Founding Members

At this time, membership to the AFA is by invitation.

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Scott Aaronson

David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin

Dorian S. Abbot

Associate Professor, Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago

Samuel Abrams

Professor of Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College

Jeffrey Abramson

Professor of Government, Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin

Avidit Acharya

Associate Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Bruce Ackerman

Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

Adebisi Agboola

Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Aziza Ahmed

Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

Lawrence A. Alexander

Warren Distinguished Professor of Law; Co-Executive Director, Institute for Law & Religion, University of San Diego School of Law

William B. Allen

Emeritus Dean and Professor, James Madison College and Department of Political Science, Michigan State University

Adeline A. Allen

Associate Professor of Law, Trinity Law School, Santa Ana, California

Lee J. Alston

Professor of Economics and Affiliate Professor of Law, Indiana University and Research Associate, NBER

Daniel Arovas

Professor, Department of Physics, UC San Diego

Jed W. Atkins

E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University

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Randy Barnett

Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Elizabeth Bartholet

Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, Harvard University

William Baude

Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Constitutional Law Institute, University of Chicago Law School

Lara Bazelon

Professor of Law and Philip and Muriel Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy, University of San Francisco

Francis Joseph Beckwith

Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor of Political Science, and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy, Baylor University

Peter Berkowitz

Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Roger Berkowitz

Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Human Rights, Bard College

Sheri Berman

Professor of Political Science, Barnard College

Mitchell Berman

Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Russell Berman

Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

David E. Bernstein

University Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Jay Bhattacharya

Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Erik Bleich

Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College

Elizabeth Chapin Bogan

Senior Lecturer, Economics, Princeton University

Lara Buchak

Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

Alex Byrne

Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT

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Keegan Callanan

Associate Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Daniel Carpenter

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Dale Carpenter

Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law

Carlos Carvalho

Professor of Statistics, University of Texas

James W. Ceaser

Professor of Politics, University of Virginia

Guy-Uriel Charles

Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Phyllis Chesler

Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York

Edgar Y. Choueiri

Professor of Applied Physics Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Nicholas A. Christakis

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University

Jack Citrin

Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley

Elizabeth Cobbs

Melbern G. Glasscock Professor of History, Texas A&M University

Tyler Cowen

Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Thomas Cushman

Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College

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David Decosimo

Associate Professor of Theology, Boston University

Percy A. Deift

Silver Professor of Mathematics, NYU Courant

Donald Downs

Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Affiliate Professor of Law, and Journalism Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aimee Drolet Rossi

Professor of Marketing, Marion Anderson Chair in Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Murray Dry

Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College

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Niall Ferguson

Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Senior Faculty Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

George Fletcher

Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University

Jeffrey S. Flier

Higginson Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor

Richard T. Ford

George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

John R. Freeman

John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

Jennifer A. Frey

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

Jesse M. Fried

Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

Aaron L. Friedberg

Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Susan Friedlander

Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California

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Thomas P. Gallanis

Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law, University of Iowa

Robert P. George

McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University

Michael J. Gerhardt

Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, University of North Carolina, School of Law

Jeannie Suk Gersen

John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard University

Jack Goldsmith

Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University

Mark Graber

University System of Maryland Regents Professor, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law

Mark Greenberg

Michael H. Schill Endowed Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy, UCLA School of Law and Department of Philosophy

David Greenberg

Professor of History and of Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University

Edward J. Groth

Professor of Physics Emeritus, Princeton University

Aya Gruber

Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder

Allen C. Guelzo

Senior Research Scholar in The Council of the Humanities, and Director of Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University

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Stephen Haber

A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Jonathan Haidt

Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business

Andrew Hall

Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Edward J. Hall

Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair, Harvard University

Janet Halley

Royall Professor of Law, Harvard University

Holly Hamilton-Bleakley

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego

Victor Davis Hanson

Professor Emeritus of Classics, California State University, Fresno, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Classics and Military History, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

William Happer

Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor, Emeritus, in the Department of Physics, Princeton University

Bernard Haykel

Professor, Near Eastern Studies, Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, Princeton University

Gail L. Heriot

Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law

Anne Hendershott

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Carissa Byrne Hessick

Anne Shea Ransdell and William Garland “Buck” Ransdell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina

Martha Himmelfarb

William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Princeton University

Zena Hitz

Tutor, St. John’s College, Annapolis

Jamal-Dominique Hopkins

Dean, Dickerson-Green Theological Seminary

Stephen Hsu

Professor of Theoretical Physics and Professor of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Michigan State University

Donna M. Hughes

Professor & Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Rhode Island

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G. John Ikenberry

Albert G. Milibank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

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Gary J. Jacobsohn

H. Malcolm Macdonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law, University of Texas at Austin

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

Charles Johnson

S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professor of English Emeritus, University of Washington

Yiguang Ju

Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Lee Jussim

Chair and Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University

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Joshua T. Katz

Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics, Princeton University

Thomas Kelly

Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

David W. Kennedy

Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School

Randall L. Kennedy

Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Richard Kenney

S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing, University of Washington

Daniel P. Kessler

Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Law School; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Amna Khalid

Associate Professor of History, Carleton College

M. Alison Kibler

Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department Chair of American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College

Gary King

Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University

Laura Kipnis

Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University

Sergiu Klainerman

Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University

Andrew Koppelman

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy Dept., Northwestern University

Alan Charles Kors

Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Founder of FIRE

Anthony T. Kronman

Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Anna Krylov

Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California

Timur Kuran

Professor of Economics and Political Science and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University

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Gary Lawson

Philip S. Beck Professor, Boston University School of Law

Brian Leiter

Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago

Sanford V. Levinson

W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair, University of Texas School of Law

Robert J. Lieber

Professor Emeritus of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University

Mark Lilla

Professor of Humanities, Columbia University

Susan Linfield

Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University

Jeffrey Lockwood

Professor, Natural Sciences & Humanities, University of Wyoming

John B. Londregan

Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Richard Lowery

Associate Professor of Finance, University of Texas at Austin

Kathryn L. Lynch

Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English, Wellesley College

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Julia Mahoney

John S. Battle Professor of Law, University of Virginia

Joyce Malcolm

Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment Emeritus,
Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Neil Malhotra

The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Vladimir Mandelshtam

Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Wilfred M. McClay

G.T. & Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma

Deirdre McCloskey

Distinguished Professor of History, University of Illinois

Michael McConnell

Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford University

Alison McQueen

Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

John H. McWhorter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Uday Singh Mehta

Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Victor Menaldo

Professor of Political Science, University of Washington

Peter Minowitz

Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University

Joshua Mitchell

Professor of Political Theory, Department of Government, Georgetown University

Margarita Mooney

Associate Professor of Congregational Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary

Lucas E. Morel

John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University

Ian Morris

Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Yascha Mounk

Associate Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins University SAIS

Michael C. Munger

Professor of Political Science and Economics, Duke University

Vincent Phillip Munoz

Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame 

Bruce Allen Murphy

Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights, Lafayette College

Caitlin Knowles Myers

John G. McCullough Professor of Economics, Middlebury College

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Josiah Ober

Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University

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Jay Parini

D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing, Middlebury College

Richard D. Parker

Paul W. Williams Professor of Criminal Justice, Harvard University

Orlando Patterson

John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Stanley Payne

Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Judea Pearl

Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, UCLA

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Jeffrey J. Poelvoorde

Associate Professor of Politics, Converse College

Claire Potter

Professor of History, The New School for Social Research

H. Jefferson Powell

Professor of Law, Duke University

Saikrishna Prakash

James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law & Miller Center Senior Fellow, University of Virginia

Richard Primus

Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Francine Prose

Distinguished Writer in Residence, Bard College

Robert K. Prud’homme

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

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Dermot Quinn

Professor of History, Seton Hall University

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David M. Rabban

Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Jeremy Rabkin

Professor of Law, George Mason University

Joshua D. Rauh

The Ormond Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Ilana Redstone

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wilfred Reilly

Associate Professor of Political Science, Kentucky State University

Christine Reyna

Professor of Psychological Science, College of Science and Health, DePaul University

Michael A. Reynolds

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director, Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Princeton University

Daniel B. Rodriguez

Harold Washington Professor of Law, Northwestern University

Paul Rose

Robert J. Watkins/Procter & Gamble Professor of Law, Ohio State University

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz

Professor of Law, Georgetown University

Clay Routledge

Challey Professor of Management, North Dakota State University

Guy A. Rub

Professor of Law, Ohio State University

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Stephen E. Sachs

Colin W. Brown Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Steve Sanders

Professor of Law; Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Gender Studies and The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington

Catherine Salmon

Professor of Psychology, University of Redlands

Diana Schaub

Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland

Barry Schein

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Southern California

David Schmidtz

Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona

John B. Sharpless

Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Colleen A. Sheehan

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University

Kenneth Shepsle

George Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University

Jon A. Shields

Associate Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College

Tim Shiell

Professor, of English and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–Stout

Neil S. Siegel

David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Duke Law School 

Fr. Dn. Paul Siewers

Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Bucknell University

Peter Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Rogers Smith

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Paul Sniderman

Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University

Jacob Soll

University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting, University of Southern California

Lawrence Solum

William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law & Douglas D. Drysdale Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School

Ilya Somin

Professor of Law, George Mason University

Shivaji Sondhi

Professor of Physics, Princeton University

James Stoner

Hermann Moyse Jr. Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University

Benjamin Storey

Jane Gage Hipp Professor in European and American Political Thought, Politics and International Affairs, Furman University

Jenna Silber Storey

Assistant Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Furman University

Nadine Strossen

John Marshall Harlan II Professor Emerita, New York Law School; former national President, American Civil Liberties Union

Szymon Suckewer

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr.

Jesse Climenko Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School

Carol M. Swain

Former Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

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Karen Taliaferro

Assistant Professor, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University

George Thomas

Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions, Claremont McKenna College

Abigail Thompson

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

Christopher Tollefsen

College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

John Tomasi

Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Brown University

Janice Traflet

Professor of Accounting & Financial Management, Bucknell University

Jeffrey Tulis

Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

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Dehlia Umunna

Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Lynn Uzzell

Lecturer in Politics, University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University

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Eugene Volokh

Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

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Christopher J. Walker

John W. Bricker Professor of Law, The Ohio State University

Arieh Warshel

Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern California

Cornel West

Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University; Class of 1943 University Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Keith E. Whittington

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University

W. Bradford Wilcox

Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia

Richard A. Wilson

Gladstein Chair and Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

Molly Worthen

Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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David A. Yalof

Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut

George Yancey

Professor of Sociology, Baylor University

Ernest Young

Alston & Bird Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

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Dominika Zgid

Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan

Jonathan Zimmerman

Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

Luigi Zingales

Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago

Phil Zuckerman

Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies, Pitzer College