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EXECUTIVE
BOARD

The National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education is led by an experienced group of teacher-scholars at a range of institutions who have been active players in the revitalization of liberal education on their campuses and beyond.

Sarah E. Igo

Executive Director, NAFFLE; Andrew Jackson Chair in American History, Vanderbilt University

Sarah E. Igo serves as Executive Director of the National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education. She is the Andrew Jackson Chair of American History at Vanderbilt University, with affiliate appointments in Law, Political Science, and Sociology.

Dan Edelstein

William H. Bonsall Professor of French, Stanford University

Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French at Stanford University, where he is also a professor, by courtesy, of History and Political Science, as well as a senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution.

Bryan Garsten

Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Yale University

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science and Humanities and the Faculty Director of the Center for Civic Thought at Yale University. His award-winning book Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (2009) explores the history...

Aishwary Kumar

Professor of History of Political Thought and Institutions, Cal Poly Pomona

Aishwary Kumar is Professor of History of Political Thought & Institutions and Director of The Democracy Institute at Cal Poly Pomona, where he chairs The GIFT (Global Inquiries in Freedom and Tyranny) Project and the American Institutions Common Core. 

Peter Struck

Vartan Gregorian Professor of Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Peter Struck is the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Vartan Gregorian Professor of Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2009 to 2023, Struck was director of the Benjamin Franklin Scholars (BFS) and has...

Melinda Zook

Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History, Purdue University

Melinda Zook is the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History and the director of Cornerstone at Purdue University. Zook is a specialist in the history of political thought, religion, and women in early modern Britain and she teaches courses on English...

Zachary Roberts

Program Manager, NAFFLE

Zachary Roberts is the program manager for the National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education. He received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and has taught in Columbia’s Core Curriculum and the English department at Vassar College.

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