Rate Professor Danielle Allen

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University, 2001; Ph.D. in Classics, University of Cambridge, 1996.

Research Interests: Political theory, democratic institutions, justice, and civic education.

Appointments: James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, 2001; American Academy of Arts and Sciences member.

Publications:

• Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
• Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Liveright, 2014).

Additional Contributions: Co-chair, Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.