Public Policy
The 2009-10 membership of this committee has not yet been finalized. Complete membership information for 2009-10 will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Policy
Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government (Kennedy School) (Chair)
Alberto Abadie, Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Arthur I. Applbaum, Professor of Ethics and Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Mary Jo Bane (Kennedy School)
Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy (Kennedy School)
William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science Public Policy and Human Development (Kennedy School)
Jeffrey A. Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth (Kennedy School)
Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development (Kennedy School)
William W. Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy (Kennedy School)
Asim I. Khwaja, Associate Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Jennifer Lerner, Professor of Public Policy and Management (Kennedy School)
Erzo Frans Luttmer
Brigitte C. Madrian
Erich Muehlegger, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Rohini Pande, Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
Monica D. Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Stephen Martin Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs (Kennedy School)
Richard J. Zeckhauser (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 six 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.hks.harvard.edu/degrees/phd/peg.