Angelica Hankins

Matthew Rose is Senior Fellow at the Morningside Institute. A scholar of modern religious thought, Matthew was previously Director of the Berkeley Institute and Ennis Fellow in Humanities at Villanova University, where he taught courses in philosophy, politics, and literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago after receiving an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an A.B. from Wabash College. He is the author of A World After Liberalism (Yale, 2021) and Ethics with Barth (Ashgate, 2010), as well as of articles in Political Theology, The Thomist, Logos, Pro Ecclesia, Studies in Christian Ethics, Journal of Catholic Moral Theology, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, Commonweal, and The Weekly Standard. 

Russell A. Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has been awarded a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for research in Berlin; he has also been honored with the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. His books include The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma and Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture, both of which won the Outstanding Book Award of the German Studies Association. Some of his other books include Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural Problem, Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture and Freedom or Terror: Europe Faces Jihad. He has also edited translations of several volumes by Ernst Jünger and a translation of Carl Schmitt’s Land and Sea. He has directed or codirected several NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers and is editor emeritus of Telos, a journal of critical theory. He served in 2011 as president of the Modern Language Association. He received his bachelor’s from Harvard and his PhD in German Literature from Washington University.

Keegan Callanan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, where he holds the Christian A. Johnson Chair in Political Philosophy. His teaching and research interests include modern political philosophy, democratic theory, and American constitutionalism. He is the author of Montesquieu’s Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics and is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu. His writing has appeared in publications such as History of Political Thought, Political Research Quarterly, and the Wall Street Journal.  Callanan serves as director of the Alexander Hamilton Forum on the American Political Tradition at Middlebury College, and he has served on the executive council of the New England Political Science Association. From 2018 to 2019, he held a visiting fellowship with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Before coming to Middlebury, he taught at the University of Virginia as a fellow with the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Callanan received his PhD from Duke University.