George Washington Forum News and Events

Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University Medical School)

Jay Bhattacharya is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2001 and where he earned his MD and PhD in Economics. With Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), he is one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. A research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute, Bhattacharya holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging.  Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. His peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He is also on the scientific advisory and editorial boards of Collateral Global.

Josh Rogin (Washington Post)

Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Global Opinions section of the Washington Post and a politcial analyst for CNN. Previously he has covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, Congressional Quarterly and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. He holds a BA in international affairs from the George Washington University and studied at Sophia Univeristy in Tokyo. His latest book is Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century.

Henry R. Nau (George Washington University)

Henry R. Nau is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Emeritus at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. From 1989-2016, he directed the US-Japan- South Korea Legislative Exchange Program. Perviously he served as a special assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1975–1977) and as senior staff member and White House sherpa on President Reagan’s National Security Council responsible for G-7 Summits and international economic affairs (1981–1983). He has written five books, including Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman and Reagan (2013) and At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (2002).

This event is co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Society’s Ohio University chapter.

Eric Nelson (Harvard University)

Eric Nelson is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he was an undergraduate before earning his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His books include The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (2014); The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (2010); and The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought ( 2004). He also edited Hobbes’s translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (2008). His most recent book is The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God (2019).

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Syracuse University)

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a Professor of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Her books include Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 (1993)—which won the Berkshire Prize—and Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (2001), as well as three edited volumes. Lasch-Quinn’s writing has also appeared widely in both scholarly and prominent public venues, including The New Republic and The Hedgehog Review. Her most recent book is Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living (2020).