Nannerl Keohane
Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs
and the University Center for Human Values
Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values
Princeton University

Nannerl Keohane is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She writes and teaches in political philosophy, leadership, and feminist theory. She has served as President of Wellesley College (1981-1993) and Duke University (1993-2004). She is the author of Thinking about Leadership (2010), Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University (2006), and Philosophy and the State in France (1980); and co-edited Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology (1982). She has been vice-president of the American Political Science Association, and on the editorial boards of The American Political Science Review, Ethics, Political Theory, and Signs. Keohane has taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University, as well as Wellesley and Duke. She won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and chaired the Faculty Senate at Stanford, and has three times been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of whose board she is now vice-chair. She has served on the boards of IBM, State Street Boston, the Brookings Institution, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Keohane is also a member of the Harvard Corporation, and chairs the Board of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Her current research interests concern leadership and inequality, including gender issues.