Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill joined CIC in 2024. She is the director of the Campus Free Expression Project, a project she launched at the Bipartisan Policy Center and brought to CIC in 2024. Earlier in her career, she was on the faculties of College of William & Mary (VA) and St. John’s College (MD). She has also taught at the University of Calgary (Canada), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), and in the college program at Maryland’s only prison for women. Pfeffer Merrill serves as a trustee of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and is a member of the Virginia 250 Education Steering Committee. She earned a BA at the University of Calgary and an MA and PhD from Duke University.