Kuroda Symposium in Early
American Politics and Culture
Danielle Allen will deliver a
public lecture
October 23rd at 5:30PM in the
Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum
Danielle
Allen is a political philosopher whose current research focuses on democracy
renovation: how to reconnect citizens to civic power through education and
institutional redesign, how to make political institutions more responsive, accountable,
and participatory, and how to make public policy that supports democracy.
Professor Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard
University
Her
most recent book, Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago
Press, 2023), provides the theoretical foundation for this work. Her
forthcoming book, The Radical Duke, a biography of an 18th-century
British political reformer, is due out with Liveright/Norton in 2026.
Through
the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School,
she leads applied research on electoral reform, civic infrastructure,
institutional design, and democracy-supportive public policy. Through the Democratic
Knowledge Project-Learn at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she
develops and scales civic education curricula for preK-12 students and higher
education. She is the publisher and founder of The Renovator Substack
and a contributing columnist at The Atlantic Magazine.