Dr. Adam Goldstein is Elizabeth and Oscar Goodwin Distinguished Professor and Director of Departmental Advancement at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Goldstein is the Director of Tobacco Intervention Programs (Tobacco Treatment Program and Tobacco … Read more

Rory Hanlon joined UNC in 2023 as a teaching assistant professor in the Program for Public Discourse and the Department of Philosophy. Before that, he was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. And before that, he studied at … Read more

Danielle Charette James is a political theorist with broad research interests in the Scottish Enlightenment and American intellectual history. Her latest work focuses on the interplay between modern political economy and the development of representative institutions in the political philosophy … Read more

Rita Koganzon is a political theorist who studies education, childhood, and the family in political thought. Her first book, Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought,​ examines the justifications for authority over children from Jean Bodin to … Read more

Jose Maria Andres Porras is an assistant professor with extensive knowledge of the intellectual, cultural and social history of Western Europe in the late Middle Ages. At the University of Oxford, he focused his research efforts on how natural philosophy, … Read more

Dustin Sebell is Professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership, where he studies and teaches the history of political thought. Before coming to Carolina, he was Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, where he was … Read more

Flynn Cratty is a professor of the practice and historian of early modern Europe, including French and British history. His interests include the development of secularism; academic freedom of expression; religion; cultural history; intellectual history; the Reformation; and the Enlightenment. … Read more

Connor Grubaugh is a political theorist and intellectual historian who studies concepts of hope, time, and history in political thought. His current book project examines these themes in John Locke and the subsequent liberal tradition. His research is published or … Read more

Melody Grubaugh is an adjunct assistant professor and a political scientist whose work focuses on constitutional studies, political theory and politics and literature. In addition to her teaching experience, she previously served as a senior reader at the Canterbury Institute … Read more

Michael Hawley is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate students for SCiLL. He is a political theorist with interests in ancient and modern republicanism, Roman political thought, comparative political philosophy, and rhetoric. His first book, Natural Law Republicanism, Cicero’s … Read more