Joshua T. Katz is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on higher education, language and culture, the classical tradition, and the humanities in the broadest sense. Before joining AEI, he was the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton University. A graduate of Yale, Oxford, and Harvard, Katz is widely published in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient, medieval, and modern world. In recent years, he has also been a regular contributor to such publications as City Journal, First Things, The New Criterion, and Public Discourse. While he has received many national and international awards for his scholarship and his teaching, he is perhaps proudest of being named a Hero of Intellectual Freedom by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni in 2020 and winning the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom in 2023.

David Rancourt served as Florida’s State Elections Director, Deputy Secretary of State, and Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Jeb Bush, and co-founded the lobbying firm Southern Strategy Group. As managing partner, David helped grow the firm to become America’s largest state-level lobbying practice with 21 offices in 16 states. After completing work on his PhD, David was named Dean of Students at New College of Florida. During his tenure at New College, David has served as VP of Student Affairs, Interim Provost and currently serves as VP of Admissions, Enrollment Management, and Financial Aid. David is a native Floridian and holds a BS degree in economics from Florida State University, an MA in political science from the University of Florida. David earned a certificate in cultural diplomacy from the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin and holds a PhD from the University of Bucharest in philosophy where his research in applied ethics and moral theory earned him magna cum laude honors. David and his wife Regan have two children and two grandchildren.

Tom Steiner has been the president of the James Joyce Society of Sarasota. In that connection, in addition to the reading activities of that group, Tom and his wife, Maureen, have sponsored travel for more than 100 students and faculty to visit Dublin for Bloomsday, June 16th, over many years. Several groups from New College have gone to Dublin and stayed at Trinity College (led by Robert Zamsley, Miriam Wallace, Amy Reid and others). In addition, Tom has been active for the last 15 years with the Great Books Group of Sarasota and every Friday makes a presentation on the history and background of authors – for the past 4 years, Great Books has been reading American authors in chronological order. 

Mr. Steiner is the Managing Partner of Baldwin Bell Green. In 1994 Mr. Steiner founded Mitchell Madison Group. Prior to that, Mr. Steiner was a partner of McKinsey & Company. He has been a top management consultant for over three decades focusing on strategic planning for financial institutions, including insurance companies, investment managers, investment banks, wealth management firms, commercial banks, and private equity firms. In addition, he has also worked with auto manufacturers, IT services providers, technology manufacturers, and telecommunications firms. Mr. Steiner has conducted extensive research into industry structure, especially in the banking and insurance industries, with a focus on the impact of technology on the cost position and market share of competitors. He has dealt with approximately 90 firms in more than 20 countries on a wide range of general management issues.

Mr. Steiner is the author of Technology and Banking: Creating Value and Destroying Profits published by The Wall Street Journal (Dow-Jones Irwin).  A modified edition focusing on UK banking was published by the Financial Times under the title The Banking Revolution: Salvation or Slaughter.

He is an honors graduate of Dartmouth College and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  He has a JD degree from Harvard Law School and practiced law for three years in New York.  Mr. Steiner also received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar.