Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and since 2020 he has also led a research group on the study of democracy at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany. 

Ziblatt is author of several influential books on democracy and state-building, including two New York Times best sellers How Democracies Die (2018) and Tyranny of the Minority (2023), both co-authored with Steven Levitsky.  How Democracies Die has been translated into over thirty languages and was described by The Economist magazine as "...the most important book of the Trump era." 

Ziblatt's earlier work includes Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (2017), a reinterpretation of the historical rise and collapse of democracy in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, which won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Prize and the American Sociological Association's Barrington Moore Prize. His first book was Structuring the State (2006), a comparative study of state-building in 19th century Italy and Germany.  His writing appears regularly in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Die Zeit, and other publications.

Ziblatt is a Fellow of the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2023) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (elected 2025)