Janet McCracken is the chair of Classical studies and professor of philosophy at Lake Forest College. She specializes in aesthetics.
McCracken earned a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Arts and PhD from University of Texas at Austin. She currently serves as the director of the Ethics Center at Lake Forest College and was the Krebs Provost and Dean of the Faculty from 2005 to 2011 and the associate dean of the faculty from 2000 to 2002.
Her husband Chad McCracken also teaches philosophy at Lake Forest College. [1]