I believe that Allison for most of his career was a professor at Wellesley College with a cross appointment at the Kennedy School. Despite what it says on his page on the HKS website, I don't believe he's ever been a professor in the Government department, which has much higher standards than the K school.
Claudine Gay-level standards! Re Wellesley, Allison was dean of HKS from 1977 to 1989...maybe you are getting him mixed up with Marshall Goldman or someone else?
The Wellesley connection does sound like Marshall Goldman. But Graham Allison did have various titles at various points. A 1971 Crimson article identifies Allison as "associate professor of Politics in the Kennedy School of Government" (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1971/4/15/bennett-is-sole-candidate-for-ford/). I also have a vague notion of Allison having some title in the 1970s of something like head of tutors. But neither of those means a lack of an appointment in the Government department, and at some point Allison became the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, which is particularly appropriate because of Dillon's role in the Cuban missile crisis and Allison's scholarship on the crisis (details at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/6/5/in-memoriam-brobert-r-barkerb-probert/).
I believe that Allison for most of his career was a professor at Wellesley College with a cross appointment at the Kennedy School. Despite what it says on his page on the HKS website, I don't believe he's ever been a professor in the Government department, which has much higher standards than the K school.
Claudine Gay-level standards! Re Wellesley, Allison was dean of HKS from 1977 to 1989...maybe you are getting him mixed up with Marshall Goldman or someone else?
The Wellesley connection does sound like Marshall Goldman. But Graham Allison did have various titles at various points. A 1971 Crimson article identifies Allison as "associate professor of Politics in the Kennedy School of Government" (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1971/4/15/bennett-is-sole-candidate-for-ford/). I also have a vague notion of Allison having some title in the 1970s of something like head of tutors. But neither of those means a lack of an appointment in the Government department, and at some point Allison became the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, which is particularly appropriate because of Dillon's role in the Cuban missile crisis and Allison's scholarship on the crisis (details at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/6/5/in-memoriam-brobert-r-barkerb-probert/).