Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Associate Professor of Economics, Virginia Military Institute 

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl received her PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2006. She also holds a Master’s degree from University of Maryland and a Bachelor’s Degree from Wittenberg University. She was previously an assistant professor at the Department of Public Policy at the Central European University and a visiting assistant professor at Washington and Lee University’s Economics Department. Her teaching and research focuses on economics of institutions, post-socialist economies and politics, economic history, and law and economics.

Jonathan Eastwood, Laurent Boetsch Term Professor of Sociology, Washington and Lee University

Jonathan Eastwood holds a PhD from the University Professors Program at Boston University.  A political sociologist, he is the co-author (with Tyler Dickovick) of Comparative Politics: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Cases (Oxford, 2013, 2nd edition 2016).

Peter Grajzl, Associate Professor of Economics, Washington and Lee University

Peter Grajzl is associate professor of Economics at Washington and Lee University and a CESifo Research Network Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2005 and was assistant professor of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, between 2005 and 2009. His research interests lie in the economics of institutions and governance, law and economics, and political economy.

Nicolas Prevelakis, Assistant Director of Curricular Development at the Center for Hellenic Studies and Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University

Nicolas Prevelakis has a first Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) and a second one in Political Sociology from Boston University. He is interested in the history of political philosophy, religion and politics, globalization, and the European Union. He has published articles and encyclopedia pieces on secularization theory, nationalism and ethnicity, Islam in contemporary Europe, modern Greek nationalism, and the conception of the self in Eastern Christianity.