The Claremont Institute is pleased to announce Dr. Jean Yarbrough as the 2021 recipient of the Henry Salvatori Prize. The Henry Salvatori Prize in the American Founding was established at the Claremont Institute in 1997 by a gift from industrialist, philanthropist, and conservative leader Henry Salvatori. It is presented annually to an individual who has distinguished himself or herself by an understanding of, and actions taken to, preserve and foster the principles upon which the United States was built.
Dr. Yarbrough is Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences, with teaching responsibilities in political philosophy and American political thought, at Bowdoin College. She has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, first in 1983-84, when she was named a Bicentennial Fellow and again in 2005-2006, under a "We the People" initiative. She is the author of American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People (Kansas, 1998), has edited The Essential Jefferson (Hackett, 2006) and, her most recent book, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2012), won the Richard E. Neustadt Award for 2013 (awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for the best book on the presidency).
Dr. Yarbrough is currently serving out her term as a member of the National Council on the Humanities, a board of twenty-six distinguished private citizens appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. For many decades, she has served as a conscientious and dedicated teacher, a tireless mentor to many generations of students, a public-spirited patriot, and a scholar who has enriched our understanding of the American Founding and the development of the American regime.
Dr. Yarbrough received the prize at a private dinner on December 14th in New York City. She will deliver her Salvatori Prize speech during the Claremont Institute’s 2022 Spring alumni retreat.
