The project seeks to identify, strengthen and disseminate the bodies of knowledge, skills and capacities that citizens need in order to successfully operate their democracy.Ī former trustee of Amherst College and former chair of the College’s External Advisory Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Excellence, Allen is author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. In her work, she combines intellectual questions with practical concerns, considering such topics as the role of anger in the judicial system, what egalitarian political empowerment looks like, and the importance of ties that connect across differences in conjunction with valuing diversity.Īllen is the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project, a distributed research and action lab at Harvard University.
Allen believes that understanding democracy is a prerequisite to being an effective citizen. Safra Center for Ethics and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, Allen is widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America. As the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard, director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Allen is a political theorist and public intellectual who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought.
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