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Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.

President; Professor of Political Thought

Contact Information

department: President’s Office
academic field: Philosophy/Theology
campus: National, New York
email: arehfeld@huc.edu
phone: (212) 824-2201
extension: 2201

Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., is the 10th President of 91첥-Jewish Institute of Religion. Appointed in April of 2019, Rehfeld has bridged the academic and Jewish professional worlds as a tenured faculty member in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis (2001-2019) and as President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis (2012-2019).

Rehfeld received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and an MPP from Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies. Among the most cited theorists of political representation today, his academic research focuses on the intersection of democracy, human rights, justice, and institutional design. Other areas of published research include the history of political thought, the philosophy of the social sciences, and the political uses of the Hebrew Bible.

The author of (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a work of applied democratic theory, and a contributor to the (2018), his work has appeared in the most important journals of his field, including the , the , and the .

Rehfeld held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Study and Practice of Federalism, McGill University, and has held visiting faculty appointments at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, and Libera Universita Internazionale Degli Studi Sociali (LUISS Guido Carli), Rome.

Rehfeld has served on the boards of KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park in Hyde Park, Chicago, and the board of Hillel at Washington University in St. Louis, along with many other communal boards in Chicago and St. Louis. He is currently a member of the board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and on the national board of directors for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

2018: Journal of Political Philosophy. (Peer reviewed article) June.

“Representation and the US Constitution.” In, . Karen Oren and John Chapman, Eds. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Book chapter)

2017: “On Being and Becoming a Representative” Book chapter, . Monica Brito-Vieira, Editor. Oxford: Routledge (Book Chapter)

2016: “Beyond Trustees and Delegates.” Chapter in, Political Representation: New Insights and Old Questions. Marc Bühlmann and Jan Fivaz, eds. Palgrave Macmillan. (Book Chapter)

2015: “The Concept of Constituency,” chapter in Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Laws, Processes, Outcomes and Implication for Political Representation. Mohd. Sanjeer Alam and K.C Sivaramakrishnan eds. Oxford University Press. (Reprint of Chapter 2 from The Concept of Constituency below)

2013: “Designing Electoral Systems: Normative Tradeoffs and Institutional Innovations.” (co-authored with Melissa Schwartzberg) In, “Between Science and Engineering: Reflections on the APSA Presidential Task Force on Political Science, Electoral Rules, and Democratic Governance.” Perspectives on Politics. 11:03 September. (Invited submission.)

2011: The Good Society. 20:2 November (Invited submission for forum on John McCormick’s Machiavellian Democracy.)

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 633, January (Invited Submission)

2010: “” Perspectives on Politics. Vol. 8. June. 465-486 (Peer reviewed article)

“On Quotas and Qualifications for Office.” In (Ian Shapiro, Susan Stokes, Elisabeth Woods, and Alexander Kirschner eds) (New York: Cambridge University Press) (Peer reviewed chapter.)

2008: (New York: Oxford University Press). Ethics (119, No 1., October) pp. 216-222. (Book review)

2007: (University of Chicago Press: 2006); in Perspectives on Politics. (Book review)

2005: (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005). (Peer reviewed book)

Chapter 2 on the idea of Constituency to be reprinted in Delimiting Electoral Constituencies in India: Processes, Outcomes and Implications for Political Representation. 2015. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reviewed in the following journals (chronologically, by title of journal):

by Heather K. Gerken (Vol. 37, No. 6) December 2009

by Philippe Schmitter (Vol. 44: 4, pp. 476–490) October 2009.

by Suzanne Dovi, (Vol. 4, No. 4) December 2006

by James A. Gardner, (Vol. 5, No. 2) November 2006.

by Mark Warren, (Vol. 117) October 2006

Subject of Author meets Critics Panel

Midwest Political Science Association meeting March 2007

Featured on “Campaign for the American Reader”

January 15, 2007

2005: Book Review: George Klosko, The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation (New Edition). (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) in Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, January 2005) (Book review)

2003: Book Review: F. R. Ankersmit, Political Representation, Stanford University Press, CA. 2002, in Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, July 2003) pp. 865-868 (Book review)

2002: “Representation” and “Representative Government” in Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons). (Encyclopedic Entries)

2001: “Silence of the Land: On the lack of justifications for territorial representation at the American founding” Studies in American Political Development (Cambridge University Press: NY) Spring 2001, Volume 15, Number 1. pp. 53-84. (Peer reviewed article.)

1998: “Ethics Bowl: Applying Ethical Reasoning to the Professional World.” in Engineering and Environmental Ethics: A Case Study Approach. John Wilcox and Louis Theodore, eds. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York). Pp. 281-297. (Invited submission)

2018: “Preserving the Democratic and a Jewish nature of Israel given current realities.” Invited talk at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich

2017: “Behavioral economics and access to Jewish life: what we can learn from Toyota and Westinghouse.” Invited seminar, 91첥—Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem.

2016: “Making and unmaking the Jewish People: Reflections on Israel, Religious Zionism and the crisis of leadership in North American Jewry.” Invited talk at 91첥-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH.

“Liberalism in America.” Invited plenary address at the 2016 Policy History Conference, Nashville, TN. (with Rogers Smith, Jeffrey Tullis and William Rorabaugh).

2015: “On Representing.” Invited talk at the University of York, UK.

“Representation, Authority and Right.” Conference on Representation, University of York, UK.

“Representation, Authority and Right.” Political Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis

2012: Invited Centennial Speaker, Political Theory, Empirical Political Analysis, and the Evolution of Political Science, Canadian Political Science Association annual meeting, Alberta, Canada. June.

“Why Children Should Be Allowed to Vote (but not their Grandparents).” Invited talk. Professor Emeriti Monthly Meeting, Washington University in St. Louis. April.

“What Makes Representation Democratic, Legitimate or Just?” Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland. March.

“Democratic Theory, Responsiveness and Federalism.” Invited speaker and discussant. Mini-conference on Policy Responsiveness in the Context of Federalism, Center for American Political Responsiveness, Penn State University, February.

“The Representation of Hobbes.” Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans. January.

2011: “Why Thomas Hobbes had no theory of representation” Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia. November.

“The Political Representation of Children.” Invited guest in Professor Rogers Smith’s citizenship seminar, University of Pennsylvania. November.

“Hanna Pitkin’s Concept of Democracy.” Paper presentation for the Association for Political Theory annual meeting. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (October) and

“What Makes Representation Democratic, Legitimate or Just?” Invited keynote speaker for conference on Representation and Legitimacy, University of Reading, UK. September.

“The Political Representation of Children.” Invited Speaker for First Year Faculty Talk Series, Washington University in St. Louis. August.

“Dogmatic Political Theory” Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle. August.

“Why Children Should Be Allowed to Vote (but their Grandparents Shouldn’t)” Invited talk. First Year Faculty Talk Series, Washington University in St. Louis, August.

“Hannah Pitkin’s concept of democracy or What a concept of representation should do.” Invited presentation Workshop, Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique, Montreal. May

“The Political Representation of Children.” Invited Talk, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. April.

“The Concepts of Representation.” Political Theory Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. January.

“The Political Representation of Children.” Political Theory colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. January.

2010: “Representing Children” (“The Political Rights of Children”)

Faculty Colloquium, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, November

American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September.

Workshop, Law School, Washington University in St. Louis, July.

Canadian Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal, June.

“The Concepts of Representation” distributed paper for, “Political Representation: New Directions.” Invited participant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. October.

2009: “The Paradox of Racial Profiling: distinguishing public and private reasons.” Panel on Racial Profiing, Center for Ethics and Human Values. November.

Invited Participant, “Workshop on Political Representation,” University of Berne, Bern Switzerland. November.

Invited Participant in “Child as Citizen” author’s workshop, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, sponsored by Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and the Harvard School of Public Health. November.

Invited Faculty Speaker, “Reasons and the Life of the Mind.” Freshman Convocation, Washington University in St. Louis August.

“Trustees, Delegates and Gyroscopes: Political Representation and Democratic Justice”

Invited talk, Columbia University Political Theory Workshop. March.

2008: “George Washington and Virtue.” Invited talk, Assembly Series, Washington University in St. Louis. September.

“On Quotas and Qualifications for Office,”

Association for Political Theory annual meeting, October.

“Democratic Lawmaking and Political Representation.”

Invited talk, Stanford University Political Theory Workshop, February.

“Why Universities Sponsor Presidential Debates.” MLA Seminar Series, Washington University in St. Louis. February

“Democratic Lawmaking and Political Representation.”

Political Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, January .

2007: “Offensive Political Theory”

Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September.

2006: “Trustees, Delegates and Gyroscopes”: Democratic Justice and the Ethics of Political Representation”

Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September.

“Locke, the Hebrew Bible and the American Revolution.”

Conference on Political Hebraism, Shalem Center, Jerusalem, December.

“The Strange Case of John Locke and the Hebrew Bible in the Second Treatise on ҴDZԳԳ.”

Association for Political Theory, Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN, October.

“Quotas and Qualifications.”

Invited talk for “Rethinking Political Order” conference, Yale University, October

“Quotas and Qualifications.”

Invited talk, Political Theory workshop, Brown University. October.

“Trustees, Delegates and Gyroscopes: Democratic Justice and the Ethics of Political Representation.”

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September

“Political Representation as a Gross Concept”

Presented at “Reconsidering Democratic Representation,” Conference at University of British Columbia, May.

“Political Representation as a Gross Concept.”

Invited talk at the Montreal Political Theory Workshop on new developments in the theory of political representation, McGill University, April.

“Offensive Political Theory.”

Presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, April.

“A General Theory of Political Representation.”

Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, February.

2005: “A General Theory of Political Representation.”

Invited talk, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, December.

“A General Theory of Political Representation.”

Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, December.

“Offensive Political Theory”

Presented at the Association for Political Theory, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, October.

“Towards a General Theory of Political Representation.”

Invited talk at the Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia University Law School, September.

“Quotas and Qualifications: Gender, age, and the presumptive right to run for office”

Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September.

2004: “Electoral Representation, Revisited”

Invited Presentation at “Transformation of Democratic Representation,” Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, Georgetown University, June.

2003: “Legitimate political representation and electoral constituencies: creating a baseline for institutional design.”

Presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2003, Philadelphia, September.

“The Logic of Affirmative Action”

Presented at the STA Conference on Diversity and Social Discrimination, Washington University in St. Louis, March.

2002: “The Perils of Ethics and Public Policy”

Invited talk, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, October.

“Qualified to Rule: Age Qualifications and Democratic Legitimacy”

Brownbag talk, Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, Washington University in St. Louis, September.

2001: “The Extended Republic and James Madison’s Federalist 10

Conference on constitutions and voting, Washington University in St. Louis, December.

“On Legitimacy and Political Representation.”

Invited talk Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, February.

“On Legitimacy and Political Representation.”

Invited talk Department of Political Science, University of Texas, Austin, February

“On Legitimacy and Political Representation.”

Invited talk Department of Political Science, George Washington University, January.

2000: “On Legitimacy and Political Representation.”

Invited talk Department of Political Science, The University of Pittsburgh, December.

“On Legitimacy and Political Representation”

Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Middlebury College, November

1999: “The Extended Republic and James Madison’s Federalist 10

Invited University Lecture, Western Michigan University, November.

“The Concept of Constituency,”

Invited presentation, Political Science Department Colloquium, Western Michigan University, November.

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May 2022

Speech, Reason, and Judgment: Remarks to the CN Rabbinical Class of 2022 by President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.

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December 2020

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July 2020

June 2020

Communication from President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: Important Announcement Regarding Year-In-Israel Program

President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., Addresses 2020 Ordinands

Alliance as a Force for Justice

Graduation Remarks

Let Us Not Be Silent Now

May 2020

March 2020

Communication from President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: Important Update about Campus Closures and Classes

Communication from President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: HUC Town Hall for Students, Faculty, and Staff

Communication from President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: Closure of All Campuses and All Classes by Zoom

From President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: Instruction Will Move to Zoom at Least Through Passover Break, Ending April 17

From President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: An Important Message Regarding Emergency Management Team for Planning and Preparedness

January 2020

December 2019

URJ Biennial Address – []

November 2019

October 2019

Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., Inaugurated as 10th President of 91첥-Jewish Institute of Religion

Inauguration Address – []

September 2019

Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D. to Be Inaugurated as 10th President of 91첥-Jewish Institute of Religion

August 2019

July 2019

Liberal Judaism and Zionism, Shalom Hartman Institute []

June 2019

Tribute Dinner Address, Honoring Suzanne and John Golden

Ordination Remarks, Cincinnati

May 2019

April 2019

President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.: Forging Our Future Together

Address to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Cincinnati

HUC-JIR President Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D. Addresses Central Conference of American Rabbis Convention in Cincinnati

March 2019

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December 2018