POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Claudine Gay

1970 - Today

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Claudine Gay (born August 4, 1970) is an American political scientist who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity. Gay served as the dean of Social Sciences at Harvard from 2015 to 2018, as the dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2018 to 2023, and as the 30th president of Harvard University from July 2023 to January 2024. In December 2023, Gay and two other university presidents faced pressure from the public and from a congressional committee to resign, over responses to instances of antisemitic violence on the campus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Claudine Gay is the 47th most popular political scientist (down from 41st in 2024), the 16,167th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,726th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Political Scientist.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Claudine Gay ranks 47 out of 46. Before her are Ivan Krastev, Cass Sunstein, Cas Mudde, Katharine Hayhoe, Pippa Norris, and Alena V. Ledeneva. After her are Ekaterina Schulmann, Bruce Gilley, and Salem Al Ketbi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Claudine Gay ranks 854. Before her are Helen Baxendale, Lauri Aus, Fadwa Souleimane, Jens Fiedler, Ken Ishii, and Mahtab Keramati. After her are Kunio Nagayama, Željko Cicović, Tsanko Tsvetanov, Malik Beyleroğlu, Louis Theroux, and Ione Skye.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Claudine Gay ranks 16,174 out of 20,380. Before her are Jamal Crawford (1980), Alma Richards (1890), Kurupt (1972), Bonita Friedericy (1961), Tony Ward (1963), and Rashida Tlaib (1976). After her are Marjorie Reynolds (1917), Ayumu Murase (1988), Lars Frederiksen (1971), Frank Klepacki (1974), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1976), and Phyllis Coates (1927).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Claudine Gay ranks 18. Before her are William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert D. Putnam (1941), Robert Keohane (1941), Alexis Herman (1947), Sidney Verba (1932), and Cass Sunstein (1954).

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