William Allen
William B. Allen, Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science and Emeritus Dean, James Madison College, at Michigan State University. In 2018-20, he was Senior Scholar in Residence in the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado. He served previously on the United States National Council for the Humanities and as Chairman and Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at the Center for Urban Renewal and Education in Washington, D.C. He has published extensively, including Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe (Lexington Books) and George Washington: America’s First Progressive (Peter Lang, Inc.).
Lecture Topic:
- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The State of Black America
Elizabeth Corey is an associate professor of political science at Baylor University, in Waco, Texas. Her writing has appeared in a variety of popular and scholarly publications, including First Things, National Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. She received a bachelor’s in classics from Oberlin College and master’s and doctoral degrees in art history and political science from Louisiana State University. She 
Dr. Joshua Mitchell is currently professor of political theory at Georgetown University. He has been Chairman of the Government Department and also Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at SFS-Q. During the 2008-10 academic years, Dr. Mitchell took Leave from Georgetown, and was the Acting Chancellor of The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani. His research interest lies in the relationship between political thought and theology in the West. He has published articles in The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Religion, APSR, and Political Theory. In 1993 his book, 
Professor Lucas Morel has taught politics at Washington and Lee University since July 1999. His research focuses on Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison. He also teaches in the summer Master’s Program in American History and Government at Ashland University in Ohio; summer programs for the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy; and high school teacher workshops sponsored by the Ashbrook Center, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, the Jack Miller Center, the Bill of Rights Institute, and the Liberty Fund. In 2008-09, he was the Garwood Visiting Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Prof. Morel is a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society, former president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, a consultant on Library of Congress exhibits on Lincoln and the Civil War, and was a member of the scholarly board of advisors for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which will plan activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Darel E. Paul is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Program in Political Economy at Williams College. He is the author of three books, including 
Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he has written about politics, economics, education, immigration and social inequality for more than 25 years. He’s also a frequent public speaker and provides commentary for television and radio news outlets.
Wilfred Reilly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, and the author of the books “Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About,’ “Hate Crime Hoax,” and “The $50,000,000 Question.” Reilly has published pieces in Academic Questions, Commentary, Quillette, and a number of other journals and magazines. His research interests include international relations and the prevention of war, contemporary American race relations, and the use of modern quantitative methods to test “sacred cow” theories such as the existence of widespread white privilege. Off work, he enjoys dogs, archery, basketball, Asian cooking, and beer. Reilly has been described, by himself, as “the greatest mind of a generation.”
Ian Rowe is the cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a network of International Baccalaureate high schools launching in the Bronx in 2022; a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focused on education, upward mobility, family structure and adoption; chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, a premier adoption organization; the cofounder of Cadence Learning (the National Summer School Initiative); a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center and 1776 Unites; and an advisor for FAIR For All.
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Marcus M. Witcher is an Assistant Professor of History at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his BA from the University of Central Arkansas in 2011, an MA from the University of Alabama in 2013, and completed his Ph.D. in history from UA in 2017. His first book, Getting Right with Reagan: The Struggle for True Conservatism 1980-2016, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2019. He is also the co-author, with Rachel Ferguson, of Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America.
Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. A former professor of anthropology and college provost, he is the author of several books about American culture, including Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003); A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007); and Diversity Rules (2020), and 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Questions and a widely published essayist. In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom.