Allen received a Marshall Scholarship to study at King's College at the University of Cambridge,where she received a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in classics in 1994 and 1996,respectively.[2] Her dissertation was titled "A Situation of Punishment:The Politics and Ideology of Athenian Punishment".[21] Allen then pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University,earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) in government in 1998 and a Ph.D. in government in 2001.[2] Her second dissertation was titled "Intricate Democracy:Hobbes,Ellison,and Aristotle on Distrust,Rhetoric,and Civic Friendship".[22]
Academic career
From 1997 to 2007,she served on the faculty of the University of Chicago,earning appointments as a professor of both classics and political science,as well as membership on the university's Committee on Social Thought. She served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007.[23] She organized The Dewey Seminar:Education,Schools and the State,with Rob Reich.[24]
She is a former trustee of Amherst College[25] and Princeton University,[26] and is a past chair of the Pulitzer Prize board[27] where she served from 2007 to 2015.[28] She was the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,before joining the Harvard faculty and becoming director of the Safra Center in 2015.[29]
Allen welcoming Agnes Callard to give the Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics in 2023
The New Yorker published Allen's "The Life of a South Central Statistic" in its July 24,2017,issue.[32]
Together with Stephen B. Heintz and Eric Liu,Allen chaired the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[33] The commission,which was launched "to explore how best to respond to the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in our political and civic life and to enable more Americans to participate as effective citizens in a diverse 21st-century democracy",issued a report,titled Our Common Purpose:Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century, in June 2020. The report included strategies and policy recommendations "to help the nation emerge as a more resilient democracy by 2026".[34]
Allen announced in December 2020 that she would explore a candidacy in the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial race.[37] She announced on February 15,2022,that she had no path,and ended her campaign on "pure math."[10][38]
Personal life
Allen is married to the Harvard philosopher James Doyle and has two children.[28]
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