Wilfred M. McClay

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Wilfred McClay
Born
Wilfred Mark McClay

(1951-12-07) December 7, 1951 (age 72)
Education St. John's College (BA, MA)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
OccupationHistorian
Employer(s) University of Oklahoma
Hillsdale College

Wilfred M. McClay (born 1951) is an American academic currently on the faculty of Hillsdale College.

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Early life and education

McClay graduated from St. John's College, and received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1987. [1]

Career

McClay taught at Georgetown, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Dallas before moving to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1999, where he held the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities. [1]

McClay is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center [2] and at The Trinity Forum, a member of the Philadelphia Society, and a member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions of Princeton University. [1] From 2002 through 2012, he served on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities. [1] He is the President of the Philadelphia Society for the year 2021-2022. [3]

McClay serves on the Board of Visitors of Ralston College [4] and on the editorial/advisory boards of The Wilson Quarterly , First Things , Society , Historically Speaking , The University Bookman , The New Atlantis , [5] and The City . [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wilfred M. McClay, "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF), hosted on OU.edu
  2. "Wilfred M. McClay, Senior Fellow" Ethics and Public Policy Center
  3. "President's Welcome (McClay 2021) | the Philadelphia Society".
  4. "Ralston College | Home | To think is to be free". www.ralston.ac.
  5. "Wilfred M. McClay, Contributing editor," The New Atlantis
  6. The City, Winter 2011, p. 2