Erica Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Academic Dean for Faculty Development at Harvard Kennedy School, a Faculty Dean at Pforzheimer House at Harvard College, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, where they study political violence and its alternatives.

Previously, they were an assistant professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where they received the Carol A. Baker Memorial Prize recognizing excellence in junior faculty teaching and research.

Chenoweth was also a fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the University of California-Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies.

They hold doctoral and master’s degrees in political science from the University of Colorado and a bachelor’s degree in political science and German from the University of Dayton.