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Dr. Hahrie Han wants to strengthen democracy. Now, she has help from a MacArthur 'genius' grant.

Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Hahrie Han is a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University and the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute.

Her research focuses on civic and political participation, organizing to social change.

Last week, she was named to the 2025 class of MacArthur Foundation Fellows. She and 21 others were each awarded an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant, often called 'genius grants.'

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