Fox Professors
Judith N. Rodin
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor
Judith N. Rodin (CW '66) completed her 10-year term as President and Chief Exectutive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania on June 30, 2004. She was the first alumna to serve as president of Penn and the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution. Dr. Rodin also holds appointments on the Penn faculty as Professor of Psychology and as Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. In 2004 Dr. Rodin was selected as the President of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation is a U.S.-based global philanthropy committed to enriching and sustaining the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.
Martin E. P. Seligman
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., works on learned helplessness, depression and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical circles and is a best-selling author.
John J. DiIulio, Jr.
Frederic Fox Leadership Professor
John J. DiIulio, Jr. (C '80) serves as the Faculty Director and Co-Chair of the Director's Advisory Group of the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program. During his leave from Penn in academic year 2000-2001, he served as Assistant to the President of the United States and first Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
He is the author, co-author or editor of a dozen books, the most recent of which include American Government: Institutions and Policies (with James Q. Wilson, Houghton-Mifflin, ninth edition, 2004); What's God Got to Do with the American Experiment? (with E.J. Dionne, Brookings, 2000); and Medicaid and Devolution (with Frank Thompson, Brookings, 1998).
