What factors are considered when predicting the outcome of an election? How are key issues like the economy, climate, healthcare, immigration, and women’s reproductive health shaping the US presidential race? What role does income, education, geography, or even alignment with celebrity endorsement play in who turns up to vote? Join Stephen Ansolabehere, PhD ’89, the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University and consultant for the CBS News Election Decision Desk, and Harvard Griffin GSAS Dean Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, on October 15 for a virtual discussion addressing these questions and more on the upcoming US presidential election.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere is the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Harvard University, he taught at MIT and UCLA. He is an expert on democracy and representation in the United States, especially US elections, voting behavior, public opinion, and energy and environmental politics. He is the author of five books, including Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming (2014), American Government (2022), and has published academic research in a wide range of fields, including political science, economics, statistics, law, and environmental policy.
He leads the Salata Institute’s Research Cluster on Strengthening Communities for Changing Energy Systems. He is principal investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and consults with CBS News on the Election Night Decision Desk, helping the network call the elections. In 2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Emma Dench
Emma Dench is the dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores) and at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Rome Scholar and a Hugh Last Fellow at the British School of Rome, a Cotton Fellow, a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard, and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow.
Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines, Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian, and “Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World” for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.
While at Harvard, Dench received a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students.
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What factors are considered when predicting the outcome of an election? How are key issues like the economy, climate, healthcare, immigration, and women’s reproductive health shaping the US presidential race? What role does income, education, geography, or even alignment with celebrity endorsement play in who turns up to vote? Join Stephen Ansolabehere, PhD ’89, the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University and consultant for the CBS News Election Decision Desk, and Harvard Griffin GSAS Dean Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, on October 15 for a virtual discussion addressing these questions and more on the upcoming US presidential election.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere is the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Harvard University, he taught at MIT and UCLA. He is an expert on democracy and representation in the United States, especially US elections, voting behavior, public opinion, and energy and environmental politics. He is the author of five books, including Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming (2014), American Government (2022), and has published academic research in a wide range of fields, including political science, economics, statistics, law, and environmental policy.
He leads the Salata Institute’s Research Cluster on Strengthening Communities for Changing Energy Systems. He is principal investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and consults with CBS News on the Election Night Decision Desk, helping the network call the elections. In 2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Emma Dench
Emma Dench is the dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores) and at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History). Before taking up a joint appointment in the Departments of the Classics and of History at Harvard in January 2007, she taught classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a Craven Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Rome Scholar and a Hugh Last Fellow at the British School of Rome, a Cotton Fellow, a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard, and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow.
Dench is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines, Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian, and “Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World” for the Cambridge University Press series Key Themes in Ancient History. Other current projects include a study of the retrospective writing of the Roman Republican past in classical antiquity.
While at Harvard, Dench received a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a Marquand Award for Excellent Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students.
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