The following are brief academic profiles of some of my friends, colleagues, and mentors in various parts of the world:

• Dr Dominic Burbidge is Departmental Lecturer in African Studies and Researcher in Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. One of his main research interests is how citizen trust can help overcome collective action dilemmas, with a special focus on East Africa (Burbidge, Kankindi and Odhiambo 2011, Burbidge 2015). In his research he measures and assesses levels of trust through a mixture of methods, ranging from interviews, to social surveys, to experimental games.

• Dr Barbara Buckinx is is Associate Research Scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research interests lie in global governance, migration, citizenship, and borders, and her primary focus is on vulnerable populations in the state and the global order. Her work has appeared in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics & International Affairs, and Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric.

• Dr Maria Cahill is professor of law at University College Cork. She holds an LlB from Trinity College, Dublin and an LlM and PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2015, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, and has been working on developing a theory of subsidiarity which would pay due homage to its historical and philosophical origins by acknowledging its ontological commitments. Some of this research has been published by the American Journal of Jurisprudence (2016) and the International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family (2013) and more is forthcoming, for example, in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (2017). Cahill’s research interests also include other aspects of constitutional theory such as sovereignty, constituent power, constitutional amendability.
  
  
• Dr Gerard Casey is Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland and Adjunct Professor at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, and Associated Scholar at the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. His research area is contemporary political theory, with a special focus on libertarianism. Dr Casey has recently published a book entitled Libertarian Anarchism: Against the State, and is currently researching a book on liberty and property.

• Dr Michelle Clarke is Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2007. Her first book, Machiavelli's Florentine Republic, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.  Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Politics, History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, Political Studies, and Political Research Quarterly.

• Dr Emma Cohen de Lara is assistant professor in political theory at Amsterdam University College. She worked at the VU University Amsterdam and University of Vermont before coming to AUC. Emma Cohen de Lara did her doctorate at the University of Notre Dame and her masters degrees at the London School of Economics and Leiden University. At AUC she is a core faculty member, tutor, initiator and organizer of the AUC Philosophy Brown Bag lunches and member of the Works Council of the Faculty of Sciences. Besides her interest in ancient political thought, Emma is interested in democratic theory, citizenship, and in the development of liberal arts and sciences education. She is interested in Aristotle's political realism, the relationship between Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, and Plato's understanding of what it means to be a member of a political community.

• Dr Peter J. Colosi is Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia. His general research areas are applied Catholic moral theology, Catholic social teaching, bioethics, and Catholic teachings on marriage and sexuality. He is currently undertaking detailed study of Part 1 of John Paul II's Theology of the Body, which he plans on turning into a book.

• Dr Thomas Donahue is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department, Independent College Programs, and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. Before joining Haverford in 2014, he taught in the Program in Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale and held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A political philosopher, Donahue's research examines the structure of injustices in global, comparative, and historical perspective; and the relationships among moral principles and political and economic theories. Some of his research is published in European Journal of Political Theory, The Philosophical Forum, Public Affairs Quarterly, Ethics & the Environment, and Nexos. He is completing a book manuscript, entitled Unfreedom for All: How Global Injustices Harm You. 

• Dr William English is Research Fellow, Lab on Institutional Corruption, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University 

• Dr Gordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary. His general research areas are moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, and the Scottish philosophical tradition. He has just completed Scottish Philosophy After the Enlightenment, an edited collection of which he has written three chapters, and he is currently writing Wittgenstein and Natural Religion.

• Dr Eric Gregory is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and articles in a variety of edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Religious Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, and Augustinian Studies. His interests include religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. 

• Dr Simon Keller is Associate Professor, School of History, Philosophy, Pol. Science & Int. Relations, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand. He works on topics in ethics and political philosophy. He has published on questions about the ethics of special relationships, the nature of well-being, time-travel, love, distributive justice, Plato's philosophy of language, and disagreement about climate change. He began work at VUW in 2009, after previously teaching at Boston University and the University of Melbourne. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard University and Rice University. His book, The Limits of Loyalty, won the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2009. 

• Dr Mary M. Keys is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame. Mary M. Keys holds a BA from Boston College and a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests span a broad spectrum of political theory, with a special focus in Christianity, ethics, and political thought. She is the author of Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good (Cambridge University Press, 2006; paperback 2008) and of articles appearing in the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, and Perspectives on Political Science. She has held various fellowships, including a NEH Fellowship supporting her ongoing research project on Humility, Modernity, and the Science of Politics, and she has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.

• Dr Matthew D. Mendham is Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, Christopher Newport University. His general research area is history of political theory, and his specific research interests include Rousseau, the Enlightenment, and the political theory of capitalism.

• Dr Christian Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His general research areas are ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of religion. He takes a special interest in issues pertaining to character, moral motivation, the benefits of religious belief, and God and morality. He is the editor of the Continuum Companion to Ethics, and has two books forthcoming with Oxford University Press, Character and Moral Psychology and Moral Character: An Empirical Theory.

• Dr Mark Mitchell is Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College, Purcellville, PA. His main research interests are conservatism, agrarianism, democracy, politics and literature. He has co-edited The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry (2011) and The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and Community in a Global Age (2012); and is currently working on a book on private property. He is also an editor, contributor, and co-founder of the Front Porch Republic.

• Dr Vincent Phillip Muñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at The University of Notre Dame. He also serves as Director of Notre Dame’s Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life and the Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies. Dr. Muñoz writes and teaches across the fields of political philosophy, constitutional studies, and American politics. His research has focused on the theme of religious liberty and the American Constitution. His first book, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (Cambridge University Press, 2009), won the Hubert Morken Award from the American Political Science Association for the best publication on religion and politics in 2009 and 2010. His First Amendment church-state casebook, Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents, was published in 2013 (Rowman & Littlefield, revised edition 2015) and is being used at Notre Dame and other leading universities. 

• Dr Jeremy Neill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. His main research areas are political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of religion. In particular, he focuses on questions of virtues of citizens, institutional development and design, and religion and the public sphere. He is currently completing a book on the virtues of citizens and the development of institutions.

• Dr Paulina Ochoa is Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. She is a political theorist who works at the intersection of democratic theory and the history of political thought. Before joining the faculty at Haverford, she was an Assistant Professor at Yale University, and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She has been a visiting professor at CIDE in Mexico City, and a Carey Postdoctoral Fellow at the Erasmus Institute in the University of Notre Dame. Paulina is interested in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought, particularly questions about popular sovereignty, the legitimacy of the democratic state, populism, the relation between constitutionalism and democracy, immigration and the right to exclude, the relation between democracy and territorial rights, the boundaries of the demos, and the territorial borders of the democratic state. She is currently working on a project on the territorial borders of the state entitled Just Borders: Peoples, Territories and the Rights of Place.

• Dr Carmen E. Pavel is Lecturer in International Politics and Director of the BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at King's College London. Carmen specializes in political philosophy and the history of political thought. Her interests include international justice and international law, liberal theory and contemporary challenges to it, and ethics and public policy. Her first book, entitled Divided Sovereignty, published by Oxford University Press, takes up the question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses against their own citizens. She argues that coercive international institutions can stop these abuses and act as an insurance scheme against the possibility of states failing to fulfil their most basic sovereign responsibilities. Her next book-length research project is called “Why Do We Need International Law?”

• Dr Robert S. Taylor is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Davis. His main research areas are contemporary analytic political philosophy and the history of liberal political thought. Some of his research interests are religious conservative views on sexual morality, the relationships between liberalism and socialism and between republicanism and markets, and Friedrich Hayek's political theory. He has published a monograph entitled Reconstructiving Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness (2011).

• Dr Ian Ward is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, where his is also Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Religious Studies and the Committee on Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy.  His research focuses on the intersections of political theory and the academic study of religion.  His articles have appeared in the journals Polity and The Good Society, and he is completing a book manuscript entitledSolidarity in a Secular Age: An Ethics of Democratic Citizenship.  He holds a BA (Hon) from McGill University and a PhD from Princeton.

• Dr Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Ethics at King's College London. He works on three main areas: International issues, such as the “resource curse” that afflicts natural resource-exporting countries; the accountability of transnational institutions; and inequalities across borders; Rights: How this central normative concept of modernity should be understood, and how specific rights should be justified; and justice: most of Wenar’s scholarly writings have focused on the work of John Rawls. He also co-edited the autobiographical volume Hayek on Hayek. His work has appeared in journals such as Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and the Journal of Political Philosophy.

• Dr Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University and is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His main research areas are aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. His published books include On Universals, Works and Worlds of Art, Art in Action, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Reason within the Bounds of Religion, Divine Discourse, John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, Educating for Shalom, Lament for a Son, and Justice: Rights and Wrongs. His most recent book, Justice in Love, was published in 2010.

• Dr Michael P. Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.  He works in the two fields of Political Theory and Constitutional Studies, in both of which he has published extensively.  He has published Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, the Natural Rights Republic, Launching Liberalism, and (with Catherine Zuckert) The Truth About Leo Strauss in addition to many articles.  He has also edited (with Derek Webb) The Antifederal Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle. He is currently completely a book called A System without a Precedent, a study of American constitutionalism.