20 Facts About Danielle Allen

Danielle Susan Allen was born on November 3,1971 and is an American classicist and political scientist.

Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University.

Danielle 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.

Danielle Allen formally announced her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination in June 2021, but then dropped out of the race in February 2022.

Danielle Allen is the daughter of the conservative political scientist William B Allen.

Danielle Allen's mother, Susan, was a research librarian and her parents married at a time when interracial marriage was illegal.

Danielle Allen's grandfather was a Baptist preacher who helped found the first NAACP chapter in North Florida and her great-grandmother was a suffragette.

Danielle Allen was raised in Claremont, California, where her father taught at Harvey Mudd College.

Danielle Allen attended and graduated from Claremont High School in California.

Danielle Allen completed a senior thesis titled "The State of Judgment" under the supervision of Andre Laks.

Danielle Allen's dissertation was titled "A Situation of Punishment: The Politics and Ideology of Athenian Punishment".

Danielle Allen served as Dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2004 to 2007.

Danielle Allen organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Rob Reich.

Danielle Allen is a former trustee of Amherst College and Princeton University, and is a past chair of the Pulitzer Prize board where she served from 2007 to 2015.

Danielle Allen 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.

Danielle Allen was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2001, in recognition of her combining "the classicist's careful attention to texts and language with the political theorist's sophisticated and informed engagement".

An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Danielle Allen is a past chair of the Mellon Foundation board of trustees.

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.

Danielle Allen announced in December 2020 that she would explore a candidacy in the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial race.

Danielle Allen is married to the Harvard philosopher James Doyle and has two children.