The Changing Institutional Cultures initiative hosted the following visiting scholars and speakers for the 2008-09 academic year:

* Gene Grabowski, Senior Vice President, Levick Communications and winner of PR Week’s 2007 Crisis manager of the year for his work on the spinach recall, national pet-food recalls, and the Chinese toy import issue.

* Kirsten Lundberg, Director, Knight Case Studies Initiative, Columbia University School of Journalism. A former journalist, Ms. Lundberg’s cases, recently focusing on national intelligence and managing the political ramifications of terrorism, have been widely published.

* Bill McMichael, Pentagon Correspondent, Times News Service, Military Times News Group and author of The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy´s Tailhook Scandal.

* The Right Rev. Michael Curry, Bishop of North Carolina, Episcopal Church USA

Other past speakers have included:

* David Callahan, Research Director and co-founder of Demos and author of The Cheating Culture: Why Americans are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead (2004) and The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots (2006).

* David Kirp, Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and author of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (2004).

* Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities, Reed College; Carnegie Scholar; Temporary Director of Academic Affairs, Dar Al Hadith Al Hassania, Morocco; and author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles (1997).

* Peter Skerry, Professor of Political Science at Boston College; Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; and author of Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (1993; winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics (2000).

* Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Principal of Jews’ College, London, the world’s oldest rabbinical seminary, honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius and King’s College, and author, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (2004), and To Heal a Fractured World: Ethics of Responsibility (2005).

* Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University; inaugural holder of the visiting Distinguished Chair of Ethics at the United States Naval Academy; and author of The Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind (2005), and the Fabric of Character (1989).