Luna Tune

All paths seem to lead back to Harvard, a festering hotbed of progressive Marxist ideology. This time it’s one of their celebrated Professors planning a coup to overthrow the US Government. Is @DOJNatSec going to investigate? Or @CivilRights or @FBI? When will the @SenateGOP step in? ________________________________ **Erica Chenoweth** (born April 22, 1980) is an American political scientist specializing in political violence, nonviolent civil resistance, mass movements, terrorism, state repression, and democratization. They are a leading empirical scholar on the effectiveness of nonviolent campaigns versus violent ones. Erica Chenoweth They held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard. They joined the Harvard faculty in 2018. ### Current Positions at Harvard Chenoweth holds multiple roles: - Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). - Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. - Faculty Dean at Pforzheimer House, Harvard College (they became the first openly non-binary faculty dean at Harvard in 2023). - Director of the Nonviolent Action Lab (an innovation hub at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation that applies social science evidence to support movement-led change). - Academic Dean for Faculty Development/Engagement (or similar administrative roles) at HKS. ### Major Research and the “3.5% Rule” Chenoweth is best known for quantitative work showing that nonviolent civil resistance campaigns succeed more often than violent ones. With Maria J. Stephan, they analyzed major campaigns of the 20th century (and later expanded datasets) in *Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict* (Columbia University Press, 2011). They maintain major datasets through the Nonviolent Action Lab, including the NAVCO (Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes) Data Project (one of the leading global datasets on mass mobilizations), the Women in Resistance (WiRe) Dataset (with Zoe Marks), and the Crowd Counting Consortium (with Jeremy Pressman), which documents U.S. protests. Current projects include work on the recent decline in civil resistance success rates, the impact of women’s participation in movements (forthcoming book *Bread and Roses* with Zoe Marks), AI’s effects on pro-democracy movements, and analyses of U.S. protests (including 2020 antiracism uprisings and later mobilizations). Their research appears in outlets including *The New York Times*, *Washington Post*, *Foreign Affairs*, *The Economist*, NPR, and TEDx talks. They have contributed to *Political Violence @ a Glance* and *The Monkey Cage*. ### Awards and Recognition - Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers (2013). - Karl Deutsch Award (International Studies Association, 2014) for the scholar under 40 with the greatest impact on international politics or peace research. - Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (2013) and American Political Science Association Best Book Award (2012) for *Why Civil Resistance Works*. - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022). - HKS Innovations in Teaching Award (2021).