Professor Morris Fiorina

Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.… more

Professor Daniel Kurtzer

Chair in Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

Daniel C. Kurtzer retired from the US Foreign Service with the rank of Career-Minister. From 2001-2005 he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel and from 1997-2001 as the United States Ambas… more

Professor Jack Miles

Pulitzer Prize winning author of GOD: A Biography and Professor at the University of California, Irvine

Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy, Jack Miles is a wri… more

Associate Professor Peter Beinart

Associate Professor at the City University of New York and senior political writer for The Daily Beast

Peter Beinart is associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York and former editor of The New Republic. He is the senior political writer for The Daily Beast… more

Michael Kranish

Boston Globe correspondent based in Washington

Michael Kranish is a correspondent in The Boston Globe’s Washington bureau. He specialises in investigate reporting on national political affairs, presidential election politics and the Executiv… more

Associate Professor Greg Castillo

Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley

Greg Castillo received a B.F.A. in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.A. at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California in 1978, an … more

Associate Professor Amy Zegart

Associate Professor, UCLA School of Public Affairs and Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Amy Zegart is Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, a Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Universi… more

Professor John Mearsheimer

R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, wh… more

Gregory Hummel

Lawyer with expertise in public-private partnership matters

Gregory Hummel is a partner at the law firm Brian Cave LLP. He concentrates his practice in public-private partnership matters, including:… more

Professor Kevin Gaines

Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Professor of History at the University of Michigan

Kevin Gaines studies US and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; and the global dimensions o… more

Dan Henkle

Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility for GAP Inc

Dan Henkle is Senior Vice President of Global Responsibility for Gap Inc. Dan leads Gap’s social responsibility strategy and oversees Monitoring and Vendor Development, Environmental Affairs, Gl… more

Professor Jeffrey Schott

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Instit… more

Professor Bruce Western

Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard University

Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Program on Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University.… more

Professor Henry Farber

Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University

Professor Henry (Hank) Farber graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in 1972, the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University with a MS in 1974 and P… more

Professor Kenneth Prewitt

Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University

Kenneth Prewitt joined the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia in 2002 as the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs. Prewitt’s research includes the use of ethnoracial classif… more

Professor Jennifer Hochschild

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

Jennifer Hochschild joined Harvard's Government Department in January 2001, and is now the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard Coll… more

Professor Glenn Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University

Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and t… more

Professor Gary Segura

Professor of American Politics and Chair of Chicano/a Studies at Stanford University

Gary M. Segura is a Professor of American Politics and Chair of Chicano/a Studies in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. He received his PhD in American Po… more

Professor Simon Jackman

Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre & Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Simon Jackman is Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) of Statistics at Stanford University. Jackmanʼs teaching and research centres on issues in democratic politics (public opinion, polit… more

Professor Michael Hiscox

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his B. Econ. (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney in 1989 and his Ph.D in … more

Dr Maggie Walter

Senior Lecturer with the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania

Maggie Walter is a trawlwoolway woman of the pymmerrairrener nation of north east Tasmania and a senior lecturer with the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research is … more

Professor Bob Gregory

Professor of Economics at the Australian National University

Professor R. G. Gregory is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently Professor of Economics at the Research School of Social S… more

Professor Jeff Borland

Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne

Jeff Borland is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. He has a B.A. (Hons) in Economics and History from the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D in Economics from … more

Professor Andrew Leigh

Professor of Economics at the Australian National University

Andrew Leigh is a professor in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University. His current research is in the fields of labour economics, public economics and the economics of … more

Professor Deborah Brennan

Professor and Deputy Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales

Professor Deborah Brennan BA Syd. MA Macq. PhD Syd., FASSA, is one of Australia’s leading researchers in the area of comparative welfare, children’s services and family policy. Professor B… more

Dr Boyd Hunter

Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University

Boyd Hunter specialises in labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research. Boyd coordinated the first longitudinal analysis of Indigenous job seekers for the Department of Workplace Rel… more

Judith Ehrlich

Academy Award-nominated documentary film maker

Ehrlich co-produced and co-directed the ITVS documentary, The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, a story of men guided by principle to take the unpopular position of pacifism in the face of W… more

Professor Susan Vogel

Documentary filmmaker and Professor of Art History at Columbia University

Susan has published many books, and written a few, founded an art museum in New York — that survived her departure — and directed two museums. She then successfully completed two years as … more

Gail Fosler

Senior advisor and past President of The Conference Board

During her 20 year career at The Conference Board, Fosler held a number of executive and leadership roles dedicated to expanding the organisation’s intellectual capacity and impact and its globa… more

Professor Mark Tushnet

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specialises in constitutional law and theory, including comparative co… more

Jonathan Greenblatt

Social entrepreneur, President of All for Good & Lecturer at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA

Jonathan is the founder and president of All for Good, the open source, web-based initiative to engage more Americans in service. He previously served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide; vice president o… more

Professor Peter Katzenstein

Professor of International Studies at Cornell University

Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University and President of the American Political Science Association. His research and teaching lie… more

Henry Cisneros

Former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Henry Cisneros is Executive Chairman of the CityView companies, which work with leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families.… more

Professor Judith Smith

Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, UCLA

Professor Judith Smith has been Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at UCLA since 1996, the university’s top leader responsible for the education of more than 25,000 undergraduate s… more

Professor James Hansen

Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute

James Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Trained in physics and astronomy in Dr James Va… more

Mark Danner

Reporter and writer on foreign affairs, politics and war

Mark Danner has reported and written on foreign affairs, politics and war for twenty-five years. He was for many years a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributes frequently to The New York Revie… more

Professor Michael Lipsky

Senior Program Director at Demos

Michael Lipsky is Senior Program Director at Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization based in New York. Before coming to Demos in October, 2003, he served for twelve years as a Senio… more

Professor Thomas Romer

Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University

Thomas Romer is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Director of the Research Program in Political Economy at Princeton University. His research explores the interaction of the market and nonm… more

Professor David Brady

Deputy Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Professor David Brady was a guest of the US Studies Centre in February 2010. During his visit he discussed the Obama Presidency, US domestic policy and international affairs, the state of the Republic… more

Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich

US Ambassador to Australia

Jeffrey Bleich is the US Ambassador to Australia. He visited the US Studies Centre in December 2009 to discuss the US-Australian relationship with students.… more

Professor Fred Greenstein

Professor of Politics at Princeton University and presidential historian

Fred I. Greenstein visited the US Studies Centre in December 2009.… more

Professor James Fallows

Chair in US Media & National Correspondent for The Atlantic

Professor James Fallows is Chair in US Media at the US Studies Centre and National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine. One of the world's leading journalists, Fallows is author of nine bo… more

Professor Richard White

Professor of History at Stanford University

Richard White, a professor of history at Stanford University, visited the US Studies Centre in September 2009. He is widely regarded as one of America's leading scholars in three related fields: the A… more

Taryn Simon

Photographic artist

http://www.tarynsimon.com/

Taryn Simon is a photographic artist who visited the US Studies Centre in September 2009. Her most recent work, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, reveals that which is integral to Americ… more

Jim Johnson

Businessman and Democratic Party strategist

James A. Johnson was a visitor the US Studies Centre in September 2009.… more

Dennis Richardson, AO

Former Australian Ambassador to the US

Dennis Richardson was appointed as Ambassador of Australia to the United States in June 2005. He visited the US Studies Centre in August 2009 to discuss the state of Australian-US relations at a Sydne… more

Cliff May

Former Director of Communications for the Republican National Committee

Clifford D. May was a visitor at the US Studies Centre in August 2009.… more

Professor David Blight

Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. As of June, 2004, … more

Edward Albee

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American playwright

Edward Albee burst onto the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s with a variety of plays that detailed the agonies and disillusionment of that decade and the transition from the placid Eisenhow… more

Professor Adam Graycar

Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

Dr Adam Graycar is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. He took up the post in July 2007 after a long career in government and academia in Australia. He is also the Direc… more

Professor Lawrence Gostin

Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally acclaimed scholar, is Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown Un… more

Mayor C. Ray Nagin

Mayor of New Orleans

C. Ray Nagin is Mayor of New Orleans. He visited Australia for the US Studies Centre National Summit in 2009.… more

The Honourable Peter Garrett, AM, MP

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts

Peter Garrett was elected as the Labor Member for Kingsford Smith at the 2004 federal election. In 2007, he was appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts following the election of … more

Malcolm Turnbull, MP

Malcolm Turnbull is the Member for Wentworth in the Australian federal government. He was Leader of the Opposition for the Coalition from September 2008 until December 2009 and Shadow Treasurer in 200… more

Professor Robert Lawrence

Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, Harvard University

Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the Nationa… more

Professor Ross Garnaut, AO

Garnaut Climate Change Review

Professor Ross Garnaut is both a Professorial Fellow (Faculty of Economics and Commerce) and a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In addition, Professor Garnaut is a Distin… more

Professor Richard Locke

Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT

Richard Locke, the Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Political Science, teaches in both the Sloan School of Management and the MIT Political Science Department. He… more

Professor Peter Gourevitch

Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UCSD’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Peter A. Gourevitch is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, of which he is also the Founding Dean. As a world-renowned exper… more

Professor Michael Hiscox

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his B. Econ. (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney in 1989 and his Ph.D in … more

Professor Thomas Mann

W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Between 1987 and 1999, he was Director of Governmental Studies at Brookings. Befor… more

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of Law at New York Law School and Professor of History at Rutgers, USA

Annette Gordon-Reed is Professor of Law at New York Law School since 1992 and Professor of History at Rutgers University. She has a long fascination with the Jefferson family and her first book was Th… more

Professor Robert Burgelman

Executive Director of the Stanford Executive Program

Robert A. Burgelman, noted expert on innovation and strategy, visited the Centre in March and April May.  He was the keynote speaker at the Asia Pacific Symposium on Entrepreneurship & Innova… more

Robert Thomson

Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal

Robert Thomson is the Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and the Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal. As the senior news executive at Dow Jones, Mr Thomson directs the news operations o… more

Barry Jackson

Former advisor to President George W. Bush

Former White House advisor to George W. Bush, Barry Jackson was a guest of the Centre in March 2008.  Mr Jackson analysed the achievements of the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration'… more

Professor Edward Leamer

Director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast

Edward Leamer, guest of the US Studies Centre in March 2008, provided expert analysis on the global financial crisis in a US Studies public forum and extensive media interviews during his visit to Aus… more

Professor Simon Jackman

Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre & Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Simon Jackman is Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) of Statistics at Stanford University. Jackmanʼs teaching and research centres on issues in democratic politics (public opinion, polit… more

Professor Harry Harding

Dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

Professor Harry Harding was a guest of the US Studies Centre in November 2008. He was guest of honour at a US Business Leadership Forum luncheon, co-sponsored by Allens Arthur Robinson.… more

Professor David Brady

Deputy Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Professor David Brady was a guest of the US Studies Centre in February 2010. During his visit he discussed the Obama Presidency, US domestic policy and international affairs, the state of the Republic… more

Professor Michael Parks

Former Editor of the Los Angeles TImes

Professor Michael Parks visited Australia as a guest of the US Studies Centre in October 2008. He was a panellist at a public forum on "The President-Elect: What Can We Expect?" as well as guest of ho… more

Mike Chinoy

Former Chief Asia Correspondent, CNN

Distinguished American journalist and commentator Mike Chinoy was a guest of the US Studies Centre in October 2008. He was a panellist at a public forum on "The Foreign Policy of Obama and McCain: Whi… more

Dr James Gibbons

Former Dean of the School of Engineering, Stanford University

In October 2008, the US Studies Centre and the Department of State and Regional Development co-sponsored a US Business Leadership luncheon with special guest speaker Dr James Gibbons.… more

Ambassador Derek Shearer

Former US Ambassador to Finland

In September 2008, Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs and Director of Global Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles, delivered a lunch time lecture… more

The Honourable John Howard, AC

Former Prime Minister of Australia

Former Prime Minister John Howard is a member of the US Studies Centre Council of Advisors.… more

The Honourable Bob Hawke, AC

Former Prime Minister of Australia

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke is a member of the US Studies Centre Council of Advisors.… more

Ambassador Dick McCormack

Former US Under Secretary of State

Dick McCormack has a distinguished career in the US public service. From March 2004 until being named to his current role in July 2006, he served as senior advisor to the Center for Strategic and Inte… more

Professor Jonathan Pollack

Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group, US Naval War College

The future of relations between the United States and North Asia was the topic of a dialogue between Professors Jonathan Pollack and Geoff Garrett at a CEO luncheon in August 2008. The US Leadership F… more

Professor Jeffrey Sachs

Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University

One of the world's leading economists, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, was the guest of honour at a dinner hosted by US Studies Centre chief executive Professor Geoffrey Garrett on 15 July 2008. Professor Sa… more

Professor Amy Kaplan

Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania

Amy Kaplan is Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and is best known for her study of the culture of American imperialism. She is author of The Anarchy of Empire in t… more

Peter Scher

Former US Special Trade Ambassador

Peter Scher, former United States Special Trade Ambassador, delivered a lecture to guests of the United States Studies Centre on 24 June 2008.… more

Matt Bai

National politics reporter for the New York Times

Matt Bai was a guest lecturer at the US Studies Centre in June 2008. He spoke on the topic: US Political Journalism - The Next Generation.… more

Professor Marvin Goodfriend

Chairman of the Gailliot Center for Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Marvin Goodfriend, was a guest of the Centre during the week of 9 - 13 June 2008. Professor Goodfriend spoke to CEO luncheons of the US Business Leadership Forum in Sydney and Melbourne, and… more

Professor Eric Foner

Former President of the American Historical Association

In June 2008, Professor Eric Foner delivered a public lecture hosted by the United States Studies Centre and Sydney Ideas. He traced how Americans have thought about the key concept of freedom through… more

Dr Francis Fukuyama

Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Francis Fukuyama was a guest of the US Studies Centre in May 2008. A public event was held at the Seymour Centre where Dr Fukuyama conversed with US Studies Centre CEO,  Geoffrey Garrett on a wid… more

Professor Peter Schuck

Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale University

Professor Peter H. Schuck delivered a talk at the US Studies Centre in early 2008. He spoke about the electoral process in the US and provided analysis of the leading US presidential candidates.… more

Professor Michael Nacht

Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley

Michael Nacht is Aaron Wildavsky Dean Emeritus and Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the keynote speaker at the US Stu… more

Professor William Chafe

Former Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University

William Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University, USA. He was special guest speaker at the US Studies Centre's National Summit in 2007.… more

Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter

Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton Uni… more

Professor Richard Vietor

Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Harvard Business School

Professor Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and Senior Associate for the Asian Initiative. He was special… more

Harriet Mayor Fulbright

President, Fulbright Center

Harriet Mayor Fulbright spoke at the University of Sydney in late 2007 about the role of arts and humanities in building international understanding.… more