The Kluge Scholars Council is a body of distinguished scholars, convened by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the John W. Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. Through discussion and reflection, the Council assists in implementing an American tradition linking the activities of thinkers and doers, those who are engaged in the world of ideas with those engaged in the world of affairs. Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. Council members serve a five-year term, renewable once. Current members Margaret MacMillan is the visiting distinguished historian at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an emeritus professor of international history at Oxford and a professor of history at the University of Toronto. John Witte Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Service Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Center at Emory University. Toyin Falola is a professor African Studies, Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Ruth Faden is the founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics as well as the inaugural Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics. Lisa Anderson is an American political scientist and former president of the American University in Cairo. Manuel Castells is university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dame Wendy Hall is professor of computer science and a director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. Gideon Rose has been editor of Foreign Affairs since 2010, after serving as managing editor of the magazine from 2000-2010. Jane Dammen McAuliffe is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University, former president of Bryn Mawr College and a former senior official at the Library of Congress. Beth Simone Noveck is a professor in culture, technology, and society at NYU and directs the Governance Lab (GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. Debra Satz is the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Anderson Dean for the Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society. Christine L. Borgman is distinguished professor and presidential chair in information studies at University of