Arts of Leading

Edward Brooks is executive director of the Oxford Character Project and director of the Programme for Global Leadership in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is also cofounder of Oxford's SDG Impact Lab and coeditor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Literature and Character Education in Universities (2022). Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, executive director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest University. He is also an associate fellow of the Oxford Character Project and author of A Commonwealth of Hope (2022) and coeditor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Everyday Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2019). Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford. She is a founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, and internationally known for her research in the anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire.

• ForewordLeading Stories and Stories of LeadersElleke BoehmerIntroductionHumanizing Leadership: Reimagining Leadership as a Liberal ArtEdward Brooks and Michael LambPART I. CLASSICS1. Conversant Leadership: Ciceronian Ideas for Our Precarious AgeJoy Connolly2. Tragedies of Leadership: Sophocles, Aristotle, and Shakespeare on TyrannyEdith HallPART II. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION3. Leadership Lessons from Plato's RepublicNoah Lopez4. Mosaic LeadershipAlan Mittleman5. Just Leadership in Early Islam: The Teachings and Practice of Imam AliTahera Qutbuddin6. Women's Work and the Question of LeadershipMarla FrederickPART III. LITERATURE7. Shakespeare, His Books, and LeadershipJohn Miles8. Crooked Politics: Shakespeare's Richard III and Leadership in the Twenty-First-Century United StatesKristin M. S. BezioPART IV. HISTORY9. Lincoln and Leadership in a Racist DemocracyPaul Escott10. Leadership from the Ground: Enslaved People and the Civil WarThavolia GlymphPART V. VISUAL ARTS11. Leadership in Bronze: Boston's Shaw Memorial and the Battle over Civil War MemoryDavid M. Lubin12. Visual Leadership: The Power of Art in the Obama PresidencyGwendolyn DuBois ShawPART VI. PERFORMING ARTS13. "O Clap Your Hands!": Leadership Lessons from the Experience of MusicPegram Harrison14. Acting to Uncover: Theater and Inclusive LeadershipMelissa Jones BriggsConclusionDemos and Deep Democracy: Leadership, the Humanities, and a New HumanCorey D. B. WalkerList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex