Careers & Fellowships
Join us in working toward more equal, inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy.
The Ash Center is a global and values-driven community that believes diverse perspectives are paramount to better understanding and addressing real-world problems. In fostering an environment of rigor, curiosity, and integrity, we value and respect different opinions, lived experiences, and diverse research and policy areas and approaches. We actively seek candidates who share our commitment and values.
Fellowship Opportunities
The Ash Center selects fellows in a highly competitive process that brings scholars, practitioners, and political leaders to the School for term appointments with a host of opportunities to pursue independent research projects, enhance their professional skills, and network with their peers.
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Staff Opportunities
Note that applicants to staff openings (excluding research assistant and research fellow positions) must apply through the Harvard Human Resources online system, which can be found here.
Assistant Director, Communications
The Assistant Director of Communications is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day work of the Ash Center’s communications team and providing expert guidance for faculty’s outreach and dissemination activities. Candidates must demonstrate breadth of hands-on communications experience, commitment to improving democratic institutions and practices, and disposition to approach their work with enthusiasm and collegiality. The Ash Center is a global and values-driven community that believes diverse perspectives are paramount to better understanding and addressing real-world problems. In fostering an environment of rigor, curiosity, and integrity, we value and respect different opinions, lived experiences, and diverse research and policy areas and approaches. We actively seek candidates who share our commitment and values.
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Assistant Director of Communications is instrumental to ensuring that the Ash Center’s research and programming reach key decision makers across academia, policy, and practice. Through this work, the Assistant Director of Communications fortifies the Center’s brand as Harvard’s home for studying, generating ideas, and debating how to advance multi-ethnic and multi-racial democracy and self-government, spanning democracy reform, Indigenous governance, election administration, anti-racism, pro-democracy movements, and several other disciplines and fields. The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard’s hub for Asia public policy, is also housed within the Ash Center.
Student Opportunities
Research Assistant on U.S. Protest Activity for Prof. Erica Chenoweth
As part of the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Nonviolent Action Lab at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, in partnership with the University of Connecticut, maintains the most complete and detailed near-real-time data set on political protest activity in the United States. Research assistants will encode structured data on protest events from news stories and social media posts for this open-access data set, and will assist faculty and Lab staff Drs. Soha Hammam and Jay Ulfelder with related research tasks as required. Students from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences are welcome to apply. The time commitment will be 5-10 hours per week.
Please send resume and short statement of interest to julfelder@hks.harvard.edu.