Daniel Carpenter

Daniel Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Social Sciences at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Professor Carpenter graduated from Georgetown University in 1989 with distinction in Honors Government and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago in 1996. He taught previously at Princeton University (1995-1998) and the University of Michigan (1998-2002). He joined the Harvard University faculty in 2002. Beginning July 2021, he will serve as Faculty Director of the Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a position he also held from 2013 to 2020.

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