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Foreign policy expert is featured Renaissance Series speaker
January 26, 2012
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ph.D.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ph.D., a well-known foreign policy expert, professor and author, will visit the College of Saint Benedict as the 2012 Renaissance Series speaker.
She will speak on women and foreign policy at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9 in room 204, Gorecki Dining and Conference Center, CSB. The event is free and open to the public.
Slaughter served as director of policy planning for the United States Department of State from 2009 -11 and was the first woman to hold the position. After leaving the State Department, she was awarded the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor given by the State Department. She also received a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Currently, Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She has written or edited six books and more than 100 articles. She is a frequent contributor to both mainstream and new media, publishing opinion pieces in major newspapers, magazines and blogs around the world and curating foreign policy news for over 8,000 followers on Twitter. She also writes Notes from the Foreign Policy Frontier, a blog for TheAtlantic.com, and appears regularly on CNN, British Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting Service. She lectures widely and has served on boards of organizations ranging from the Council of Foreign Relations and the New America Foundation to the McDonald's Corporation and the Citigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group. Foreign Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009 and 2010.
Slaughter received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton, a master of philosophy and a doctorate of philosophy in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar. She also earned a law degree from Harvard.
While at CSB, Slaughter will meet with students at Lunch with a Leader, an event sponsored by the Sister Nancy Hynes Institute for Women's Leadership. She will also visit an upper division political science class focusing on international security, where she will discuss some of her articles as well as bridging the divide between academia and policy makers.
Serving the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, the Renaissance Series was established by CSB President MaryAnn Baenninger in 2006 to bring speakers to CSB who "demonstrate the diversity of opportunities available for women and men and . . . to encourage them to broaden their horizons in every respect, particularly in areas that are less traditional for the respective genders."
Past speakers include Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist; Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer; Annie Griffiths Belt, National Geographic photographer; Sylvia Nasar, author and economist; Sandra Keating, '86, professor of theology; and Judith Yaphe, a specialist in Middle Eastern political analysis.