This summer Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Raney will teach the Session 5 course on the American Revolution. Sikkenga, who holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of political science at Ashland University. He is co-editor of History of American Political Thought (Lexington Press, 2003) and of The Free Person and the Free Economy (Lexington Press, 2002), and is currently writing a book on the debate over freedom of conscience in the political thought of John Locke and the American Founding. Sikkenga is an adjunct fellow of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs and a senior fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia.

Raney is Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He earned his doctorate at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), working under Robert W. Johannsen and writing his dissertation on the role of a benevolent organization, the United States Christian Commission, in the Civil War. He is writing a book on this subject to be published by Fordham University Press.

Christopher Flannery and Melanie Marlowe will teach the Session 5 course on the American Founding. Flannery is Professor of political science and Director of the Humanities Program at Azusa Pacific University in southern California. He is the Louane S. Taylor Professor in the Master of American History and Government program at Ashland University. He is also Senior Editor of the Claremont Review of Books and his recent essays and reviews have appeared there and in Academic Questions, Interpretation, and The American Scholar. He contributed the chapter "Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith," to the History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga. Flannery earned a Ph.D. in Government from the Claremont Graduate School and an M.A. in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science at the University of London.

Marlowe is Visiting Assistant Instructor of political science at Miami University of Ohio. A doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate University, she teaches American government and writes and researches in the areas of constitutional law, the founding, and the presidency. She worked as Research Assistant to Ralph Rossum as he wrote Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy. (Lexington Books, 2001).