Visiting
Professorships in Democracy
In the Fall of 1995, the New School for Social Research - with the support of the G-Tech Corporation - established a Visiting Professorship in Democracy. The Professorship is awarded each semester to a distinguished public intellectual from one of the world's emerging democracies. The overall goal of the Visiting Professorship is to promote deeper and more textured understanding of the emergence and consolidation of democracy in the contemporary world. The visitors are from areas of the world in which the New School has special intellectual interests and professional ties, such as East and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa, and Latin America. Adam Michnik, respected for his intellectual accomplishments and widely known for his contribution to the cause of democracy, became the exemplar for the Visiting Professorship in Democracy. In keeping with this example, the Visiting Professors come to the New School to teach on the lessons and prospects of democracy in their home countries, and to help us reflect more broadly on the challenges facing democratically minded people around the world.
Although the Professorship is to be filled by individuals who have been
engaged actively in promoting or protecting democracy, the Visiting Professor
is expected not to use the appointment as a platform to advance partisan
positions in home-country debates. Among those who were nominated for the
G-Tech Professors in Democracy are:
Fall '95 Keorapetse Kgositsile, poet and philosopher (South Africa)
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