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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Danielle S. Allen | | | Institution: | Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Professor, Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1971 | | | | | | |
Danielle S. Allen received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. She served as the UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study 2007 to 2015. In 2015 she moved to Harvard University to take up the Directorship of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and a professorship in the Department of Government and Graduate School of Education. She was named James Bryant Conant University Professor in 2017.
Dr. Allen is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, she is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Defense of Equality (2014) Education and Equality (2016). And Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017). Additionally, Dr. Allen is the co-editor of the award-winning Education, Justice and Democracy (2013, with Robert Reich) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (forthcoming, with Jennifer Light).
Dr. Allen is a member American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2015. | |
| 2 | Name: | Prof. Archibald Cox | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | May 29, 2004 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Paul A. Freund | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1966 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | 2/5/92 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Stanley Hoffmann | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | September 13, 2015 | | | | | | |
As the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University since 1997, Stanley Hoffmann was highly regarded as a leading authority on international law and politics. His work ranged from the culture and politics of France to the sociology of war to American foreign policy. Having taught at Harvard since 1955, Dr. Hoffmann founded the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and co-founded the Center for European Studies. He served for 17 years as C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France. Dr. Hoffmann had also been an essayist for the New York Review of Books and Western Europe review editor for Foreign Affairs. Born in Vienna in 1928, he was educated in France and the United States and holds a doctorate from Paris Law School. His published works include Contemporary Theory in International Relations (1960), The State of War (1965), Decline or Renewal: France Since the 30s (1974); Duties Beyond Borders (1981) (with R. Johansen and J. Sterba) The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (1996); Gulliver Unbound (2004) and Chaos and Violence (2006). Stanley Hoffmann died September 13, 2015, at age 86, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Sheila Sen Jasanoff | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
SHEILA JASANOFF is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, she was founding chair of Cornell University’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. At Harvard, she founded and directs the Program on Science, Technology and Society; she also founded and coordinates the Science and Democracy Network. Jasanoff’s research centers on the interactions of law, science, and politics in democratic societies. She has written more than 130 articles and book chapters and authored or edited more than 15 books, including The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. An edited volume, Dreamscapes of Modernity, was published in 2015. Her most recent books, The Ethics of Invention and Can Science Make Sense of Life?, appeared in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Her work has been translated into multiple languages.
Jasanoff has held distinguished professorships in the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan. She was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Karl W. Deutsch Guest Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Her awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, the 2018 A. O. Hirschman prize of the Social Science Research Council, the Reimar-Lüst Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, the Austrian Government’s Ehrenkreuz, and the Bernal award of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a foreign member of the British Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. She holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, as well as honorary doctorates from the Universities of Twente and Liège. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Randall Kennedy | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Randall Kennedy is a creative thinker whose work reaches beyond the usual boundaries of legal scholarship into the social sciences and the analysis of contemporary American society. In the noisy thicket of the Harvard Law School these last years, he remains balanced, constructive, and civil, detached from the ideologies of the far left and right. On issues of race and of the relationship between the states and the federal government in this country, his is an analytical and increasingly influential voice. His legal and historical studies in the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal are supplemented by his book, Race, Crime and the Law, in which he discusses highly complex issues of the greatest importance to our country in a manner that the New York Times characterized as "all encompassing in its transracial humanity." Dr. Kennedy is also the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002); Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption (2003); Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (2008); The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (2011); and For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013). He has served on the Harvard Law School faculty since 1984 and has been Michael R. Klein Professor of Law since 2005. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Lawrence Lessig | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1961 | | | | | | |
Perhaps the world's leading scholar of law and the Internet, Lawrence Lessig is an expert on the effects of new digital technologies on traditional assumptions about copyright and constitutional law. His dazzling contributions to public debate about the balance between ownership of intellectual property and freedom of ideas extend beyond the academy. Author of three pioneering books and numerous articles on ideas and innovation in cyberspace, he is also the founder of Creative Commons, an international consortium of artists, scholars and writers who agree to allow others to use their work more broadly than ordinary copyright permits. In updating his now-classic book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he invited readers to contribute to the editing process itself, expanding the definition of a commons from physical space to the world of ideas.
Lessig was a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society before he was appointed professor of law at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard 2009 to 2015. He is currently Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Dr. Lessig previously served on the faculty of Harvard Law School, where he was the Berkman Professor of Law, and he has also taught at the University of Chicago. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Professor Lessig is the author of The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), Free Culture (2004), Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It (2011), and America, Compromised (2018). He serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired.
Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Catharine MacKinnon | | | Institution: | University of Michigan Law School; Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Richard E. Neustadt | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | October 31, 2003 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Don K. Price | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 7/10/95 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Robert D. Putnam | | | Institution: | Harvard University; Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. He has received numerous scholarly honors, including the Skytte Prize, the most prestigious global award in political science. He has written fourteen books, translated into more than twenty languages, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work, both among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century. His recent books include: (with David E. Campbell, 2012) American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which won the American Political Science Association’s 2011 Woodrow Wilson award as the best book in political science, and (with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, 2020) The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. He has consulted for the last three American presidents, the last three British prime ministers, the current French president, and hundreds of grassroots leaders and activists in many countries. He is now working on three major projects: (1) Inequality and opportunity: a growing class gap among American young people and the implications for social mobility; (2) The changing role of religion in the United Kingdom and the US; and (3) The social consequences of hard times in the United Kingdom and the US. He was awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Judith Nisse Shklar | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | 9/16/92 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Kathryn Sikkink | | | Institution: | Harvard University; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
In January 2014 Kathryn Sikkink became the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She had been Regent's Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. from ColuIn January 2014 Kathryn Sikkink became the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She had been Regent's Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her publications include The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics (awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award, and the WOLA/Duke University Award); Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America; Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (co-authored with Margaret Keck and awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order, and the ISA Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations); The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (co-edited with Thomas Risse and Stephen Ropp); and The Hidden Face of Rights: Towards a Politics of Responsibilities. Sikkink has been a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and a Guggenheim fellow. She is a fellow of the American Association for Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the editorial board of the International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, and the American Political Science Review. In 2013 she received the Susan Strange Award from the International Studies Association. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Theda Skocpol | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and formerly Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She also served as Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard from1999 to 2006. Dr. Skocpol received her B.A. in 1969 from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. in 1975 from Harvard University. In 1996, she served as President of the Social Science History Association, an interdisciplinary professional group; and from 2001-03 she served as President-Elect and then President of the 14,000-member American Political Science Association. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has been awarded honorary degrees by Michigan State University, Northwestern University, and Amherst College. The author of nine books, nine edited collections, and more than seven dozen articles, Dr. Skocpol is recognized as one of the most cited and widely influential scholars in the modern social sciences; her work has contributed to the study of comparative politics, American politics, comparative and historical sociology, U.S. history, and the study of public policy. Her first book, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979), won the 1979 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1980 American Sociological Association Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship. A leader in historical-institutional and comparative research, Dr. Skocpol edited Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (1984) and co-edited the influential Social Science Research Council collection Bringing the State Back In (1985). For the past fifteen years, Dr. Skocpol's research has focused on U.S. politics in historical and comparative perspective. Her Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992), won five scholarly awards: the J. David Greenstone Award of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association; the Outstanding Book Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; the 1993 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association, given annually for "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs"; the 1993 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association; and the 1993 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa, given to honor "a comprehensive study that contributes significantly to historical, philosophical, or religious interpretations of the human condition." Dr. Skocpol's recent books include Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government (1996); Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (2003, winner of the 2004 Greenstone Award); Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2005), What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, 2007), and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (with Vanessa Williamson, 2012). Active in civic as well as academic life, Dr. Skocpol was included in policy discussions with President Bill Clinton at the White House and Camp David. She writes both for scholarly outlets and for publications appealing to the educated public. Married since 1967 to Bill Skocpol, an experimental physicist who teaches at Boston University, Theda Skocpol is the proud mother of Michael Allan Skocpol, born in 1988. | |
| 15 | Name: | Professor Cass R. Sunstein | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Cass Sunstein returned to Harvard Law School as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in September 2012 after taking a leave to serve for two years in the Obama administration as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He was named University Professor in February 2013. Sunstein is the most prolific, versatile, and widely cited legal scholar of his generation. His extensive work on administrative law has been profoundly influential, helping to bring insights from cognitive science and behavioral economics to bear on problems of risk analysis and regulation. He has also been among the most influential scholars of constitutional law, developing the insights of civic republicanism and legal realism to show that claims of individual liberty are often better understood as problems of public distribution or social entitlement. Sunstein has written eloquently of the importance of democratic debate and deliberation, and the need to avoid tendencies toward extreme or polarized thought in settings as diverse as juries, appellate panels, and readership on the Internet. A frequent contributor of public legal commentary in venues like the New Republic, Sunstein is well-known for his ability to bring exceptional clarity to complex legal topics, and to integrate legal thought with the latest developments in social science. He is the author of: The Partial Constitution, (1993); Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, (1996); (S. Breyer, et al) Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy, (1999); (R. Epstein) The Vote: Bush, Gore & the Supreme Court, (2001); The Cost-Benefit State, (2002); Why Societies Need Dissent, (2003); The Second Bill of Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever, (2006); Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, (2006); Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide, (2009); On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done, (2009); Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media (2017), Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide (2018), and Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know (2020). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2010. He won the Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize in 2007 in recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law and Political Science, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the complex interplay between jurisprudential constructs and the day by day resolution of legal conflicts. He was also named as a 2018 recipient of the Holberg Prize. | |
| 16 | Name: | Mr. Laurence H. Tribe | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Laurence H. Tribe is known both nationally and globally as one of the nation's greatest scholars of constitutional law. His groundbreaking 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law combined historical material with highly original contemporary doctrinal insight, making our nation's constitutional jurisprudence elegantly accessible not only to American students and practitioners but also to the drafters of new constitutions in South Africa and Eastern Europe. The treatise has been so often cited that Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold once commented, "It may well be that no book, and no lawyer not a member of the Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law." An extraordinarily popular teacher of large constitutional law classes at Harvard, Tribe has also published numerous law review articles on virtually every aspect of American constitutional law. His early training as a mathematician has inclined him to reject consequentialist constitutional theories in favor of "structural," "constitutive," and "relational" inferences from the Constitution's internal architecture. Tribe's career has also encompassed dazzling advocacy before the U.S. Supreme Court, a deep commitment to civil rights and civil liberties, and frequent testimony before Congress. He currently serves as Senior Counselor for Access to Justice at the U. S. Department of Justice as well as Carl M. Loeb University Professor (on leave) at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. in 1966 from Harvard Law School. Other works he has authored include: Channeling Technology Through Law (1973); The American Presidency: Its Constitutional Structure (1974); The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments (1979); God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History (1985); Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990); The Invisible Constitution (2008); with Joshua Matz, Uncertain Justice (2014); and To End a Presidency [2018]. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010 and has won the Society's 2013 Henry M. Phillips Prize in recognition of his contributions to understanding the United States Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court in its interpretation and its 2018 Henry Allen Moe Prize in recognition of his paper "Reflections on the 'Natural Born Citizen' Clause as Illuminated by the Cruz Candidacy" presented at the Society’s 2016 April Meeting and printed in the June 2017 Proceedings. | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Sidney Verba | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | March 4, 2019 | | | | | | |
Sidney Verba was one of the most prominent political scientists of his time. His books explored the many dimensions of political participation, and he is credited with profoundly changing the field of political behavior and the political science profession. When he won the Warren E. Miller prize, the citation asserted that he was "unsurpassed in the quality of his research, in his devotion to social science standards, and his concern with improving society through social science research." The Skytte Foundation, whose prize is one of the world's largest and most prestigious in the social sciences, said that Dr. Verba was chosen "for his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy." In addition, he was a brilliant leader of the Harvard University Library, having brought the many libraries in that system into a collaborative working relationship. The Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard for 23 years, Dr. Verba retired from these posts in 2007. A former president of the American Political Science Association, he published such works as Small Groups and Political Behavior (1961); The Civic Culture (1963); Caste, Race and Politics (1969); Participation in America (1972); Vietnam and the Silent Majority (1972); The Changing American Voter (1976); Participation and Political Equality (1978); Injury to Insult (1979); Equality in America (1985); Elites and the Idea of Equality (1987); Designing Social Inquiry (1994); Voice and Equality (1995); and The Private Roots of Public Action (2001). Sidney Verba died on March 4, 2019 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 86. | |
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