Danielle Allen is UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Allen received a B.A. (1993) from Princeton University, an M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. (1994) and Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Cambridge. Previously she was a Member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and had been affiliated with the University since 1997.While there, she curated the exhibit "Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago 1870-1940." She is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (2004) and numerous articles on topics ranging from ancient poetry to Plato to bees to Ralph Ellison and September 11th. Allen is a 2001 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Allen is an ex officio member of the IHC Board.