Marshall Ganz

Lecturer in Public Policy
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Office Address
Belfer-125
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3937
Fax: 617-495-0996
Email: Marshall_Ganz@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Joanna Hamilton (617-384-9637)
Marshall Ganz

Profile

Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, entered Harvard College in the fall of 1960. In 1964, a year before graduating, he left to volunteer as a civil rights organizer in Mississippi. In 1965, he joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers; over the next 16 years he gained experience in union, community, issue, and political organizing and became Director of Organizing. During the 1980s, he worked with grassroots groups to develop effective organizing programs, designing innovative voter mobilization strategies for local, state, and national electoral campaigns. In 1991, in order to deepen his intellectual understanding of his work, he returned to Harvard College and, after a 28-year “leave of absence,” completed his undergraduate degree in history and government. He was awarded an MPA by the Kennedy School in 1993 and completed his PhD in sociology in 2000. He teaches, researches, and writes on leadership, organization, and strategy in social movements, civic associations, and politics.

 

Courses

Fall Mod1

  • MLD-355M Public Narrative: Identity, Agency, and Action

Fall Mod2

  • MLD-356M Public Narrative: Conflict, Collaboration, and Coherence

Spring

  • MLD-327 Moral Leadership: Self, Other, and Action
  • MLD-377 Organizing: People, Power and Change

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Ganz, Marshall. "Why Stories Matter." Sojourners Magazine. March 2009.
  • Op-Eds
    • Dreier, Peter, and Marshall Ganz. "We Have the Hope. Now Where's the Audacity?" Washington Post, August 30, 2009.