IRPP Event

IRPP Fall Lecture: Analysis of the U.S. Presidential Election

November 25, 2024

This year’s fall IRPP event featured a keynote lecture by award-winning American author and political scientist Hahrie Han, an expert in political organizing and social movements. Han is the inaugural director of Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, a multidisciplinary academic and public forum dedicated to strengthening global democracy. Han is also the Stavros Niarchos Foundation professor of political science and faculty director of the P3 Research Lab at the university. Her fifth book, Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, was published in September 2024.

The lecture was followed by a lively cocktail reception that will bring together Parliamentarians, members of the public service, academics, and those from the nonprofit and private sectors.

Funds raised this year will go toward supporting a junior research associateship at the IRPP, as we cultivate the next generation of public policy thinkers. Junior researchers receive hands-on experience and mentorship in the production of rigorous, in-depth research on Canada’s toughest policy challenges.

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Hahrie Han

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Hahrie Han is the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. She is an award-winning author of four books and numerous articles published in leading scholarly outlets including the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, Nature Human Behavior, PNAS, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and elsewhere. She has also written for outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and others. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was named a 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation, and delivered the prestigious Tanner Lectures at Harvard University in 2024. Her fifth book, about faith and race in America with a focus on evangelical megachurches, will be published with Knopf in September 2024.