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Amy Gutmann is the president of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-Present.
She served as Provost and was also the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is President of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a Fellow of the National Academy of Education.
Gutmann served as Princeton's Dean of the Faculty in 1995-97 and as Academic Advisor to the President in 1997-98. She was the founding Director of the University Center for Human Values, a multi-disciplinary center that supports teaching, scholarship and public discussion of ethics and human values. She serves on many editorial boards, on the Board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Princeton University Press.
Gutmann has published more than 100 articles and essays and edited books in political philosophy, practical ethics and education that have been translated into many languages. Her most recent books include "Why Deliberative Democracy?" (2004), Identity in Democracy (2003), Democratic Education (revised edition, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (1996, with Dennis Thompson) and Color Conscious (1996, with K. Anthony Appiah). Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post and other general publications.
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