President: Matthew T. Cantirino
Vice-President: Ryan Holston
Treasurer: Thomas W. Pauken
Secretary: Katherine Bradshaw
Board of Directors
Eric Adler
University of Maryland
Eric Adler is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his Ph.D. in classical studies from Duke University. His scholarship focuses on Roman historiography, the history of the humanities, and the history of classical scholarship. Adler is the author of three monographs: Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography (2011), Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond (2016), and The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (2020). His articles have appeared in such venues as the American Journal of Philology, Classical Receptions Journal, Arion, and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Humanitas.
Katherine L. Bradshaw
Ancient Language Institute
Katherine L. Bradshaw is a Latin and Greek Fellow at the Ancient Language Institute and an Adjunct Faculty Member at Abilene Christian University. She earned an M.A. in Classics from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in English from the George Washington University (GW), in addition to a B.A. in Classical Studies and English from GW. Bradshaw is a Phi Beta Kappa member (inducted 2015), as well as a recipient of both the Pellegri Scholar Fellowship from the National Italian American Foundation (2017–2018) and the Elena and Antonio De Luca Young Classicist Award from the Italian Cultural Society (2018). Her work has appeared at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, New Humanists, The Optimistic Curmudgeon, Reviewing Shakespeare, and Secunda Mensa. She has also served as an editorial consultant for Armfield Academic Press since 2019. Bradshaw’s scholarly focus is on the classical tradition in English literature, particularly William Shakespeare’s depictions and adaptations of Roman virtues. Her other interests include Latin poetry, Greco-Roman biography, and food in the classical world.
Matthew T. Cantirino
University of Dallas
Matthew T. Cantirino is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Dallas. Previously, he taught at Texas State University, Assumption University, and the Catholic University of America. He earned his Ph.D. at the Catholic University of America and holds a bachelor’s in government from Georgetown University. He has published on Henry Adams, the concept of the American mind, and the role of literature and poetry in the Federalist. He is currently at work on an edited volume on the thought of Willmoore Kendall. He is a native of Brooklyn, NY, which is real America. He serves as an editor for the scholarly journal Humanitas and (prior to academia) worked as an editor for the ecumenical journal First Things.
Emile Doak
Thomas Aquinas College
Emile Doak is Director of Development at Thomas Aquinas College. Previously, he served as Executive Director & Director of Advancement at Chelsea Academy, a K-12 Catholic school in Front Royal, VA, and as Executive Director of The American Conservative magazine. He is the co-editor of Main Street Conservatism: The Future of the Right, an anthology of essays from the first two decades of The American Conservative, and has written widely on issues of politics, faith, and culture, for publications like First Things, Commonplace, Front Porch Republic, and Chronicles. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied political philosophy, and was a 2021 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a 2022 Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College. A proud Virginian, Emile and his family live in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
W. Winston Elliott III
The Imaginative Conservative
W. Winston Elliott III is Editor-in-Chief of The Imaginative Conservative and President of The Free Enterprise Institute. Additionally, Mr. Elliott is Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College of Houston Christian University, and member of the Board of Rosary College. He earned his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Master of Arts in Theology from the University of St. Thomas (Houston), and Master of Business Administration, with Honors, from the University of Houston.
Ryan R. Holston
Virginia Military Institute
Ryan R. Holston is Professor and Jonathan M. Daniels ’61 Chair at Virginia Military Institute. He is also Editor at the journal Humanitas. His work has appeared in History of Political Thought, Harvard Theological Review, and Telos, among other places. He is most recently the author of a book entitled Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: a Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory (SUNY Press, 2023) and previously edited a collection of essays called The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age (SUNY Press, 2020). Currently, he is writing a book at the intersection of politics and literature, which examines the authority of science in public life. Its working title is Promethean Politics: the Cult of Science in the Modern Imagination.
Jason Jewell
State University System of Florida
Jason Jewell is Chief Academic Officer and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives of the State University System of Florida. Prior to joining the full-time staff supporting the work of the appointed members of Florida’s Board of Governors, he chaired the Department of Humanities at Faulkner University, where he directed the Center for Great Books and Human Flourishing as well as degree programs based on the Great Books at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
He received a Ph.D. in humanities from Florida State University, an M.A. in history from Pepperdine University, and a B.A. in history and music from Harding University.
He is a contributor to Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views (2014) and The Inklings and King Arthur (2018), and he has contributed to ten academic journals and five encyclopedias. His writing has also appeared in numerous magazines and popular journals.
Thomas W. Pauken
The William A. Solomene Foundation
A native Texan, Tom Pauken is a graduate of Jesuit High School in Dallas and Georgetown University. While at Georgetown, Tom was elected national chairman of the college Republicans. He also led a nationwide effort to support our soldiers in Vietnam before enlisting himself and serving as an Army Intelligence officer in Vietnam. Upon returning to civilian life, Tom served as a White House staff assistant and associate director of the White House Fellowship program from 1970 to 1971. Tom served on President Ronald Reagan’s White House staff. Named director of the Action agency by President Reagan, he eliminated the use of federal tax dollars to fund Saul Alinsky-style leftist organizers. Elected Texas Republican State Chairman in 1994, Tom helped build up a Republican majority in Texas from the grassroots. Tom served as Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission from 2008 through 2012 where he championed efforts to provide more opportunities for vocational education and a return to local control of education. Tom is the author of The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sixties Generation, and Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back.
Joseph Prud’homme
Washington College
Joseph Prud’homme is The Burton Family Chair in Religion, Politics and Culture; Associate Professor of Political Science; and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. He received his doctorate from Princeton University, where he studied in the Interdepartmental Program in Political Philosophy, with additional specialization in constitutional law and religious studies. He was awarded a Fellowship at Harvard University, where he studied at the Harvard Law School and served as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has also held a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford.
Professor Prud’homme works in the areas of political philosophy, legal theory, intellectual history and religious studies. He has published numerous works in these fields, including the books Religion and Politics in America from the Colonial Period to the Civil War; Curriculum and the Culture Wars: Debating the Bible’s Place in Public Schools (with Melissa Deckman of Washington College); State Religious Education and the State of Religious Life (with Liam Gearon of the University of Oxford); the chapter on Religion and Education for the Palgrave Handbook on Religion and the State; and numerous peer-reviewed articles.
He regularly teaches introductory courses in political theory; upper level courses in political thought; upper level courses in constitutional law and legal philosophy; and courses in Western religious traditions.