Janus Lecture Series

Patrick J. Deneen
Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
“Educating for Liberty: The Connection between Liberal and Civic Education.”
April, 2013
Patrick Deenan holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University.  From 1995-1997 he was Speechwriter and Special Advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency.  From 1997-2005 Patrick was Assistant Professor of Government at Princeton University.  From 2005-2012, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, before joining the faculty of Notre Dame in Fall 2012.  Patrick is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles and reviews and have delivered invited lectures around the country and several foreign nations.

Josipa Roksa, Associate Professor
Sociology Department
University of Virginia
“Why Students Fail to Learn in College”
March, 2012
Professor Roksa is co-author of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Moreover, her research has been published in a range of peer-reviewed journals, including Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Teachers College Record, Review of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, and Social Science Research.

Peter Wood
President, National Association of Scholars
“Here They Come: Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education”
May, 2010
Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars.  He is the author of A Bee in the Mouth:  Anger in America Now (2007) and of Diversity:  The Invention of a Concept (2003).  He previously served as a college provost and a professor of anthropology.  His essays on American culture and higher education have appeared in The National Review Online, Partisan Review, Minding the Campus, The Claremont Review of Books, The American Conservative, Society and other journals.

Kenneth Minogue
Professor Emeritus of Political Science London School of Economics
“The Academic World and its Corruptions”
May, 2009
Kenneth Minogue is an Australian political theorist who is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics. From 1991 to 1993, he was Chairman of the euro-sceptic Bruges Group.Since 2000, he has been a trustee of CivitasHe has served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society since 2010 In 2003, he received the Centenary Medal from the Australian government.He has also been involved with the Centre for Policy Studies and the European Foundation

Timothy Fuller
Profesor of Political Science
Colorado College
“Anxieties in the World of Liberal Learning”
May, 2009
Timothy Fuller has published many essays and edited books, including The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott (2005), Reassessing the Liberal State (2001), The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education (2000), and most recently contributed to Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Authors and Arguments (2011). He was co-editor with Shirley Letwin of a multi-volume series for the Yale University Press, Selected Works of Michael Oakeshott. He was editor of the International Hobbes Association Newsletter, and in 2011 joined the Editorial Board of the journal, First Things. He has lectured at over thirty colleges and universities in America, and in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Great Britain and Italy. He was a Distinguished Academic Visitor to the Government Department of The London School of Economics and the Bell Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tulsa. He teaches political theory.