The Center for the Study of Democracy

Advisory Board

• Harry J. Weitzel, (chair) Chief Financial Officer, Waring Hotels, Inc. and Cherry Cove Companies
• Jon Armajani, Associate Professor, Department of Theology, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University
• Benjamin Bradlee, Vice President-at-Large of The Washington Post, former President of Historic St. Mary’s City Commission, and College trustee
• Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senator from Maryland and former College Trustee
• Rosann Catalano, Roman Catholic theologian at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies
• Ronald Hoffman, Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary
• Steny Hoyer, U.S. Representative from Maryland, Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, and College Trustee
• Thomas Penfield Jackson, Former U.S. District Judge and College Trustee
• Ted Koppel, Broadcast journalist
• Zach Messitte, Vice Provost for International Programs and the William J. Crowe, Chair, Associate Professor of Geopolitics at the University of Oklahoma; former Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy
• Steven Muller, President Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and past chairman of the College’s Board of Trustees
• J. Frank Raley, Former Maryland State Senator and Trustee Emeritus at the College
• Bruce Ridel, Senior advisor to three U.S. presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues and chaired an interagency review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan for the White House
• Terry Meyerhoff Rubenstein, Executive Vice President of the Joseph Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds and a former trustee of St. Mary's College; founding chair of the Center for the Study of Democracy 
• Martin E. Sullivan, Director, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
• Dr. Joseph Urgo, President, St. Mary's College of Maryland

St. Mary's College of Maryland faculty serving on the Advisory Board:

• Michael J.G. Cain, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Professor of Political Science
• Todd Eberly, Former Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Coordinator of Public Policy Minor
• Jose Ballesteros, Associate Professor of International Languages and Cultures (Spanish)
• Jennifer Cognard-Black, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
• Kenneth Cohen, Assistan Professor of History
• Helen Ginn Daugherty, Professor of Sociology
• Alan Dillingham, Professor of Economics
• Charles J. Holden, Associate Professor of History
• Sahar Shafqat, Associate Professor of Political Science