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Steven C. Wheatley
Vice President
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Steven C. Wheatley, vice president of the American Council of Learned Societies, is responsible to the president for the oversight of programs and the administration of the Council’s office. Before joining ACLS 21 years ago as director of the American Studies Program, he taught history at the University of Chicago, where he was also dean of students in the Public Policy Committee and, before that, assistant to the dean of the (graduate) Social Sciences Division. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Chicago. He is the author of, among other works, The Politics of Philanthropy: Abraham Flexner and Medical Education (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988) and a new introduction to Raymond Fosdick’s The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation (Transaction Books, 1988) and the editor (with Katz, Greenberg, and Oliviero) of Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 1993). He has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Lilly Endowment, Inc., and a member of the Doctoral Fellows Advisory Committee of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and the Task Force on the Artifact of the Council on Library and Information Resources. He has served on the Governing Council of the Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University and as an adjunct professor at New York University. In 2005, the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences awarded him the Medal for Social Science Career.