New Scholars, New Scholarship: Political Understanding and EngagementAn Interview with Anne Colby

Abstract

Anne Colby is a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she co-directs the Political Engagement Project and the Preparation for the Professions Program. Prior to joining the Carnegie Foundation in 1997, she was director of the Henry Murray Research Center at Harvard University. She is co-author of four books: A Longitudinal Study of Moral Judgment (1983), The Measurement of Moral Judgment (1987), Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment (1992), and Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility (2003). She is co-editor of Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Human Inquiry (1995), Competence and Character Through Life (1998), and Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century (2002). She holds a B.A. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. While not a "new scholar," she has some interesting new scholarship under way. She was contacted about her research.