Public Policy
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Policy
Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government (Chair)
Arthur I. Applbaum, Professor of Ethics and Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Christopher N. Avery, Associate Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management (Kennedy School)
L. Jean Camp, Assistant Professor in Public Policy (Kennedy School)
William C. Clark, Sidney Harman Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development (Kennedy School)
John D. Donahue, Lecturer in Public Policy (Kennedy School)
David Tabor Ellwood, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School)
Jane E. Fountain, Associate Professor in Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Peter Frumkin, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
William W. Hogan, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration (Kennedy School) (ex officio)
Sheila S. Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Public Policy (Kennedy School, Public Health)
Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy (Kennedy School)
Steven Kelman, Albert J. Weatherhead III & Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management (Kennedy School)
Sanjeev Khagram, Assistant Professor in Public Policy (Kennedy School)
David C. King, Associate Professor in Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Mark H. Moore, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, Policy and Management (Kennedy School)
Katherine Newman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Urban Studies (Kennedy School)
Anne M. Piehl, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy (Kennedy School)
Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment (Kennedy School)
David A. Wise, John F. Stambaugh Professor of Empirical Analysis (Kennedy School)
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School)
The doctoral program in Public Policy trains qualified candidates to shape the direction of public policy research and to prepare the next generation of teachers for programs in public policy. It also qualifies individuals to perform high-level policy analysis and prepares them for positions of leadership in the public sector. Interested applicants should contact the John F. Kennedy School of Government for application material.
All PhD candidates must demonstrate mastery of five fields of study through a combination of course work and written and oral examinations. A sophisticated understanding of the core materials in the MPP program at the Kennedy School, and a demonstrated ability to apply analytic techniques to a field of policy are critical components of the faculty decision to recommend a student to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the dissertation phase of study. Once admitted to the GSAS, a student is expected to work closely with a faculty adviser and dissertation committee. Most dissertations involve the application of analytic techniques to the solution of a substantive problem. A few methodological theses concentrate on developing new analytic techniques, their usefulness to be demonstrated through explicit application to a policy issue.
For more information about the doctoral program, visit the program website at www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgdoctoral/.