The Kluge Scholars' Council is a body of twenty-one distinguished international scholars, convened by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to the John W. Kluge Center

John W. Kluge Center

The John W. Kluge Center occupies study and meeting spaces within the Library of Congress' restored Thomas Jefferson Building. The Center brings together a group of 21 international scholars, the Kluge Scholars' Council, to stimulate, energize, and distill wisdom from the rich resources of the...

 and the Kluge Prize

Kluge Prize

The John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity is awarded for lifetime achievement in the humanistic and social sciences to celebrate the importance of the Intellectual Arts for the public interest.-Overview:...

. Through discussion and reflection, the Council assists in implementing an American tradition linking the activities of thinkers and doers, those who are engaged in the world of ideas with those engaged in the world of affairs.

Members of the Scholars' Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress, under a separate Charter appended to the Kluge Center's Charter.

Current members

• Bernard Bailyn
  Bernard Bailyn
  Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...
  
   is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World.
• Baruch Blumberg is Senior Advisor for Biology to the Administrator of NASA and Director of the Astrobiology Institute.
• Judith Margaret Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College.
• Sara Castro-Klaren is a professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins University.
• Jean Bethke Elshtain
  Jean Bethke Elshtain
  -Biography:She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic. She is, in addition, newly the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at...
  
   is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
• Robert William Fogel is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business, director of the Center for Population Economics, and a member of the Department of Economics and of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
• Bronislaw Geremek
  Bronislaw Geremek
  Professor Bronisław Geremek , was a Polish social historian and politician.- Early life and education :...
  
   is the former Foreign Minister of Poland and a scholar of medieval European history especially of France and Poland.
• Philip W. Gold M.D., is chief of the clinical research program of the Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch (CNE) at the National Institute of Health.
• Toru Haga is President and Professor of Comparative Literature and Culture at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
• Hugh Heclo
  Hugh Heclo
  Hugh Heclo is a Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University, in the United States. He was previously a professor of government at Harvard University.He also operates a Christmas tree farm outside Winchester, Virginia - Ashcroft Farms.Heclo is perhaps best known as...
  
   is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University.
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
  Gertrude Himmelfarb
  Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....
  
   is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
• Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov
  Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov
  Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov is a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.-Early life:Vyacheslav Ivanov's...
  
   is a linguist of global reach and currently a professor at UCLA.
• Bruce Mazlish has been Professor of History at MIT since 1950.
• Walter McDougall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Jaroslav Jan Pelikan is the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University.
• John Searle
  John Searle
  John Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...
  
   is a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley since 1959.
• Amartya Sen
  Amartya Sen
  Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
  
   was recently Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
  Trinity College, Cambridge
  Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
  
   and is Lamont University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.
• Wole Soyinka
  Wole Soyinka
  Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
  
   is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University, Atlanta, and, since 2000, he is also the Director of Literary Arts, University of Nevada
• James Turner
  James Turner
  James Turner was the 12th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1802 to 1805. He later served as a U.S. senator between 1805 and 1816....
  
   is the Reverend John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame and founding Director of the Erasmus Institute.
• Mario Vargas Llosa
  Mario Vargas Llosa
  Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
  
   a writer of historical fiction and a major figure in contemporary Latin American letters, is the first occupant of the Ibero-American Literature and Culture Chair at Georgetown University.
• William Julius Wilson
  William Julius Wilson
  William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
  
   is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
• M. Crawford Young
  M. Crawford Young
  M. Crawford Young is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.-Education:He received his B.A...
  
   is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin.

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