Hillel Fradkin

Director and Senior Fellow

Hillel Fradkin is the founder and director of the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World and a senior fellow, Hudson Institute.

Prior to joining Hudson, Fradkin was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directed the center's Islam and Democracy program, the Jewish Studies program, and the Foreign Policy program. From 1998 to 2001, Fradkin was the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Prior to his work at AEI, Fradkin served for over a decade as vice president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and before that, as program officer with the John M. Olin Foundation.

Fradkin has a long history of service in higher education. From 1987 to 1998 he was a professor at the University of Chicago; from 1979 to 1986 he was an assistant professor at Barnard College and Columbia University; from 1977 to 1979 he was a visiting instructor at Yale University; and from 1977 to 1979 he was assistant director of the Project on Islamic Thought at the University of Maryland.

Fradkin is the author of numerous scholarly essays on religious and political thought, and is co-editor, with Husain Haqqani and Eric Brown, of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.

He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 1988 to 1994 and a Sergeant, 1st CA Co., 5th Special Forces, in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972.

Fradkin obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic and Jewish thought and history at the University of Chicago, where he was a student of the late Muslim theologian and scholar Fazlur Rahman. He obtained his B.A. in government from Cornell University.

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