Michael Kochin and Kay Philippakis

Michael S. Kochin is Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. He is author of Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art (Penn State University Press, 2009), and with the historian Michael Taylor, An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States (University of Michigan Press, 2020).

Katherine A. Philippakis is chair of the Wine Industry Group at Farella Braun + Martell, and has served as President of the Napa County Bar Association and as Chair of the St. Helena (California) Planning Commission. She received her AB in Government from Harvard, Masters degrees in political philosophy from St. Andrews and Oxford, and a J.D. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Arizona State.