Announcing the Inaugural Advisory Council of the National Institute of Social Sciences

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