What Just Happened? A post-election conversation

Join CAPS for a lively post-midterm election conversation with lightning talk presentations by our panelists Archon Fung, Justin deBenedictis-Kessner, and Marcel Roman, moderated by Jennifer Hochschild. A reception with light refreshments will immediately follow the event.

This event hosted by the Center for American Political Studies and is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Panelists

Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies, practices, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses upon public participation, deliberation, and transparency. He co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and leads democratic governance programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School.

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is a political scientist and the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. His current research focuses on some of the most important policy areas that concern local governments, such as housing, transportation, policing, and economic development. His research also examines how citizens hold elected officials accountable, how representation translates the public’s interests into policy via elections, and how people’s policy opinions are formed and swayed.

Marcel Roman is an Assistant Professor of Government at the Department of Government. He specializes in racial and ethnic politics in the United States, with a focus on Latinx political behavior, immigration, and policing. His book project leverages several representative Latinx surveys to demonstrate the contemporary immigration enforcement context undercuts the prospect of assimilation along multiple political dimensions among Latinx communities. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California-Los Angeles and a BA in political science from the University of Kentucky.

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She holds Lectureships in the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was a Harvard College Professor for the term of 2007-2012. Hochschild taught at Princeton University from 1981 through 2000, with the position of William Steward Tod Professor of Public and International Affairs. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1978.

Event Details

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