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A Common Sense Approach to Terrorism: Achieving the Right Balance
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Speaker: Jean Bethke-Elshtain; Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago |
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Jean Bethke Elshtain was born in the irrigated farm country of northern Colorado and grew up in the small village of Timnath, CO (pop. 185). A graduate of Colorado State Univesrity in 1963, Elshtain went on to earn a Master's degree in history as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow before turning to the study of politics. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Politics in 1973 and joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1988 she joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University as the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at that institution. She was appointed to her current position at the University of Chicago in 1995. Elshtain received the Honorary Degrees, Doctor of Law, from Gonzaga University in 1996, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Valparaiso Unviersity in 1996. Elshtain has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference and Study Center in Como, Italy; a Guggenheim Fellow (1991-92); and a writer in residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She is the recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in classroom teaching -- the highest award for undergraduate teaching at Vanderbilt University. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and is on the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In Spring of 1996 she waas elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elshtain also currently serves as Chair of The Council on Families in America, The National Commission for Civic Renewal, and is Chair of The Council on Civil Society. She has been selected a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar for 1997-98. Related Readings: |
Last Updated: 07/02/2002