Government
• Kosuke Imai, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Government and of Statistics
  Causal inference, computational social science, program evaluation, and survey methodology. He is the author of a popular introductory textbook, “Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction” (Princeton University Press
• Michael Rosen, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government
• Naijia Liu, Assistant Professor of Government
• Ofrit Liviatan, Lecturer on Law and Politics
• Roger B. Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Kennedy School
• Sergio Imparato, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies; Lecturer on Government
• Shterna S. Friedman, Assistant Professor of Government
  Es on the epistemological and metaphysical presuppositions of modern systemic social theory as developed by the German Idealists, and further elaborated and criticized by such later thinkers as Marx, Durkheim, Parsons, and Foucault. Trained
• Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies
  Es on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die , which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was
• Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Emerita

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.