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Our Team
Our Team
Public intellectuals committed to making better, smarter public policy
We are a team of public intellectuals, from diverse scholarly backgrounds, who bring our academic training to bear on public-policy discourse. Our team is grounded in the the scholarly culture of the university, and we extend our network to government, think tanks, and public-policy organizations in Washington, D.C.
Resident Members
Andrew Light PhD
Director (on leave)
Jesse Kirkpatrick PhD
Acting Director
Shannon Fyfe JD PhD
Faculty Fellow
Andrew Peterson PhD
Faculty Fellow
Wesley Buckwalter, PhD
Faculty Fellow
Roger Paden PhD
Senior Fellow
Douglas S. Irvin-Erickson PhD
George Mason University
Daniel Nicholson, PhD
Faculty Fellow
Sarah W. Denton MA
Research Fellow
Non-Resident Members
Erik Angner PhD
Stockholm University
Gil Hersch PhD
Virginia Tech University
Eric Katz PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Lanphier PhD
University of Cincinnati
David Morrow PhD
American University
Gwynne Taraska PhD
Climate Advisers
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C. Anthony Pfaff PhD
Strategic Studies Institute
Our Alumni
The leading-edge of public philosophy
Since its founding, the Institute has been a home to many scholars who have launched prestigious careers in public philosophy. These scholars, serving as either resident scholars or visiting fellows through the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Program, have laid the disciplinary foundations for public philosophy. We highlight some of our alumni below. A complete list of our alumni is linked here.
Peter Brown PhD
McGill University
William Galston PhD
The Brookings Institution
Amy Gutmann PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Jecker PhD
University of Washington
Judith Lichtenberg PhD
Georgetown University
David Luban PhD
Georgetown University
Claudia Mills PhD
University of Colorado
Henry Shue PhD
Oxford University
David Wasserman JD
National Institutes of Health
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