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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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