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- Claes
G. Ryn, Chairman
- Claes Ryn is Professor of Politics at The Catholic
University of America
where he was also Chairman
of his Department for six years. In April 2011 the University
honored him
with the Achievement in Research Faculty Award. In 1992 the Graduate
Students
Association
named him Outstanding Graduate Professor in the University. Ryn has
also
taught at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University. His
fields
of teaching and research include ethics and politics; politics and
culture;
and the history of Western political thought. Ryn is Editor of the
academic
journal Humanitas. Born and raised in Sweden, he is widely
published
on both sides of the Atlantic. His many books include America the
Virtuous;
Democracy
and the Ethical Life; Will, Imagination and Reason; and The New
Jacobinism: Can Democracy Survive?, each of which has received much
attention and acclaim in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
Ryn's
articles appear in leading journals, magazines and newspapers. He
lectures
widely and is a frequent guest on television and radio. In 2000 he was
invited by Peking University to give a lecture series as "Distinguished
Foreign Scholar." The book based on those lectures, Unity Through
Diversity,
was published in Chinese by Beijing University Press in 2001. Ryn was
elected
president of the Philadelphia Society for 2001-2002. Publications
- Michael P. Federici, President
- Michael Federici is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S.
in economics from Elizabethtown College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from
The Catholic University of America. He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal
Humanitas and is the author of three books, The Political Philosophy
of Alexander Hamilton, The Challenge of Populism, and Eric Voegelin:
The Search for Order, and the editor of the anthology Rethinking the Teaching of
American History. He is president of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.
- Joseph
Baldacchino, President Emeritus
- Joseph Baldacchino is a Senior Scholar at NHI and Editor of the academic journal Humanitas and was
for many years a Washington reporter and editor, in which capacity he
addressed
most aspects of national policy and politics but with particular
emphasis
on ethical and cultural issues. Baldacchino is author of Economics
and
the Moral Order and, with others, Irving Babbitt in Our Time,
as well as editor of Educating for Virtue. His present writing
project,
with others, is a constitutional history of the United States entitled Who
We Are: The Story of America's Constitution. Baldacchino is vice president
of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. He serves on the board of the
Committee for the Republic and on the advisory board of the College of Liberal
Arts at Mount St. Mary's University. Publications
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- Mark
L. Melcher,
Treasurer
- Mark L. Melcher is an award-winning writer on political,
economic, and
cultural affairs. He is president of The Political Forum
(www.thepoliticalforum.com).
Board
of Trustees |
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Edward S. Babbitt, Jr.
New York, New York
Jameson Campaigne, Jr.
Ottawa, Illinois
Junia Doan
Midland, Michigan
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Audrey Musser Murray
Annapolis, Maryland
Bill Wichterman
Fairfax, Virginia
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Academic
Board |
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Jude P. Dougherty
Dean Emeritus
School of Philosophy
The Catholic University of America
David C. Jordan
Professor of Government
University of Virginia
Ralph Ketcham
Professor of History Emeritus
Maxwell School
Syracuse University
Forrest McDonald
Distinguished University Professor
University of Alabama
Walter A. McDougall
Alloy-Ansin Professor of
International Relations
University of Pennsylvania
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Jacob Neusner
Research Professor of
Religion and Theology
Bard College
James Seaton
Professor of English
Michigan State University
Peter J. Stanlis
Distinguished Professor of
Humanities Emeritus
Rockford College
Michael A. Weinstein
Professor of Political Science
Purdue University
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