Political Studies Program

Kevin Kambo is an associate professor of philosophy at The University of Dallas. He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Platonic psychology. He also has scholarly interest in philosophy of technology, liberal education, and philosophy and literature.

Benjamin Storey is a Ravenel Curry Chair in Civic Thought, senior fellow in Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and co-director of AEI’s Center for the Future of the American University. He is concurrently an SNF Agora Fellow and a research fellow at the Civitas Institute.

Daniel Burns is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas. His research in political philosophy focuses on the relation between religion and citizenship. He has recently served as a staffer for the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee and as a full-time contractor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Jacob Howland has published five books and roughly 60 scholarly articles and review essays on the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Kierkegaard, the Talmud, the Holocaust, ideological tyranny, and other subjects. His most recent book is Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic.

Jenna Silber Storey is a Ravenel Curry Chair in Civic Thought, senior fellow in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and co-director of AEI’s Center for the Future of the American University. She is concurrently an SNF Agora Fellow, and a research fellow at the Civitas Institute.

Dorothea Israel Wolfson is Managing Director of the Hertog Foundation. Previously, she was Director of the Master of Arts in Government Program at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests center on democracy and American political thought, and she has published on Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, and John Locke.

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is one of the world’s preeminent Jewish thinkers and educators, and he’s one of America’s most influential religious leaders. He is the senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He is also director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured internationally to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to faith in America, the Hebraic roots of the American founding, Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, Jewish-Christian relations, and more.

Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. He is Yale’s only currently active professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown — the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching, and the Lamar Award for alumni service. He hosts a weekly podcast, Amarica’s Constitution.

Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.

Diana Schaub is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where her work is focused on American political thought and history, particularly Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, and Montesquieu. Concurrently, she is Professor Emerita of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland.

Matthew Continetti is the director of domestic policy studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his work is focused on American political thought and history, particularly the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.

Flagg Taylor is the Executive Director of the Center for Civics, Culture, & Society, at Miami University. His research specialty is in the history of political thought and American government, especially the question of executive power. He is Chair of the Academic Council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, working primarily on the Policing and Public Safety Initiative, and a contributing editor of City Journal. His work on criminal justice, immigration, and social issues has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Tablet, among other publications.

Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where his work focuses on developing a robust pro-family economic agenda and supporting families as the cornerstone of a healthy and flourishing society. Prior to joining EPPC, Patrick served as a Senior Policy Advisor to Congress’ Joint Economic Committee (JEC).

Daniel Mendelsohn is an author, critic, essayist, translator, Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books, and a teacher of literature at Bard College. Trained in Classics, he has written widely on Greek literature, memoir, theater, film, and contemporary culture.

Anna Bonta Moreland is Professor of Theology in Villanova University’s Department of Humanities and director of the University Honors Program. Her teaching and scholarship range across theology, interreligious dialogue, Thomas Aquinas, comparative theology, and questions of human flourishing.

Russell A. Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His scholarship spans German and comparative literature, cultural theory, religion and culture, the Middle East, and international relations.

Alexander Rosenthal-Pubúl is an online lecturer in political thought at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Data Analytics, Policy, and Government and teaches private courses on Udemy focused on classical and Christian thinkers.

Daniel Schillinger is Lecturer in Political Science and Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Thought at Yale University. He teaches in Directed Studies and works on Greek and early modern political philosophy, including Thucydides, Greek tragedy, Plato, and Hobbes.

Neco Donohue is a doctoral student in political theory at the University of Texas at Austin and editor at large of The Vital Center. His research focuses on early modern and Enlightenment political philosophy, moral judgment, and political psychology.