Advisory Council
The Advisory Council of the National Institute of Social Sciences was authorized and inaugurated by the Board of Trustees of the National Institute in 2022. The Advisory Council is designed to be an assembly of accomplished scholars, experts, and practitioners in the social sciences and related fields whom the Board of Trustees and Officers can call upon for advice and counsel. It currently is comprised of former Gold Medal Honorees, leading scholars in the social sciences and cognate fields, leaders of educational and not-for-profit institutions focused on the social sciences, and distinguished artists, journalists, and performers whose work affects and is concerned with the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of society.
Advisory Council members have no formal governance duties or responsibilities. They help the Board of Trustees and Officers with guidance and counsel on strategy, grant-making, potential Gold Medal Honorees, educational activities and events, and other operating activities of the National Institute. Each year, Advisory Council members are invited to an Annual Gathering where they can meet and socialize with each other and Members, Trustees, and Officers of the National Institute.
The Board of Trustees is proud and honored to recognize the following individuals as members of its Advisory Council:
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Dr. Philip J. Landrigan
Boston College and the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai
Gold Medal Honoree, 2022
Edward Liebow
Executive Director Emeritus
American Anthropological Association
Louise Mirrer
President and Chief Executive Officer
New-York Historical Society
Jennifer Raab
President and Chief Executive Officer
New York Stem Cell Foundation
Gold Medal Honoree, 2022
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
President, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Gold Medal Honoree, 2018
Max Rudin
President and Publisher
Library of America
Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Harvard University
Gold Medal Honoree, 2021
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Executive Director
American Political Science Association
Max Stier
President and Chief Executive Officer
Partnership for Public Service
Gold Medal Honoree, 2020
Stacy Wolf
Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and American Studies and Director, Program in Music Theater
Princeton University
Judy Woodruff
Anchor
PBS NewsHour
Gold Medal Honoree, 2020
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Professor of Philosophy and Law
New York University
Gold Medal Honoree, 2021
Paul Boghossian
Chair, Department of Philosophy,
Silver Professor, and Professor of Philosophy
New York University
Anthea Butler
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought
Chair of Religious Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Countertenor, Actor, Producer, Curator
Andrew H. Delbanco
Alexander Hamilton Professor of American
Studies, Columbia University and
President, Teagle Foundation
Jonathan F. Fanton
President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gold Medal Honoree, 2023
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Harvard University
Gold Medal Honoree, 2021
James Grossman
Executive Director
American Historical Association
Kenneth T. Jackson
Jacques Barzun Professor Emeritus of History
Columbia University
Gold Medal Honoree, 2008
Nancy Kidd
Executive Director
American Sociological Association