Intellectual Foundations

Professor David Ruth is Dean of UATX’s Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Previously, Ruth held several leadership positions as a Permanent Military Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy, where he was an award-winning teacher from 2009 until 2022. Ruth has authored several articles in a variety of statistics journals, as well as a book chapter on mathematics in cybersecurity. Prior to his academic work, Ruth led and served as a naval officer with operational experience in submarine and surface warfare, nuclear power, oceanography, and meteorology.

Professor Charles W. Calomiris is UATX’s Director of the Center for Politics, Economics and History. Prior to joining UATX, Calomiris served as the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School and a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Calomiris is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and the Shadow Open Market Committee. Calomiris served as Chief Economist and Senior Deputy Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and has been a visiting scholar or consultant to many central banks and regulatory agencies. Calomiris is the author of many books, including Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (with Stephen Haber), Reforming Financial Regulation After Dodd-Frank, and two edited volumes: Rules for the Lender of Last Resort and Assessing Banking Regulation During the Obama Era. He is currently working on a book entitled Useless History and the Future of Banking.

Professor Patrick Gray is UATX's Director of the Center for Arts and Letters. Previously, Gray served as Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University, where he was responsible for designing and introducing a new interdisciplinary core curriculum in the humanities. Before taking up his appointment at Durham, Gray taught comparative literature at Deep Springs College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Gray is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic, editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War, and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics and Shakespeare and Montaigne.

Professor Jacob Howland is Director of UATX’s Intellectual Foundations program, which comprises the first two years of our undergraduate curriculum. Previously, Howland served as McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa and Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. He is the author of five books and one edited book, including two on Plato’s Republic as well as studies of Kierkegaard and the Talmud. Howland’s articles have appeared in The New Criterion, City Journal, and The Nation, among others.

Loren Rotner is Assistant Chief Academic Officer and Assistant Professor of Intellectual Foundations & Political Philosophy at UATX, where he is responsible for oversight of academics, including the recruitment of faculty and non-credit programs. Loren has also taught ancient Greek literature, history, and philosophy at St. John’s College and American political thought at the United States Naval Academy. He earned his B.A. in political science from Kenyon College, an M.A. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.

Professor David Ruth is Dean of UATX’s Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Previously, Ruth held several leadership positions as a Permanent Military Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy, where he was an award-winning teacher from 2009 until 2022. Ruth has authored several articles in a variety of statistics journals, as well as a book chapter on mathematics in cybersecurity. Prior to his academic work, Ruth led and served as a naval officer with operational experience in submarine and surface warfare, nuclear power, oceanography, and meteorology.