Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain . . .

is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she held the Carey McGuire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress, was co-director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and now holds the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. In 2006 Dr. Elshtain was appointed to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Also that year she delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, following in the footsteps of Reinhold Niebuhr, William James, and Hannah Arendt. Her recent books include Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (2002), and Sovereignties: God, State, Self (2008).