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Abolafia, Jacob* | Bar Ilan University, Israel
Allen, Danielle* | Harvard University, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation
Almeida Nevin, Stephanie* | Yale University, Citizens Thinkers Writers
Antepli, Abdullah* | Duke University
Abdullah Antepli is the Director of Polis: Center for Politics and the Civil Discourse Project and an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy and of Interfaith Relations in the Divinity School. A globally recognized leader in interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue, he is a Muslim-American imam and scholar of faith, ethics, and public policy who brings rich intellectual, ethnic, and cultural diversity to academia.
Anthony Chen, Collin* | Stanford University, Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Program, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
Collin Anthony Chen is a political philosopher by training who directs programs and fellowships for students centered around civil disagreement and dialogue at Stanford's Center for Ethics in Society.
Arcenas, Scott* | University of Montana
Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline* | University of Virginia, Karsh Institute of Democracy
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Jackie Arthur-Montagne is a Classics professor and core faculty member of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia. She is currently researching how the history of Classical Greece and Athenian democracy was taught in post-democratic contexts of the Roman Empire, and she routinely teaches a role-immersion and debate-centered course on fifth century BCE Athens.
Atkins, Jed* | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Avnur, Yuval | Scripps College
Avramenko, Richard* | Arizona State University
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Bagg, Sam* | University of South Carolina
Bailey, Jeremy* | University of Oklahoma, Institute for American Constitutional Heritage
Jeremy D. Bailey is Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. His teaching and research interests include the political thought of the American founding and early republic, as well as constitutional controversies concerning executive power.
Balot, Ryan* | University of Toronto
Ryan Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of Toronto. He regularly teaches the history of political thought, with a focus on citizenship, civic education, and the political virtues.
Barma, Naazneen* | University of Denver, Scrivner Institute of Public Policy
Naazneen H. Barma is the Scrivner Professor of Public Policy and the founding Director of the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies. She is a political scientist with a particular interest in how the interaction between the state and society shapes public policy, collective action, and civic engagement around the world.
Bartsch, Shadi* | University of Chicago
Battistoni, Rick | Providence College
Rick Battistoni has been involved, as a teacher and scholar, in core questions of civic education and engagement (including community engagement work) for over forty years. He helped create a civic engagement proficiency requirement in Providence College’s core curriculum, and has written texts and edited anthologies in the area of democratic civic education.
Bednar, Jenna* | University of Michigan
Beerbohm, Eric* | Harvard University, Edmond & Lily Center for Ethics
Beienburg, Sean* | Arizona State University
Sean Beienburg is an associate professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, where he focuses on American constitutional development and helped design SCETL's course offerings that meet the state's American Institutions general education civics requirement. At SCETL he has served as the Director of its Center for American Civics, which is SCETL's outreach arm focusing on developing k-12 and citizen-focused curricular materials as well as undertaking teaching trainings on American constitutionalism, all of which can be found at civics.asu.edu.
Bell, David | Princeton University
Bendor, Jonathan* | Stanford Graduate School of Business
Bennion, Elizabeth | Indiana University South Bend
Berkowitz, Peter* | Stanford University
Binder, Amy* | Johns Hopkins University, SNF Agora Institute
Amy J. Binder is SNF Agora Professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She studies education from a political, organizational, and cultural perspective, with a particular focus on how universities influence students’ political and career pathways.
Bowman, Matt* | Zephyr Institute
Matt Bowman runs the Zephyr Institute, which offers programming at the intersection of philosophy and current events, and supports civics education initiatives within Stanford University. Prior to founding Zephyr, Matt cofounded EdSurge, a news source for education technology, and worked in various innovative inner-city education programs.
Boyagoda, Randy* | University of Toronto, Civil Discourse Project
Brogdon, Matthew* | Utah Valley University, Center for Constitutional Studies
Bullock, Graham* | Davidson College, Deliberative Citizenship Initiative
Graham Bullock is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Faculty Director of the Deliberative Citizenship Initiative (DCI) at Davidson College. He teaches courses on American politics, environmental politics, citizenship, and leadership, and leads the DCI’s efforts to create spaces for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members to engage with each other on contentious issues facing society both inside and outside the classroom.
Burns, Daniel* | University of Dallas
Burns, Jennifer* | Stanford University
Jennifer Burns is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Burns’ current research interests center on the history of economic thought, the origins of the administrative state, and the future of liberalism in a populist age. Burns regularly teaches courses on the American intellectual tradition, ethical and political debates about capitalism, and Stanford’s required course on citizenship for first year students.
Burton, Robert* | Utah Valley University, Civic Thought and Leadership Initiative
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Busch, Elizabeth* | Christopher Newport University
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Campa, Naomi* | The University of Texas at Austin
Naomi T. Campa is an assistant professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. An intellectual historian and political theorist, she studies and teaches on the development of “big ideas” in classical Greece, such as freedom, citizenship, and migration, and on the consequences those ideas had on real people.
Campbell, David* | University of Notre Dame, Democracy Initiative
David Campbell is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, and the director of the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative. His research has focused on civic engagement, including how education and religion shape civil society. At Notre Dame, he developed the lecture Keeping The Republic and teaches Religion In American Politics; his most recent book is See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People.
Canes-Wrone, Brandice* | Stanford University; Center for Revitalizing American Institutions at the Hoover Institution
Carnes, Mark* | Barnard College
Carpenter, Daniel | Harvard University, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS)
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Carrell, Scott | University of Texas at Austin, School of Civic Leadership
Scott Carrell is EAC Chair of Economics and the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a labor economist who specializes in the economics of higher education, particularly college access and persistence. He has ongoing work examining the impact of civic education on the civic engagement of high school students.
Carrese, Paul* | Arizona State University
Professor and founding Director of the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University; now also Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership, Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles & History. Charter member of new American Political Science Association standing Committee on Civic Education; Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution Center for Revitalizing American Institutions, 2025; co-author of Educating for American Democracy report (2021) on K-12 civics; civilian professor at U.S. Air Force Academy, 1998-2016.
Chenjeri, Prakash | Southern Oregon University
Prakash Chenjeri is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Oregon University. His passion and teaching focus on understanding the concept of citizenship. He has designed and taught courses like Science, Democracy, and Citizenship; Civicus: Advancing Civic Education. He co-directs the Democracy Project.
Clark, Mary* | University of Denver
Collins, Susan | University of Notre Dame
Susan D. Collins is Associate Professor of Political Science, concurrent with Classics, at the University of Notre Dame. Her work in ancient political thought focuses on questions of constitutionalism and seeks to bring the insights of the classical tradition to bear on modern debates about political order.
Conti, Greg* | Princeton University
Gregory Conti is associate professor of politics at Princeton University. He is a political theorist and historian of political thought, and a contributor to various public-facing outlets.
Coyne, Bryan* | Stanford University, Stanford Civics Initiative
Crandall, Matthew | Southern Virginia University
Matthew Crandall is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Virginia University. He teaches courses on topics such as America and the Enlightenment and transatlantic cooperation. His published research has examined the foreign and security policies of small states.
Crane, David | Grand Valley State University
Culp, Jonathan | University of Toledo, Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership
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Decosimo, David* | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duff, Alexander | University of Austin at Texas, School of Civic Leadership
Dunn, Joshua* | University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Institute of American Civics
Dyer, Justin* | University of Texas at Austin
Justin Dyer is dean of the School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin. He writes and teaches in the fields of American political thought, jurisprudence and constitutionalism, with an emphasis on the perennial philosophical tradition of natural law.
Dym, Abigail | Providence College
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Edelstein, Dan* | Stanford University, Stanford Introductory Studies
Englert, Gianna* | University of Florida, Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Gianna Englert is an Associate Professor in the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses in PPE + Law and the Great Books. Gianna's research is in the history of liberal democracy, with a particular focus on citizenship and political membership.
Etchemendy, John* | Stanford University
Evrigenis, Ioannis* | Claremont McKenna College
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Farrell, Henry* | John Hopkins University, SNF Agora Institute
Finn, Chester E., Jr.* | Fordham Institute and Hoover Institution
Forsdyke, Sara* | University of Michigan
Fortier, Jeremy | Ohio State University
Jeremy Fortier is Assistant Director for Academic Affairs in the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University. His article "Why to be a Civic Constitutionalist" was published in Critical Review in 2023.
Foster, Luke* | Hillsdale College
Luke Foster teaches Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC campus, where his research examines the civic role of the university in forming leaders as an aristocratic element with democracy. He is interested in the long history of mutual influence between French and American constitutionalism, and he has developed a summer seminar to introduce American students to neglected traditions of French political thought.
Frankel, Steven | Xavier University, Stephen S. Smith Center
Steven Frankel is a professor of philosophy and the executive director of the Stephen S. Smith Center at Xavier University. He also directs the Smith Scholars honors program which focuses on political economy. His most recent book, Commerce and Character, explores some of the most important minds behind the new political economy of the American Founding.
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Garsten, Bryan* | Yale University
Bryan Garsten, a political theorist at Yale University, studies the history of political thought about the conditions for a healthy politics of persuasion. At Yale he co-founded the Yale Center for Civic Thought and the Citizens Thinkers Writers program.
George, Robert* | Princeton University
Gienapp, Jonathan* | Stanford University
Gilhooley, Simon* | Bard College
Gismondi, Adam* | Harvard Graduate School of Education, Democratic Knowledge Project
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Gonzalez, Michael* | University of Toledo, Ohio, The Institute of American Constitutional Thought & Leadership
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Gordon, Daniel | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Daniel Gordon, a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was a founding faculty member of the Commonwealth Honors College, for which he designed the required first-year seminar, "Ideas that Changed the World." The course introduces students to fundamental texts and questions in ethics and politics.
Gordon, Deborah* | Stanford University, Department of Biology
Deborah M. Gordon is a professor in Biology at Stanford whose research is on collective behavior, in ants and other natural systems. Unlike ants, people need some understanding of their civic life to participate effectively, and she is interested in how our teaching could include the basic biology underlying issues related to climate, biodiversity, public health and food security.
Graeff, Erhardt | Olin College of Engineering
Green, Jeff* | University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Edward Green is Professor of Political Science and Andrea Mitchell Endowed Director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently working on a book project on civics education. His previous books include: The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship, The Shadow of Unfairness: A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy, and Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God.
Green, Kenneth | University of Toronto
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Ha, Polly* | Duke University
Hay, William Anthony* | Arizona State University, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership
Hankins, James* | Harvard University
Hersh, Eitan | Tufts University
Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science and director of the Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education, at Tufts University. His research interests include elections and civic behavior; he teaches courses on elections, technology and politics, and conservatism.
Hitz, Zena* | Saint John's College
Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis and founder and president of the Catherine Project, an open online community for the study of great books. She is the author of Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (2020).
Hoekstra, Kinch* | University of California, Berkeley
Hoggan-Kloubert, Tetyana | University of Augsburg
Hoggan, Chad | North Carolina State University
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Igo, Sarah* | Vanderbilt University; Dialogue Vanderbilt, Open Dialogue Fellows Program, A&S College Core
Sarah E. Igo is the Andrew Jackson Chair of American History at Vanderbilt University and a cultural and intellectual historian of the modern U.S., with a focus on the politics of knowledge and the texture of public life. She has been deeply involved in initiatives ranging from general education reform to the future of the liberal arts and currently serves as Faculty Director of Dialogue Vanderbilt, a campus-wide effort to promote open inquiry.
Inboden, William* | University of Florida, Alexander Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Ingram, Jill* | University of Florida, Hamilton Center
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Jaworski, Taylor | University of Colorado, Boulder
Taylor Jaworski is an economist and economic historian. He is an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he also directs the Bruce D. Benson Center.
Jiang, Dongxian* | Fordham University
Dongxian Jiang is a normative political theorist and intellectual historian specializing in comparative political theory and the history of Asian, Chinese, and Confucian political thought, with a particular interest in the defenses and critiques of democracy in the Chinese context. His teaching in these areas aims to offer students a global perspective on fundamental political concepts and pressing normative issues.
Johnston, Savannah Eccles | Utah Valley University
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Katz, Joshua | American Enterprise Institute
Joshua T. Katz is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of Classics at Princeton University, where he was also a faculty associate of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Katz has received numerous awards for his wide-ranging research and teaching and for his commitment to free speech and academic freedom.
Katz, Vikki* | Chapman University, Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Free Speech
Kedrowski, Karen | Iowa State University
Keilson, Ana* | Gull Island Institute
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The Gull Island Institute was founded in 2022 with a mission is to cultivate democratic citizenship and reinvent liberal arts learning for an age of climate change. Featuring a three “pillared” approach to education through rigorous academics, physical labor, and student self-governance, we run tuition-free programs on remote islands off Cape Cod and in partnership with public and private universities, colleges, and Community Colleges nationwide.
Kimbrough, Erik* | Chapman University
Kirkpatrick, David C. | James Madison University
Dr. David Kirkpatrick (PhD, University of Edinburgh) serves as Vice President and Chief of Staff in the Office of the President at James Madison University, where he is also a tenured associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Dr. Kirkpatrick oversees JMU’s work in civic engagement and freedom of thought, and has written multiple books that explore the intersections of politics, religion, and social movements.
Klingele, Cecelia | University of Wisconsin–Madison, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy
Kloos, Karina* | Stanford University, ePluribus Stanford
Knibbenberg, Joseph | Oglethorpe University
Knight, Jack* | Duke University
Knippenberg, Joseph | Oglethorpe University
Kochin, Michael | Tel Aviv University
Kotkin, Stephen* | Hoover Institution, Hoover History Lab
Kumar, Aishwary* | California State Polytechnic University, The Democracy Institute; The GIFT Project; Ahimsa Center
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Lamb, Michael* | Wake Forest University, Program for Leadership and Character
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Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, Senior Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University and an Associate Fellow with the Oxford Character Project. His teaching and research focus on leadership, character, and the role of the virtues in public life.
Landgrave, Michelangelo | University of Colorado, Boulder
Michelangelo Landgrave is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the founding Director of the Barney Ford Lab for Civic Thought and Engagement at CU-Boulder.
Landauer, Matthew* | University of Chicago
Lane, Melissa* | Princeton University
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Levine, Peter* | Tufts University
In the domain of civic education, Levine was a co-organizer and co-author of The Civic Mission of Schools (2003), The College, Career & Citizenship Framework for State Social Studies Standards (2013) and The Educating for American Democracy Roadmap (2021). He helped to found and then led CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Levy, Jacob* | McGill University
Jacob T. Levy is the Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and associated faculty in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the founder and coordinator of McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies, whose Charles Taylor Student Fellowship is devoted to an intensive non-credit yearlong reading group of major works in the history of political, moral, and social thought.
Lewis, Dallin | Southern Virginia University
Lewis, Hyrum | Brigham Young University - Idaho
Lewis, Verlan | Utah Valley University; Jack Miller Center
Verlan Lewis is the Stirling Professor of Constitutional Studies at UVU, where he researches, teaches, and writes about American political thought and institutions. His recent co-authored book, The Myth of Left and Right, shows how the familiar left-right political spectrum harms America by undermining civil discourse and constitutional government in the United States.
Liu, Glory* | Georgetown University
Glory M. Liu is a political theorist at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute. Her research focuses on the history of political and economic thought. She currently teaches a course, “Social Theories of the Economy,” which aims to situate theories of economic life in broader debates about modernity, markets, and democracy.
Livingstone, David* | Vancouver Island University
Lombardini, John* | College of William & Mary
John Lombardini is a political theorist whose work focuses on the history of political thought in ancient Greece, Rome, and China. He directs the Global Political Theory project at William & Mary, a joint-research project between faculty and students that seeks to develop pedagogical resources for offering more globally-informed civic education courses.
Longo, Nick* | Providence College
Nicholas Longo is chair and professor of Global Studies and co-director of the Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy Lab at Providence College. He focuses on creating spaces for young people to practice democracy and welcomes the chance to collaborate on educating the next generation of democratic citizens.
Ly, Minh* | University of Vermont
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Ma, John* | Columbia University
MacArt, Theresa | Holy Cross College
Theresa MacArt serves as an Assistant Professor and acting Academic Director of Politics and Public Service at Holy Cross College. Previously was an Assistant Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. While her primary interest is in ancient and medieval political philosophy, she teaches courses in American government, American political thought, civic friendship, and Catholic social thought as well.
Macedo, Stephen* | Princeton University
Mackil, Emily* | University of California, Berkeley
Marchland, Suzanne | Louisiana State University
Suzanne Marchand is professor of European intellectual history at Louisiana State University and President Elect of the American Historical Association. Her research treats the afterlife of classical and biblical antiquity and her teaching regularly treats major works of political theory.
Matto, Elizabeth C | Rutgers University
Elizabeth C. Matto is a Research Professor and teacher-scholar-practitioner of democratic education and serves as the Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Matto earned her Ph.D. in American Politics from George Washington University and is a recipient of the Harry S. Truman Award (Nevada, 1990). She has held leadership roles both within the American Political Science Association and at Rutgers University in furthering civic learning and democratic engagement and in creating a campus culture for active citizenship.
Maymí-Sugrañes, Hector | Western Illinois University
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McConnell, Michael* | Stanford Law School
McConnell teaches courses on constitutional law and constitutional history, including courses cross-listed with the history and political science departments and open to undergraduates.
McCormick, John* | University of Chicago, Program in Law, Letters, and Society
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John P. McCormick gives annual lectures on the writings and careers of Niccolò Machiavelli and Saul Alinsky in the University of Chicago's Civic Leadership Academy, a program for Chicago area municipal officials and community organizers.
McDavid, Brennan* | Chapman University, Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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McMahon, Darrin | Dartmouth College
McQueen, Alison* | Stanford University
Alison McQueen is a political theorist and historian of political thought whose work explores themes of religion, catastrophe, and treason in the history of political ideas. She teaches courses on modern Western political thought, political freedom, and citizenship. Through close engagement with canonical texts, McQueen encourages students to practice interpretive charity, wrestle with conflicting perspectives, and reflect critically on their own political beliefs.
Meredith, Thomas | Santa Clara University
Thomas Meredith is a Lecturer in Political Science at Santa Clara University, specializing in political philosophy with teaching interests in American Political Thought and Civic Constitutionalism. He is currently organizing "Reclaiming the Declaration: Civic Renewal in the 21st Century," a speaker series focused on rethinking democratic citizenship and renewing civic life and institutions.
Merrill, Thomas* | American University, The Civic Life and Lincoln Scholars
Moatti, Claudia | University of Southern California
Molle, Andrea* | Chapman University
Morgan, Demetri* | University of Michigan
Demetri L. Morgan is an Associate Professor at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on how higher education institutions can enhance democracy by fostering student political engagement and promoting effective governance practices within colleges and universities.
Morison, Melissa | Grand Valley State University
Melissa G. Morison is a Classics and Anthropology professor specializing in the archaeology of cross-cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean, with a particular interest in the role of public space and place-making in consensus-building and democratic discourse. She regularly engages students with these issues, in a variety of classes across the curriculum.
Moshier, Drew* | Chapman University
Moyar, Dean* | Johns Hopkins University
Muirhead, Russell* | Dartmouth College
Muravchik, Stephanie | Claremont McKenna College
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Nahoe, Francisco | Zaytuna College
Fr Francisco Nahoe OFMConv is Franciscan friar and a Catholic priest. He teaches the Trivium Seminars in Grammar and Rhetoric, and seminars in Politics and Principles of Democracy at Zaytuna College, a Muslim Great Books institution in Berkeley.
Newell, Waller* | Carleton University, College of the Humanities
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Waller R. Newell is Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Humanities at Carleton University, where he co-founded the College of the Humanities, Canada’s only four-year B.A. in the Great Books. His teaching and research focus on the history of political ideas, with a special emphasis on the history of liberal education from ancient to modern times, the meaning of manly virtue and great political leadership. He is currently writing a book for Cambridge University Press on the modern project for the conquest of nature.
Nordenson, Guy* | Princeton University
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Ober, Josiah* | Stanford University, Stanford Civics Initiative
Josiah Ober is the Director of the Stanford Civics Initiative and chairs the Executive Committee of the ACA. His scholarship and teaching focuses on political theory and practice, ancient and modern.
Oshatz, Molly | Zephyr Institute
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Through the Zephyr Institute, Molly runs summer camps for high school juniors and seniors and college freshmen on topics including political philosophy and ethics, all of which promote civil discourse and an attention to first principles.
Owen, Diana | Georgetown University
Owens, Ryan* | Florida State University, Florida Institute for Governance and Civics
Ryan Owens is the Director of the Institute for Governance and Civics. Through research, teaching, and programming, the Institute aims to be the nation's premier policy institute in preparing students to be responsible leaders and effective citizens.
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Pazdernik, Charles* | Grand Valley State University
Peart, Susan | University of Richmond, Jepson School of Leadership Studies
Sandra J. Peart is a historian of economics and dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the first undergraduate school of its kind dedicated to educating the ethical, effective leaders of tomorrow. Among the school’s signature programs is the Gary L. McDowell Institute, which promotes free inquiry, thoughtful deliberation, and rigorous discussion of classical texts and issues in political economy
Perrin, Andy* | Johns Hopkins University, SNF Agora Institute
Andrew J. Perrin is SNF Agora Professor and Chair of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on higher education's role in preparing young people for civic life, including survey research on students' attitudes and experiences as well as curriculum design for civic education.
Pessin, Sarah* | University of Denver
Pettit, Philip* | Princeton University
Philip Pettit is a Professor of Human Values at Princeton and of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is particularly interested in the grounding and development of a neo-republican or civic republican political philosophy that prioritizes freedom as a status, available to people under a suitable system of law, that secures them economically, socially and politically in the enjoyment of a rich range basic liberties.
Pfeffer Merrill, Jacqueline | Council of Independent College
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill is Senior Director of the Civic Learning and Free Expression Projects at the Council of Independent Colleges and Vice President of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. A political scientist, earlier in her career she served on the faculties of the College of William & Mary and St. John’s College (Annapolis).
Pickus, Noah* | Duke University
Pinkoski, Nathan* | University of Florida, Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Proctor, Nicolas | Simpson College
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Reisert, Joseph | Colby College
Joseph Reisert teaches American constitutional law and the history of political thought; his scholarly work focuses on civic virtues and vices, and the theoretical foundations of liberal constitutionalism.
Reynolds, Justin* | Gull Island Institute
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Rose, John* | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
John Rose is a professor of practice who teaches classes on civil discourse. He also directs the Morehead-Cain Scholarship Foundation’s Dialogue and Discourse Program.
Rothschild, Jennifer* | Wake Forest University, Educating Character Initiative
Rothwell, Kenneth* | University of Massachusetts Boston
Prof. Rothwell, who has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1996, received his BA from the University of Vermont (1977) PhD from Columbia University (1985). His research focuses on Aristophanes and political satire in the Athenian democracy, and he teaches courses on political thought and the intellectual life of the ancient world
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Saunders-Hastings, Emma* | Ohio State University
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Schnaubelt, Tom* | Stanford University; Hoover Institution, Center for Revitalizing American Institutions
Schwartz, Avshalom* | Southern Methodist University
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Avshalom Schwartz is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at SMU. His research focuses on the role of imagination in the history of political thought and its implications for past and present democratic politics. In particular, he is interested in how imagination can help us to overcome the problem of epistemic fragmentation and disagreement within the contemporary crises of liberal democracy and foster shared civic identity, collective action, and a commitment to the project of collective self-governance
Seider, Scott* | Boston College
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Scott Seider is a professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at Boston College where his research program focuses on the role of schools in fostering youth civic development. He is the co-author of numerous academic publications on youth civic development including Educating for Justice (2025) and Schooling for Critical Consciousness (2020).
Shaffer, Timothy* | University of Delaware, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
Shelley, Trevor* | Arizona State University
Shields, Jon | Claremont McKenna College
Jon A. Shields is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on contentious issues. His research mainly focuses on American conservatism as well as the politics of higher education.
Sigalet, Geoffrey* | University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Sihang Luo, Simon | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Simon Sihang Luo is a political theorist at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Civics Initiative. His teaching, covering topics such as the Cold War, contemporary China, and political memory, focuses on making sense of the self-understanding of citizens and political actors across the world as an integral part of civic training.
Simonton, Matt* | Arizona State University
Simpson, Dick | University of Illinois Chicago
Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department University of Illinois Chicago. Co-editor or co-author of Teaching Civic Engagement; Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines; and Teaching Civic Engagement Globally (published by the American Political Science Association and available for free on their website). Governor Appointee on the Illinois 250 Commission planning commemorations in the state of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence.
Siu, Alice | Stanford University
Alice Siu is the Associate Director of the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab. One of her passions is developing programs that enhance civic engagement and promote inclusive dialogues within diverse communities.
Slate, Daniel | University of Notre Dame
Daniel Slate is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and Faculty Affiliate of the AITAR and HRAI Labs of the Lucy Family Data & Society Institute. His current research focuses on how the law should govern artificial intelligence during times of emergency and crisis, and his teaching emphasizes how citizens and legislators conceptualize and weigh fundamental civic values such as privacy, freedom of expression, security, and transparency.
Smith, Scott* | University of New Hampshire, Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project
R. Scott Smith is Professor of Classics and director of the Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project. While his research focuses on the Greek mythical storyworld (he is co-director of a digital database of myth), he is interested in increasing civics education through curriculum, program building, and community outreach.
Smith, Thomas* | The Catholic University of America
Staiano-Daniels, Lucian | Hoover Institution, Applied History Working Group
Stasavage, David* | New York University
Steinmetz, Alicia* | Florida International University
Stilz, Anna* | University of California, Berkeley
Stoner, James* | Louisiana State University, Eric Voegelin Institute
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James R. Stoner, Jr., is director of the Eric Voegelin Institute, which in February 2020 hosted the convening of the working group that produced the "Educating for American Democracy" Roadmap. He is author of "Civic Thought and Political Science" in National Affairs, Winter 2025.
Storey, Ben* | American Enterprise Institute
Storey, Jenna* | American Enterprise Institute
Jenna Silber Storey is a Senior Fellow in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Division of the American Enterprise Institute, and Co-Director of AEI’s Center for the Future of the American University. Her writing has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, First Things, and National Affairs, and she is currently working on a book with Benjamin Storey titled The Art of Choosing: How Liberal Education Should Prepare You for Life.
Strachan Ph.D., J. Cherie | The University of Akron
Strang, Lee* | Ohio State University, the Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society
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Lee J. Strang is the inaugural executive director of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society. Professor Strang is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has published dozens of articles in leading journals in constitutional law and interpretation, and natural law.
Strauss, Barry* | Hoover Institution
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Sullivan, Thomas* | University of Vermont
Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew* | Wesleyan University
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak has an online course, "The Ancient Greeks," (on Coursera) which currently has a world-wide enrollment of some 114,000. He has also taught Greek History in a high-security men's prison, where he is now teaching another course, "Democracy and its Discontents."
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Tabachnick, David* | Nipissing University
David Edward Tabachnick is Professor of Political Science at Nipissing University. Along with his colleagues, he is organizing The National Summit on Civic Education in his native Canada. In his newest book, The Leisure Ethic: The End of Work and the Return to Virtue (University of Toronto Press, 2026), he calls for the renewal of civic and liberal education in the university.
Tahk, Alexander | University of Wisconsin–Madison, Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership
Taliaferro, Karen* | University of Florida Gainesville, Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Tagliabue, Aldo | University of Notre Dame
ten Berge, Margaret | Grand Valley State University
Theobald, Rebecca | University of Colorado Colorado Springs, GeoCivics
Rebecca Theobald is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She studies the intersection of civic participation and geographic frameworks, and developed GeoCivics, a project activating students and community members to analyze and discuss district maps at local, state, and federal levels through understanding the electoral redistricting process.
Thompson, Alison* | University of Toronto
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Throntveit, Tryg* | Minnesota Humanities Center
Trygve Throntveit is a historian, civic theorist, and designer of participatory public humanities programs working with the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Institute for Public Life and Work, and colleges and universities across the United States. In the student civic learning realm, he focuses on curricular design and faculty professional development aimed at fostering the civic character and agency of undergraduates, particularly through his direction of the Third Way Civics initiative (3WC).
Trepanier, Lee | Assumption College
Lee Trepanier is dean of the D’Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Assumption University. He is author and editor of several books and served as director of several civic education programs for high school teachers and students. He is also editor of Bloomsbury's book series, Politics, Literature, and Film
Treul Roberts, Sarah* | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tweel, Tamara | The Teagle Foundation
Tamara Mann Tweel is a Senior Program Director at The Teagle Foundation specializing in civic initiatives. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Jack Miller Center, The Board of Advisors of the Moynihan Center at City College, and the Board of Directors of PACE: Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement.
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Vinnakota, Rajiv* | Institute for Citizens & Scholars
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Visvardi, Eirene* | Wesleyan University
Volokh, Eugene* | Hoover Institution
Eugene Volokh spent 30 years as a professor at UCLA School of Law, mostly focusing on the First Amendment, with sidelines in tort law, criminal law, firearms regulation policy, and law and technology. He is also the creator of Free Speech Rules, a 10-episode series of short graphical videos aimed at teaching free speech law to junior high school, high school, and college students; and he is the cofounder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading law blog.
von Heyking, John* | University of Lethbridge
Since August 2025, I am Associate Director and Professor at the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. As a political theorist, civic education and citizenship are key research and teaching concerns, especially the idea of civic friendship which I explored in my book, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (2016). Prior to my time at SCETL, I advocated for civics schools to be instituted at Canadian universities and helped develop a civics curriculum for a K—12 classical charter school.
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Wahl, Rachel* | University of Virginia
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Rachel Wahl is an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development and Director of the Good Life Political Project at the Karsh Institute of Democracy. Her research and teaching focus on learning through public dialogue between people on opposing sides of political divides.
Wilder, Colin* | University of South Carolina
Colin Wilder is associate professor of European history at the University of South Carolina. His research and teaching focus on the development of classical European liberalism, republicanism, and capitalism. His book, Property and the German Idea of Freedom (https://brill.com/display/title/69265?language=enwas) published in 2024 by Brill.
Wilson, Terri S. | University of Colorado, Boulder
Terri S. Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. A philosopher of education, Wilson employs interdisciplinary methodological approaches to explore the moral and political complexity of education policy, with a focus on school choice and parent/student rights.
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Yarborough, Jean* | Bowdoin College
Jean M. Yarbrough is Gary M. Pendy, Sr., Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Government at Bowdoin College, where she teaches Political Philosophy and American Political Thought. She has written on Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt and is currently at work on Alexis de Tocqueville and select American presidents.
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Zeiger, Hans | Jack Miller Center
Hans Zeiger is president of the Jack Miller Center, a nonprofit educational venture that empowers scholars to advance the teaching of the American political tradition. Hans previously served in the Washington State legislature and helped to pass the state’s half-credit civics graduation requirement.
Zook, Melinda* | Purdue University
Melinda S. Zook is the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History and Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts at Purdue University. Her research focuses on early modern British political thought and modern American higher education.
*charter members