Academic Council

Chairman James Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia.

Vice Chairman Wilfred M. McClay, professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the 2009-10 William E. Simon Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University.

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English and founder of The Program in Democracy and Citizenship at Emory University.

Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001-2009, President of the American Revolution Center.

Patrick Deneen, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair in political science and founder and director of The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American University at Georgetown University.

Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and the director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College

Robert Koons, professor of philosophy and founder of The Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions at the University of Texas-Austin.

Ralph Lerner, Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kennan, Jr. Professor of government at Harvard University and a 2004 recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush.

Thomas Pangle, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies and the director of the Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas-Austin.

John Strassburger, president of Ursinus College and a leader in the effort to strengthen classic liberal education.

Gordon Wood, Alva O. Way Professor Emeritus of history at Brown University and Pulitzer prize winning author of “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.”

Jean Yarbrough, Gary M. Pendy Professor of Social Sciences and Chair of the Government Department at Bowdoin College.

Michael Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.