Director: Duncan Pritchard, Distinguished Professor in UCI’s School of Humanities and Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Knowledge, Technology and Society. Professor Pritchard has previously led high-profile and interdisciplinary educational projects, including ones specifically concerned with the development of the intellectual virtues. He is also a scholar who has published on the intellectual virtues, including their role in education.

Richard Arum, Dean Emeritus of UCI’s School of Education and Professor of Education and Sociology, is a leading scholar working on measuring educational outcomes. He is director of the ground-breaking UCI-Must project that is devoted to measuring undergraduate success at UCI. He was previously a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2013-2015) and Director of the Education Research Program at the Social Science Research Research Council (2006-2013). His monograph includes the influential Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (with Josipa Roksa, University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Jason Baehr, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount, is a leading expert on the intellectual virtues and their importance in educational context. In this regard, he has been centrally involved in the establishment of the Intellectual Virtues Academy middle school in Long Beach that is devoted to bringing the intellectual virtues into the heart of a school curriculum. His monograph includes Deep in Thought: A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues (Harvard Education Press, 2021).

Jeffrey M. DeVries is a postdoctoral fellow in UCI’s School of Education, where he works on the Anteater Virtues project.

Julia C. Lerch is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCI, specializing in the sociology of education.

Paul Irikefe is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellow Foundation Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Knowledge, Technology, and Society, School of Humanities, UCI where he works at the Anteater Virtues project.

Carl Sohmer is a graduate student in UCI’s Department of Philosophy. He specializes in the intellectual virtues, including their importance in educational contexts.

Gabriel Avakian Orona is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He was previously a PhD student in UCI’s School of Education. His main area of expertise is evaluating educational outcomes, and he has published work examining the pedagogical effectiveness of the Anteater Virtues project.

Hannah Hertenstein is a graduate student in UCI’s Department of Sociology, specializing in the sociology of education.

Josh Dolin is a graduate student in UCI’s Department of Philosophy. He specializes in the intellectual virtues, including their importance in educational contexts.

Professor Jonathan Alexander (English; Informatics), Director of the Humanities Core Program 

Professor Julia Lupton (English), Founding Director of Illuminations, the Chancellor’s Arts & Culture Initiative and Interim Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute. 

Professor Mark Lazenby (Nursing), Dean of the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing.

Professor Tyrus Miller (Art History; English), Dean of the School of Humanities.

Dr. Willie Banks Jr, Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs

Ben Kotzee is Reader in Education at the University of Birmingham University, UK. He is a leading figure working on educational theory, and editor-in-chief of the journal Theory and Research in Education (SAGE). He is specifically interested in the role of the intellectual virtues in educational settings, and has published widely on this topic. A focus of his recent work has been how best to evaluate the educational effectiveness of teaching the intellectual virtues. 

Catherine Elgin is Professor of Education at Harvard University. She has worked extensively on the importance of promoting active epistemic states, like understanding, in educational contexts. Her publications include her recent MIT Press monograph, True Enough. Her work is important to those who are interested in the role of the intellectual virtues in education due how these virtues are often conceived of in terms of the goal of promoting understanding.

Harvey Siegel is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on the philosophy of education. He has published extensively in this area, including an important monograph on the role of education in cultivating reason. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education. 

James McGrath is the Founding Director of the Intellectual Virtues Academy, which is a free public charter high school in Long Beach. Like the Intellectual Virtues Academy middle school, with which it is partnered, this is an innovative new school that was established with the intellectual virtues at the very heart of its curriculum. 

Nancy Snow is Professor of Philosophy at Kansas University. She was previously Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma where she was Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing. She is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the philosophy and psychology of the virtues. She has published extensively on this topic, including several monographs with leading academic presses. She also recently edited Oxford University Press’s Oxford Handbook of Virtue. She has a particular interest in the role of the virtues in the university curriculum.

Randall Curren is Professor of Education and Philosophy at the University of Rochester. He is a leading theorist working on the role of the virtues in education (specifically the moral and civic virtues). Aside from numerous monographs in this field, he is also the editor of Blackwell’s Companion to the Philosophy of Education. While Professor Curren’s work has tended to focus on the moral virtues in education, he has recently turned his attention to the intellectual virtues.