Scholars to Help Launch New Journal at Jepson School Conference on Presidential Leadership
September 7, 2005
The Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond will launch a new journal with a conference on presidential leadership, Sept. 9-10.
Twelve of the nation’s top presidential leadership scholars are writing papers for the first issue of the Jepson Review, which will be published next spring. They will attend the conference to read their papers and exchange ideas prior to completing their final drafts.
The conference will be limited to about 40 participants.
The Review will become the home for the best scholarly work on leadership in both the humanities and the social sciences, according to J. Thomas Wren, associate dean for academic affairs for the Jepson School and co-editor of the Jepson Review.
“It will draw on the main strength of the Jepson School, its broad-based liberal arts approach to the field,” Wren said. “No other journal offers this liberal-arts perspective on leadership.” Each issue will focus on a leadership theme, question or problem.
This year “we’ve invited a range of voices to contribute to our first conversation about presidential leadership,” said Kenneth P. Ruscio, dean of the Jepson School. “We’ll meet and exchange ideas and mull over our different views and then publish the collected works. The next set of papers and the next conference will explore another theme.”
The first year’s conference has drawn contributors from the fields of rhetoric, law, philosophy, political science, psychology and public policy, according to Terry L. Price, associate professor of leadership studies and co-editor of the review.
The contributors are Allida M. Black, research professor of history and international affairs, George Washington University; David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University; James MacGregor Burns, Woodrow Wilson Professor Emeritus of Government, Williams College; George C. Edward III, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University;
Also, George R. Goethals, professor and chair of psychology and leadership studies, Williams College; Barbara Kellerman, research director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University; Judith Lichtenberg, associate professor of philosophy, University of Maryland; Martin Medhurst, Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication, Baylor University;
Also, Michael Nelson, professor of political science, Rhodes College; James Pfiffner, professor of public policy, George Mason University; Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard University; and A. John Simmons, Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, University of Virginia.