FACULTY AND STAFF

Ryan Center Office

Brian T. Satterfield, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor, Lawrence C. Gallen Fellow in the Humanities

Faculty Associates

We welcome faculty who support our mission from across the Villanova community to be Ryan Center Faculty Associates.The Ryan Center Faculty Associates are members of the faculty of Villanova University whose scholarly work is related to the mission of the Ryan Center and who support the Ryan Center’s goals of promoting inquiry into the principles and processes of free government and advancing understanding of the responsibilities of statesmen and citizens of constitutional democratic societies. Because they share James Madison’s belief that only a well-instructed people can be permanently free, the Ryan Center Faculty Associates hold that it is part of their responsibility as scholars and teachers to foster in society generally and in their students in particular an appreciation of the moral, political, legal, and philosophical foundations of democratic government.

Andrew J Bove
Associate Director for Academic Advising
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, PhD, HEC-C
Professor of Philosophy; Director, Health Humanities & Medical Arts Program; Founding Director, The Ethics Program
Patrick McKinley Brennan
John F. Scarpa Chair in Catholic Legal Studies
Professor of Law
(610) 519-7073
Stephen Napier Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research: epistemology, bioethics, cognitive science of intuitions, philosophy of religion
John R. Johannes, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Political Science
Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Peter Zaleski, PhD
Professor, Economics
Daniel Mark
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Villanova University
(610) 519-3975
Colleen Mitchell, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor; Associate Director of Outreach, Augustinian Institute
Alan Pichanick, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor, ACS
Brian T. Satterfield, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor, Lawrence C. Gallen Fellow in the Humanities
John-Paul Spiro, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor, Lawrence C. Gallen Teaching Faculty in the Humanities
Miron Wolnicki, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics
Elizabeth-Jane McGuire, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor; Faculty Advisor in OUS

We organize programming for our faculty associates and extend them priority invitations to other Center-hosted events. We also encourage mentoring relationships between our faculty associates and students. For more information on becoming a Faculty Associate, please contact Brian Satterfield.

The Ryan Center
Villanova University, Old Falvey 304
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085

Brian Satterfield, PhD, interim director
brian.satterfield@villanova.edu

Jordan Watts, assistant director
jordan.watts@villanova.edu