The Board of Trustees is pleased and proud to announce the formation of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Social Sciences. 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 is currently 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 welcome the following individuals to its inaugural Advisory Council:
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
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
Edward Liebow
Executive Director
American Anthropological Association
Louise Mirrer
President and Chief Executive Officer
New-York Historical Society
Jennifer Raab
President
Hunter College
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
President, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Gold Medal Honoree, 2018
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