Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Kentucky
M.A., Classics, University of Kentucky
M.A., Philosophy, University of Kentucky
B.A., Philosophy and Classics, University of Kentucky
Dr. D. T. Sheffler has taught ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Georgetown College, and Asbury College. His academic teaching experience includes philosophy of religion, history of ideas, ethics, political philosophy, and ancient languages.
Joseph Pearce is an English-born writer, sought after speaker, and Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College. He is a co-editor of the St. Austin Review and editor-in-chief of Sapientia Press.
Joseph Pearce has authored biographies of literary figures, including The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc. His books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Croatian, and Polish.
Ph.D., Philosophy of Law, Leiden University Law School
M.A., Law, Oxford University
M.A., Theology (Philosophy of Religion), Leiden University
B.A., Philosophy, Dickinson College
M.A., Classics, Oxford University
Tracy Lee Simmons is a writer and journalist who has written widely for the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Sun, Weekly Standard, New Criterion, Crisis, and Sewanee Review along with other newspapers and magazines, including The Classical Teacher. He served as associate editor for National Review under William F. Buckley Jr. and is the author of Climbing Parnassus, a bestselling case for classical education in America that won a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2002. He holds a master’s degree in classics from Oxford and was the founding director of the Dow Program in American Journalism at Hillsdale College. He was the recipient of the 2005 Paideia Prize, given by the CiRCE Institute for lifetime contribution to classical education.
Ph.D., Philosophy, Roman Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
M.A., Sacred Art, Architecture, and Liturgy
M.A., Church, Ecumenism, and Religious Studies
Ph.D, Theology, Drew University
B.A., History, University of Virginia
Dr. Vigen Guroian has been Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author of several books, including Incarnate Love: Essays in Orthodox Ethics, Tending the Heart of Virtue, and Rallying the Really Human Things. His nearly two hundred published articles cover a range of subjects including marriage and family, children’s literature, ecology, gardening, Armenian history, and medical ethics.
Ph.D., Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.M., Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.A., Music, Hollins College
Dr. Carol Reynolds is a musicologist, pianist, organist and author. She specializes in Russian, East European, and German cultural history. Dr. Reynolds was a professor of music history for more than 20 years at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In addition to music, she is well-versed in the history and fine arts of Western Europe and Russia. Dr. Reynolds is a Smithsonian Journeys Expert and has led tours through Russia, the Baltic States, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Croatia. She is fluent in Russian and German, and while she lives in North Carolina, she maintains a second home in the Weimar region of Germany. Carol is author of Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture, an entertaining DVD-based self-study course for adult and high school learners, and Exploring America’s Musical Heritage Through Art, Literature, and Culture, a DVD program shot coast-to-coast and featuring 38 artists and specialists.
Ph.D., Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., Classics, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. Frank Russell is Professor of History at Transylvania University, where he teaches history and classics. At Transylvania he has taught classical and medieval history, Greek, and Latin, as well as the school’s common core courses. He has also taught at the University of Mississippi and at Dartmouth College, and was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. He is a popular and award-winning teacher who has taught courses as diverse as Greek religion, the history of espionage, and classical architecture. His scholarly work has focused on political and military intelligence in the ancient world, and he is currently working on an article on Rhodian surveillance systems in the southeastern Aegean.
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, Medieval Institue, University of Notre Dame
M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame
M.Phil., Theology and Religious Studies, University of Cambridge
University Scholars B.A. (Honors), Baylor University
Ph.D., Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
M.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s College
B.S., Mathematics and Theology, Villanova University
Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski teaches Political Philosophy at John Adams Academy and Great Books for Angelicum Academy. Previously he was Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Wyoming Catholic College. His latest books are Modernity as Apocalypse: Sacred Nihilism and the Counterfeits of Logos, and Words, Concepts, Reality: Aristotelian Logic for Teenagers.
Ph.D., Nuclear Chemistry, University of Rochester
B.S., Chemistry, University of Rochester
Dr. Jay Wile has taught at Indiana University, Ball State University, and Anderson University. He has won several awards for excellence in teaching and has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific literature, mostly based on the research he did for the National Science Foundation. He is best known for his award-winning K-12 science textbooks, which have been translated into four different languages and are used in private schools and homeschools around the world.
M.A., Christian Apologetics, Simon Greenleaf University (now a part of Trinity University)
B.A., Philosophy and Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Martin Cothran is editor of The Classical Teacher magazine and author of Memoria Press’ Traditional Logic, Material Logic, and Classical Rhetoric.
Martin has taught Latin, Logic, and Rhetoric at Highlands Latin School in Louisville, Kentucky, and is widely quoted on education and other public policy issues in Reuters News Service, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The Lexington Herald-Leader called him “the master of the thirty-second sound bite,” and the Associated Press has described him as “articulate and relentless.” His expertise on education and public policy has made him the most frequent guest on Kentucky Educational Television’s “Kentucky Tonight,” a statewide weekly public affairs program.
M.A., English Literature, Eastern Michigan University
B.A., English, Hillsdale College
Kyle Janke teaches Literature and Art History at Highlands Latin School in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of A Classical History of Art, a curriculum published through Memoria Press. This seminal work provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of Western art over 5,000 years, emphasizing the primacy of classical values in the domains of sculpture, architecture, and painting.
Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University
M.A.R., Ethics, Yale Divinity School
M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University
M.A., Sociology, Yale University
B.A., Swarthmore College
Dr. Beau Weston is Van Winkle Professor of Sociology at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he has taught since 1990. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and winner of the Branson Prize in Sociology. He is a two-time winner of the Kirk Award for Excellence in Teaching at Centre College. He has written numerous books and articles on the family, religion, and sociology and on issues related specifically to the Presbyterian Church. His most recent book is on the sociology of Louisville, Kentucky, neighborhoods.
J.D., Boston College
B.A., History, Dartmouth College
Paul Salamanca served as a law clerk to Judge David H. Souter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and subsequently clerked for Justice Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced law with the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York and was a visiting assistant professor of law at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans before joining the faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He served with the United States Department of Justice. He writes for many law review journals in the areas of separation of powers, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and privacy.
Ph.D., English Literature, University of Dallas
M.A., English Literature, University of Dallas
M.A., Theology and Letters, New Saint Andrews College
B.A., Liberal Arts, New Saint Andrews College
Dr. Leta Sundet teaches English Literature at the University of Dallas. Her research explores narrative surprise in the work of Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, and Flannery O’Connor. She has published articles on Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, The Brothers Karamazov, and Babette’s Feast.
M.A., Great Books, St John’s College
B.A., Aeronautics, Miami University
Jerry Salyer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics from Miami University and a Master of Arts from the Great Books Program of St. John’s College, Annapolis. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he has navigated ships, deployed to the Persian Gulf, and served as an assistant security officer at the American naval base in Naples, Italy. He works as a classical educator and writer in Louisville, Kentucky.
J.D., University of Kentucky
B.A., Philosophy, University of Kentucky
Thomas Cothran has written on philosophical and theological topics, especially on classical theism, Aristotelian philosophy of mind, and philosophical method. These articles include “The Apologetics of Transcendence” (First Things), “The Sophistic Method?: Dialectic and Eristic in Legal Pedagogy” (Kentucky Law Journal), “Nietzsche and Neo-Scholasticism: The Dangers and Promise of Natural Law” (Anamnesis Journal), and “And This All Men Call God” (Strange Notions).