Harvey Mansfield

Harvey Mansfield
Mansfield in March 2017
Born	Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (1932-03-21) March 21, 1932 (age 92) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Harvard University (BA, PhD)
Occupation	William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government
Notable work	Manliness (2006)
Children	3
Awards	National Humanities Medal Guggenheim Fellowship Bradley Prize Philip Merrill Award
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007.

Mansfield is a scholar of political history, and was greatly influenced by Leo Strauss.^[1] He is also the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Mansfield is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. At Harvard, he became one of the university's most prominent conservative figures. In 2023, he retired from teaching as one of the university's longest-serving faculty members.^[2]

His notable former students include: Mark Blitz, James Ceaser, Tom Cotton,^[3] Andrew Sullivan,^[4] Charles R. Kesler, Alan Keyes, William Kristol,^[5] Clifford Orwin, Paul Cantor, Mark Lilla, Francis Fukuyama, Sharon Krause, Bruno Maçães, and Shen Tong.