Dorothea Wolfson

Dorothea Israel Wolfson, PhD, is the Director of the Master of Arts in Government Program at Johns Hopkins University. Her research and teaching interests center on democracy and civic engagement, American political thought, American politics, and family policy. She has published articles on Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, and on John Locke and children’s literature. She has collaborated on a book, Our Sacred Honor, with William J. Bennett, and her essays and reviews have appeared in The Claremont Review of Books, The American Interest, and Perspectives on Political Science. Before joining the Johns Hopkins program, she was a Policy Analyst at Empower America. She holds an AB from the University of Chicago in “Fundamentals:  Issues and Texts” and a PhD in Government from Cornell University. She lives in Kensington, Maryland, with her husband, Adam, and four children. In her free time, she likes to play tennis and do crossword puzzles.