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Danielle Allen
Danielle Susan Allen (born November 3, 1971) is an American classicist and political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the former Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen was UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Allen was a contributing columnist at The Washington Post until she announced in December 2020 that she was exploring a run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2022. She formally announced her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in June 2021, but then dropped out of the race in February 2022.
Allen was born in 1971 in Takoma Park, Maryland. She is the daughter of the conservative political scientist William B. Allen. Her mother, Susan, was a research librarian and her parents married at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Allen's grandfather was a Baptist preacher who helped found the first NAACP chapter in North Florida and her great-grandmother was a suffragette. Allen was raised in Claremont, California, where her father taught at Harvey Mudd College. She attended and graduated from Claremont High School in California.
Allen matriculated at Princeton University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in classics, summa cum laude, in 1993 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Allen completed a senior thesis titled "The State of Judgment" under the supervision of Andre Laks. At Princeton, she was a member of The Princeton Tory.
Allen received a Marshall Scholarship to study at King's College at the University of Cambridge, where she received a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in classics in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Her dissertation was titled "A Situation of Punishment: The Politics and Ideology of Athenian Punishment". Allen then pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University, earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) in government in 1998 and a Ph.D. in government in 2001. Her second dissertation was titled "Intricate Democracy: Hobbes, Ellison, and Aristotle on Distrust, Rhetoric, and Civic Friendship".
From 1997 to 2007, she served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, earning appointments as a professor of both classics and political science, as well as membership on the university's Committee on Social Thought. She served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007. She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Rob Reich.
She is a former trustee of Amherst College and Princeton University, and is a past chair of the Pulitzer Prize board where she served from 2007 to 2015. She was the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before joining the Harvard faculty and becoming director of the Safra Center in 2015.
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Danielle Allen
Danielle Susan Allen (born November 3, 1971) is an American classicist and political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the former Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen was UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Allen was a contributing columnist at The Washington Post until she announced in December 2020 that she was exploring a run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2022. She formally announced her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in June 2021, but then dropped out of the race in February 2022.
Allen was born in 1971 in Takoma Park, Maryland. She is the daughter of the conservative political scientist William B. Allen. Her mother, Susan, was a research librarian and her parents married at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Allen's grandfather was a Baptist preacher who helped found the first NAACP chapter in North Florida and her great-grandmother was a suffragette. Allen was raised in Claremont, California, where her father taught at Harvey Mudd College. She attended and graduated from Claremont High School in California.
Allen matriculated at Princeton University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in classics, summa cum laude, in 1993 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Allen completed a senior thesis titled "The State of Judgment" under the supervision of Andre Laks. At Princeton, she was a member of The Princeton Tory.
Allen received a Marshall Scholarship to study at King's College at the University of Cambridge, where she received a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in classics in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Her dissertation was titled "A Situation of Punishment: The Politics and Ideology of Athenian Punishment". Allen then pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University, earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) in government in 1998 and a Ph.D. in government in 2001. Her second dissertation was titled "Intricate Democracy: Hobbes, Ellison, and Aristotle on Distrust, Rhetoric, and Civic Friendship".
From 1997 to 2007, she served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, earning appointments as a professor of both classics and political science, as well as membership on the university's Committee on Social Thought. She served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007. She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Rob Reich.
She is a former trustee of Amherst College and Princeton University, and is a past chair of the Pulitzer Prize board where she served from 2007 to 2015. She was the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before joining the Harvard faculty and becoming director of the Safra Center in 2015.
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