Benjamin Waldman

Benjamin Waldman is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University. He studies American political development, focusing on the growth of the administrative state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using archival methods, network analysis, and machine learning, his work places state-building experiments in comparative and transnational perspective. Benjamin graduated from Yale University with majors in political science and mathematics and from the University of Cambridge with a master’s in American history. Before starting his PhD, Benjamin researched presidential emergency powers at the Brennan Center for Justice.