{{Short description|American political scientist}}
{{Infobox academic | birth_date = | awards = MacArthur Fellowship (2025) | education = {{Plainlist| *Harvard University (BA, 1997) *Stanford University (PhD, 2005)}} | discipline = Political science | workplaces = {{Plainlist| *University of California, Santa Barbara *Johns Hopkins University }} | website = {{URL|hahriehan.com}} }}
'''Hahrie C. Han''' is an American political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Han is recognized for her interdisciplinary research on organizing, collective action, and the role of civic associations in democratic societies. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2025.
== Early life and education == Han grew up in Alief, Houston.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Adkison |first=Michael |date=2025-10-23 |title=Houston-raised political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur Genius Grant |url=https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2025/10/23/534116/houston-raised-political-scientist-hahrie-han-receives-macarthur-genius-grant/ |access-date=2025-12-05 |website=Houston Public Media |language=en-US}}</ref> She earned her Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature from Harvard University in 1997. She completed her Ph.D. in American Politics at Stanford University in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-09 |title=Hahrie C. Han |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/hahrie-c-han |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hahrie Han |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/hahrie-han |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=MacArthur Foundation |language=en}}</ref>
== Academic career == Han was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University from 2009 to 2011 and an associate professor of Political Science at Wellesley College from 2005 to 2015. She was the Anton Vonk Professor of Political Science and Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2015 to 2019.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Gunts |first=Ed |date=2025-10-10 |title=Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han named a MacArthur Fellow |url=https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/hahrie-han-of-johns-hopkins-university-named-a-macarthur-fellow-will-receive-an-800000-genius-grant/ |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=Baltimore Fishbowl |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Hahrie Hahn |url=https://citizensclimateeducation.org/about-cce/boards/dr-hahrie-hahn/ |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=Citizens' Climate Education}}</ref>
By 2025, Han held the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professorship in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She was also faculty director of the P3 Research Lab and, in 2019, became inaugural director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tantibanchachai |first=Chanapa |date=2019-04-04 |title=Political science scholar Hahrie Han named inaugural director of SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/04/04/hahrie-han-snf-agora-institute-director/ |access-date=2025-12-05 |website=The Hub |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-08 |title=Hahrie Han |url=https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/hahrie-han/ |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=Political Science |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2025, Han received a MacArthur Fellowship; she was the first political scientist to receive the honor since 2001.<ref name=":0" />
=== Research and publications ===
She has authored five books; her latest book, ''Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church'' (Knopf, 2024), examines efforts to address racial division within a large evangelical megachurch.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Greco |first=JoAnn |date=2024-12-05 |title=Hahrie Han's new book explores the transformative impact of an anti-racism program |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2024/winter/hahrie-han-undivided-book/ |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=The Hub |language=en}}</ref><ref name="u041">{{cite web |last=Graham |first=Ruth |date=2024-09-22 |title=Book Review: 'Undivided,' by Hahrie Han |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/books/review/undivided-hahrie-han.html |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-13 |title=Hahrie Han explores the work of racial justice in an American Evangelical community |url=https://salve.edu/news/news-listing/hahrie-han-explores-work-racial-justice-american-evangelical-community |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=Salve Regina University |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Duncan |date=2025-04-14 |title=Book review. Undivided: the Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, by Hahrie Han |url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-influence-change/2025/04/14/book-review-undivided-the-quest-for-racial-solidarity-in-an-american-church-by-hahrie-han/ |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=Activism Influence and Change}}</ref>
== Awards and honors == * 2025 MacArthur Fellow * 2025 American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership * 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year, World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation * 2024 Tanner Lecture, Harvard University
== Works ==
=== Books === * {{Cite book|title=Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics |year=2009}}<ref name=":1" /> * {{Cite book|title=How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Association and Leadership in the 21st Century |year=2014}}<ref name=":1" /> * {{Cite book|title=Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America |year=2014}}<ref name=":1" /> * {{Cite book|title=Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America |year=2021}}<ref name=":1" /> * {{Cite book|title=Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church |publisher=Knopf |year=2024}}
=== Articles === * {{Cite journal |last=Brady |first=David W. |last2=Han |first2=Hahrie |last3=Pope |first3=Jeremy C. |date=2007 |title=Primary Elections and Candidate Ideology: Out of Step with the Primary Electorate? |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3162/036298007X201994 |journal=Legislative Studies Quarterly |language=en |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=79–105 |doi=10.3162/036298007X201994 |issn=1939-9162}} * {{Cite journal |last=Han |first=Hahrie |date=May 2016 |title=The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/organizational-roots-of-political-activism-field-experiments-on-creating-a-relational-context/46EDE94DFF1B659CA1DB2D29C078B8C3 |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=296–307 |doi=10.1017/S000305541600006X |issn=0003-0554|url-access=subscription }}
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