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Chris Freiman

Philosophy, University of Arizona

Christopher Freiman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2010, specializing in moral and political philosophy.  His work has appeared in venues such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy. »»

Sean Mulholland

Economics, Stonehill College
Sean Mulholland is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts and a lead scholar on the Mercatus Center’s Regulatory Report Card Project. He has previously held faculty positions at Mercer University, Moravian College, and Auburn University - Montgomery. He has served as a faculty mentor at seminars sponsored by the Institute for Human Studies (IHS), filmed short clips for IHS’s LearnLiberty project, and led discussions at the Center for Excellence in Education’s Research Science Institute.  Specializing in economic growth, environmental economics, and labor economics, his work has appeared in the Journal of Economic Growth, the Eastern Economic Journal, Education Economics, and the Villanova Law Review. Born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina, Mulholland lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, Providence College economist, Angela K. Dills and their two sons. In his free time he likes to play with his kids and watch Clemson University sports.»»

Randy Simmons

Economics and Finance, Utah State University
Randy Simmons specializes in political economy, public policy, and environmental and natural resource management.  Other interests of his include baseball, dark chocolate, and wilderness backpacking.  He is currently researching endangered species and urban sprawl.  He is co-author of the 1994 book Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy. »»

Brandon Turner

Political Science, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Brandon Turner is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clemson University, where he is jointly appointed in the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism.  He received his B.A. from Miami University of Ohio (2004) and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008).  He has published articles in The Review of Politics, Polity, and elsewhere, and is currently finishing manuscripts titled Antagonism in the Liberal Tradition and Classical Liberalism: A Short History.  His current research focuses on the emergence of the economic way of thinking in the early modern period. »»

Michael Valdez-Moses

English, Duke University 
Michael Valdez Moses is Associate Professor of English and a founding member of the Gerst Program for Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies at Duke University.  He grew up in Los Angeles and was educated at Harvard, New College, Oxford, and the University of Virginia.  He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (Oxford, 1995), editor of the essay collections, The Writings of J. M. Coetzee (Duke UP, 1994), and Modernism and Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Modernism and Colonialism:  British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 (Duke UP, 2007).  His main interests are in 20th-century British, Irish, comparative, and postcolonial literatures, modern cinema, and in the history of classical liberal political thought. He is co-editor of the journal, Modernist Cultures, and a contributing editor of Reason magazine. Professor Moses is the 2011-2012 recipient of the Roger B. Cox Distinguished Teaching Award given by Duke University.  »»

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