Faculty & Leadership
The Hamilton School brings together some of the world’s most distinguished scholars and teachers dedicated to the enduring ideals of classical liberal education.
Hamilton School 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 School 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
Justice Charles T. Canady
Incoming Director, Hamilton School
- Jurisprudence
- Law and Leadership
- American Government
Steven Frankel
Director, Robert M. Beren Program
- Leo Strauss and Political Philosophy
- Philosophy and Religion
- Political Economy
Alan Rubenstein
Executive Director, Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program
- Hebrew Bible
- Modern Jewish Thought
- Great Books and Ideas
Walter Russell Mead
Wall Street Journal Columnist
- War, Strategy, and International Relations
- US Foreign Policy
- American Political Thought
Sam Goldman
Ph.D, Harvard University
- Political Theory and Intellectual History
- Christian Zionism in America
- American National Identity
Alan Guelzo
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
- US Civil War History
- Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln
- Religious Thought in America
Paul Lim
Professor of Humanities
- Christian History and Thought
- Puritanism
- Intellectual History of Theodicy
Jeffrey Collins
PhD, Harvard University
- American Government
- Early Modern Political Thought
- Church and State
Great Books and Ideas
Amy Chandran
PhD, Harvard University
- Sovereignty and Power
- Classical and Early Modern Political Thought
- Liberty and Order
Ana Siljak
PhD, Harvard University
- Philosophy and Literature
- Russian History and Thought
- Great Books
James Hankins
PhD, Columbia University
- Renaissance Philosophy
- History of the Classical Tradition
- Great Books
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
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
Andrew Michta
Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University
- International Security and NATO
- European Politics and Security
- Central Europe and Baltic States
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
Sam Goldman
Ph.D, Harvard University
Steven Frankel
Ph.D, University of Chicago
- Leo Strauss and Political Philosophy
- Philosophy and Religion
- Political Economy
American History and Political Thought
Ben Sasse
Former US Senator, Nebraska
- US History and Society
- Political Philosophy
- Technology and Work
Jeremy Bailey
PhD, Boston College
- American Government
- Political Thought of the Early American Republic
- Executive Power
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