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Justin Marlowe, Research Professor
Through Harris-affiliated podcasts, faculty and collaborators used in-depth conversations to connect cutting-edge policy research with the real-world challenges facing governments and communities.
A photo of Samuel Bowles
The Harris School’s first Inequality Week, entitled Inequality Reconsidered, was held Nov. 3-7 in the Keller Center and featured prominent economist Samuel Bowles, a research professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Robert Kaestner
In 2025, Harris faculty and experts weighed in on some of the most urgent policy debates through a series of wide-ranging Q&As.
First-year Harris Student
Six of the new Harris students in 2025 are shaping conversations about what effective, inclusive, and durable policy can look like.
Hannah Flint
“I’ve had a lot of people encourage me, and I appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate to my daughters the value in spending time and energy on yourself in furtherance of helping others.”
Christopher Blattman, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
New research from Harris scholars finds that “personalist” autocracies underperform economically compared to democracies and institutionalized dictatorships