Regional Chapters
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Andrew Smith, MA
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Director
Andrew Smith joined the Alcuin Fellowship in 2010. Since 2017, he has served as Dean of Academics at Veritas School, in Richmond, VA. Prior to that, he was a teacher and administrator at CC schools in Orlando, FL and Memphis, TN. Andrew is also a teacher at the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University in the MAT in Classical Education program. His education includes an MDiv from Beeson Divinity School and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. He and his wife, Keri, have four children.
Robyn Burlew, MEd
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Fellow
Robyn joined the Fellowship in 2016. Robyn serves as the Academic Dean at the Veritas School in Richmond, Virginia. Robyn has been teaching providing administrative leadership to classical schools for over ten years, and provides expertise in both lower school and upper school curriculum and pedagogy. Robyn is trained in math and science and earned her MEd in educational leadership from Covenant College.
Jesse Hake, MA
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Fellow
Jesse was one of the inaugural fellows who joined the Fellowship in 2008. Jesse provides leadership in the application of classical education in urban settings, and in history and theology. He also has expertise in upper school curriculum and pedagogy. Jesse currently serves as the Academic Dean at Logos Academy in York, Pennsylvania. Jesse eanrned a MA in history from St. Andrews University, Scotland.
Christopher Hall, MAT
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Fellow
Christopher joined the Fellowship as an Associate Alcuin Fellow in 2016. Chris earned a degree in philosophy from Gettysburg College and MAT in education from Towson State University in Maryland.
Christine Perrin, MFA
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Fellow
Christine Perrin has taught literature and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Messiah College, and Gordon College’s Orvieto Program. She has been the Director of Writing at Messiah University and taught in the English Department for the last six years. She has published poetry in several journals, published a book of poetry as well as textbook for students, The Art of Poetry.
The Texas Chapter
Alyssan Barnes, PhD
Texas Chapter Director
Aly joined the Texas Chapter in 2020, its inaugural year. A long-time teacher in K-12 schools, she now serves as Senior Faculty at the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, where she trains and mentors new teachers. Aly, whose graduate work is in English and rhetoric, is the author of Rhetoric Alive: Principles of Persuasion and Rhetoric Alive: Senior Thesis Student Workbook.
Phillip Donnelly, PhD
Texas Chapter Fellow
Phillip joined the Alcuin Fellowship in 2016. He is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (Classical Academic Press) and Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge University Press). He has presented at the national Alcuin Retreat and often presents at the Texas Alcuin Retreat. He is currently at work on a multi-volume project that provides a theological account of the three verbal arts for teachers. Phillip earned his BA in English from the University of British Columbia and his MA and PhD in English (Renaissance Literature) from the University of Ottawa (Canada).
Stephen Barnes
Texas Chapter Fellow
Todd Buras, PhD
Texas Chapter Fellow
Todd is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Baylor University. His PhD was awarded by Yale University in 2004. His primary area of research and publication is 17th Century Scottish Philosophy and related topics in contemporary philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. In recent years, he has been involved in the development of curricula for teaching ethics and philosophy at the high school level; his work on these projects has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Sean Oswald
Texas Chapter Fellow
Brooke Ramsey
Texas Chapter Fellow
Michelle Steele, BA
Texas Chapter Fellow
The West Chapter
Andrew Selby, PhD
West Chapter Director
Andrew is the language department chair and teaches humanities and Latin at Trinity Classical Academy in Valencia, CA. He holds a BA in humanities from Biola University where he studied great books at the Torrey Honors College, an MA in historical theology from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in religion from Baylor University. Andrew has taught students from grade 5 through post-graduate in a variety of subjects. He also has conducted various teacher trainings in classical pedagogy and curriculum. Andrew joined the Alcuin Fellowship as a member of the national board in 2024.
Grant Horner, PhD
West Chapter Fellow
Grant joined the Fellowship early on, and was the first college professor to join. Grant has published several books and has expertise in literature, film, language and rhetoric. He also has expertise in Socratic pedagogy. Grant helped establish the upper school at Trinity Classical Academy in Los Angeles while also teaching full time at the Masters College. Grant holds a PhD in literature from Claremont Graduate University.
Bill Stutzman, MA
West Chapter Fellow
Bill joined the Fellowship early on when he was Grammar School Principal at the Ambrose School. An accomplished guitarist and songwriter, Bill provides leadership in music as well as both lower school and upper school curriculum and pedagogy. Bill earned an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin.
Christopher Schlect, PhD
West Chapter Fellow
Dr. Christopher Schlect is a senior fellow of history, head of humanities, and director of the classical and Christian studies graduate program at New Saint Andrews College where he teaches courses in history, education, and classical rhetoric. He holds a BA in history from Washington State University, an MA in history from the University of Idaho, and a PhD in history from Washington State University. Dr. Schlect also teaches for Gordon College’s MA program in classical Christian school leadership and chairs the accreditation commission for the Association of Classical Christian Schools. He has worked in classical Christian education for over thirty years and has K-12 experience as an upper school teacher and Mock Trial coach at Logos School in Moscow, Idaho.
Shea Ramquist, MA
West Chapter Fellow
Shea Ramquist teaches history and rhetoric at Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, California. He earned a BA from Biola University and Oxford University, and an MA in intellectual history at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the rise of the modern university. Shea has served as an Alcuin West Chapter Fellow since 2018.
Keith Buhler, PhD
West Chapter Fellow
Dr. Buhler is currently Director of Advancement at St Andrew Academy in Riverside CA. Prior to that, he served as its founding Headmaster. Currently, he balances fundraising and running a small-business with teaching Great Books at St Andrew as well as at Azusa Pacific Honors College. He also is a contributing author to Into the Light: Orthodox Christianity and Classical Education. His doctorate from the University of Kentucky is in philosophy. Keith has served as an Alcuin West Chapter Fellow since 2019.
Zach Weichbrodt, MA
West Chapter Fellow
The Southeast Chapter
Kevin Clark, MDiv, DLA
Southeast Chapter Director
Kevin was an inaugural Alcuin Fellow, and provides leadership in the recovery of liberal arts tradition, with expertise in literature, rhetoric, theology and philosophy. He is the Academic Dean at the Geneva School of Orlando and the co-author of the Liberal Arts Tradition and has degrees in music, philosophy, and a MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminary. He is a candidate for the Doctor of Liberal Arts at Georgetown University. He speaks frequently curriculum and pedagogy around the country.