Jean Bethke Elshtain
Professor
University of Chicago
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Jean Elshtain is Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, at The Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and ethical convictions. Her books include Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social Thought; The Family in Political Thought; Meditations on Modern Political Thought; Women and War; Democracy on Trial; Augustine and the Limits of Politics; Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life; and New Wine in Old Bottles: Politics and Ethical Discourse. |
Professor Elshtain writes widely for journals of civic opinion and lectures, both in the United States and abroad, on whether democracy will prove sufficiently robust and resilient to survive.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Chair of the Council on Civil Society; and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and the National Humanities Center. She received her PhD at Brandeis University.