Frances Lee is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on U.S. national politics and policymaking. She is author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaignand Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate. She is also coauthor of In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us; The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era; and Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation. She is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on American national policy and its Richard F. Fenno prize for the best book in legislative studies.

Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His books include Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (1990); Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (2000); the co-authored, Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings 2006); Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage (2015); the co-authored casebook Gay Rights and the Constitution (2016); as well as 17 other edited or co-edited books. His current book project concerns the pressures on social justice exerted by various forms of globalization, especially immigration.

He is past director of the University Center for Human Values (2001-2009), and the founding director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (1999-2001). He previously taught at Harvard University and Syracuse University. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, has been vice president of the American Political Science Association, and is President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

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