Faculty

administration and fellows
Brian Kemple

Executive Director

Geoffrey Meadows

Executive Assistant

Richard Sharpe

Director of Languages

Herbert Hartmann

Faculty Fellow

Scott Randall Paine

Faculty Fellow

Matthew Minerd

Faculty Fellow

Daniel Wagner

Faculty Fellow

Kirk Kanzelberger

Faculty Fellow

Francisco Plaza

Faculty Fellow

adam pugen

Faculty Fellow

jacob j. andrews

Faculty Fellow

john boyer

Faculty Fellow

Fellows

Since 2021, the Lyceum Institute has been augmented by the insights and work of a small group of Faculty Fellows. This term of Fellowship represents the first step in growth towards eventual full-time Faculty, who will teach a range of seminars, language-related courses, participate in reading groups, and more.

These Faculty are selected for their knowledge, insight, experience, and belief in the mission of the Lyceum Institute. In addition to teaching seminars and participating in the communal life of the Institute, Faculty are encouraged to research and publish their thoughts, either through the Institute’s associate, Reality: a Journal for Philosophical Discourse, or through a separate publisher.

Additionally, the Lyceum Institute welcomes varied scholars from a wide range of disciplines to present colloquia concerning any topic presented in a matter which we might investigate philosophically or symposia on some topic pertaining to arts and the aesthetic.

See our Opportunities page to learn more.

Long-Term Faculty

The long-term goal of the Lyceum Institute is to establish a full-time faculty of 5-7 members, and to continue supporting Faculty Fellows on a year-to-year basis. Our full-time faculty will be funded by our Endowment, will teach across the curriculum and oversee the development of our programs.

Beyond the University

Beyond the University exists because the modern university, even where it succeeds, has become inadequate to the true tasks of education.  Education is not the transmission of information or preparation for employment, but the formation of good intellectual habits.  These aims no longer fit comfortably within institutions ordered primarily toward efficiency, expansion, and measurable outcomes.  The Lyceum Institute was founded to provide a genuinely different institutional form—one ordered toward education as an integral part of life rather than as a credentialing process.

The Lyceum cultivates enduring intellectual habits of inquiry, order, and memory through rigorous seminars, focused studies of the Trivium, classical languages, guided reading, and sustained inquisitive conversation.  By supporting the Lyceum Institute, you help sustain an independent public institution devoted to education ordered toward truth, continuity, and long-term intellectual formation.  Your gift ensures that this alternative remains available—not only for today’s students, but for generations to come.

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