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Distinguished Scholars Panel

Distinguished Scholars Advisory Panel

Gordon S. Wood, (Chair)
Professor of History
Brown University

Richard R. Beeman, (Vice Chair)
Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Akhil Reed Amar,
Professor of Law
Yale University Law School

Michael Les Benedict,
Professor of History
The Ohio State University

Stephen Breyer,
Justice
United States Supreme Court

 Lonnie Bunch,
President
Chicago Historical Society

Spencer Crew,
Executive Director
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Cincinnati

 Rex Ellis,
Vice President
Williamsburg Foundation

John E. Fleming,
Vice President of Museums
Cincinnati Museum Center

Brent Glass,
Director
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Sarah B. Gordon,
Professor
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Sheldon Hackney,
Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania

 Eugene W. Hickok,
U.S. Under Secretary of Education
U.S. Department of Education

James Horton,
Professor of History
George Washington University

Stanley N. Katz,
Professor
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University

Linda K. Kerber,
Professor of History
University of Iowa

Douglas W. Kmiec,
Professor of Law
Pepperdine University School of Law

Sanford Levinson,
Professor of Law
University of Texas Law School

Bill Moyers,
Documentary maker/author

William E. Nelson,
Professor of Law
New York University Law School

Sandra Day O'Connor,
Justice
United States Supreme Court

Jack N. Rakove,
Coe Professor of History and American Studies
Department of History
Stanford University

Michael J. Sandel,
Professor of Government
Harvard University

Antonin Scalia,
Justice
United States Supreme Court

Kim Scheppele,
Professor of Law and Sociology
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Reva Siegel,
Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Harold Skramstad,
(ret.) Director
Henry Ford Museum

Nancy W. Streim,
Associate Dean
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania

Kathleen M. Sullivan,
Dean
Stanford Law School

Cass Sunstein,
Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School

G. Alan Tarr,
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University

John Yoo,
Professor of Law
University of California at Berkeley
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
US Department of Justice

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