Wilson Center Distinguished Fellow alumnus Bruce Jentleson, currently the William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University, is being honored with the 2020 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (ADUTA). The annual student-selected award sponsored by the Alumni Association recognizes a Duke professor who has excelled as a teacher, advisor and leader of undergraduate students.

As befits a Wilson scholar, Jentleson is both a leading scholar and a policy practitioner. He served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore in his 2000 presidential campaign, in the Clinton administration State Department, and as a foreign policy aide to Senators Gore and Dave Durenberger. He served as senior advisor to the U.S. State Department policy planning director from 2009 to 2011. In 2015-2016, Jentleson was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. 

While in residence at the Wilson Center, he worked on his most recent book, “The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from 20th Century Statesmanship” (April 2018, W.W. Norton).