Members of the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences
Cochairs
Richard H. Brodhead, President,
Duke University
John W. Rowe, retired Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation
Members
Danielle S. Allen, Professor of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Study; Professor in the Government Department and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and of Law, New York University
Norman R. Augustine, retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Robert M. Berdahl, former President, Association of American Universities
Leslie C. Berlowitz, Cambridge, MA
Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Philip Bredesen, Jr., former Governor of Tennessee
David Brooks, Journalist, The New York Times
Louise H. Bryson, Chair Emerita, J. Paul Getty Trust
Ken Burns, Director and Producer, Florentine Films
Tom Campbell, Dean, Chapman University School of Law; former U.S. Representative from California
Francisco Cigarroa, former Chancellor, University of Texas System; Head of Pediatric Transplant Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
G. Wayne Clough, former Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; President Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology
James Cuno, President and Chief Executive Officer, J. Paul Getty Trust; International Secretary, American Ƶ of Arts and Sciences
Gerald Early, Professor of Modern Letters, Washington University in St. Louis
Karl W. Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General; Fellow in International Security, Stanford University
Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF
Richard B. Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Dana Gioia, Professor of Poetry and Public Culture, University of Southern California; former Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Professor of History, Harvard University
Anthony Grafton, Professor of History, Princeton University
Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania
Emmylou Harris, Musician/Songwriter
Robert M. Hauser, Executive Director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, National Ƶ of Sciences
F. Warren Hellman†, Cofounder, Hellman & Friedman LLC
John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University
Jill A. Hornor, Director, Sound Postings, LLC
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication; Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Rev. John I. Jenkins, President, University of Notre Dame
Steven Knapp, President, The George Washington University
John Lithgow, Actor
George Lucas, Producer, Screenwriter, and Director, Skywalker Properties, Ltd.
Yo-Yo Ma, Musician
Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, President, Amherst College
Anthony W. Marx, President, The New York Public Library
James McNerney, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Company
Eduardo J. Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Carl H. Pforzheimer III, Manager, Carl H. Pforzheimer and Co. LLC
Earl A. “Rusty” Powell III, Director, National Gallery of Art
Hunter R. Rawlings III, President, Association of American Universities
John Sexton, President, New York University
Donna E. Shalala, President and Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Foundation; former President, University of Miami; former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
David J. Skorton, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; former President, Cornell University
David Souter, former Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Eric Sundquist, Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University
Billie Tsien, Architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Charles M. Vest†, President Emeritus, National Ƶ of Engineering
John E. Warnock, Chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Diane P. Wood, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies
† Deceased