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.