Board of Directors

Jonathan P. Daly (B.A., Thomas Aquinas College)

Jon is the Director of Admissions at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) in California, a position he has held since 2004. A 1999 graduate of the college, Daly has worked in the admissions office since 2000, overseeing recruitment and application processes for the institution.

James Hankins (Ph.D, M.A., M. Phil., Columbia University, B.A., Duke University)

James Hankins will be Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School in the 2026–2027 academic year. A intellectual historian, he is currently a Visiting Professor at the Hamilton School, having taught at Harvard University for the past 40 years. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and the winner of the Academy’s Serena Medal for Italian history (2024). He was awarded the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award by the Renaissance Society of America in 2012. He was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 2014. His main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, the history of Platonic philosophy and history of the classical tradition. He is the founding editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press) and associate editor of the Catalogus Translationum and Commentariorum (Union Académique Internationale). His public-facing essays, reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Law & Liberty, The New Criterion, The Claremont Review of Books, The Spectator (World), Public Discourse, and The American Mind.

Timothy Wiens (Ed.D., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, M.Ed., Bethel University, M.B.A., University of Oxford, B.A., Bethel University)

Tim Wiens is the President, Board of Academic Advisors, Classic Learning Test and Adjunct Professor, Baylor University. Dr. Wiens is a career educator with more than 3 decades of service in public and private schools as a member of the teaching faculty, as a dean of students, assistant principal, and head of school. Likewise, he has worked in higher education as a lecturer, assistant professor, visiting scholar, adjunct professor, and university assigned mentor at Vanderbilt University, Wheaton College, Gordon College, Baylor University, and University of Pennsylvania.

Jessica Hooten Wilson (Ph.D., Baylor University, M.A., University of Dallas, B.A., Pepperdine University)

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. She is the author of several books, most recently Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. Her book Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov received a 2018 Christianity Today book of the year in arts and culture award  and The Scandal of Holiness received a 2022 Award of Merit. In 2019 she received the Hiett Prize for Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Other awards include a Fulbright Fellowship to Prague, an NEH to study Dante in Florence, a Biola University sabbatical fellowship funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and the 2017 Emerging Public Intellectual Award. She is a Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum. She also received a grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest Universityfor her project with Paul Begin, Cultivating Virtue via Great Books Pathway Through the Core Curriculum.

Andrew Zwerneman (M.A., St. John's University, B.A., Notre Dame University)

Andrew serves as President of Cana Academy and Master Teacher. For 40 years, he has taught and consulted in secondary schools that emphasize classic humanities. For 19 years he headed schools—2 at the public charter school, Tempe Preparatory Academy in Tempe, Arizona, 17 at Trinity School at Meadow View in Falls Church, Virginia. He is the founder and owner of The Academy Project, LLC, which wrote the original curricula and trained faculties for Thomas MacLaren School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Trinity Academy in Portland, Oregon. Education: B.A., A.B.D., University of Notre Dame; M.A., St. John’s University. He is the author of History Forgotten and Remembered (2020) and The Life We Have Together: A Case for Humane Studies, A Vision for Renewal (2022).