William B. Allen
Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow
William B. Allen has served as a member of the National Council for the Humanities and as member and chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He was formerly Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (while on leave from MSU) and Dean and Professor at James Madison College, Michigan State University. He taught previously at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Recognized for excellence in liberal education on the 1997 Templeton Honor Roll (individually and institutionally), he has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Kellogg National Fellow, and he received the international Prix Montesquieu. His most recent book is Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education (with Carol Allen; Transaction Publishers, 2003).

Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Her research is in the areas of bioethics and social and political philosophy. She has published on filial obligation and long-term care policy, decision making for the mentally challenged, ethics in assisted reproductive technologies and adoption ethics. Her work appears in such journals as, The Hastings Center Report,Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy in the Contemporary World and Generations. She is presently working on two book projects. The first is a co-edited volume, The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition (forthcoming). The second is the book she will be writing during her tenure as a Madison Fellow. It is on ethics and public policy of domestic infant adoption and assisted reproductive technologies. Professor Brakman did her undergraduate work at Yale University and Mount Holyoke College, receiving her B.A. cum laude from Mount Holyoke with an interdisciplinary major of her own design: Philosophy, Science and Public Policy. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are in philosophy from Rice University, where she specialized in clinical bioethics through a joint program created by Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. Professor Brakman was the founding director of The Ethics Program at Villanova University (1999 to 2004). Since 1995, she has served as the ethics consultant for the Devereux Foundation, the largest non-profit provider of behavioral healthcare in the United States.

Stanley C. Brubaker
Stanley C. Brubaker is Professor of Political Science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and Director of Colgate's Washington, DC, Study Group program. He teaches constitutional law, political philosophy and American politics and government. His research has focused on constitutional theory and interpretation, freedom of speech, and philosophy of punishment. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Commentary, the Journal of Politics, the Review of Politics, the Public Interest, and Constitutional Commentary, among others. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation. He is currently completing a book entitled, The Constitution of Self-Government, under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Daniel L. Dreisbach
William E. Simon Visiting Fellow
Daniel L. Dreisbach is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. Following law school, he served as a judicial clerk for Circuit Judge Robert F. Chapman of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and for two years he practiced public interest law specializing in civil and religious liberties. He is author of Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (New York University Press, 2002) and Real Threat and Mere Shadow: Religious Liberty and the First Amendment (Crossway Books, 1987). He is editor of and contributor to The Sacred Rights of Conscience (Liberty Fund, forthcoming) (co-editor), The Founders on God and Government (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) (co-editor), Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson’s Virginia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) (co-editor), and Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate (University Press of Kentucky, 1996). He has published numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals, including American Journal of Legal History, Baylor Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Emory Law Journal, Journal of Church and State, North Carolina Law Review, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and William and Mary Quarterly.

Alan M. Levine
John M. Olin Visiting Fellow
Alan M. Levine is an Associate Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, DC. He previously taught at the University of Vermont, was an Associate Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London (2001-2004), and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (2002-03). His research interests include the theoretical principles of the United States, the concept of “America” in the history of Western political thought, and ancient, modern, and contemporary political theory. He is author of Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne’s Politics of the Self (2001) and Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration (1999, editor). He is working on a new book entitled The Idea of America in European Political Thought: 1492–9/11. He has published articles and book chapters on Montaigne, Nietzsche, Chinua Achebe, and European views of America. Levine is the founder and president of The Washington DC Political Theory Colloquium, has worked for the U.S. Department of State in Dakar, Senegal, and is a regular consultant for the U.S. State Department’s International Visitors Program.

Roger Scruton
ISI Visiting Fellow, Fall 2006
Roger Scruton is a professor of Philosophy at University of Buckingham. He is an academic philosopher, a writer, a journalist, a political activist (founder of the Conservative Philosophy Group), an editor (from 1982-2000, Editor of The Salisbury Review, a journal of conservative thought), a publisher (founder and director of Claridge Press), a composer (whose opera The Minister received its world premiere four years ago, and was most recently performed by Lot 18 in Oxford, 1998), and a broadcaster (who has presented two full documentaries and many short programs on TV, as well as taking part in radio presentations and discussions; recently a regular contributor to BBC Radio's popular program, The Moral Maze).

Darren M. Staloff
Garwood Family Fellow
Darren M. Staloff is Professor of Early American History at The City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Columbia University and served as a postdoctoral fellow and National Endowment of the Humanities Scholar at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. His primary interests are early American intellectual and political history. He is the author of two books, The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding (Hill and Wang, 2005). He has also designed and performed in several taped lecture series with Teaching Company on American History and the History of Philosophy. He is currently working on a book-length treatment of the Enlightenment in America.

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