Erica Chenoweth

Erica Chenoweth is one of the world’s leading scholars on civil resistance. Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University, where they direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, an innovation hub that provides empirical evidence in support of movement-led political transformation. Along with Jeremy Pressman, they co-direct the Crowd Counting Consortium, a public interest and scholarly project that documents political mobilization in the U.S. since 2017. They also co-host The Breakdown, a monthly series where Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky discuss the ongoing struggle for American democracy. Erica has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers for their efforts to promote the scientific study of nonviolent resistance. Erica has authored or edited nine books and hundreds of articles on mass movements, nonviolent resistance, political violence, and state repression. They were elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.