Amy Gutmann
President
University of Pennsylvania
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Higher Education:
Harvard University, Ph.D., Political Science, 1976
London School of Economics, M.Sc., Political Science, 1972
Harvard-Radcliffe College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1971
Executive and Administrative Positions:
President, University of Pennsylvania, 2004Provost, Princeton University, 2001-2004
Founding Director, The University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 1990-1995,
1998-2001
Academic Advisor to the President, Princeton University, 1997-98
Dean of the Faculty, Princeton University, 1995-97
Director, The Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 1990-1995, 1997-2000
Director, The Program in Political Philosophy, Princeton University, 1987-89
Director of Graduate Studies, Politics Department, 1986-88
Faculty Positions:
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences,
and Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, with Secondary
Faculty Appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences and
at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2004Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human
Values, Princeton University, 1990-2004
Andrew W. Mellon Professorship, Princeton, 1987-90
Professor of Politics, l987-2004; Associate Professor, 1981-86; and Assistant Professor,
1976-81, Princeton University
Visiting Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 1988-89
Visiting Rockefeller Faculty Fellow, Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of
Maryland, 1984-85
Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1981-82
Boards of Trustees and Editorial Appointments:
The Carnegie Corporation Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Jury, 2015Berggruen Institute Board of Directors, 2014Berggruen Institute on Philosophy & Culture Advisory Board, 2014Member, International Advisory Council, The Israel Democracy Institute, 2012Member, Governor’s Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education,
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2012Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, American Academy
of Arts & Sciences, 2011Member, Teach for America Champions’ Board, 2010Chair, United States Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 2009Member, ServiceNation Summit Leadership Council, 2008
National Constitution Center Board of Trustees, 2007Chair, Liberty Medal Selection Committee, 2012Executive Committee, 2008- (ex officio)
Nominating and Governance Committee, 2007- (Chair, 2008-)
The Vanguard Group Board of Directors, 2006Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Directors, 2005-2013
Audit Committee, 2009-2013
Program Committee, 2008-2013
National Program Committee, 2007
Planning and Finance Committee, 2006-2013
Education Subcommittee, 2005-2007
International Peace and Security Subcommittee, 2005-2007
Philadelphia 2016 Board of Directors, 2005-2006
National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, 2005-2009
Consortium on Financing Higher Education Board of Directors, 2005-2007
Schuylkill River Development Corporation Board of Directors, 2004CEO Council for Growth, 2004Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 2004Executive Committee, 2005-2011, 2012Board of Governors of the Partnership for Public Service, 2004-2007
Member, Library Company of Philadelphia 275th Anniversary Honorary Committee, 2005
Advisory Board, Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Student Voices Project, 2000-2005
Sunnylands’ Trust Institutions of Democracy Commission on Public Schools, 2002-2005
The Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship Board, 2004Academic Advisory Board, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2001
Board and Executive Committee, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford,
1998-2005
Board and Executive Committee, Princeton University Press, 1996-2004
Advisory Council, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996-2001
Editor, University Center for Human Values Series, Princeton University Press, 1992-2004
Editorial Board, Handbook of Political Theory, 1999-; Journal of Political Philosophy, 1995-;
Raritan, 1995-; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy, 1991-; Teachers'
College Record, 1990-95; Annual Reviews, 2001-2005
International Advisory Board, Ethnicities, 2000Executive Committee, Association of Practical and Professional Ethics, 1990-2007
Board of Directors, Salzburg Seminar, 1987-90; Center for Policy Research in Education, 1987-95
Chair, Board of Trustees of Whig-Cliosophic Society, 1985-88
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Awards and Honors:
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Urban Affairs Coalition Doer Award, 2015
Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award, American Council on Education, 2015
ADL Americanism Award, 2014
Honorary Fellowship, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013
Philadelphia Hospitality’s Vision for Philadelphia Award, 2012
Design Philadelphia’s Design Champion Award, 2012
National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Woman of Spirit Award, 2012
Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, Columbia University, 2012
Judge Lois G. Forer Child Advocacy Award, Support Center for Child Advocates, 2011
Newsweek Magazine’s “150 Women Who Shake the World,” 2011
Philadelphia Public Relations Association Gold Medal Award, 2010
Named Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, 2010
March of Dimes Service to Humanity Award, Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2010
Benjamin E. Mays Award, A Better Chance, 2010
Carnegie Corporation Leadership Award, 2009
Distinguished Community Leadership Award, Operation Understanding, 2008
Alumnae Recognition Award, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2006
Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, University of Rochester, 2005
Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree, Wesleyan University, 2005
Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 2005Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values, Princeton University, 2004
(endowed in honor of Amy Gutmann by the Horace Goldsmith Foundation)
The Centennial Medal, Harvard University, for “graduate alumni who have made exceptional
contributions to society,” 2003
W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2001Pi Sigma Alpha and APSA award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, 2000
President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Princeton University, 2000
Fellow, National Academy of Education, 1999Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997Bertram Mott Award “in recognition of outstanding achievement towards advancing the goals of
higher education,” American Association of University Professors, Rider College, 1998
Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association, 1997
North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, 1996-97
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America Award, 1997
Kenneth Robinson Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, 1998-99
Spencer Foundation Senior Scholar Award, 1999; Spencer Mentor Grant, 1995-98
Spencer Foundation Senior Scholar and mentor Grants, 1995-2004
Tanner Lecturer in Human Values, Stanford University, 1994-95
McCosh Faculty Fellowship, Princeton, 1993-94
Honorary Doctor of Law Degree, Kalamazoo College, 1992
Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton, 1979-82
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1978-79
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1977
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Selected Professional Activities:
Advisory Board for National Ethics Project, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,
Harvard University, 2016Association of American Universities
Nominating Committee Chair, 2016Chair, 2014-2015
Vice Chair, 2013-2014
Member, Internationalization Committee, 2013Member, Executive Committee, 2011Chair, APSA Charles Merriam Award Committee, 2012
Presidents Circle, The National Council for Research on Women, 2011
Chair, Re-accrediting Committee for Brown University, 2009
Panelist, Women at the Top: The Changing Face of the Ivies, Voices of Public Intellectuals
Lecture, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2007
Member of the Series Editorial Committee, Penn Series on Democracy, Citizenship and
Constitutionalism, 2006Member of the Charles E. Merriam Award Committee, 2006-2007
Member of Conseil Scientifique of Raison Publique, 2003
Advisory Board Member, Young Faculty Leaders Forum, Harvard University 2002-2004
Final Selection Committee for Radcliffe Institute Fellows, 2001-2003
President, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, 2001-2004
Consultant, Spencer Foundation, 2000
Re-accrediting Committee for Yale University, 1999
Chair, Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, 1998-99
Chair, Intellectual Property Committee, Princeton University, 1997-98
Penn National Commission on Society, Culture, and Community, 1996-2000
National Commission on Civic Renewal, Senior Advisory Panel, 1996-2000
Saguaro Seminar, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996-2000
Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Presidential Appointment Process, 1996
Consultant to the Schumann Foundation on the “Future of Democracy,” Santa Fe, 1996
Selection Committee, Sawyer Seminars, Mellon Foundation, 1996-2005
Consultant to “A National Conversation,” National Endowment for the Humanities and MacArthur
Foundation, March 1994
Vice-President, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, 1989-92
Faculty, Moral Leadership in Higher Education, Conference for College and University Presidents,
American Council of Education, June 1988
Faculty, Salzburg Seminar on Philosophy & Public Affairs, June 1986
The Future of the Federal Role in Education, Aspen, Colorado, August 1988
Director, Democracy and the Welfare State, Project on the Federal Social Role, 1985-86
Selection Committee for Political Science, Newcombe Fellowships, Woodrow Wilson Foundation,
1986-93
Vice-President, The Hastings Center: Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, 1986;
Fellow, 1982Chair, Leo Strauss Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 1984-85
Chair, Program in Political Thought and Philosophy: Contemporary Analytical and Critical
Approaches, American Political Science Association, 1984
Consultant, National Conference on Social Welfare, Washington, DC, 1984-85
Consultant, President's Commission on Ethical Issues in Health Care, 1979-80
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Publications:
Books:
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It, with
Dennis Thompson, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2012.
• Chinese Translation, in press.
• Paperback edition: The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and
Campaigning Undermines It, 2014.
Why Deliberative Democracy?, with Dennis Thompson, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ,
2004.
Identity in Democracy, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2003.
• Spanish Translation: La identidad en democracia, Katz Editores, 2008.
Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, with Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
Press: Princeton, NJ 1996.
• The Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association “for the
best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and
cultural pluralism,” 1997.
• The North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award for “the book that
makes the most significant contribution to social philosophy,” 1996-97.
• The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America award
for outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America,” 1997.
Democracy and Disagreement, with Dennis Thompson, Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press: Cambridge, MA 1996.
• Chosen by Choice as one of “the outstanding political science books for 1997.”
• Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition of the
Association of American Publishers, Honorable Mention, 1997.
• Chinese translation: People’s Publishing House: Beijing, 2005.
• Democratic Disagreement (a collection of essays on Democracy and Disagreement
with a response by the authors), edited by Stephen Macedo,: Oxford University Press:
Oxford and New York, 1999.
• Excerpted in Andreas Hess, ed., American Social and Political Thought: A Reader
(New York University Press: New York, NY, 2003, pp.256-262.
Democratic Education, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1987.
• New edition with Preface and Epilogue, 1999.
• Spanish Translation: Educacion Democratica, 1991; new Spanish translation,
Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 2000.
• Hebrew edition: Tel Aviv: Sifriat Ha-Poalim, 2003.
• Slovene translation: Educational Research Institute, 2000.
• Special edition by the Friends of the Book Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya, “established
to alleviate the book famine in East Africa through making it possible for key books to
be reprinted and published by indigenous publishers in the region.”
• Japanese Translation: Dojidal Sha, 2004.
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Liberal Equality, Cambridge University Press: New York and London, 1980.
Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments, with Dennis Thompson, Nelson-Hall: Chicago, IL,
1984.
• Third edition, 1997.
• Fourth edition, Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
Freedom of Association, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1998 [editor and first chapter].
Human Rights [title essay by Michael Ignattief], Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2001
[editor and introduction].
Goodness and Advice [title essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson], Princeton University Press: Princeton,
NJ, 2001 [editor and introduction].
The Lives of Animals [title essay by J. M. Coetzee], Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ,
1999 [editor and introduction].
Work and Welfare [title essay by Robert Solow], Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1998
[editor and introduction].
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law [title essay by Antonin Scalia], Princeton
University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1997 [editor and introduction].
Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition [title essay by Charles Taylor], Princeton
University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1992 [editor and introduction].
• Expanded paperback edition: Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition,
1994.
• Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
editions.
Democracy and the Welfare State, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1988 [editor].
Selected Articles and Chapters in Books:
“Reflections on Democratic Deliberation in Bioethics,” with James W. Wagner,
Hastings Center Report, May 2017, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 35-38.
“Democratic Education,” with Sigal Ben-Porath, in Michael Gibbons, ed., The Encyclopedia of
Political Thought, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, October 2014, pp. 863–875.
“For What It’s Worth: The Value of a University Education,” Carnegie Reporter, Winter 2014,
pp. 16-21.
“The Bioethics Commission on Incidental Findings,” Science, Vol. 342, December 13, 2013,
pp. 1321-1323.
”Valuing Compromise for the Common Good,” in Norman J. Ornstein and William A. Galston,
eds., Daedalus, MIT Press, Spring 2013, Vol. 142, No. 2, pp. 185-198.
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“Found Your DNA on the Web: Reconciling Privacy and Progress,” with James W. Wagner,
Hastings Center Report, May 2013, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 15-18.
“Safeguarding Children — Pediatric Research on Medical Countermeasures,” New England
Journal of Medicine, Vol. 368, March 28, 2013, pp. 1171-73.
“Data Re-Identification: Prioritize Privacy,” Science, Vol. 339, March 1, 2013, pp. 1032-1033.
“Moral Science and the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues,” with
James Wagner, The Lancet, December 16, 2011.
“How to Free Congress’s Mind,” with Dennis Thompson, The New York Times, November 29,
2011.
“Foreword,” in Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Women’s
Health and the World’s Cities, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, pp. ix-xiii.
“The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging Technologies,” Hastings
Center Report, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2011, pp. 17-22.
“Deliberative Democracy,” with Dennis Thompson, in Richard Couto, ed., Political and Civic
Leadership: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications, 2010, pp. 325-332.
“The Mindsets of Political Compromise,” with Dennis Thompson, Perspectives on Politics,
Vol. 8, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 1125-1143.
“Civic Education and South Korea: Interview with Professor Amy Gutmann,” The Journal of
Asiatic Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 75-109.
“Educating for Individual Freedom and Democratic Citizenship: In Unity and Diversity There Is
Strength,” in Harvey Siegel, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education,
Oxford University Press, 2009, 409-427.
“Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers?” in Fritz Allhoff & Anand J. Vaidya, eds., Professions in
Ethical Focus, Broadview Press, 2008, 378-388.
“Moral Disagreement in a Democracy,” with Dennis Thompson, in Matt Zwolinski, ed., Arguing
About Political Philosophy, Routledge, 2009, 90-105.
“Preface: Common Ground, Common Good,” in Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, eds.,
Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2008, ix-xii.
“Democracy,” in Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge, eds., A Companion to
Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 521-531.
“The lure & dangers of extremist rhetoric,” in James Miller, ed., Daedalus, MIT Press, Fall 2007,
Vol. 136, No. 4, pp. 70-78.
“O que significa democracia deliberativa,” in André Ramos Tavares and Pedro Buck, eds.,
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Revista Brasileira de Estudos Constitucionais RBEC, Editora Fórum, Ltda., Brazil,
2007, pp. 17-78.
“The Penn Compact and the Teachers Institute,” On Common Ground, Winter 2007, pp.16-17.
“Foreword: Legislatures in the Constitutional State,” in Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana,
eds., The Least Examined Branch, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. ix-xiii.
“Foreword,” in Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl and Howard Kunreuther, eds., On Risk and
Disaster, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. vii-viii.
“Afterword: Democratic Disagreement and Civic Education,” in Susan Fuhrman and Marvin
Lazerson, eds., The Public Schools, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 347-360.
“Preface: The Power of Values,” in Peter Conn, ed., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
Penn Reading Project Edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, ix-xii.
“Democracia Deliberativa y Regla de la Mayoría: Una Réplica a Waldron,” in Harold Hongju Koh
and Ronald C. Slye, eds., Democracia deliberativa y derechos humanos, Editorial Gedisa,
S.A.: Barcelona, 2004, pp. 269-277.
“Education,” in R.G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, eds., A Companion to Applied Ethics,
Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 498-511.
“The Authority and Responsibility to Educate,” in Randall Curren, ed., A Companion to the
Philosophy of Education, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 397-411.
“Democracy and Disagreement” with Dennis Thompson, in Robert A. Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and Jose
Antonia Cheibub, eds., The Democracy Sourcebook, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 18-24.
“Deliberative Democracy Beyond Process,” with Dennis Thompson, in James S. Fishkin and Peter
Laslett, eds., Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 31-53.
“Unity and Diversity in Democratic Multicultural Education: Creative and Destructive Tensions,”
in James A. Banks, ed., Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, JosseyBass/Wiley: San Francisco, 2003.
“Rawls on the Relationship between Liberalism and Democracy,” in Samuel Freeman, ed., The
Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 168-199.
“Identity and Democracy: A Synthetic Perspective,” in Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner,
Political Science: State of the Discipline, W.W. Norton: New York, 2002, pp. 542-567.
“Deliberative Democracy Beyond Process,” with Dennis Thompson, Journal of Political
Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2002, pp. 153-174.
“Le Multiculturalisme en Éthique Politique,” in L. Sosoe, ed., Diversité Humaine: Démocratie,
Multiculturalisme et Citoyenneté, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2002, pp. 31-62.
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“Democratic Decisions About Health Care: Why Be Like NICE?” with Dennis Thompson, in B.
New and J. Neuberger, eds., Hidden Assets: Values and Decision-making in the NHS,
King’s Fund Publishing, 2002, pp. 111-128.
“Just Deliberation About Health Care,” with Dennis Thompson, in M. Danis, C. Clancy,
and L. Churchill, eds., Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy, Oxford University
Press, 2002, pp. 77-94.
“Can Publicly Funded Schools Legitimately Teach Values in a Constitutional Democracy? A
Reply to McConnell and Eisgruber,” in S. Macedo and Y. Tamir, eds., Moral and Political
Education, New York University Press, 2002, pp. 170-198.
“Civic Minimalism: Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism: Where Does Democratic Education Stand
in Relation to Each? “, in S. Macedo and Y. Tamir, eds., Moral and Political Education,
New York University Press, 2002, pp. 23-57.
“Assessing Arguments for School Choice: Pluralism, Parental Rights, or Educational Results?” in
Alan Wolfe, ed., School Choice: The Moral Debate, Princeton University Press, 2002.
“Religious Freedom and Civic Responsibility,” in Winston Davis, ed., Taking Responsibility:
Comparative Perspectives, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001, pp. 47-62.
“Multiculturalism and Identity Politics,” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 2001.
“Liberalism,” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001.
“Religion and State in the United States: A Defense of Two-Way Protection,” in Nancy L.
Rosenblum, ed., Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, Religious
Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies, Princeton University Press, 2000.
“Why Should Schools Care about Civic Education?” in L. M. McDonnell and M. Timpane, eds.,
The Democratic Purposes of Education, University of Kansas Press, 2000.
“The Civic Ends and Means of Education,” in Passing the Test: The National Interest in Good
Schools for All, Center for National Policy: Washington, DC, March 2000, pp.17-26.
“Why Deliberative Democracy Is Different,” with Dennis Thompson, Social Philosophy & Policy,
vol. 17, no. 1, 2000, pp. 161-180.
“Deliberative Democracy,” with Dennis Thompson, in P. B. Clarke and J. Foweraker,
Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, Routledge: London, 2000.
“The Moral Foundation of Truth Commissions,” with Dennis Thompson, in Robert Rotberg and
Dennis Thompson, eds., Truth vs. Justice, Princeton University Press, 2000.
“Should Public Policy Be Class Conscious Rather than Color Conscious?” in Stephen Steinberg,
ed., Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates, Blackwell: Oxford and
Malden, 1999, pp. 92-99.
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“An Interview with Amy Gutmann,” The School Field, vol. 10, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer 1999, pp.
117-32.
“Liberty and Pluralism in Pursuit of the Non-Ideal,” Social Research, vol. 66, no. 4, Winter 1999,
pp. 1-26.
“Religious Freedom and Civic Responsibility,” Washington and Lee Law Review, vol. 56, No. 3,
Summer 1999, pp. 907-922.
“How Not to Resolve Moral Conflicts in Politics,” Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution, vol.
15, no. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 1-18.
“Deliberative Democracy and Majority Rule,” in H. Harold Koh and Ronald Slye, eds.,
Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights, Yale University Press: New Haven, 1999, pp.
247-254.
“Disagreeing about Deliberative Democracy: Reply to the Critics,” with Dennis Thompson, in
Stephen Macedo, ed., Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement,
Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 243-279.
“Distributing Higher Education,” in B. A. Pescosolido and R. Aminzade, The Social Worlds of
Higher Education: Handbook for Teaching in a New Century, Pine Forge Press: Thousand
Islands, CA, London, New Delhi, 1999, pp. 370-83.
“Disagreeing about Deliberative Democracy,” with Dennis Thompson, The Good Society, 1999.
“What Is So Special about Democracy?” The Millennium Journal 2000, University of Hong Kong:
Hong Kong, pp. 126-134.
“Deliberation and Moral Disagreement,” with Dennis Thompson, Kettering Review, Vol. 17, No. 1,
Fall 1999, pp. 14-20.
“Freedom of Association: An Introductory Essay,” in Amy Gutmann, ed., Freedom of Association,
Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 3-32.
“The Central Role of Rawls’s Theory,” in Henry Richardson and Paul Weithman, eds., The
Philosophy of Rawls, Garland Press: Hamden, CT, 1998.
“How Affirmative Action Can (and Cannot) Work Well,” in Robert Post and Michael Rogin, eds.,
Race and Representation: Affirmative Action, Zone Books: New York, 1998, pp. 341-346.
“How Can Universities Teach Professional Ethics?” in William G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro,
eds., Universities and Their Leadership, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 157-171.
“What Is the Value of Free Speech for Students?,” Arizona State Law Journal 29 (2), Summer
1997, pp. 519-535.
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“Deliberating about Bioethics,” with Dennis Thompson, Hastings Center Report, Vol. 27, No. 3
(May-June1997), pp. 38-41. Reprinted as “Deliberative Democracy: The Case of
Bioethics,” Liberal Education, vol. 84, no. 1, Winter 1998, pp. 10-17.
“Democracy and Its Discontents,” in Austin Sarat and Dana R. Villa, eds., Liberal Modernism and
Democratic Individuality: George Kateb and the Practice of Politics, Princeton University
Press, 1996, pp. 251-264.
“Responding to Racial Injustice,” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Utah
Press: Salt Lake City, 1996, pp. 295-346.
“Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification,” in Seyla Benhabib, ed., Democracy and Difference:
Contesting the Boundaries of the Political, Princeton University Press, 1996, p. 340-347.
“Democratic Citizenship,” in Joshua Cohen, ed., For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of
Patriotism, Beacon Press: Boston, 1996, pp. 66-71.
“Challenges of Multiculturalism in Education,” in Robert Fullinwider, ed., Public Education in a
Multicultural Society: Policy, Theory, Critique, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996, pp. 156-179.
“Justice Across the Spheres,” in David Miller and Michael Walzer, eds., Pluralism, Justice, and
Equality, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 99-119.
“How Limited Is Liberal Government?” in Bernard Yack, ed., Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays
on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar, Chicago University Press,
1995, pp. 64-81.
“The Virtues of Democratic Self-Constraint,” in Amitai Etzioni, ed., New Communitarian
Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities, Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 1995, pp. 154-169.
“Civic Education and Social Diversity,” Ethics, vol. 105, no. 3, April 1995, pp. 557-579.
“Moral Disagreement in a Democracy,” with Dennis Thompson, Social Philosophy & Policy, vol.
12, no. 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 87-110.
“The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Political Ethics,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 22, no.
3. Summer 1993, pp. 171-206. Republished as “La sfida del multiculturalismo all'etica
politica.” In Teoria Politica, vol. 9, no. 3 (1993), pp. 3-40.
“Democracy and Philosophy: Does Democracy Need Foundations?” Politisches Denken Jahrbuch
1993, Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 1993, pp. 39-45.
“The Disharmony of Democracy,” in John W. Chapman and Ian Shapiro, eds., Democratic
Community: NOMOS XXXV, New York University Press, 1993, pp. 126-160.
“Democracy,” in Robert E. Goodin, ed., Companion to Contemporary Political Theory, Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1993, pp. 411-421.
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“Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers?,” in Stanford Law Review, vol. 45, no. 6, July 1993, pp. 17591771; Reprinted in Alex J. Hurder et al., Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client
Clinics, Anderson Publishing Co.: Cincinnati, 1997).
“Democracy and Democratic Education,” in Studies in Philosophy and Education, vol. 11, 1993,
pp. 293-302.
“John Rawls,” in Robert Benewick and Philip Green, eds., Twentieth Century Political Thinkers,
Routledge: London and New York, 1992, pp. 91-94.
“Democratic Politics and Ethics,” in William R. Shea and Antonio Spadafora, eds., From the
Twilight of Probability: Ethics and Politics, Watson Publishing International: Canton, MA,
1992), pp. 43-55.
“What Counts as Quality in Higher Education?,” in David H. Finifter, Roger G. Baldwin, and John
R. Thelin, eds., The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education: Quality,
Diversity, and Budgetary Efficiency, Macmillan: New York, 1991, pp. 45-53.
“Should Public Schools Teach Virtue?,” in Claudia Mills, ed., Values & Public Policy, Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1991, pp. 493-98.
“Moral Conflict and Political Consensus,” with Dennis Thompson, Ethics, Vol. 101, October 1990,
pp. 64-88.
“Democratic Education in Difficult Times,” Teachers College Record, Vol. 92, No. 1, Fall 1990,
pp. 7-20. Reprinted in William Hare and John P. Portelli, eds., Philosophy of Education,
Detselig: Calgary, Canada, 1996.
“Moral Conflict and Political Consensus,” with Dennis Thompson, in R. Bruce Douglass, Gerald
Mara, and Henry Richardson, eds., Liberalism and the Good, Routledge: New York, 1990,
pp. 125-47.
“Undemocratic Education,” in Nancy L. Rosenblum, ed., Liberalism and the Moral Life, Harvard
University Press: Cambridge MA, 1989, pp. 71-88.
“The Central Role of Rawls's Theory,” Dissent, Summer 1989, pp. 338-42.
“Democratic Theory and the Role of Teachers in Democratic Education,” Politics of Education,
Taylor & Francis: London, 1988, pp. 183-99.
“Distributing Public Education in a Democracy,” in Amy Gutmann, ed., Democracy and the
Welfare State, Princeton University Press, 1988, pp. 107-30.
“Equality,” in J. Coleman, W. Connolly, D. Miller, and A. Ryan, eds., Encyclopaedia of Political
Thought, Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1987.
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“Communitarian Critics of Liberalism,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer
1985), pp. 308-22. Reprinted in Shlomo Avineri and Avner De-Shalit (eds.),
Communitarianism and Individualism, Oxford: Oxford University Press [Oxford Readings
in Politics and Government], 1992; “La critique communautarienne du liberalisme,” in
Krisis, no. 16 (June 1994), pp. 70-85; and Markate Daly, ed., Communitarianism: A New
Public Ethics, Wadsworth Publishing Co.: Belmont, CA, 1994, pp. 89-98.
“Democratic Schools and Moral Education,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy,
Vol. 1, No. 4, 1985, pp. 461-94.
“Should Public Schools Teach Virtue?,” Report from the Center of Philosophy and Public Policy,
Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer 1985.
“The Rule of Rights or the Right to Rule?,” in J.W. Chapman and J. R. Pennock, eds., Nomos
XXVIII: Justification in Ethics, Law and Politics, New York University Press: New York,
1985.
“The Theory of Legislative Ethics,” in D. Callahan and B. Jennings, eds., Representation and
Responsibility: Exploring Legislative Ethics, Plenum Press: New York and London, 1985,
pp. 167-95 (with Dennis Thompson).
“How Liberal Is Democracy?,” in D. MacLean and C. Mills, eds., Liberalism Reconsidered,
Rowman and Allanheld: Totowa, NJ, 1983, pp. 25-50.
“Is Freedom Academic?: The Relative Autonomy of Universities in a Liberal Democracy,” in J.W.
Chapman and J.R. Pennock, eds., NOMOS XXV: Liberal Democracy, New York
University Press: New York, 1983, pp. 257-86.
“Moral Philosophy and Political Problems,” Political Theory, Vol. 10, no. 1, February 1982, pp.
33-47.
“What's the Use of Going to School?,” in A. Sen and B. Williams, eds., Utilitarianism and Beyond,
Cambridge, Eng. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 261-77; Reprinted
in David Lyons, ed., Utilitarianism, Totowa, N.J. Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
“For and Against Equal Access to Health Care,” Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Vol. 59, no. 4
(Fall 1981), pp. 542-60. Reprinted in Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine; Mayfield, 1983;
Moral Problems in Medicine, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 1983; Ronald Bayer et al. eds., In
Search of Equity: Health Needs and the Health Care System, New York: Plenum, 1983,
pp. 1-42; Peter Y. Windt et al., eds., Ethical Issues in the Professions, Prentice Hall, 1989,
pp. 378-81; Dan E. Beauchamp and Bonnie Steinback, eds., New Ethics for the Public’s
Health (Oxford University Press: New York, 1999), pp. 255-269.
“Children, Paternalism and Education: A Liberal Argument,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 9,
no. 4, Summer 1980, pp. 338-58.
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Publications of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues:
Bioethics for Every Generation, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues,
Washington, D.C., May 2016.
Gray Matters (vol. 2): Topics at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society, Presidential
Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., March 2015.
Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response, Presidential Commission for the
Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., February 2015.
Gray Matters (vol. 1): Integrative Approaches for Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society, Presidential
Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., May 2014.
Anticipate and Communicate: Ethical Management of Incidental and Secondary Findings in the
Clinical, Research, and Direct-to-Consumer Contexts, Presidential Commission for the
Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., December 2013.
Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research, Presidential Commission for
the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., March 2013.
Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing, Presidential Commission for the Study of
Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., October 2012.
Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research, Presidential Commission for
the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., December 2011.
Research Across Borders: Proceedings of the International Research Panel of the Presidential
Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Presidential Commission for the Study of
Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., September 2011.
Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, Presidential Commission
for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., September 2011.
New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies, Presidential
Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, D.C., December 2010.
Selected Reviews and Occasional Pieces:
“Francis Sheldon Hackney,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, September 2015,
Vol. 159, No. 3, pp. 335-341.
“La mujer del navajo contra la tribu pueblo,” El Pais, Madrid, October 31, 2008.
“La ley del grupo y la ley de todos,” La Nacion, Buenos Aires, lunes 1 de septiembre de 2008,
página 17.
“Biomedical Ethics in a Democratic Society: A Conversation with Amy Gutmann,” (cover story),
New Jersey Medicine: A Journal of Medicine and Health Policy, vol. 100, no. 10, October
2003, pp. 15-20.
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“A Life that Sought Justice: The Impact of John Rawls” Princeton Alumni Weekly January 2003.
“Good in Theory,” Review of Democratic Justice by Ian Shapiro, The American Prospect,
December 26, 1999, pp. 59-61.
“The Appliance of Reason,” Review of Deliberative Democracy, James Bohman and William
Rehig eds., The Times Literary Supplement, June 5, 1998.
“Democratic Citizenship,” Boston Review, vol. 19, no. 5, October/November 1994, pp. 16-18;
Republished as “Prima la giustizia,” in Piccolo Patrie, Grande Mondo, Milano: Reset,
1995, pp. 33-37.
“Engaging Citizens in Democracy,” Theory & Research in Social Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Winter
1994, pp. 114-117.
“No Common Ground,” Review of Laurence H. Tribe, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes in The
New Republic. October 22, 1990.
“The Primacy of Political Education,” Kettering Review, December 1990, pp. 39-42.
“Principals, Principles,” Review of William Bennett, Our Children and Our Country and A.
Bartlett Giamatti, A Free and Ordered Space in The New Republic, December 12, 1988,
pp. 33-38.
“Searching for Ourselves in the Classroom,” Review of Lawrence Cremin, American Education,
The New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1988.
“Moral Education in Our Public Schools,” The Washington Post, Sunday, June 5, 1988, p. C4.
“Educative Democracy,” by F.W. Garforth, American Political Science Review, Vol. 75, no. 2,
June 1981.
“Freud Versus Feminism,” Review of Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, in Dissent,
Spring 1979, pp. 204-212.
Selected Invited Papers and Lectures, 1995-2015:
“The Art and Science of Leadership: Bioethics, Political Compromise, and Running a University,”
Closing Plenary Session at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual
Meeting, November 10, 2015.
“Why Care About Bioethics?” George W. Gay Lecture at Harvard Medical School, October 29,
2015.
“The Fundamental Worth of Higher Education,” Presented at the Symposium on Higher Education
held on April 20, 2012, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, June 2015,
Vol. 158, No. 2, pp. 136-143.
“Celebrating 25 Years,” for Princeton’s Center for Human Values 25th Anniversary Celebration,
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April 17, 2015.
“In Conversation with Dr. Amy Gutmann,” 2015 Annual Lecture, Nuffield Council on Bioethics,
British Library Conference Centre, London, March 17, 2015
Plenary Address, “A Conversation with Amy Gutmann, Chair, Presidential Commission for the
Study of Bioethical Issues,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 15th Annual
Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., October 25, 2013.
“How Universities Can Make the Most Difference, Locally and Globally,” Lecture at the DeLange
Conference, Rice University, February 27, 2012.
“What Makes a University Education Worthwhile?” Keynote Address at the Spencer Foundation
Conference, Northwestern University, October 5, 2011.
“Can We Talk? A Conversation about Civility and Democracy in America,” Keynote Address at
the National Constitution Center, March 26, 2011.
“Social Studies: Then and Now,” Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture, Harvard University,
September 25, 2010.
“Leading Universities in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges,” James A. Moffett Lecture,
Center for Human Values, Princeton University, April 29, 2010.
“From Co-Existence to Collaboration: Integrating Liberal arts and Professional Education,”
Keynote Address, Peking University, March 10, 2010.
“A Roadmap for Global Education: Break Down Walls and Build Windmills,” Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, January 5, 2009.
“Great Expectations for Higher Education in the 21st Century,” 30th Annual Pullias
Lecture, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis in the Rossier School of
Education, University of Southern California, February 5, 2008.
“The Lure of Extreme Rhetoric,” Craig S. Bazzani Lecture in Public Affairs at the University of
Illinois at Chicago, November 6, 2006.
“The Lure of Extremist Rhetoric in America,” Director’s Forum, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, June 22, 2006.
“Extremism,” Presidential Lecturer, Stanford University, April 24, 2006.
“The Lure of Extremism,” Meiklejohn Lecture, Brown University, April 19, 2006.
“Educating for Citizenship: Locally and Globally,” Association for the Study of Higher Education,
November 17, 2005.
“Equity in Higher Education: The Unfinished Agenda,” Association of American Universities
(AAU) Fall Meeting, October 10, 2005.
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“Deliberation in Education and the Media: Rising to the Challenge?” Annenberg Distinguished
Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, October 26, 2004.
“Why Does Diversity Matter?” for On the Cutting Edge: Innovations in Higher Education for
NYU's Gallatin College 30th Anniversary Celebration, March 4, 2003.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Identity Politics,” Centennial John Dewey Lectureship in
Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School, April 15, 2003.
“How Colleges Can Educate Citizens” McShain Lecture, Rosemont College, April 22, 2003.
“Equal Citizenship and Equal Rights: Two Sides of the Same Coin?,” International Symposium on
Morality and Politics, Institute for Advanced Study and Project Syndicate, Vienna,
December 2002.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Identity Politics,” Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture
Series, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin at Madison, November 2002.
“Shall We Deliberate?,” Human Genome Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, January
2002.
“Assessing Arguments for School Choice,” Boston College, April 2001.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Identity Politics,” Conference on Globalization, Feminism and
Multiculturalism, University of Utah, September 2001.
“Rawls's Theory of Justice after 30 Years,” American Political Science Association,
San Francisco, September 2001.
“Deliberative Democracy Beyond Process,” Conference on “Deliberating about Deliberative
Democracy,” University of Texas Law School, Departments of Philosophy and Political
Science, Austin, Texas, February 2000.
“The Role of Deliberation in Setting Priorities for Health Care: Criteria for Evaluating Public
Discussion about Rationing,” King’s Fund Health Values Project, London, England,
January 2000.
“Political Ethics, Personal Ethics, and the Market: Some Unresolved and Unresolvable Tensions,”
Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Yale University, December 1999.
“What Kind of Affirmative Action for Whom?” Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston
University, December 1999.
“The Role of Religion in Public Life: A Debate between Amy Gutmann and Michael McConnell,”
Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, December 1999.
“Civil Discourse in the United States,” Assemblies and Finney Lecture Committees’ series on “The
Future of the United States,” Convocation at Oberlin College, November 1999.
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“Rawls and the Relationship between Liberalism and Democracy,” Seminar on Theories of
Democratic Constitutionalism, Cardozo Law School, October 1999.
“Just Deliberation in Health Care,” Conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health,
Betheseda, Maryland, October 1999.
“Church and State in the United States,” Conference on Moral Philosophy and Practice, Le
Lavandou, France, June 1999.
“Affirmative Action and Its Alternatives,” Markkula Center Lecture, Santa Clara University, April
1999.
“How Not to Resolve Moral Conflicts,” Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution, Ohio State
University, College of Law, April 1999.
“What’s So Special about Democracy?” Kenneth Robinson Lecture, University of Hong Kong,
March 1999.
“Why Deliberative Democracy Is Different,” Conference on “Democracy” sponsored by the
journal and Center for Social Philosophy and Policy, Bowling Green University, October
1998.
“The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Political Ethics,” Lecture at the University of Rome, Italy,
October 1998.
“The Moral Foundation of Truth Commissions,” Presentation to the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, Somerset West, South Africa, May 1998.
“Authors Meet Critics: Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race,” American Philosophical
Association, Midwestern Division, Chicago, May 1998.
“The Importance of Not Establishing Religion” Yale Legal Theory Seminar, January 1998, and
University of Chicago Legal Theory Workshop, May 1998.
“Democracy and Disagreement: Response to Critics,” University of Chicago Political Theory
Seminar, October 1997; University of Virginia, September 1997.
“Authors Meet Critics: Democracy and Disagreement,” American Political Science Association,
Washington, D.C., August 1997; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
Berkeley, Ca., March 28, 1997; Association of Practical and Professional Ethics,
Washington, D.C., March 8, 1997.
“Diversity and Higher Education,” Keynote Speaker, Spencer Foundation Board Meeting and
Conference, Chicago, May 28, 1997.
“Can Freedom Be Taught?” Arizona Humanities Council and Arizona State University College of
Law, Conference on “Free Speech and Community,” Tempe, Arizona, February 7, 1997.
“Deliberating about Race,” Inaugural Lecture, Ethics and Public Affairs Series, Rice University,
Houston, October 1996 (broadcast on C-Span); Syracuse University, November 1996.
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“Moral Deliberation in Democracy: Some Lessons for Bioethics Commissions,” Keynote Lecture,
International Bioethics Summit, San Francisco, November 1996.
“Deliberating about Race,” Keynote Lecture, Association of Practical and Professional Ethics
Annual Convention, St. Louis, February 1996.
“A Deliberative View of Political Liberalism,” Conference in Celebration of the 25th Anniversary
of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, Santa Clara University, October 20-21, 1995.
“Responding to Racial Injustice,” Tanner Lectures, 1994-95, Stanford University, May 1995.
“Deliberating about Race and Racial Injustice,” Patten Lectures, Indiana University, January 1995.
“Challenges of Multiculturalism in Democratic Education,” Keynote Lecture, Philosophy of
Education Society and American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San
Francisco, March 31, 1995.
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Former Dissertation Advisees, now Political Theory/Political Science Professionals
(partial list):
Paul Bou-Habib (University of Essex)
Corey Brettschneider (Brown)
Wendy Brown (Berkeley)
Suzanne Dovi (Arizona)
Denise Dutton (Missouri State)
Judith Failer (Indiana)
Hawley Fogg-Davis (Temple)
John Holzwarth (Lewis & Clark)
David Johnston (Columbia)
Jacob Levy (McGill)
Stephen Macedo (Princeton)
Marilyn McMorrow (Georgetown)
Pratap Mehta (New Delhi, India)
Jason Scorza (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Marion Smiley (Brandeis)
Joan Tronto (Hunter)
Alex Tuckness (Iowa State)
Stuart White (Oxford)
Mariah Zeisberg (University of Michigan)
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