Our People

UATX is a community of scholars, staff, and advisors drawn from diverse disciplines and walks of life. They bring different traditions and perspectives, united by intellectual independence, curiosity, and a shared commitment to open inquiry.

our people

Meet the Team at UATX

UATX Leadership

Carlos Carvalho

Adam Biggs

General Counsel

Hillel Ofek

Chief Strategy Officer

Shez Shafiq

Chief Financial Officer

David Ruth

Benjamin Crocker

University Dean

Patrick Gray

Dean of the Center for Arts and Letters, Professor of Literature

Tim Kane

Dean of the Center for Economics, Politics, and History

Clinton Staley

Interim Dean of the Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; Professor of Computer Science

Phil Greenwald

Executive Director, The Future Labs

Faculty

Jerrod Ankenman

Visiting Faculty

Andy Aymeloglu

Visiting Faculty

Carson Bay

Associate Professor of Classics and Biblical Studies

Timothy Brennan

Associate Professor of Political Philosophy

Claire Brickman

Industry Expert in Residence

Yaron Brook

Visiting Faculty

Bryan Caplan

Visiting Faculty

John Constable

Director of the Future of Energy Institute

Fr. Maximos Constas

Distinguished Professor of the Humanities

Sylvain Costes

Visiting Faculty

Brandon Deadman

Assistant Professor of the History of Ideas

Dorothy Dickmann

Assistant Professor of Accounting & Data Science

Victor Emma-Adamah

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology

Boris Fishman

Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

Patrick Gray

Dean of the Center for Arts and Letters, Professor of Literature

Clay Greene

Assistant Professor of Literature

Kirsten Herlin

Assistant Professor of Literature

J. Michael Hoffpauir

Assistant Professor of Political Theory

Thomas L. Hogan

Associate Professor of Economics

Coleman Hughes

Visiting Professor

Tim Kane

Dean of the Center for Economics, Politics, and History

Danny Kaplan

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

J.J. Kimche

Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy

Arnold Kling

Visiting Faculty

Staff

Dylan Allman

Editorial Assistant

Jack Carlson

Academic Affairs Coordinator

Clint Carton

Director of Student Life

Tianna Chorba

Mike Connors

Associate Director, Student Recruitment

Madison Day

Events Coordinator

Kristi Espino

Stephanie Froehlich

Chief Development Officer

Clara Grace Haberly

Managing Editor

Charity Jennings

Director of Academic Affairs

Maggie Kelly

Associate Director, Special Programs

Rana Liebert

Senior Director of Principal Gifts

Anna Claire Long

Student Life Coordinator

Ashley Mills

Associate Director, University Events

Allen Peña

Director of Security and Facilities

David Peterson

Stephen Plodinec

Creative Director

Kiryll Pokudin

Loren Rotner

Special Advisor to the President

Chris Schiller

Academic Affairs Coordinator

Andrew Schreiner

Accounting Assistant

Becca Schwinger

Vice President, Community Relations

Julia Stone

Senior Manager of Development Operations

Ilanit Turner

Principal Gifts Manager

Board of Trustees

Teri Andresen

Civic Leader and Philanthropist

Brent Bellm

Technology Executive

Niall Ferguson

Historian, The Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Joe Lonsdale

CEO of 8VC, Co-Founder of Palantir

Alex Magaro

Co-President, Meritage Group, LP

Scott Malkin

Chair, Value Retail

Andrew Trousdale

Bari Weiss

Founder, The Free Press

Board of Advisors

Dorian Abbot

Geophysicist, University of Chicago; Visiting Faculty

Peter Boghossian

Founding Faculty Advisor

Arthur Brooks

Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, Harvard University

John Cochrane

Economist & Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Tyler Cowen

Economist, George Mason University

Richard Dawkins

Evolutionary biologist

Caitlin Flanagan

Writer, The Atlantic

E. Gordon Gee

President, West Virginia University

Rob Henderson

Writer and Gates Cambridge Scholar, Cambridge University

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

James Ho

Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Stacy Hock

Philanthropist and Investor

Leon Kass

Dean of Faculty, Shalem College

Joshua Katz

Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Eric Kaufmann

Professor of Politics, University of Buckingham

Sergiu Klainerman

Mathematician, Princeton University

Yuval Levin

Senior Fellow at AEI; Editor in Chief, National Affairs

Glenn Loury

Economist, Brown University

David Mamet

Award-winning playwright and author; Pulitzer Prize winner

Harvey Mansfield

Professor of Government, Harvard University

Wilfred McClay

Historian, Hillsdale College

Deirdre McCloskey

Economist, University of Illinois at Chicago

John A. Nunes

Former President, Concordia College

Eric Poirier

Adjudicative Panel

Jose Joel Alicea

Professor, Catholic University of America

Stephanie Barclay

Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at Georgetown University Law Center

Jennie Bradley Lichter

President, March for Life Education and Defense Fund

Robert P. George

McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University

Thomas Griffith

Former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, lecturer on law at Harvard Law School

David Hacker

Vice President of Legal Services and Senior Council at First Liberty

Michael Moreland

University Professor of Law and Religion and director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University