Harvey Mansfield | |
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 Mansfield in March 2017 | |
| Born | Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. March 21, 1932 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) |
| Occupation | William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government |
| Notable work | Manliness (2006) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | National Humanities Medal Guggenheim Fellowship Bradley Prize Philip Merrill Award |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Harvard University Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where taught from 1962 until his retirement in 2023. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007.
Mansfield is a scholar of political history, and was greatly influenced by Leo Strauss.[1] He is also the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Mansfield is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. At Harvard, he became one of the university's most prominent conservative figures. In 2023, he retired from teaching as one of the university's longest-serving faculty members.[2]
His notable former students include: Mark Blitz, James Ceaser, Tom Cotton,[3] Andrew Sullivan,[4] Charles R. Kesler, Alan Keyes, William Kristol,[5] Clifford Orwin, Paul Cantor, Mark Lilla, Francis Fukuyama, Sharon Krause, Bruno Maçães, and Shen Tong.
- ^ See, e.g., Josh Harlan and Christopher Kagay, "Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.: The Question of Conservatism", interview, Harvard Review of Philosophy 3 (1993), accessed June 2, 2007. [Restricted access?] Cf. cached HTML version, "The Question of Conservatism" at the Wayback Machine (archived December 21, 2005), accessed June 17, 2007. (18 pages.)
- ^ Gibson, Lydialyle (April 26, 2023). "Harvey Mansfield's Last Class". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
- ^ "G.I. Tom". National Review. 7 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ Andrew Sullivan, "Daily Express: Provocations", The New Republic Online (NRO only; blog), January 19, 2005. (Subscription required for full access.) Cf. Contributing Editor, Andrew Sullivan Archived 2007-08-14 at the Wayback Machine biography at The New Republic.
- ^ "Harvey Mansfield Transcript". Archived from the original on 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2022-01-23.