Aaron Alexander Zubia’s research uncovers how our ideas about God, nature, and human nature shape our political thought and discourse. In his first book, The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Political Imagination, Zubia focuses on Hume, the Scottish Enlightenment thinker who is arguably the greatest philosopher to have written in English. Zubia’s narrative traces the development of the Epicurean tradition, which Hume appropriated, and which supplies the philosophic framework for liberal politics. Zubia’s teaching, like his research, examines the moral and philosophic foundations of the good society and explores the beliefs that underlie conservative and revolutionary postures. Zubia teaches regularly on the American political tradition and has led an independent study on metaphysics and politics in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition.

Professor James R. Stoner, Jr. (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987) has teaching and research interests in political theory, English common law, and American constitutionalism. He is the author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism. In 2009, he was named a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. He was the 2010 recipient of the Honors College Sternberg Professorship at LSU.

He has taught at LSU since 1988, chaired the Department of Political Science from 2007 to 2013, and served as Acting Dean of the Honors College in fall 2010. 

Joshua Dunn serves as Executive Director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. His research and teaching focus on constitutional law and history, education policy, federalism, and freedom of speech and religion. His books include Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins (University of North Carolina Press), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press), and Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University (Oxford University Press). He writes a quarterly article on law and education for the journal Education Next and his research and commentary have been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Los Angeles Times. 

Justin Dyer is a professor of government and the inaugural dean of UT Austin's School of Civic Leadership.

Dyer writes and teaches in the fields of American political thought, jurisprudence, and constitutionalism, with an emphasis on the perennial philosophical tradition of natural law. He is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles, essays and book reviews. His most recent book, with Kody Cooper, is The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press. 

Matthew Brogdon is the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Senior Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University. He has taught and published extensively on American political thought and constitutional development.

His scholarship encompasses the creation and development of the federal courts, judicial federalism, religious liberty in colonial constitutionalism, the politics of nullification and secession, and the critical importance of the corporate form in the constitution of civil liberties. Through CCS’s partnership with Oxford’s Quill Project, Dr. Brogdon works to make the tradition of constitutional statecraft on display in American constitutional conventions accessible to jurists, scholars, teachers, and students.

Dr. Brogdon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science at the University of West Florida and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Baylor University.

Paul Carrese is a professor in the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. For two decades, he was a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, co-founding its honors program, which combines liberal arts and leadership education. He teaches and publishes on the American founding, American constitutional and political thought, civic education, and American grand strategy.  He co-led a national study, Educating for American Democracy, on history and civics in K-12 schools and serves on the Academic Council of the Jack Miller Center for America’s Founding Principles and History and the Civic Education Committee of the American Political Science Association. He is a Senior Fellow with the Jack Miller Center, and in 2025 was a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Richard Avramenko is the director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership and the Editor-in-Chief of the Political Science Reviewer. He has a BA in Political Science from the University of Calgary, an MA in Political Science from Carleton University, and a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.

Avramenko is the author of "Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb" (2011), the co-editor of "Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought" (2008), "Dostoevsky’s Political Philosophy" (2013), "Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times" (2018), "Canadian Conservative Political Thought" (2022), and "Aristocratic Voices: Traditional Alternatives to Liberalism, Populism and Radical Egalitarianism" (2024). 

Sean Beienburg, a Phoenix native, studied politics and history at Pomona College and earned his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. He taught at Haverford and Lehigh before joining ASU, where he now serves as Associate Director of SCETL and Director of the Center for American Civics. His work focuses on the U.S. and Arizona constitutions, federalism, political thought, and executive power. He directs the Arizona Constitution Project and has published two books on federalism and Prohibition. Beyond constitutional studies, he has explored political themes in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and the Daniel Craig-era James Bond films.

Steven Skultety earned a BA from the University of Montana and a PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University before joining the faculty of the University of Mississippi in 2006. In 2012, he became Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion and, in 2021, director of the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom.

Dr. Shelley is the Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.