Nannerl O. Keohane

Nan Keohane is a retired scholar of political philosophy who has taught at Swarthmore, Stanford, Wellesley, Duke and Princeton.  She also served as president of Wellesley and then Duke. Keohane was a fellow at CASBS in 1978-79, 1987-88, and 2004-05. Since 2018, she has been a regular visitor to Stanford each winter quarter as a faculty affiliate at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics, working with the postdoctoral fellows. She received her BA from Wellesley, BA/MA at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and PhD in political science at Yale.  She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Keohane is the author of Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 1980); Higher Ground:  Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University (Duke University Press, 2006) and Thinking about Leadership (Princeton University Press, 2010). She has co-edited volumes on feminist theory and women and equality. Her current work project, which she will pursue at CASBS while she is in residence, is a book entitled Virginia Woolf and Modern Feminism.