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Daniel Jacobson is the Bruce D. Benson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization. He was previously a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, where he founded and directed the Freedom and Flourishing Project. He directs an annual Workshop in Heterodox Moral and Political Philosophy which began at Michigan and is now under the...

Taylor Jaworski is an associate professor in the Department of Economics. His research and teaching interests are in economic history and economic geography. Jaworski has been a regular participant in Benson Center faculty seminars and a host/panelist in several events including lectures with Jared Rubin , Noel Johnson , and the Hamilton: The Man Behind the Musical CU faculty panel discussion. Jaworski received his BA from The George Washington University,...

Alexandra Roberts joined the Benson Center in April 2022. She is responsible for managing the Center's operations, budget and finance, HR, and academic scheduling. Alexandra serves as the primary liaison with the CU Foundation for donor stewardship and fundraising. A CU Boulder alum with a B.A. in International Affairs, she is particularly passionate about student engagement with the Center and its mission. Alexandra has been a staff member with the...

AJ Shively joined the Benson Center in 2020 as a student intern where he helped launch the Free Mind podcast. He became the Center鈥檚 External Media Relations Manager in 2023, where he is now responsible for event management. Shively is a CU Boulder alum with a B.S. in Strategic Communication with a focus on strategic advertising and is currently pursuing a M.S. in Business Analytics.

Patrick J. Deneen holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University.鈥� From 1995-1997 he was Speechwriter and Special Advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency.鈥� From 1997-2005 he was Assistant Professor of Government at Princeton University.鈥� From 2005-2012 he was Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, before joining the faculty of Notre Dame in Fall鈥�2012.鈥� He is the...

Joseph Porter is an associate teaching professor at the Benson Center who specializes in political philosophy, PPE (philosophy, politics, and economics), and ethics. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. Before coming to UNC, he studied philosophy and religion at Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School. His personal website may be found here .

Matthew G. Nagler is a Professor of Economics at The City College of New York. Previously, he served on the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team in the White House of President Barack Obama. He specializes in behavioral economics, social economics, and applied microeconomics and has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and numerous other outlets. His work has been...

James Strasburg is an Associate Professor of History and the Charles F. Kline Chair in History at Hillsdale College. His research explores Christianity's encounter with key political, economic, and international developments in the twentieth鈥痗entury. His first book,鈥疓od's Marshall Plan: American Protestants and the Struggle for the Soul of Europe, appeared in 2021 with Oxford University Press. His current book project,鈥疕eavenly Marketplace: A History of Christianity and Capitalism, 1945-2008,鈥痚xplores the connections...

Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence in the Finance Division and the Faculty Director of the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also serves as a Research Associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project. Alston received his MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and his JD from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching...

Paul Diduch is an instructor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, the Herbst Certificate for Engineering, Ethics & Society, and the Herbst 鈥淐ulture Wars in Rome鈥� study abroad program at CU Boulder. Diduch considers himself first and primarily a scholar of ancient philosophy, mainly Platonic philosophy, and secondarily a student, teacher, and researcher of the history and philosophy of science, with special emphasis on the cultural and...

Iskra Fileva is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and an Associate Director of the Center for Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Fileva specializes on issues in moral psychology, aesthetics, and epistemology. She has written on a variety of topics including character, free will, moral disgust, and moral testimony. Fileva also does work for a broad audience. She is the author of two prize-winning essays published...

Benjamin Teitelbaum is associate professor of Ethnomusicology, International Affairs. For over a decade, he has worked as an ethnographer of European reactionary intellectualism and rightwing expressive culture. Teitelbaum says, "Having long rejected standard imperatives to research these topics as an activist, I have come to value with heightened urgency principles for which the Benson Center is a primary ambassador on campus, namely, free speech and free inquiry."

Will Godsil is a junior at CU Boulder, graduating in May of 2025. He is majoring in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Accounting, and minoring in Political Science.

Rebecca is a senior at CU Boulder, graduating in fall of 2024. She is pursuing a BA in Art History with a minor in Business.