George Harne is Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at The University of St. Thomas. He holds a doctorate in musicology from Princeton University his career in higher education encompasses his service as a college president, music professor, and over a decade of teaching the Humanities. Dr. Harne served as president at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts from 2011 to 2020 where he further developed the curriculum and integrated humanities program, recruited nationally recognized faculty, secured accreditation with the New England Commission of Higher Education, and extended the college’s national reputation.

Ilana Horwitz is a sociologist of religion and education who examines how people’s gender, ethnicity, race, social class, and religious upbringing shape their life. This fall, Horwitz will join Tulane’s Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience as an Assistant Professor and the Fields-Rayant Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life. Prior to Tulane, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity, and earned her PhD in Sociology of Education & Jewish Studies from Stanford University. Horwitz also earned a Masters in International Education Development from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and a Bachelors in Business Administration from Emory University. She is a former Institute for Education Sciences fellow and Wexner/Davidson fellow, and worked for several years as a management consultant and program evaluator. Her forthcoming book, God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, will be published next year.

Elizabeth Corey joined the Baylor Honors Program’s faculty in 2007 and has served as Director since 2015. She earned a B.A. in Classics from Oberlin College, an M.A. in art history from Louisiana State University (LSU), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from LSU. She has taught courses at Baylor on political science, great texts, and in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. She has earned several awards for research and teaching and was a 2016-2017 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her book, Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2006. She writes for First Things and serves on the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. She has also published in The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and in a variety of scholarly journals.