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This seminar brings together cluster affiliates and colleagues across departments to share their published and in-progress work in an effort to find responses to the timely questions related to identity politics. For more information, please check the seminar’s upcoming events. 

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The Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion draws on expertise from across disciplines to gain international and comparative perspectives on how to extend cultural membership to the greatest number in society, to gain a better understanding of the social and cultural processes behind recognition gaps, and to determine how social scientists and policy makers can better respond to help make societies more inclusive. 

Advanced industrial societies have become increasingly...

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The Research Workshop in Middle Eastern Politics is led by Professor Melani Cammett from the Department of Government and Professor Tarek Masoud from the Harvard Kennedy School. The Research Workshop in Middle Eastern Politics provides an opportunity for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty working in the broad area of Middle Eastern politics to present and receive feedback on works in progress. The workshop is committed to methodological pluralism, and draws on membership from across Harvard’s departments...

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Taught by Professors Jeffry Frieden and Pia Raffler, the Research Workshop in Political Economy (Government 3007) is a year-long graduate seminar that aims to encourage cross-disciplinary research and excellence in graduate training. Political economy is a research tradition that explores how institutions affect political and economic outcomes. The workshop emphasizes the development of dissertation proposals and is a place where regular attendants can present their research to an audience of committed and informed peers....

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The Research Workshop in International Relations (Government 3005) is sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Department of Government to address ongoing research in the field of international relations.

The workshop is primarily devoted to presenting and discussing dissertation proposals and other scholarly work by advanced graduate students studying international relations in the Department of Government and in related departments and centers at Harvard. Faculty within the...

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In 2023–2024, the Research Workshop in Comparative Politics (Government 3006) is led by Professors Melani Cammett and Mashail Malik. Supported initially by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this workshop is now funded by grants from the Weatherhead Center and the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Graduate students who receive academic credit for their participation and other graduate students (space permitting, which it usually does), faculty, and postdoctoral fellows present works...

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This seminar is cochaired by Professor Steven Levitsky, Senior Lecturer Frances Hagopian, and Professor Alisha Holland of the Harvard University Department of Government. In monthly meetings, participants discuss their research on issues related to Latin American politics. Covering a range of topics including political economy, civil conflict, regime change, and democratic institutions, the seminar is designed particularly to provide a forum for graduate students to present and receive feedback on their scholarly work...

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The Faculty Discussion Group on Political Economy, cosponsored by the Weatherhead Center and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and chaired by Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, holds informal luncheon meetings on Tuesdays. Papers on a wide range of topics in political economy are sent to approximately fifty faculty members from various schools and departments. A freewheeling discussion of the paper ensues among the faculty who attend.