Biography:  Will Parsons is a rising Junior in Mather House from Hartford, Connecticut. He is studying Government with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. Outside of class, Will spends a lot of time in the Institute of Politics as a member of ...

Biography:  Madeline Nam is a rising senior in Pforzheimer House. She is a History and Literature concentrator in the America field, with a focus on studying the emergence of feminism in Cold War America. She is also pursuing a secondary in Spanish, and s ...

Biography:  Devontae-Anthony Berry Freeland is a rising junior at Harvard College from Metuchen, New Jersey. A Social Studies concentrator in Dunster House, his focus field is in comparative studies of politics, race, and ethnicity in the Iberian peninsul ...

Biography:  Karla Alvarado  is a native of Chelsea, Massachusetts and a resident of Cabot House. Karla is a History and Literature concentrator with a focus on Latin America. Karla is one of the chairs of the Politics of Race and Ethnicity at the IOP and ...

The IOP welcomes our 2017 Director's Interns! The Institute of Politics is proud to have supported hundreds of students through the Director’s Internship program since it began in 1995. Meet the students who are participating in this year's prog ...

Biography:  Vedant Bahl is a rising sophomore living in Mather House, originally from Mumbai, India. He plans to concentrate in Social Studies, and is interested in development economics and political philosophy. At Harvard, he is a member of the Harvard ...

Biography:  Dominique Erney is a rising junior at in Quincy House, originally from Gainesville, Florida. She is joint concentrating in Social Studies and African American Studies, with a secondary in English. She plans to focus her studies, and eventually ...

Biography:  Sam Heyward is a rising senior in Currier House from Peekskill, New York. She is concentrating in History with a secondary in Government and a language citation in Arabic. On campus, she has been as a member of the National Security group in t ...

Biography:  Embree Thompson is a rising senior living in Kirkland House, originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Embree is concentrater in molecular and cellular biology with a secondary in economics. On campus she participates in multiple dance groups, prim ...

  We are delighted to announce that Lois Romano (a 2008 Fellow at the Institute of Politics) has joined the IOP for the summer and fall semester to help staff and students develop a long-term vision and strategy, as well as timely programming. Lois has ha ...