Mary Jo Bane is the Thornton Bradshaw
Professor of Public Policy and Management and came to the Kennedy School in
1981. From 1993-96, she was Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She resigned from the
administration in 1996 after President Clinton signed the 1996 welfare reform
law. In 1992-93, she was Commissioner of the New York State Department of
Social Services, where she also had served as Executive Deputy Commissioner
from 1984-86. From 1987-92, at the Kennedy School, she was Malcolm Wiener
Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for
Social Policy. She is the author of a number of books and articles on poverty,
welfare, and families. She is currently doing research on the role of churches
in poverty and welfare issues.
Anita
Allen-Casellitto
is
one of the nation’s leading experts on privacy law. Allen is the co-author
of the innovative textbook, Privacy Law (West 2002), and author of
Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability
(2003). Her Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (1988)
was one of the very first books devoted to a philosophical discussion of
privacy and its value. She has published more than 70 articles and essays. She
is also recognized for her scholarship in the areas of jurisprudence, legal
philosophy, law and literature, women’s rights and race relations.
She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Ford
Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the American
Council of Learned Societies, and most recently a fellowship to Princeton’s
Program in Law and Public Affairs for 2003 – 2004. Allen served as a legal
consultant to law firms, businesses, and government. She has also lectured at
major colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe. She
has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, Face the
Nation, and other television and radio programs.
John J. DiIulio, Jr.
is Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn,
he founded the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (CRRUCS),
and serves as Director of the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program. During his
leave from Penn in academic year 2000-2001, he served as Assistant to the
President of the United States, and first Director of the White House Office
of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Professor DiIulio is Senior Fellow at the Brookings
Institution (1989-present), where he directed the Center for Public
Management (1993-1996). He served as Board Member and Senior Counsel at
Public/Private Ventures (1995-2001). From 1986 to 1999, he was Professor
of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is author,
co-author, or editor of a dozen books, the most recent of which include
American Government: Institutions and Policies
(with James Q. Wilson, Houghton-Mifflin, eighth edition, 2001);
What’s God Got to Do with the American Experiment? (with E.J.
Dionne, Brookings, 2000); and Medicaid and Devolution (with Frank
Thompson, Brookings, 1998). Professor DiIulio received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University, where he also served as a Head Resident Tutor
(1983-1986). He is winner of the David N. Kershaw Award of the
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Leonard D.
White Award of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He has
served as chairman of the APSA’s standing committee on professional
ethics.
Douglas S. Massey
received his PhD in 1978 from Princeton University and has served on the
faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. His
research focuses on international migration, race and housing, discrimination,
education, urban poverty, and Latin America, especially Mexico. He is the
author, most recently, of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in
an Age of Economic Integration, and Source of the River: The Social
Origins of Freshmen at America’s Selective Colleges and Universities. He
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and Past-President of the American Sociological Association
and the Population Association of America.
Gary Orfield is the
director of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, and codirector of the
Harvard Civil Rights Project, which is developing and publishing a new
generation of research on multiracial civil rights issues. Orfield's central
interest has been the development and implementation of social policy, with a
central focus on the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in
American society. Recent works include studies of changing patterns of school
desegregation and the impact of diversity on the educational experiences of
law students.
In addition to his scholarly work, Orfield has been consistently involved in
government and courts in issues related to his research. He has been a
court-appointed expert in school desegregation cases in St. Louis, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, and Little Rock and has been called to give testimony
in civil rights suits by the U.S. Department of Justice and many civil rights,
legal services, and educational organizations. In 1997, Orfield was awarded
the American Political Science Association's Charles Merriam Award for his
"contribution to the art of government through the application of social
science research." Orfield is a native Minnesotan and a connoisseur of old
musicals. He would appreciate help from Spanish-speaking students in upgrading
his language skills for his annual trips to Latin America.
Rev. Peter C. Phan
holds
the Warren-Blanding Professor of Religion and Culture
and is a former president of the Catholic
Theological Society of America (2001-2002). The author of scholarly papers on
Christology, Ecclesiology, Liberation theologies, Religious Pluralism and
Inculturation, Phan has
authored 10 books, edited 20 volumes, and published over 250 essays.
Currently, he is general editor of 20 volumes on systematic theology from a
global perspective for Orbis Books and 15 volumes on ethnic American Catholics
for Paulist Press. Fr. Phan is a Vietnam-born priest
and, has been heralded as "one of the foremost Catholic theologians of the
English-speaking world".
Albert Raboteau is
the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University and an
expert on the history of religion in America. He is the author of Slave
Religion: The 'Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South, which was
awarded the National Religious Book Award, and A Fire in the Bones:
Reflections on African-American Religious History. A professor at
Princeton since 1982, he has served as dean of Princeton's graduate school. He
taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1977 to 1982, the
Harvard Divinity School in 1974 and Yale University from 1973 to 1975.
Raboteau is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American
Historical Association and the American Studies Association. He also has
served on the Executive Committee of the Humanities Council and on the Board
of Directors for the Executive Committee of the Association for Religion and
Intellectual Life.
