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Erica Chenoweth is the Academic Dean for Faculty Development and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School, Faculty Dean at Pforzheimer House at Harvard College, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. They hold faculty affiliations at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Women in Public Policy Program, and are a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Chenoweth earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in political science and German from the University of Dayton. Previously, they taught at the University of Denver and Wesleyan University.
Chenoweth's research focuses on political violence and its alternatives, with particular interest in how people effectively resist authoritarianism and push for systemic change. Their work examines civil resistance, revolutions, terrorism, and state repression. They investigate why civil resistance movements succeed or fail, how women's participation affects movement outcomes, and the puzzling decline in the success of civil resistance movements despite increased global popularity.
Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard, maintaining the NAVCO Data Project, Women in Resistance (WiRe) Dataset, and Crowd Counting Consortium. Their research has been featured in major publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
- Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 (Foreign Policy)
- Karl Deutsch Award from International Studies Association
- Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
- Best Book Award from American Political Science Association
- Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)
- Innovations in Teaching Award (HKS, 2021)
Chenoweth has secured research funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York, USIP, USAID, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Russell Sage Foundation, and International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. They co-founded the award-winning online magazine Political Violence @ a Glance and have written for The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post. At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab, which serves as an innovation hub using social science tools to support movement-led political transformation.
