Personnel
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Board of Directors, 2008

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
David Blankenhorn, Founder and President, Institute for American Values

CHAIRMAN
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago

DIRECTORS
Raina Sacks Blankenhorn, Vice President for Strategic Planning, Institute for American Values
Don S. Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago
Frederic Clark, Pacific Equity Management, Inc.
Sean Fieler, General Partner, Mason Hill Asset Management, Inc.
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
Broc C. Hiatt, Owner and Managing Partner, Cardon Hiatt Companies, Inc.
JoAnn Luehring, Partner, Roberts & Holland
Elizabeth Marquardt, Vice President for Family Studies, Institute for American Values
Mitchell S. Muncy, Chief Operating Officer, Institute for American Values
Ivan A. Sacks, Partner, Withers Bergman LLP
Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia
Emily D. Smucker
Bill Stephney, Stepsun Music
Chuck Stetson, Essentials in Education
Kenneth Von Kohorn, President, Von Kohorn Research and Advisory
Robert M. Worsley, NZ Legacy Companies

EMERITUS
Arthur E. Rasmussen, former Chairman and CEO, Household International Corp.; Lifetime Trustee, University of Chicago

Staff, 2008
David Blankenhorn, President
Raina Sacks Blankenhorn, Vice President for Strategic Planning
Sorcha Brophy-Warren, Affiliate Scholar
Elizabeth Marquardt, Vice President for Family Studies
Kathleen McCreary, Regional Coordinator
Mitchell S. Muncy, Chief Operating Officer
Charity Navarrete, Bookkeeper
Bonnie Robbins, Ph.D., Administrative Director
Alex Roberts, Affiliate Scholar
Michael Lev Schuman, Thrift Outreach Coordinator
Deb Strubel, Director of Foundation Relations
Josephine Tramontano, Outreach Director
Sheila Weber, Director of Communications


Affiliate Scholars, 2008
Enola Aird, The Motherhood Project, Institute for American Values
Dan Cere, Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, & Culture (Montreal, Canada)
Moira Eastman, Australia Catholic University (Mt. Waverly, Victoria)
Maggie Gallagher, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (Washington, DC)
Kay Hymowitz, Manhattan Institute
Kathy Kovner Kline, M.D., University of Colorado Health Services Center
William Mattox, Jr., Columnist, USA Today
Hassan I. Mneimneh, Memory Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Melanie Barrett
Thomas K. Sylvester, Esq.

Academic Advisors, 2008
Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley
Jay Belsky, University of London
Brigitte Berger, Boston University
David Bosworth, University of Washington
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
Lesley H. Browder, Jr., Hofstra University (Emeritus)
Bettye M. Caldwell, University of Arkansas for Medical Science (Emeritus)
Ellen Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary
Lynette Friedrich Cofer, University of New Mexico
Robert M. Coles, Harvard University
William H. Doherty, University of Minnesota
David Elkind, Tufts University
Robert Michael Franklin, Emory University
Samuel G. Freedman, Columbia University
Janet Z. Giele, Brandeis University
Neil Gilbert, University of California at Berkeley
David Gilmore, SUNY at Stony Brook
Robert B. Hill, Morgan State University
James Davison Hunter, University of Virginia
Robert E. Larzelere, Oklahoma State University
Howard J. Markman, University of Denver
Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School
Harriet Pipes McAdoo, Michigan State University
Sara S. McLanahan, Princeton University
Lawrence M. Mead, New York University
Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University
John W. Miller, University of Waterloo (Emeritus)
David G. Myers, Hope College
Mark A. Noll, Wheaton College
Dennis K. Orthner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Les Parrott, Seattle Pacific University
Stephen G. Post, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Samuel H. Preston, University of Pennsylvania
Alice S. Rossi, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Emeritus)
Isabel Sawhill, Brookings Institution
Christina Hoff Sommers, Clark University and American Enterprise Institute
Peter R. Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Paul Vitz, Institute for Psychological Sciences (Arlington, VA)
W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
John Witte, Jr., Emory University School of Law
George Worgul, Jr., Duquesne University

Professional Advisors, 2008
Morton Bahr, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO (Washington, DC)
Ken Canfield, National Center for Fathering (Shawnee Mission, KS
Edward J. Dixon (Northbrook, IL)
Alan Ehrenhalt, Governing Magazine (Washington, DC)
Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute (New York, NY)
Rabbi Marc A. Gellman, Temple Beth Torah (Melville, NY)
Betty Crawford Heller (New York, NY)
Jeff Kemp, Families Northwest (Bellevue, WA)
Leanna Landsmann (New York, NY)
Kathleen McCreary, The Newberry Group (Chicago, IL)
Michael J. McManus, Marriage Savers (Potomac, MD)
Harry R. Moody, Brookdale Center on Aging (New York, NY)
Rev. Val J. Peter, Executive Director (Emeritus), Girls and Boys Town (Boys Town, NE)
Michael A. Rebell, Campaign for Educational Equity, Columbia University (New York, NY)
Most Reverend Peter A. Rosazza, Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut
Eddie F. Staton, MADD DADS, Inc. (Omaha, NE)
Bill Stephney, Joseph Media/Stepsun (Summit, NJ)
Nicholas Zill, Child and Family Studies (Rockville, MD)

Council on Families (1995-1999)
Steven Bayme, American Jewish Committee (New York, NY)
Don S. Browning, University of Chicago Divinity School (Emeritus)
Allan Carlson, The Howard Center on Family, Religion, and Society (Rockford, IL)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Divinity School
William A. Galston, University of Maryland
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard University
Norval D. Glenn, University of Texas at Austin
David Gutmann, Northwestern University Medical School (Emeritus)
James A. Hefner, Tennessee State University at Nashville
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Center for Work-Life Policy (New York, NY)
Leon R. Kass, University of Chicago
Thomas C. Kohler, Boston College Law School
Ray Marshall, University of Texas
David Popenoe, The National Marriage Project, Rutgers University
William Raspberry, Duke University and The Washington Post
Gloria G. Rodriguez, AVANCE (San Antonio, TX)
Linda J. Waite, University of Chicago
Judith Wallerstein, Center for the Family in Transition (Corte Madera, CA)
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, National Marriage Project, Rutgers University

Council on Civil Society (1995-1997)
Enola Aird, The Motherhood Project, Institute for American Values
John Atlas
Dan Coats, US Ambassador to Germany and Former United States Senator, Indiana
John DiIulio, Jr., University of Pennsylvania
Don Eberly, Author
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Divinity School
Francis Fukuyama, Johns Hopkins University
William A. Galston, University of Maryland
Robert George, Princeton University
Claire Gaudiani, New York University and former President, Connecticut College
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School
Ray Hammond, Bethel A.M.E Church (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Center for Work-Life Policy
Thomas C. Kohler, Boston College Law School
Joseph Lieberman, United States Senator, Connecticut
Glenn C. Loury, Brown University
Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA)
Margaret Steinfels, Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University
Cornel West, Princeton University
Roger E. Williams, Mount Hermon Association, Inc. (Mount Hermon, CA)
James Q. Wilson, University of California at Los Angeles (Emeritus)
Daniel Yankelovich, Public Agenda, (New York, NY)

Commission on Children at Risk (2000-2003)
Peter L. Benson, Search Institute (Minneapolis, MN)
Elizabeth Berger, The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
T. Berry Brazelton, Harvard Medical School
Robert M. Coles, Harvard University
James P. Comer, Yale University
William J. Doherty, University of Minnesota
Kenneth L. Gladish, Indiana University and former president, YMCA of the USA
David Gutmann, Northwestern University Medical School (Emeritus)
Thomas R. Insel, Emory University
Leonard A. Jason, DePaul University
Byron Johnson, Baylor University
Robert Karen, Adelphi University
Kathleen Kovner Kline, University of Colorado Health Services Center
Susan Linn, Harvard Medical School
Arthur C. Maerlender, Jr., Dartmouth Medical School (Co-Investigator)
Lisa Miller, Columbia University
Andrew Newberg, M.D., University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Stephanie Newberg, Pennsylvania Council for Relationships
Stephen G. Post, Case Western Reserve University
Alvin F. Poussaint, Harvard Medical School
Michael Resnick, University of Minnesota
Allan N. Schore, UCLA School of Medicine
Christian Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Linda Spear, Binghamton University
Bill Stanczykiewicz, Indiana Youth Institute
Barbara Stilwell, Indiana University School of Medicine
Stephen J. Suomi, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Julie Thomas, Youngstown State University
Paul C. Vitz, Institute for Psychological Sciences (Arlington, VA)
Judith Wallerstein, Center for the Family in Transition (Corte Madera, CA)
W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
Larry J. Young, Emory University

The Mothers’ Council (2000-present)
Enola G. Aird, Institute for American Values
Heidi Brennan, Family and Home Network, (Fairfax, VA)
Carlie Sorensen Dixon (Arlington, VA)
Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund (Washington, DC)
Frances Fisher (Pacific Palisades, CA)
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Center for Work-Life Policy (New York, NY)
Brenda Hunter (Asheville, NC)
Gia Interlandi (Glen Ellyn, IL)
Jean Kilbourne, Wellesley College
Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, National Council of Churches (New York, NY)
Michele Mason, Child Friendly Initiative, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Barbara Nicholson, Attachment Parenting International (Nashville, TN)
Peggy O’Mara, Mothering Magazine (Santa Fe, NM)
Andrea O’Reilly, Association for Research on Mothering, York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Lysa Parker, Attachment Parenting International (Nashville, TN)
Loretta Pleasant-Jones (Olney, MD)
Jacqueline Horner Plumez (Larchmont, NY)
Stephanie Robinson, Esq., The Jamestown Project at Yale (New Haven, CT)
Gloria G. Rodriguez, AVANCE, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas)
Randi Maines Walter (Washington, D.C.)

Council on Family Law (2003-present)
Iain T. Benson, Centre for Cultural Renewal (Ottawa, Canada)
Margaret F. Brinig, The University of Iowa College of Law
Don Browning, University of Chicago Divinity School (Emeritus)
Ernesto Caparros, University of Ottawa School of Law
Dan Cere, Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law & Culture (Montreal, Canada)
Maura D. Corrigan, Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
John Crouch, Americans for Divorce Reform (Arlington, VA)
Maggie Gallagher, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (Washington, DC)
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School
Christopher Gray, Concordia University
Thomas C. Kohler, Boston College Law School
John E. Murray, Jr., Duquesne University
David Novak, University of Toronto
David Popenoe, National Marriage Project, Rutgers University
T. Peter Pound, McGill University
Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia
Carl E. Schneider, University of Michigan Law School
Katherine Spaht, Louisiana State University Law School
Lynn D. Wardle, Brigham Young University
Robin Fretwell Wilson, University of South Carolina School of Law

The Malta Forum (2004-present)
Kamal Abdellatif, Department of Political Philosophy and Contemporary Islamic
Thought, Mohamed V University (Rabat, Morocco)
Abdulaziz M. Al Gasim, Abdulaziz Al Gasim Law Firm (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia)
Turki 'Ali al-Rabiou (Damascus, Syria)
Abdulrahman Al-Salimi, The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs,
Sultanate of Oman
Muhammad Jamal Barout (Aleppo, Syria)
Ridwan Al-Sayyid, Lebanese University (Beriut, Lebanon)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Divinity School (Chicago, IL)
Abdou Filali-Ansary, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations Aga Khan University (London, UK)
Francis Fukuyama, Johns Hopkins University (Washington, DC )
William A. Galston, Brookings Institution (Washington, DC )
James Davison Hunter, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA )
Mohamed Sghir Janjar, Director, Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Etudes
Islamiques (Casablanca, Morocco)
James Turner Johnson, Rutgers University
John Kelsay, Florida State University
Michel Kilo (Damascus, Syria)
Glenn C. Loury, Brown University
Hassan I. Mneimneh, Memory Foundation (Washington, DC )
Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute (Washington, DC )
'Abdallah Ould Bah, Alesco (Tunis, Tunisia)
Daniel C. Peterson, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT )
James Q. Wilson, University of California Los Angeles (Emeritus)
Ajume Wingo, University of Massachusettes

Commission on Parenthood’s Future (2006-present)
Don Browning, University of Chicago Divinity School (Emeritus)
Daniel Cere, Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law and Culture
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Divinity School
Maggie Gallagher, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (Washington, DC)
Norval Glenn, University of Texas at Austin
Robert P. George, Princeton University
Amy Laura Hall, Duke University
Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University
Kathleen Kovner Kline, University of Colorado Health Services Center
Anne Manne, author and social commentator (Victoria, Australia)
Suzy Yehl Marta, Rainbows Inc (Rolling Meadows, IL).
Elizabeth Marquardt, Institute for American Values (Principal Investigator)
Steven Nock, University of Virginia
Mitchell B. Pearlstein, Center of the American Experiment (Minneapolis, MN)
David Popenoe, National Marriage Project, Rutgers University
Stephen G. Post, Case Western Reserve University
Dave Quist, Institute of Marriage and Family, Canada (Ottawa, ON)
Derek Rogusky, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (Langley, BC)
Luis Tellez, Witherspoon Institute (Princeton, NJ)
Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School
W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
John Witte, Jr., Emory University
Peter Wood, The King’s College

Commission on Thrift (2008)

David Blankenhorn, Institute for American Values
Ray Boshara, New America Foundation
David Bosworth, University of Washington
Robert Frank, Cornell University
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Kenneth L. Gladish, The Grantmaking School, Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Grand Valley State University
James Davison Hunter, University of Virginia
Phillip Longman, New America Foundation
Sara Butler Nardo, University of Chicago
Alex Roberts, Institute for American Values
Sorch Brophy-Warren, Institute for American Values
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, National Marriage Project, Rutgers University
Joshua Yates, University of Virginia

Last updated:  March 10, 2007