Board of Advisors

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. Elshtain taught at the University of Massachusetts and at Vanderbilt University where she was the first woman to hold an endowed professorship in the College of Liberal Arts in the history of that institution. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale. Elshtain holds nine honorary degrees and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has authored and/or edited twenty books, has written some five hundred essays and is a contributing editor for The New Republic. Elshtain has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; a Scholar in Residence, Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Como Italy; a Guggenhein Fellow; a Fellow of the National Humanities Center; and in 2003-2004, she held the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress. She also serves on the Scholars Council, The Library of Congress; on the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Program in American Constitutional Ideals at Princeton University; the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center; and the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy. Elshtain was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar, served as vice president of the American Political Science Association and is also the recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in classroom teaching–the highest award for undergraduate teaching at Vanderbilt University. In 2002, she received the Goodenow Award of the American Political Science Association, the Association’s highest award for distinguished service to the profession. In 2005-2006, Elshtain delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.