Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and ethical convictions, is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and the Thomas and Dorothy Leavy Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. She is author or co-author of over twenty books and over four hundred articles. Her books include: Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Democracy on Trial, and Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought. She is the recipient of seven honorary degrees and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. A graduate of Colorado State University, she received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
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Updated September 24, 2007