Life of the mind tour

Benjamin Crocker is the Director of Special Programs and Associate Director of Admissions at the University of Austin. He is from North Queensland, Australia, and previously taught at The King’s School, and The University of Sydney.

In Australia, Mr. Crocker has conducted the Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and recorded for nationwide radio broadcast at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Crocker holds a B.Mus. from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, a teaching diploma from the University of Southern Queensland, and an M.A. from St. John’s College, Annapolis.

Lindsay Eberhardt is a Research Fellow at 27 Rouge. Formerly, she was senior editor at Common Sense Society; managing editor for Dissident.com, The American Mind, and the Claremont Review of Books Digital; and an assistant editor at the Claremont Review of Books.
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She has taught politics and political philosophy at the U.S. Naval Academy, George Mason University, and California State University - San Bernadino. Dr. Eberhardt’s writings have been published in The Journal of Woman, Politics, and Policy and Political Research Quarterly. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in American Government from Claremont Graduate University and a B.A. in political science from the University of Alaska.

Professor Patrick Gray is UATX's Dean of the Center for Arts and Letters. Previously, Professor 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.
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Before taking up his appointment at Durham, Professor Gray taught comparative literature at Deep Springs College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Professor 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 the Dean of the University of Austin’s Intellectual Foundations program, which comprises the first two years of the University’s undergraduate curriculum.

Previously, Professor 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. Professor Howland’s articles have appeared in The New Criterion, City Journal, and The Nation, among others.

Panayiotis (Pano) Kanelos is the Founding President of the University of Austin (UATX). He previously served as President of St. John’s College, Annapolis.

During his tenure, St. John’s successfully launched a historic initiative that included the most significant tuition reduction at any American college, accompanied by a $300 million campaign.

Other appointments include Dean of the Honors College at Valparaiso University, associate professor of theater at Loyola University Chicago, associate professor of English at the University of San Diego, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He has authored and edited numerous books, articles, and essays on Shakespeare, including the “Shakespeare and the Stage” series.

Professor David Ruth is the Dean of the University of Austin’s Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Previously, Professor 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.

Professor 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, Professor Ruth led and served as a naval officer with operational experience in submarine and surface warfare, nuclear power, oceanography, and meteorology.

Adam Schulman has taught the liberal arts at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, for over twenty-five years. Dr. Schulman was educated at the University of Chicago, attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his Ph.D.d in the history of science from Harvard.

His dissertation is entitled “Quantum and Aristotelian Physics.” Between 2003 and 2009 he served on the staff of the President’s Council on Bioethics, under its founding Chairman Leon R. Kass  as well as his successor, Edmund D. Pellegrino.
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He is the co-editor of Human Dignity and Bioethics and also Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass. He has lectured on Homer, Sophocles, Xenophon, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Jane Austen, quantum physics, and the discovery and significance of entropy. He has also served as visiting professor at MIT.