Featured Speaker

Diana Schaub, PhD is Professor emerita of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland, where she has taught since 1992. She is currently serving on the Academic Advisory Board for the Jack Miller Center and is a Senior Fellow (nonresident) at the American Enterprise Institute. She earned her PhD and MA from the University of Chicago in Political Science, and her BA is from Kenyon College. Her scholarly work and publications focus on American political thought and history, in particular Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, Montesquieu, and the relevance of core American ideals to contemporary challenges and debates. She is the author of His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2021); What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song, coedited with Amy and Leon Kass (ISI Books, 2011); and Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s “Persian Letters” (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).