Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen | |
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Allen in 2017 | |
| Born | November 3, 1971 Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Parent | William B. Allen (father) |
| Awards | Kluge Prize (2020) Francis Parkman Prize (2015) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) King's College, Cambridge (MPhil, PhD) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics Political science |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University |
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 is the daughter to the conservative political scientist William B. Allen.
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.