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Tag: Daniel Carpenter
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Nation & World
Dust is starting to settle after election, yet the way forward is unclear
The Gazette turns once again to scholars and analysts across in the University to get their views of what happened and what comes next.
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Nation & World
After a hard election, the real work begins
Harvard University scholars, analysts, and affiliates take a look at what the election tells us about the prospects for greater unity and progress, and offer suggestions and predictions about where the new administration will, and should, go.
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Nation & World
Hard lessons from a tough election
The Gazette asked scholars and analysts across the University to reflect on lessons learned in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
Creating community in the virtual classroom
As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.
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Nation & World
Citizens arrested
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but are not treated equally, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said at Radcliffe conference on “Unsettled Citizens.”
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Nation & World
A hearing for pleas to right wrongs
A new project to digitize petitions from Native Americans to the Massachusetts legislature seeks to illuminate the history of the region’s native peoples, for scholars, students, and the tribes themselves.
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Nation & World
The rule-breaking Sisters Grimke
“Exiled by the sound of the lash” from the slaveholding state of South Carolina, the Grimké sisters came North before the Civil War with rule-breaking ideas on slavery’s wrongs and women’s rights. They represented an antebellum moment in which “women became political.”
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Nation & World
Foreshadowing feminism
Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.
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Nation & World
Building bridges among diverse faiths
Rabbi Angela W. Buchdahl, senior rabbi-designate at New York City’s Central Synagogue; Sheik Yasir Qadhi, dean of academic affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute; and the Rev. J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, gathered for a discussion on the role of religion in public life.
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Nation & World
Digitizing a movement
A team of Harvard scholars is cataloging, and transcribing, and digitizing thousands of 18th- and 19th-century anti-slavery petitions held in the Massachusetts State Archives.
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Nation & World
A freedom fighter looks back
Andrew Young — minister, activist, politician, and diplomat — reflected during a Harvard appearance on the battles of the American civil rights era, and on the economic problems that remain.
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Nation & World
Busting the budget
With the sequester closing in, the Gazette asked Harvard analysts to weigh in on how the dramatic spending cuts might affect the economy, politics, and the funding of research universities.
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Nation & World
Ten professors named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.
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Nation & World
MPSA awards Daniel Carpenter
The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) has named Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, the winner of the 2011 Herbert Simon Award for his career scientific contributions to the study of public administration.
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Nation & World
Bright ideas
Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.
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Nation & World
Peering into gearworks of FDA
Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.
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Nation & World
Finding the founding ideas
In 1788, Thomas Shippen of Philadelphia, a citizen of the world’s newest nation, visited the French royal court at Versailles. He was awed by its pomp, its riches, and – as he wrote – its “Oriental splendor.” But Shippen was also repulsed. He remarked on the arrogance and waste of royal life, and on the…
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Nation & World
Prying the lid off the FDA
Even though asthma is responsible for more deaths and more hospitalizations than arthritis in the United States, the greater political influence of arthritis sufferers prompts the federal Food and Drug…