Samantha Power

Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Office Address
Rubenstein-217
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 14
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3140
Fax: 617-495-4297
Email: Samantha_Power@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Sarah Stanlick (617-495-0743)
Samantha Power

Profile

Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where she was the founding executive director [1998-2002]. She is the recent author of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (Penguin Press, 2008), a biography of the UN envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003. Her book "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (New Republic Books) was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy. Power's New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan, won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting. In 2007, Power became a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and The New Republic. She remains a working journalist, reporting from such places as Burundi, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, and contributing to the Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She spent 2005 to 2006 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama.

Courses

Fall

  • ISP-221 Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy

Media Expertise

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Research

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

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Books
    • Power, Samantha. Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World. Penguin Press, 2008.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Power, Samantha. "Ghosts of Kosovo." TIME (March 10, 2008).
    • Power, Samantha. "Rethinking Iran." TIME (January 17, 2008).
    • Power, Samantha. "The Envoy: The United Nations’ Doomed Mission to Iraq." New Yorker (January 7, 2008): 43.
    • Power, Samantha. "The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy." TIME (October 18, 2007).
    • Power, Samantha. "The Human-Rights Vacuum." TIME (October 11, 2007).
    • Power, Samantha. "Access Denied." TIME (September 26, 2007).
  • Op-Eds
    • Power, Samantha. "Woe, Canada!" TIME, April 28, 2008.
    • Power, Samantha. "How to Stop Genocide in Iraq." Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2007.
  • Reviews
    • Power, Samantha. "Our War on Terror." Review of U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual; Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror; and On Suicide Bombing, by U.S. Army/Marine Corps, Ian Shapiro, and Talal Asad, respectively. New York Times Book Review, July 29, 2007.