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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS SPEAKER SERIES
Updated September 20, 2007

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This speaker and book series showcases public intellectuals writing about social justice issues. Composed of both political writers and academics, it will feature the public intellectual who has a voice that resonates inside and outside the academy. These public intellectuals will write artful, accessible, and analytical essays to help shape and frame national debates about American politics, law, and ideas.

Each speaker will give a talk at the Graduate Center. Princeton University Press will publish the books.  To read about our current events, please click here. To read about our forthcoming books and past events, please
click here.

Series Editor:
Ruth O'Brien , Professor, Political Science, The Graduate Center, the City University of New York.

Editor in Chief:
Brigitta van Rheinberg , Princeton University Press.

Advisory Board:
Eric Alterman , Columnist, The Nation and MSNBC.com, and senior fellow, Center for American Progress and World Policy Institute.

K. Anthony Appiah , Professor, Philosophy and African Studies, Princeton University.

Alan Brinkley , Provost & Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University.

Mitchell Cohen , Professor, Political Science, The Graduate Center & Bernard M. Baruch College, the City University of New York.  Co-editor of DISSENT magazine.

Martha Fineman , Woodruff University Chair at Emory University.

Ira Katznelson , Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University

Robin D.G. Kelly , Professor, American Studies and Ethnicicty and History, University of Southern California.

Gara LaMarche , President and CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies.

Lewis H. Lapham
, Former Editor, Harper's Magazine, and Editor of Lapham's Quarterly.

Nicholas Lemann , Dean, Columbia School of Journalism.

Doug McAdam , Professor, Sociology, Stanford University.

Louis Menand , Professor, English, Harvard (Pulitzer Prize Winner).

James Morone , Professor, Political Science, Brown University.

Jo-Ann Mort
, writer (most recently, co-author of Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today's Israel? , Cornell University Press, 2003, among other publications).

David Nasaw , Distinguished Professor, History, The Graduate Center, the City University of New York.

Victor Navasky, Former Publisher and Editorial Director, The Nation.

Anne Norton, Alfred L. Cass Distinguished Professor, Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania.

Frances Fox Piven
, Distinguished Professor, Political Science, The Graduate Center, the City University of New York.

John Podesta , President, Center for American Progress.

Jill Quadagno , Professor, Sociology, Florida State University

Rogers Smith , Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania (Pulitzer Prize Finalist).

Deborah Stone , writer (author of Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making , 2nd edition New York: W.W. Norton, 1996, among other books and many articles).

Philippa Strum , Director of the Division of U.S. Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Cass Sunstein
, Karl N. Llewellyn, Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School and Political Science Department.

Neera Tanden , Senior vice president for academic affairs, Center for American Progress (on leave). 

Michael Walzer , Permanent Faculty, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton.  Co-editor of DISSENT magazine.

William Julius Wilson , Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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