Jennifer Culbert is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University where she teaches courses in political theory, law and society, jurisprudence, and rhetorical theory. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. (with distinction) in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.S. (cum laude) in International Economics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Douglas Portmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and a 2008-2009 Faculty Fellow. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of specialization include value theory, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Professor Portmore is a founding member of Pea Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia.

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Michael Moehler is Founding Director and Core Faculty member of the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech. His research interests lie in central areas of moral and political philosophy, with a focus on the social contract tradition and some of its key figures, such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, and Rawls. Dr.

Anne Margaret Baxley is a 2009-2010 Center Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on Kant, the history of ethics, and ethical theory. Her book on the moral psychology of Kantian virtue, Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Alan Thomas is Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Previously, he was Head and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard as well as Oxford, where he completed a D.Phil under the supervision of the late Bernard Williams, Professor Thomas works on moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of mind.

Simon Cabulea May is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University where he teaches courses in political philosophy and jurisprudence. His present research concerns conflicts of moral convictions in politics, particularly as they bear on the legitimacy and authority of democratic law, the justifiability of public policies, and norms of public deliberation and political engagement. He holds an M.A. from Rhodes University, South Africa, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. 

Stephen Griffin specializes in constitutional theory and history. His work emphasizes understanding American constitutional law from an interdisciplinary, historical point of view that is theoretically informed, and he tries to build bridges between scholars in law and political science.

Richard Culbertson serves as Director and Professor of Health Policy and Systems Management at Louisiana State University School of Public Health, New Orleans, positions he has held since 2012. He currently serves at Tulane School of Medicine as an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

Ronna Burger is Professor of Philosophy, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair and Director of Judeo-Christian Studies, Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director of the Religious Studies Minor. Teaching at Tulane since 1980, she offers seminars almost every semester on particular works of Plato or Aristotle. She has recently been teaching a series of courses, “Bible and Philosophy,” on different topics each term, such as “Women in the Bible,” “The Political World of the Bible,” or “The Problem of Evil.”