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University of Pennsylvania

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Amy Gutmann is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, with secondary faculty appointments in the Graduate School of Education and Philosophy. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1971, an M.Sc. in Political Science from the London School of Economics in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1976. The first in her family to graduate college, Gutmann began her academic career at Princeton University in 1976 as Assistant Professor of Politics, advancing to Associate Professor (1981-1987), Professor (1987-2004), Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor (emerita), founding director of the University Center for Human Values, Dean of the Faculty, and Provost. She received Princeton’s President’s Distinguished Teaching Award.