Board of Directors, Standing Committees, and Officers

ACTC is a membership driven professional association concerned with the improvement of liberal education through the use of core texts. Membership is open to all who have an interest in liberal education and is determined before each annual meeting to be those who have paid their annual contributory dues on or before the opening of the annual conference. Corporate, institutional membership is also available, determined by the contribution of an institution to ACTC on or before the annual conference.

Each member is entitled to vote on each matter submitted to the membership during its annual business meeting or through a specially called election. A corporate member may designate one representative to vote in all membership meetings and specially called elections. No person may exercise two votes.

Members are called upon to vote for both the Advisory Board representatives and the Officers of ACTC. Nominations to the Board may come from the membership or the Advisory Board. The Officers are President, Executive Director, Associate Director, and Treasurer.

ACTC Board of Directors

  • David Carl, Assistant Dean, St. John’s College Santa Fe
  • Emma Cohen de Lara, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
  • Erin Dolgoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Chair, Department of Politics and Law, Rhodes College
  • Theodore Hadzi-Antich, Association Professor of Government and Humanities, Austin Community College
  • Tuan Hoang, Associate Professor of Great Books, Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education, Pepperdine University
  • Richard Kamber, Professor of Philosophy, College of New Jersey
  • Joseph Knippenberg, Professor of Politics, Oglethorpe Universit
  • Michael Krom, Professor of Philosophy, St. Vincent College
  • Page Laws, Dean, Honors College Emerita, Norfolk State University
  • Gregory McBrayer, Director, Core Curriculum, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashland University
  • Molly McGrath, Professor of Philosophy, Assumption College; Vice President of ACTC
  • Roosevelt Montas, Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum, Columbia University
  • Joshua Parens, Professor of Philosophy and Politics, University of Dallas; President of ACTC
  • Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, Council of Independent Colleges
  • Neil G. Robertson, Associate Professor in the Foundation Year, Early Modern Studies, and Contemporary Studies programs, University of King’s College, Halifax; Treasurer of ACTC
  • Sarah Skwire, Senior Fellow and Director of Communications, Liberty Fund Inc.
  • Kerri L. Tom, Professor of English and Director of the Enduring Questions and Ideas Curriculum, Concordia University Irvine; Secretary of ACTC
  • José M. Torralba, Director of the Core Curriculum Institute, University of Navarra
  • Charlotte Thomas (non-voting, ex officio),Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Great Books Program, and co-director of the McDonald Center, Mercer University; Executive Director of ACTC
  • Jason Wallace, Richard Stockham Jr. Chair of Western Intellectual History, Samford University

Officers

  • Joshua Parens, President
  • Molly McGrath, Vice President
  • Neil Robertson, Treasurer
  • Kerri Tom, Secretary
  • Charlotte Thomas, Executive Director

Standing Committees

  • Governance Committee
    • Joshua Parens, Chair (President)
    • Molly McGrath (Vice President, Membership Committee Chair)
    • Neil Robertson (Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair)
    • Kerri Tom (Secretary)
    • Charlotte Thomas (Executive Director)
  • Finance Committee
    • Neil Robertson, Chair
    • Joshua Parens
    • Charlotte Thomas
    • Molly McGrath
    • Richard Kamber
  • Membership, Programming, and Fundraising Committee
    • Molly McGrath, Chair
    • Charlotte Thomas
    • Page Laws
    • Michael Krom
    • Vianney Domingo
    • Matthew Dinan
    • Maria José Gomez Ruiz
  • Publications Committee
    • Tuan Hoang, Chair
    • Charlotte Thomas
    • Emma Cohen de Lara
    • Joseph Knippenberg
    • Kerri Tom