
Faculty & Leadership
Hamilton College brings together some of the world’s most distinguished scholars and teachers dedicated to the enduring ideals of classical liberal education.
Hamilton Center faculty are experts in political philosophy, history, economics, literature, strategy, and law. They share a passion for immersing students in the foundational texts and great debates of Western civilization. United by a commitment to civil discourse and academic excellence, the Hamilton Center faculty create an intellectual community where students develop the critical thinking skills and moral reasoning essential for civic leadership in a free society.
Program Leadership and Featured Faculty

Dr. Will Inboden
Director, Hamilton Center
- Strategy and Statesmanship
- Religion and American Foreign Policy
- Diplomatic and Military History

Dr. Ben Sasse
Former US Senator, Nebraska
- US History and Society
- Political Philosophy
- Technology and Work

Alan Rubenstein
Director, Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program
- Hebrew Bible
- Modern Jewish Thought
- Great Books and Ideas

Norman Goda
Director, Bud Shorstein Center
- Modern European History
- The Holocaust
- Zionism and Modern Israel

Walter Russell Mead
Wall Street Journal Columnist
- War, Strategy, and International Relations
- US Foreign Policy
- American Political Thought

Alan Guelzo
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
- US Civil War History
- Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln
- Religious Thought in America
Great Books and Ideas

Jeffery Collins
PhD, Harvard University
- Early Modern Political Thought
- Religion and State
- Greak Books

Ana Siljak
PhD, Harvard University
- Philosophy and Literature
- Russian History and Thought
- Great Books

Jill Ingram
PhD, University of Virginia
- English Literature
- Shakespeare
- Great Books

Paul Lim
PhD, University of Cambridge
- Christian History and Thought
- Religious History
- Puritanism
Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law

Gianna Englert
PhD, Georgetown University
- History of Political Thought
- Liberalism and Democracy
- Alexis de Tocqueville

Adam Lebovitz
PhD, Harvard University
- History of Political Thought
- Legal History and Legal Theory
- French and American Revolutions

David McPherson
PhD, Marquette University
- Philosophy and Religion
- Virtue Ethics
- Neo-Aristotelianism

Robert Kaminsky
PhD, University of Chicago
- Economic Thought
- Political Philosophy
- Business and Labor
War, Strategy, and Statesmanship

Dr. Will Inboden
PhD, Yale University
- Strategy and Statesmanship
- Religion and American Foreign Policy
- Diplomatic and Military History

Walter Russell Mead
Wall Street Journal Columnist
- War, Strategy, and International Relations
- US Foreign Policy
- American Political Thought

Michael Leggiere
PhD, Florida State University
- Military History and War Studies
- Napolean
- Just War Theory

Charlie Laderman
PhD, Cambridge University
- Military History and War Studies
- History of World War Two
- American History
Jewish Thought and Israeli History

Alan Rubenstein
Director, Rosenthal-Levy Scholars
- Hebrew Bible
- Modern Jewish Thought
- Great Books and Ideas

Norman Goda
PhD, University of North Carolina
- Modern European History
- The Holocaust
- Zionism and Modern Israel

Neil Rogachevsky
PhD, University of Cambridge
- Israeli History and Political Thought
- Political Philosophy
- Comparative Constitutionalism

Alexander Green
PhD, University of Toronto
- Philosophy and Religion
- Great Medieval Jewish Thinkers
- Virtue Ethics
American History and Political Thought

Ben Sasse
Former US Senator, Nebraska
- US History and Society
- Political Philosophy
- Technology and Work

Darren Staloff
PhD, Columbia University
- American Founding Thought
- History of Religion in America
- American Government

Aaron Zubia
PhD, Columbia University
- American Political Thought
- Moral Philosophy
- Politics of the Enlightenment

Alan Guelzo
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
- US Civil War History
- Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln
- Religious Thought in America