Education
Allen graduated from Princeton University with an Bachelor of Arts in Classics in 1993, from Cambridge University with a Doctor of Philosophy in Classics in 1996, and from Harvard with a Doctor of Philosophy in Government in 2001.
Allen graduated from Princeton University with an Bachelor of Arts in Classics in 1993, from Cambridge University with a Doctor of Philosophy in Classics in 1996, and from Harvard with a Doctor of Philosophy in Government in 2001.
She is a professor in the Government Department at Harvard University and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as well as the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen was United Parcel Service Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. She taught at University of Chicago, and was Dean of the Division of Humanities from 2004 to 2007.
She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Robert Reich.
She currently serves as a trustee of Amherst College and is chair of the Pulitzer Prize board. In 2015, she joined the Government Department of Harvard University and became the director of Harvard"s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
2001 Quantrell Award for Excellence.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.