The Scholars Council is a body of distinguished scholars, convened by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. 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.

Members

• Marie Arana
• Manuel Castells
• Antonio Damasio
• Jean Bethke Elshtain
• Toyin Falola
• Philip W. Gold
• Hugh Heclo
• W. Roger Louis
• Margaret MacMillan
• Mark A. Noll
• John Rogers Searle
• William Julius Wilson
• John Witte Jr.
• Gordon S. Wood
• Pauline Yu

Past Members

• Bernard Bailyn
• Baruch Blumberg
• Judith Margaret Brown
• Sara Castro-Klaren
• Julia Ching
• Robert Fogel
• Bronislaw Geremek
• Toru Haga
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
• Vyacheslav Ivanov
• Bruce Mazlish
• Walter Allan McDougall
• Jaroslav Pelikan
• Jessica Rawson
• Amartya Sen
• Wole Soyinka
• James Turner
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• M. Crawford Young

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