PRRUCS People
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Daniel J.M. Cheely
Executive Director
Executive Director and Perry Family Scholar of History, Religion & Culture, PRRUCS
Director, Collegium Institute
Steven Vaughn-Lewis
Associate Director for Administration
Associate Director of Fox Leadership International
Wendy Jensen
Administrative Assistant
Administrative assistant of the Leadership Hall Programs
FACULTY SENIOR AFFILIATES
John J. Dilulio, Jr.
Faculty Director, PRRUCS
Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania
Melissa J. Wilde
Associate Faculty Director, Program for Empirical Studies and Surveys
Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of PRRUCS Program for Empirical Studies and Surveys, University of Pennsylvania
Ram Cnaan
Professor of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Dodson
Professor of Anatomy and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania
John W. Fantuzzo
Albert M. Greenfield Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Marci A. Hamilton
Robert A. Fox Leadership Program Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Michele Margolis
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Beth S. Wenger
Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Weisberg
Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
SENIOR AFFILIATES
Samuel K. Atchison
Social Policy Analysist, Program Development Administrator, Commentator
Stephanie Boddie
Assistant Professor of Church and Community Ministries, Baylor University
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, and Director of CI Medical Humanities
Michael Breidenbach
PRRUCS Senior Affiliate for Legal Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
Katy Carl
Editor-in-Chief, Dappled Things Magazine
Stanley Carlson-Thies
Director, Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance
Janice Tzuling Chik
Research Associate, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University
Luis Cortés, Jr.
Founder, President, CEO, Esperanza
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Jane Eisner
Editor-in-Chief, the Forward
Beverly D. Frazier
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Fox Family Pavilion Distinguished Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Tim Goeglein
Vice President, External Relations, Focus on the Family
W. Wilson Goode, Sr.
Director, Amachi, Inc.
Nathan Hauthaler
Assistant Professor of Practice, Global Studies, Duke University
Margaret Hogan
Director Emerita of the CI Medical Humanities Program
David R. Hodge
Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University
Charles L. Howard
University Chaplain and University Vice President for Social Equity & Community, University of Pennsylvania
Lia Howard
Student Advising and Wellness Director, Paideia Program, University of Pennsylvania
A. Robert Jaeger
President, Partners for Sacred Places
Ferdous Jahan
Associate Director and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership International, University of Pennsylvania
Mike Kane
Director of the CI Philosophy of Finance Project, and Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Evie McNiff
President, Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia
Ethan Nadelmann
Founder, Drug Policy Alliance, and C2G2 Member
Rebecca Padot
Assistant Professor, Misericordia University
Isabel Perera
Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University
Anne Morrison Piehl
Professor of Economics and James Cullen Chair in Economics, Rutgers University
John Rodden
Sociologist, Commentator, Editor and Author
Mary Scullion
President and Executive Director, Project H.O.M.E.
Luke Sheahan
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University
Jessie Taylor
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of the Sciences, and Director of the CI Magi Project
Joseph P. Tierney
Executive Director and Senior Scholar, Fox Leadership International, University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Managing Director, The Rock Creek Group
Tevi D. Troy
President of the American Health Policy Institute
Michael Wear
Founder of Public Square Strategies, LLC
Catherine E. Wilson
Associate Professor and Chair of Public Administration, Villanova University
Stephanie Wong
Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology, Villanova University
Resident Scholars, Fellows, and Programming Affiliates
Nicholas Ogle
John and Daria Barry Foundation Fellow
Dr. Nicholas Ogle holds a Ph.D. in Moral Theology & Christian Ethics from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a fellow at the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing. His research explores the nature of human action, practical reason, and moral responsibility, with a focus on the moral thought of Thomas Aquinas and its modern reception. He has published articles in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Scottish Journal of Theology, and is currently writing a monograph based on his dissertation entitled, “Ignorance in Action: A Thomistic Theory of Moral Culpability.” While at Penn, he will be conducting research related to the philosophy of G.E.M. Anscombe, drawing upon the Collegium Institute Anscombe Archive.
John Peter DiIulio
James N. Perry Scholar of Philosophy, Politics, and Society
Dr. J.P. DiIulio received his BA in political science from Penn, and his MA and PhD in politics from Princeton University. His research interests include modern political thought, ethics, action theory, and the history of philosophy. His first completed monograph has been provisionally titled, “Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of J.S. Mill.” His next research project engages the moral philosophy of G.E.M. Anscombe. Prior to returning to Penn, Dr. DiIulio served as the Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Now in addition to serving as the James N. Perry Scholar of Philosophy, Politics, and Society in Penn’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, he is also Senior Fellow at the Penn Partnership for Effective Public Administration and Leadership Ethics and Perry-Hager-La Ruffa Scholar-in-Residence with PRRUCS.
José Perez-Benzo
Resident Program Affiliate
José Perez-Benzo manages projects related to the Collegium Institute Anscombe Archive at the University of Pennsylvania, which was brought to Penn’s Kislak Center for Special Collections in collaboration with the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society. He also spearheaded the NEH-funded Anscombe Archive digitization project. José received his bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton in 2017 and his Master of the Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.
Caroline Arnold
Resident Program Affiliate
Caroline Arnold assists with the design and execution of extracurricular seminars, student fellowship programs, conferences, and special events offered by CI in collaboration with PRRUCS. Caroline completed her BA at Villanova University with a double major in Humanities and Philosophy and a minor in Classical Studies. She comes to Philadelphia from Boston College, where she completed an MA in Philosophy focusing on the thought of Plato, Augustine, and William Desmond.