State of Democracy Lecture Series

Regularly named as one of America’s foremost public intellectuals, Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, The University of Chicago, with appointments in Political Science and the Committee on  International Relations.   She is also holder of Georgetown University’s Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom.

Respondents include  Rochelle Gurstein, an Independent Scholar, Peter Levine, Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, and Research Director at Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University and Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.