International Advisory Board

Associate Professor Jane Adolphe

Professor Adolphe holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Calgary, as well as common-law and civil-law degrees from McGill University. She also earned a Licentiate in Canon Law and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome. Her course offerings include Family Law, Canon Law, International Law, and International Human Rights. She also recently participated as a delegate of the Holy See.

Associate Professor Helen Alvaré

George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches law and religion and family law. Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Laity and a consultant to ABC News regarding the Catholic Church in the United States. She teaches, writes and speaks about matters concerning the family, marriage, respect for life, and religious freedom.

Professor Margaret Archer

Professor of Sociology at Warwick University where she developed her 'Morphogenetic Approach' to social theory. She now heads the project at EPFL 'From Modernity to Morphogenesis'. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association at the 12th World Congress of Sociology. She is a founder member of both the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and is a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism.

Ms Lucy Beckett

A resident of Ampleforth, Yorkshire, Ms Beckett is an independent scholar who has written a number of books with Catholic themes, including a major work, In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition. She taught for many years at Ampleforth Abbey and College, the largest Benedictine monastery in the UK

Gerard Bradley

Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame

Stratford Caldecott

Director
Thomas More College Centre for Faith & Culture, Oxford

Phillip Crotty

Emeritus Professor of Education
Northeastern University

Bernard Dobranski

Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
Ave Maria School of Law

Ms Mary Eberstadt

Research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California, and consulting editor to Policy Review magazine.

John Finnis

Professor of Law
University of Oxford

Kieran Flanagan

Reader in Sociology
Bristol University

Robert P. George

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

Samuel Gregg

Director, Center for Economic Personalism
Acton Institute, Michigan

John Haldane

Professor of Philosophy
University of St Andrews, Scotland

James Hitchcock

Professor of History
St Louis University

Russell Hittinger

Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Rev Dr Ian Ker

Faculty of Theology
Oxford University

Paul Mankowski S J

Lector in Biblical Hebrew
Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome

William E. May

McGivney Professor of Moral Theology
John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family Washington DC

Peter Milward SJ

Director, Renaissance Centre
Sophia University, Tokyo

Dr Francesca Murphy

Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, South Bend, Indiana. She was formerly Professor of Christian Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen. Her major interest is theological aesthetics. She has written books such as Christ The Form of Beauty, The Comedy of Revelation, Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Etienne Gilson and God is not a Story: Realism Revisited. She has also edited several works, including The Providence of God: Deus Habet Consilium (Continuum, 2009).

William O'Connor

Senior Lecturer in Engineering
University College Dublin

Timothy T. O'Donnell

President
Christendom College

Glenn Olsen

Professor of History
University of Utah

Teresa Olsen Pierre

Dr Pierre is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She trained in medieval history at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval History and the University of Toronto. Her specialties include twelfth-century intellectual history, the history of the body and the history of marriage.

Rev Dr John Saward

James V. Schall SJ

Professor of Government
Georgetown University

George Weigel