February 14, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Roger W. Bowen became general secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in July 2004. Before joining AAUP, he served as president and CEO of the Milwaukee Public Museum, president of the State University of New York at New Paltz, vice president for academic affairs and professor at Hollins College, and numerous administrative roles at Colby College. In addition to serving as an associate in research at Harvard's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Mr. Bowen is author of Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan (University of California Press, 1980), Innocence is Not Enough: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman (Douglas & McIntyre, 1986; M.E. Sharpe, 1988), and Japan's Dysfunctional Democracy (M.E. Sharpe, 2003). He is editor of E.H. Norman: His Life and Scholarship (University of Toronto Press, 1984) and also writes extensively on academic freedom in the United States, human rights in Japan, and U.S. and Japanese foreign policy. He is also a member of the International House of Japan.
David French is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). French is a former lecturer at Cornell Law School and a former partner at Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, a Kentucky-based law firm. Mr. French is the author of FIRE's Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus and, with Harvey A. Silverglate and Greg Lukianoff, coauthor of FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Before he became FIRE's president, Mr. French served as religious freedom counsel for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and was an active member of FIRE's legal network. FIRE is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending free speech, religious freedom, due process, and freedom of conscience in higher education.
Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and executive editor of Education Next. His books include Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Leaving No Child Behind? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom? (Harvard Education Press, 2004), Revolution at the Margins (Brookings, 2002), Spinning Wheels (Brookings, 1999), Bringing the Social Sciences Alive (Allyn & Bacon, 1999), and School Choice in the Real World (Westview, 1999). His work has appeared in scholarly and popular publications, including Education Week, Educational Policy, Social Science Quarterly, Phi Delta Kappan, The Public Interest, Teachers College Record, and Urban Affairs Review. He currently serves, among other roles, on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education and on the research advisory board for the National Center for Educational Accountability. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hess was a public high school teacher in Baton Rouge, a professor of education and politics at the University of Virginia, and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.
Daniel Klein is an associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University and the director of its Civil Society Institute. He has published work on urban transit, highways, and the Food and Drug Administration. He also writes on political culture, including the ideological orientation of academic institutions. Mr. Klein is coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit (Brookings, 1997), editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct (University of Michigan Press, 1997), editor of What Do Economists Contribute? (Palgrave, 2001), and coeditor of The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues (New York University Press, 2003). Klein is also chief editor of Econ Journal Watch, an online scholarly journal.
Anne D. Neal is president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and editor of the quarterly newsletter, Inside Academe. She is senior consultant to the Institute for Effective Governance and was president of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Ms. Neal has served as general counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities and as a First Amendment and communications lawyer with Rogers & Wells and Wiley, Rein & Fielding. She is a contributor to the Handbook of American Women's History (Sage Publications, 2000) and served as co-editor of Communications Lawyer, a publication of the American Bar Association. In June 2003, her article on the Olmsted Woods restoration appeared in Ecological Restoration, a University of Wisconsin publication. Neal is a member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee for the United States Trade Representative. She also sits on numerous boards, and is a member of the Founder's Committee for Historic Mount Vernon. She was formerly a member of the U.S. Fulbright Advisory Board and National Association for Olmsted Parks.
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