Council of Scholars

Kai Erikson, Ph.D., the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University.

Benjamin R. Barber, Ph.D., is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative.

The Very Reverend Dr. Wesley Carr is the retired Dean of Westminster Abbey, and a priest in the Church of England.

John Demos, Ph.D., is the Samuel Knight Professor of History, Yale University.

Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., is a University Professor at New York University, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge affiliated with the Centre for Gender Studies and with Jesus College.

Michael Ann Holly, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

Thomas A. Kohut Ph. D., the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History at Williams College, where he is Dean of the Faculty

Jonathan D. Lear, Ph.D., the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago

Robert A. Paul. Ph. D., Dean of Emory College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Dorothy S. Zinberg, Ph.D., Lecturer in Public policy, a Faculty Associate in the Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University