Danielle Allen
| Danielle Allen | |
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| Born |
1971 Takoma Park, Md. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University, University of Cambridge, Harvard University |
| Awards |
MacArthur Fellows Program, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Main interests | political theory, history of political thought, political sociology, Greek and Roman political history |
Danielle S. Allen (born 1971)[1] is an American classicist and political scientist, UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study[2][3] and, in 2015, a Harvard University professor and center director.
Education and career
Allen graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Classics in 1993, from Cambridge University with a Ph.D. in Classics in 1996, and from Harvard with a Ph.D. in Government in 2001. She taught at University of Chicago, and was Dean of the Division of Humanities from 2004 to 2007. She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Robert Reich.[4]
She currently serves as a trustee of Amherst College [5] and is chair of the Pulitzer Prize board.[6] In 2015, she joined the Government Department of Harvard University and became the director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.[7]
Awards and honors
- 2001 Quantrell Award for Excellence [8]
- 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2009 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[1]
Works
- "It's Up to Obama", Democracy Issue #16, Spring 2010
- The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, 2000, (reprint Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-09489-2)
- Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education, University of Chicago Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-226-01466-1
- Why Plato Wrote, John Wiley & Sons, Limited, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4443-3448-7
- Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Liveright, 2014, ISBN 978-0871406903
- From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age, University of Chicago Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-226-26212-3
References
- 1 2 "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ↑ Bio, IAS.edu.
- ↑ Press release, March 21, 1987, IAS.edu.
- ↑ madisonian.net
- ↑ amherst. edu. Access date 13 January 2015.
- ↑ pulitzer.org. Access date 13 January 2015
- ↑ "Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts", Harvard Gazette, December 18, 2014.
- ↑ Fournier, Arthur, "Danielle Allen, Associate Professor in Classical Languages & Literatures", chronicle.uchicago.edu, May 24, 2001.
External links
- "An interview with Danielle S. Allen", University of Chicago Press, 2004. About Talking to Strangers.
- Mosk, Matthew, "An Attack That Came Out of the Ether", The Washington Post, June 28, 2008
- American Denial, PBS Independent Lens, broadcast February 22, 2015. Featured interview.
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