G.M. Curtis was a Professor of History at Hanover College and also a Liberty Fund Fellow and Visiting Scholar. Curtis came to Hanover in 1980, after teaching at Montana State University and the College of William and Mary and working as a Research Associate at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the Papers of John Marshall.
[Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20090710012138/https://history.hanover.edu/faculty/curtis.html]
Dr. Grosby received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. His areas of research include the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the relation between religion and nationality, and Social and Political Philosophy. His recent works include Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction (2005), Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern (2002) and the edition and translation of Hans Freyer, Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture (Series in Continental Thought No. 25 1998). He has also edited three volumes of selected writings of Edward Shils, A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas (2007), The Virtue of Civility (1997), and The Calling of Education (1997). His many articles have appeared in journals such as Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, History of Religions, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, Hebraic Political Studies, Azure, and Nations and Nationalism. He has also co-edited Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations (2007) and Nationality and Nationalism–a four volume Reader(2004).
[Source: http://www.clemson.edu/caah/departments/philosophy-religion/people/facultyBio.html?id=253]
Christine Dunn Henderson is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. She received her Ph.D. from Boston College and has taught at Merrimack College and Marshall University. She edited Seers and Judges, a volume of essays on politics and American literature.
[Source: http://oll.libertyfund.org/people/christine-dunn-henderson]
Brandon McGinley writes about faith, culture, and politics from his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in print in National Review, The Human Life Review, Fare Forward, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, and the Pittsburgh Catholic and online at First Things, Public Discourse, The Week, The Federalist, National Review Online, Aleteia, Ethika Politika, Acculturated, and The Imaginative Conservative. He has also contributed to and edited books for Our Sunday Visitor Catholic publishers.
[Source: http://brandonmcginley.com/wp/]
Christopher Burkett is Associate Professor of Political Science and co-chair of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on American political thought, including the American Founding and the Progressive Era. He is editor of 50 Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens (2013), and author of several articles and chapters, including “Remaking the World: Progressivism and American Foreign Policy” (Heritage Foundation, 2013), “James Madison and the Grand Convention: The Great Difficulty of Representation” (in A Blackwell Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, 2012), and “The American Founding and Conservative Foreign Policy Today” (in Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding, 2006). Burkett is also the 2011 recipient of the Edward and Louaine Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award at Ashland University. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ashland University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from the University of Dallas.
[Source: http://ashbrook.org/about/faculty/christopher-burkett/]
Richard M. Gamble (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) is Professor of History and holds the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in History and Politics. His publications include The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation (ISI Books, 2003), The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being (ISI Book, 2007), the chapter on World War I for the Cambridge History of Religions in America (Cambridge UP, 2012), In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth (Continuum, 2012), and a history of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” forthcoming from Cornell University Press. He is currently at work on the first intellectual and religious biography of Julia Ward Howe. His courses, essays, and reviews focus on the history American civil religion and the long argument over the American identity.
Professor William B. Allen is a professor of Political Philosophy at Michigan State University and (for the 2008-09 academic year) Senior Visiting Scholar at the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University. During a 2006-07 sabbatical leave, he served as the Ann & Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His areas of expertise include the American founding and U.S. Constitution; the American founders (particularly George Washington); the influence of various political philosophers (especially Montesquieu) on the American founding; liberal arts education, its history, importance and problems; and the intersection of race and politics.
He served previously on the National Council for the Humanities and as Member and Chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has published extensively, most notably, George Washington: A Collection.His most recent book is George Washington: America’s First Progressive (P. Lang, 2008), and his Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe should appear in the coming year. He previously published Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education (with Carol M. Allen).
Professor Allen has given guest lectures and other presentations on a wide range of topics at locations throughout and beyond the United States. Many of his presentations, as well as his publications, are available on this website.
[Source: http://williambarclayallen.com/]
Michael C. Maibach is a seasoned professional in global business diplomacy, with successful careers at the European-American Business Council, Siebel Systems, the Intel Corporation and Caterpillar, Inc. Today he is a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute 21st Century Manufacturing Program. In addition to the John Jay Institute, Mr. Maibach serves on the Boards of the BritishAmericanBusiness, the Witherspoon Institute, the Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown University, Faith & Law, and on the Advisory Boards of the Institute of World Politics and the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress. Mr. Maibach has published numerous essays on history, society, global trade and competitiveness. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Mr. Maibach studied at Northern Illinois University (B.A. Political Science & History, M.A. Constitutional Law), American University (B.S. International Business), Georgetown University (M.A. Political Philosophy) and the Institute of World Politics (M.A. Statecraft & International Affairs). He has also done post-graduate work at Oxford University and Cambridge University. Mr. Maibach resides in Alexandria, Virginia and is active in lay leadership at Christ the King Anglican Church.
[Source: http://www.johnjayfellows.com/people-file/michaelmaibach]
Frank Buckley is a Foundation Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on Morning Joe, CNN, Rush Limbaugh, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Newsmax, Radio France, the CBC, NPR, and many others.
He is a Senior Editor at The American Spectator, a columnist for the New York Post, and has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, US News, National Review, the American Conservative, the New Criterion, Real Clear Politics, the National Post, the Telegraph, amongst many others.
His most recent books are The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America(Encounter Books, April 2016); The Once and Future King (Encounter Books, 2015); The American Illness (ed., Yale 2013); Fair Governance (Oxford 2009); Just Exchange(Routledge 2005); The Morality of Laughter (Michigan 2003); and The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (ed. Duke 1999). His current project is a book on corruption in America.
He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and has also taught at McGill Law School in Montreal, the Sorbonne (Paris II), and Sciences Po in Paris.
He is a citizen of Canada and also became an American citizen on Tax Day, April 15, 2014. He lives in Alexandria VA with his wife, Esther, two German Shepherds and two cats (the good one and the evil one). His daughter, Sarah, and her husband Nick Mark, are fellows at the University of Washington Medical Center.
[Source: https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/buckley_francis]
John Hood is president of the John William Pope Foundation, a Raleigh-based grantmaker that supports public policy organizations, educational institutions, arts and cultural programs, and humanitarian relief in North Carolina and beyond.
Hood is also chairman of the board at the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina think tank that issues reports, hosts events, produces broadcast programs, and publishes Carolina Journal, which serves a monthly audience of more than 250,000 North Carolinians through its print, radio, and online editions as well as its news service for local newspapers. Hood helped found JLF in 1989 and served as its president from 1995 to 2014.
Since 1986, Hood has written a syndicated column on politics and public policy for North Carolina newspapers. It currently appears regularly in the Winston-Salem Journal, GreensboroNews & Record, Asheville Citizen-Times, Wilmington Star-News, and newspapers in more than 60 other communities. He also writes a regular column, “Free & Clear,” for Business North Carolina magazine and serves as a weekly panelist on “NC SPIN,” a political talk show broadcast on 26 television and radio stations across the state.
Hood is the author of seven books. The most recent one is Catalyst: Jim Martin and the Rise of North Carolina Republicans (2015). Hood’s other books include Our Best Foot Forward: An Investment Plan for North Carolina’s Economic Recovery (2012), Selling the Dream: Why Advertising is Good Business (2005), Investor Politics (2001), The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (1996), and two volumes of family history.
Hood writes and comments frequently for national media outlets, particularly National Review and its blog “The Corner.” His articles have appeared in both magazines — such as Readers’ Digest, The New Republic, Military History, and Reason — and in newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune.
At the Locke Foundation, Hood created the E.A. Morris Fellowship for Emerging Leaders, a yearlong program that prepares young North Carolinians for leadership roles in business, government, and nonprofits. He also serves on the faculty and board of directors at the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership, on the boards of the Student Free Press Association and the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, as co-chair of the North Carolina Leadership Forum, and as a member of the North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law & Justice.
Hood received his degree in journalism in 1988 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he founded a magazine called The Carolina Critic was eventually published on six university campuses. Hood currently serves on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Visitors and as chairman of the Carolina Liberty Foundation, which provides financial support to conservative and libertarian student groups at Chapel Hill.
He is a Mecklenburg County native and currently resides in Wake County with his wife, two sons, and a stepdaughter.
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