Faculty and Staff

Leadership

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  • Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy
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  • Executive Director

Faculty

Resident Faculty are based within the Shorenstein Center and contribute to the rich intellectual life of the center, as well as producing research and teaching courses at the Kennedy School.

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  • Kalb Professor of Global Communication
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  • Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy
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  • Professor of Public Policy
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  • Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management
Julia Minson
  • Associate Professor of Public Policy
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  • Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
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  • Weatherhead Professor of Public Policy
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  • Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology
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  • Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Emeritus
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  • Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, HKS; Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, SEAS

Adjunct

Candace Bertotti

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Austin Bogues

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

James Geary

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Gregory Harris

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Kathy Pham

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Ayushi Roy

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Margaret Talev

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Affiliated Faculty sit across the Kennedy School and Harvard University. Their research and teaching align with and contribute to the Shorenstein Center’s mission. 

Lauren Brodsky

Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS

Susan Crawford

John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law

Amit Goldenberg

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Justin de Beneditcis-Kessner

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS

Juliette Kayyem

Belfer Lecturer in International Security, HKS

Tarek Masoud

Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, HKS

Khalil G. Muhammad

Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy

Pippa Norris

Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS

David Rand

Erwin H. Schell Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT

Maya Sen

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Jonathan Zittrain


George Bemis Professor, Harvard Law School

Center Staff

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  • Director of Communications and Strategy
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  • Assistant Director of Communications
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  • Events and Communications Manager
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  • Director of Finance and Administration
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  • Senior Grants Manager
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  • Finance Associate
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  • Administrative Coordinator
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  • Senior Researcher
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  • Executive Coordinator

Projects & Research

Behavioral Decision Science

Principal Investigators:

Jennifer Lerner

Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management

Todd Rogers

Professor of Public Policy

Julia Minson

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Computational Policy Lab

Principal Investigator:

Sharad Goel

Professor of Public Policy

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  • Affiliated Faculty Co-Director
Charlotte Tuminelli
  • Executive Director
Joe Nudell
  • Lead Engineer
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  • Engineer
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  • Research Associate

Documentary Film in the Public Interest

Principal Investigator:

Nancy Gibbs

Lombard Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy

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  • Program Director (on leave)
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  • Program Manager
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  • Project Coordinator
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  • Acting Program Director

The Journalist’s Resource

Principal Investigator:

Thomas E. Patterson

Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press

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Clark Merrefield

Senior Editor, Economics
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Naseem Miller

Senior Editor, Health
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HKS Misinformation Review

Principal Investigator:

Matthew Baum

Kalb Professor of Global Communication

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Public Interest Tech Lab

Principal Investigator:

Latanya Sweeney

Professor of the Practice of Government  and Technology

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  • Project Manager, FBarchive
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  • Project Data Coordinator
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  • DevOps Engineer

Mamoun Janfor

Dev Ops Engineer

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Elijah Munn

Web Designer
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Pascal Delpe-Brice

Dev Ops
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Christian DeCoster

Data Assistant and Voter Data Procurement Coordinator

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Erika Brochu

Data Assistant 

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Ji Su Yoo

Managing Editor
Journal of Technology Science 

Student Media Initiative

Faculty Lead:

Nancy Gibbs

Lombard Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of Press, Politics and Public Policy

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  • Program Coordinator, Student Media Initiative and Faculty Assistant to Nancy Gibbs and Latanya Sweeney
  • Student Media Initiative

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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