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Diana Schaub, Ph.D., is professor emerita of political science at Loyola University Maryland, where she has taught since 1992. She is currently serving on the academic Advisory Board for the Jack Miller Center and is a senior fellow (nonresident) at the American Enterprise Institute. She sits on the Board of Directors for Abraham Lincoln Institute and the Publication Committee for The National Interest. From 2004-2009, Schaub served on the U.S. President’s Council on Bio-Ethics. She earned her doctorate and master’s degree from the University of Chicago in political science, and her bachelor’s from Kenyon College. 

Her scholarly work and publications focus on American political thought and history, in particular Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, Montesquieu, and the relevance of core American ideals to contemporary challenges and debates. An expert in political philosophy, Schaub has written for national journals, magazines, and book reviews, and been invited to lecture at conferences and educational institutions around the country. She is the author of three books: His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2021); What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song, coedited with Amy and Leon Kass (ISI Books, 2011); and Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s “Persian Letters” (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995); and her monograph Emancipating the Mind: Lincoln, the Founders, and Scientific Progress (AEI, 2018) was based on her remarks at the 2018 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture.