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Allen graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1993 with an A.B. in Classics. She earned ''summa cum laude'' honors and an induction into [[Phi Beta Kappa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danielle S. Allen - CV (February 2018) |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielleallen/files/CurriculumVitae_february_2018.pdf |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612021359/https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielleallen/files/CurriculumVitae_february_2018.pdf |archive-date=2020-06-12 }}</ref> Allen completed a 178-page senior thesis, titled "The State of Judgment", under the supervision of Andre Laks.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Danielle Susan |editor-last=Laks |editor-first=Andre |editor2-last=Princeton University. Department of Classics |title=The State of Judgment |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp01ns064634t |language=English}}</ref> As a [[Marshall Scholar]], she studied at [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College]], [[Cambridge University]], where she received an [[Master of Philosophy|M.Phil.]] in classics in 1994 and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in classics in 1996. Allen then pursued further graduate studies at [[Harvard University]], earning an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in government in 1998 and a Ph.D. in government in 2001. From 1997 to 2007, she served on the faculty of the [[University of Chicago]], earning appointments as a professor of both classics and political science, as well as membership on the university's Committee on Social Thought. She served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Danielle S. Allen |language=en |work=Institute for Advanced Study |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/allen |access-date=2017-03-23}}</ref> She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with [[Rob Reich]].<ref>{{Cite web | date = 2010-01-14 |url=http://madisonian.net/2010/01/14/double-serendipity-danielle-allen-and-the-institute-for-advanced-studys-sympoium-on-technology-and-education |title= Double Serendipity: Danielle Allen and the Institute for Advanced Study's Sympoium on Technology and Education| work = madisonian.net}}</ref>
Allen graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1993 with an A.B. in Classics. She earned ''summa cum laude'' honors and an induction into [[Phi Beta Kappa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danielle S. Allen - CV (February 2018) |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielleallen/files/CurriculumVitae_february_2018.pdf |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612021359/https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielleallen/files/CurriculumVitae_february_2018.pdf |archive-date=2020-06-12 }}</ref> Allen completed a 178-page senior thesis, titled "The State of Judgment", under the supervision of Andre Laks.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Danielle Susan |editor-last=Laks |editor-first=Andre |editor2-last=Princeton University. Department of Classics |title=The State of Judgment |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp01ns064634t |language=English}}</ref> As a [[Marshall Scholar]], she studied at [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], where she received an [[Master of Philosophy|M.Phil.]] in classics in 1994 and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in classics in 1996. Allen then pursued further graduate studies at [[Harvard University]], earning an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in government in 1998 and a Ph.D. in government in 2001. From 1997 to 2007, she served on the faculty of the [[University of Chicago]], earning appointments as a professor of both classics and political science, as well as membership on the university's Committee on Social Thought. She served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Danielle S. Allen |language=en |work=Institute for Advanced Study |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/allen |access-date=2017-03-23}}</ref> She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with [[Rob Reich]].<ref>{{Cite web | date = 2010-01-14 |url=http://madisonian.net/2010/01/14/double-serendipity-danielle-allen-and-the-institute-for-advanced-studys-sympoium-on-technology-and-education |title= Double Serendipity: Danielle Allen and the Institute for Advanced Study's Sympoium on Technology and Education| work = madisonian.net}}</ref>


She is a former trustee of [[Amherst College]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/facts/trustees | title = Trustees | work = amherst.edu |access-date= 2015-01-13}}</ref> and Princeton University,<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 7, 2010 |title=Alumni, parent join Board of Trustees |work=[[Princeton Alumni Weekly]] |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/alumni-parent-join-board-trustees |access-date=February 16, 2023}}</ref> and is a past chair of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] board<ref>{{cite web| title =Pulitzer Prize Board 2014-2015 | url =http://www.pulitzer.org/board/2015 | work = pulitzer.org|access-date= 2015-01-13}}</ref> where she served from 2007 to 2015.<ref name="harvard2016">{{Cite web |last=Lenfield |first=Spencer Lee |date=2016-04-15 |title=The Egalitarian |url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/05/the-egalitarian |access-date=2020-07-02 |website=Harvard Magazine |language=en}}</ref> She was the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before joining the Harvard faculty and becoming director of the [[Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics|Safra Center]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts |work=Harvard Gazette |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/danielle-allen-named-to-harvard-posts/ |access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref>
She is a former trustee of [[Amherst College]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/facts/trustees | title = Trustees | work = amherst.edu |access-date= 2015-01-13}}</ref> and Princeton University,<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 7, 2010 |title=Alumni, parent join Board of Trustees |work=[[Princeton Alumni Weekly]] |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/alumni-parent-join-board-trustees |access-date=February 16, 2023}}</ref> and is a past chair of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] board<ref>{{cite web| title =Pulitzer Prize Board 2014-2015 | url =http://www.pulitzer.org/board/2015 | work = pulitzer.org|access-date= 2015-01-13}}</ref> where she served from 2007 to 2015.<ref name="harvard2016">{{Cite web |last=Lenfield |first=Spencer Lee |date=2016-04-15 |title=The Egalitarian |url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/05/the-egalitarian |access-date=2020-07-02 |website=Harvard Magazine |language=en}}</ref> She was the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before joining the Harvard faculty and becoming director of the [[Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics|Safra Center]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts |work=Harvard Gazette |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/danielle-allen-named-to-harvard-posts/ |access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref>

Revision as of 18:48, 13 March 2023

Danielle Allen
Allen in 2017
Born (1971-11-03) November 3, 1971 (age 53)
Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.[1]
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
King's College, Cambridge (MPhil, PhD)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
SpouseJames Doyle[2]
Children2[3]
AwardsMarshall Scholarship
MacArthur Fellowship
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 Susan Allen (born November 3, 1971)[4] is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University.[5][6] She is also the Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen was UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study[7][8] in Princeton, New Jersey. Allen is the daughter of political scientist William B. Allen.[3]

Allen was a contributing columnist at The Washington Post until she announced in December 2020 that she was exploring a run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2022.[9][10][11] She formally announced her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in June 2021, but then dropped out of the race in February 2022.[12][13]

Education and academic career

Allen graduated from Princeton University in 1993 with an A.B. in Classics. She earned summa cum laude honors and an induction into Phi Beta Kappa.[14] Allen completed a 178-page senior thesis, titled "The State of Judgment", under the supervision of Andre Laks.[15] As a Marshall Scholar, she studied at King's College at the University of Cambridge, where she received an M.Phil. in classics in 1994 and a Ph.D. in classics in 1996. Allen then pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University, earning an M.A. in government in 1998 and a Ph.D. in government in 2001. From 1997 to 2007, she served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, earning appointments as a professor of both classics and political science, as well as membership on the university's Committee on Social Thought. She served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007.[16] She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Rob Reich.[17]

She is a former trustee of Amherst College[18] and Princeton University,[19] and is a past chair of the Pulitzer Prize board[20] where she served from 2007 to 2015.[2] She was the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before joining the Harvard faculty and becoming director of the Safra Center in 2015.[21]

Her scholarly contributions have been widely recognized. She was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2001, in recognition of her combining “the classicist’s careful attention to texts and language with the political theorist’s sophisticated and informed engagement”. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society,[22] Allen is a past chair of the Mellon Foundation board of trustees.[23]

The New Yorker published Allen's "The Life of a South Central Statistic" in its July 24, 2017 issue.[24]

Together with Stephen B. Heintz and Eric Liu, Allen chaired the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[25] The commission, which was launched "to explore how best to respond to the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in our political and civic life and to enable more Americans to participate as effective citizens in a diverse 21st-century democracy", issued a report, titled Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century, in June 2020. The report included strategies and policy recommendations "to help the nation emerge as a more resilient democracy by 2026".[26]

In October 2022, Allen joined the Council for Responsible Social Media project launched by Issue One to address the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in the United States co-chaired by former House Democratic Caucus Leader Dick Gephardt and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey.[27][28]

Political career

Allen announced in December 2020 that she would explore a candidacy in the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial race.[29] She announced on February 15, 2022 that she had no path, and ended her campaign on "pure math."[13][30]

Personal life

Allen was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.[1], but was raised in Claremont, California where her father taught at Harvey Mudd College.[31] She graduated from Claremont High School.[32]

Her father, William B. Allen, is a political philosopher and former chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.[3] Her mother, Susan, was a research librarian.[31] She is married to James Doyle[2] with two children.

Awards and honors

Works

  • It's Up to Obama. Spring 2010. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Princeton University Press. 2002 [2000]. 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.
  • Education and Equality. University of Chicago Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0226373102..
  • Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. W. W. Norton & Company. 2017. ISBN 978-1-63149-311-9.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Zongker, Brett (June 22, 2020). "Library of Congress to Award Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity to Danielle Allen". Center for Research on Computation & Society. Harvard University.
  2. ^ a b c Lenfield, Spencer Lee (April 15, 2016). "The Egalitarian". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d Randeep Ramesh (April 30, 2013). "Danielle Allen: Equity not equality". The Guardian.
  4. ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
  5. ^ "University Professorships | Harvard University". Harvard University. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Danielle Allen named University Professor". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  7. ^ "Allen Bio". IAS.edu. December 9, 2019.
  8. ^ "Press release". IAS.edu. March 21, 1987. Archived from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2010.
  9. ^ "Danielle Allen". Washington Post. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  10. ^ "Why I'm exploring a run for governor of Massachusetts". Washington Post. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  11. ^ "Danielle Allen, leader at Harvard, exploring run for governor of Massachusetts". Boston Globe. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  12. ^ "Danielle Allen, A Harvard Ethicist, Launches Historic Bid For Governor". WBUR. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  13. ^ a b Kuznitz, Allison (February 15, 2022). "Harvard professor Danielle Allen dropping out of Democratic race for Massachusetts governor". MassLive. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
  14. ^ "Danielle S. Allen - CV (February 2018)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on June 12, 2020.
  15. ^ Allen, Danielle Susan. Laks, Andre; Princeton University. Department of Classics (eds.). "The State of Judgment". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ^ "Danielle S. Allen". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  17. ^ "Double Serendipity: Danielle Allen and the Institute for Advanced Study's Sympoium on Technology and Education". madisonian.net. January 14, 2010.
  18. ^ "Trustees". amherst.edu. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  19. ^ "Alumni, parent join Board of Trustees". Princeton Alumni Weekly. July 7, 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
  20. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Board 2014-2015". pulitzer.org. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  21. ^ "Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  22. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  23. ^ "Kathryn Hall Succeeds Danielle S. Allen as Board Chair of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Thelma Golden and Joshua Friedman Join the Board" (Press release). New York, NY: Mellon Foundation. March 6, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
  24. ^ "Danielle Allen". The New Yorker.
  25. ^ "Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  26. ^ "Our Common Purpose". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  27. ^ Feiner, Lauren (October 12, 2022). "Facebook whistleblower, former defense and intel officials form group to fix social media". CNBC. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  28. ^ "Council for Responsible Social Media – Issue One". issueone.org. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  29. ^ Nair, Meera S.; Wang, Andy Z. (December 20, 2020). "Harvard Professor Danielle Allen 'Exploring' Candidacy for Massachusetts Governor in 2022". The Harvard Crimson.
  30. ^ Greater Boston Staff (February 17, 2022). "'It's just pure math': Why Danielle Allen dropped out of the governor's race". GBH News. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  31. ^ a b Danielle S. Allen. University of Miami. 2014. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  32. ^ "Meet Danielle". allenforma.com. February 18, 2021. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  33. ^ Fournier, Arthur (May 24, 2001). Danielle Allen, Associate Professor in Classical Languages & Literatures. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  34. ^ "Danielle Allen - MacArthur Foundation".
  35. ^ "Parkman prize awarded to book on Declaration of Independence". ksl.com. May 11, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  36. ^ "Danielle S. Allen | 2018 Honorees | Amherst College".
  37. ^ "Danielle Allen Awarded Kluge Prize by Library of Congress | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
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