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Scholar-in-Residence

Elizabeth D. “Betty” Capaldi Phillips

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni today welcomes the addition of Dr. Capaldi Phillips as ACTA’s scholar-in-residence. Continue Reading »

Council of Scholars

The distinguished professors who comprise ACTA’s Council of Scholars provide guidance on academic policy issues. Small working groups of the Council help ACTA set appropriate standards and criteria for its What Will They Learn?™ core curriculum project.

George E. Andrews
Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics,
Penn State University

Mark Bauerlein
Professor of English,
Emory University

Marc Zvi Brettler
Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor
of Judaic Studies, Duke University

William Cook
Distinguished Teaching Professor
and Emeritus Professor of History,
SUNY–Geneseo

Paul Davies
Professor of Philosophy,
College of William & Mary

David C. Doughty, Jr.
Professor of Physics and Provost,
Christopher Newport University

William Fagan
Professor and Chair of Biology,
University of Maryland

Judith Farr
Professor of English Emerita,
Georgetown University

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University;

Senior Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Sidney L. Gulick III
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Maryland

Robert “KC” Johnson
Professor of History,
CUNY–Brooklyn College

Anatoly M. Khazanov
Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Wisconsin; Fellow, British Academy

Alan Charles Kors
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania

Jon D. Levenson
Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Molly Levine
Professor and Chair of Classics,
Howard University

George R. Lucas, Jr.
Stockdale Chair in Ethics, U.s> Naval War College

Joyce Lee Malcolm
Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment, George Mason University;

Fellow, Royal Historical Society

Matthew A. Malkan
Professor of Astrophysics,
UCLA

Michael Podgursky
Professor of Economics,
University of Missouri

James A. Sellers
Professor and Associate Head for Mathematics, Penn State University

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