2026 - 2027 PBPL Course Listings

Summer 2026 Term

PBPL 47 / PSYC 54.08: LeadershipProfessor John Jordan (10A)

PBPL 40.01 / QSS 20Modern Statistical ComputingProfessor Herbert Chang (10A)

PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy (By Arrangement w/ Faculty)

 

Fall 2026 Term

PBPL 44 / GOVT 37 / QSS 30.20: Election PollingProfessor Jason Barabas (11)

PBPL 40.03 / WGSS 66.33: Gender and Policy LeadershipProfessor Anna Mahoney (2A) 

PBPL 45: Introduction to Public Policy ResearchProfessor Kristin Smith (10A)

PBPL 82.09: The Supreme Court, Public Policy, and the Ethics of Legal Argument & Decision-makingProfessor Julie Kalish (12) 

PBPL 43: Social Entrepreneurship, Professor J. Katherine Milligan and Professor Curt Welling (3B) 

PBPL 25 / GOVT 30.16: The Politics of Climate ChangeProfessor Jennifer Jerit (2) 

PBPL 82.01 / GOVT 85.12: Military Statecraft in International RelationsProfessor Daryl Press (2A) 

PBPL84.03 / QSS 30.25: Science, Statistics, and Health CommunicationProfessor Steven Woloshin (3B)

PBPL 40.01 / QSS 20: Modern Statistical ComputingProfessor Keng-Chi Chang (10A) 

PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy (By Arrangement w/ Faculty)

 

Winter 2027 Term

PBPL 5 / GOVT 25: Introduction to Public PolicyProfessor Herschel Nachlis (10A)

PBPL 5 / GOVT 25: Introduction to Public PolicyProfessor Herschel Nachlis (2A)

Policy Track or Policy Methods Course TBD, Professor TBD (new Postdoctoral Fellow) 

PBPL 27.02 / LACS 40.03: Comparative Borderlands in the AmericasProfessor Jorge Cuéllar

PBPL 81.10 / GOVT 86.57: From Jeff Bezos to LeBron James: The Politics of Philanthropy, Professor Amy Schiller (6B) 

PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy (By Arrangement w/ Faculty)

 

Spring 2027 Term

PBPL 5 / GOVT 25: Introduction to Public Policy, Professor Samuel Williams

PBPL 41: Writing and Speaking Public PolicyProfessor Julie Kalish

PBPL82.12 / GOVT83.35: Inequality and U.S. Social Welfare PolicyProfessor Naomi Nubin-Sellers 

PBPL 40.01 / QSS 20: Modern Statistical ComputingProfessor Keng-Chi Chang

PBPL 27 / GOVT 30.12 / EDUC 35: Who Gets In? College Admissions Post Affirmative ActionProfessor Melissa Herman

PBPL 81.05 / SOC 55: Poverty and Public Policy in the U.S.Professor Casey Stockstill 

PBPL 29 / GOVT 20.13 / SOCY 79.14: Growth and Its CriticsProfessor Henry Clark

PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy (By Arrangement w/ Faculty)