 Alan Wolfe |
Wolfe is professor of political science and director for the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. He is the author or editor or more than 10 books including Marginalized in the Middle (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and One Nation, After All (Viking Penguin, 1998). His most recent book is Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice, which was published by W. W. Norton in April 2001.
Professor Wolfe has been the recipient of grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, and Lilly Endowment. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct summer seminars for college teachers on the theme of “Morality and Society.” He is also listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Contemporary Authors. Professor Wolfe serves on the academic advisory board of the National Marriage Project and the Family Studies Institute of Duquesne University. A contributing editor of The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly, Professor Wolfe writes often for those publications as well as for Commonwealth, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers. He served as an advisor to President Clinton in preparation for his 1995 State of the Union address and has lectured widely at American and European universities. Professor Wolfe has been a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Wolfe's talk is free and open to the public.