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

President, and Professor of Statistics

Adam Biggs

General Counsel

Hillel Ofek

Chief Strategy Officer

Shez Shafiq

Chief Financial Officer

Stephanie Froehlich

Chief Development Officer

David Ruth

Provost, and Professor of Mathematics

Clinton Staley

Dean of Sciences, and Professor of Computer Science

Patrick Gray

Phil Greenwald

Executive Director, Innovation Labs

Jacob Wolf

Dean of Students, Director of the Program in American Civilization, and Assistant Professor of Politics

Jacob Lindsey

Director of Admissions

Faculty

Elizabeth Baldwin

Visiting Instructor in Art and Architecture

Ryan Bangert

Visiting Instructor in Law

Joao Bastos

Assistant Professor of Economics

Carson Bay

Associate Professor of Classics and Biblical Studies

Konrad Boeschenstein

Visiting Instructor in History

Giorgia Bove

Visiting Instructor in Classics

Joseph Brennan

Visiting Instructor in Applied Mathematics

Claire Brickman

Industry Expert in Residence

Jill Carvalho

Visiting Instructor in Law

Fr. Maximos Constas

Distinguished Professor of the Humanities

Russell Cooper

Professor of Economics

Brandon Deadman

Assistant Professor of the History of Ideas

Hugo Diaz

Visiting Instructor in Business Innovation

Dorothy Dickmann

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Data Science

Victor Emma-Adamah

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology

Charles Erdman

Visiting Instructor in Communications

Boris Fishman

Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

Patrick Gray

Clay Greene

Assistant Professor of Literature

Eric Hendriks

Visiting Instructor in China Studies

Jack Henneman

Visiting Instructor in Law

Kirsten Herlin

Assistant Professor of Literature

J. Michael Hoffpauir

Assistant Professor of Political Theory

Thomas Hogan

Associate Professor of Economics

Staff

Dylan Allman

Editorial Assistant

Shelby Broadbent

Director of Innovation Partnerships and Engagement

Gihan Cardona

Development Operations Coordinator

Clever Cardoso

Senior Video Producer

Clint Carton

Director of Student Life

Tianna Chorba

Mike Connors

Associate Director, Student Recruitment

Madison Day

Events Coordinator

Kristi Espino

Ashlyn Eynon

Accounting Assistant

Clara Grace Haberly

Managing Editor

Charity Jennings

Director of Academic Affairs & University Registrar

Kelly Kennedy

Senior Director of Development

Rana Liebert

Senior Director of Principal Gifts

Anna Claire Long

Student Life Coordinator

Taylor Mason

Graphic Designer

Ashley Mills

Associate Director, University Events

Audrey Ofek

Editor-in-Chief

Jeremy Pedregon

Security Officer

Allen Peña

Director of Security and Facilities

David Peterson

Stephen Plodinec

Creative Director

Kiryll Pokudin

Maggie Porter

Associate Director, Special Programs

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

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, and Visiting Instructor in Philology

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 Counsel 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