Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, with joint appointments in the divinity school, department of political science, and committee on international relations. A political philosopher, Elshtain has explored the connections between our political thought and ethical convictions in numerous books, lectures and articles, including Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981, 1992); Democracy on Trial (a New York Times “Notable Book” for 1995); Augustine and the Limits of Politics (1998); Who Are We? Critical Reflections, Hopeful Possibilities (Best Book 2000 by the Association of Theological Booksellers); and Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (2004). She has lectured frequently on issues of biotechnology and ethics, and was a contributor to the volume Biotechnology and the Human Good (2007). In 2003, Elshtain was the second holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress. In 2006, she was appointed to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and also delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, published as Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (2008).