GQ@stvincent.edu
724.537.4597
Aurelius Hall, Room 204 

As Dean of the McKenna School, Dr. Quinlivan oversees approximately 40 full time and adjunct faculty members, 550 undergraduate and graduate students, and four centers. In addition, he is a full professor of economics at Saint Vincent College.  He is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal for Markets and Morality published by the Acton Institute.  From 1989 to the 2001, he served as an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Economics Department where he taught international trade, international monetary theory, and monetary theory.  He was a Fulbright Scholar at Shandong University in the People’s Republic of China from 1988 to 1989.  Quinlivan received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Albany and B.A. at State University of New York at Geneseo.  Dr. Quinlivan has co-edited or authored seven books, six monographs, and has written numerous articles in the areas of international trade, public finance, and international finance.  His most recent books include: A Catholic Response to Economic Globalization: Applications of Catholic Social Teaching (co-authored with Paul Cleveland, Gregory Gronbacher and Michel Therrien); Public Morality, Civic Virtue and the Problem of Modern Liberalism (co-edited with T. William Boxx); For Freedom and Prosperity: Philip M. McKenna and the Gold Standard League (co-authored with Brian Surkan); and Toward the Renewal of Civilization: The Political Order and Culture (co-edited with T. William Boxx).  Dr. Quinlivan has won teaching awards at both Saint Vincent College (1993 and 2007) and Carnegie Mellon University (2000).  During the summer of 2005, Quinlivan received an International Business Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh, for a ten-day seminar in Russia, Bulgaria, and Czech Republic.  In 1997, Shandong University in PR China awarded Quinlivan an honorary professorship. Dr. Quinlivan is the faculty moderator of the ballroom dance club and the Gilbert and Sullivan club at Saint Vincent College.  He is one of the key administrators dedicated to enhancing Saint Vincent College’s academic links to China, has traveled to China 22 times, and has negotiated nine academic affiliations between Saint Vincent College and some of China's best universities.

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T. William Boxx, M.A.
Senior Fellow

T. William “Bill” Boxx is Chairman and CEO of the Philip M. McKenna Foundation based in Latrobe, PA.  The foundation’s primary interests are in public policy, academic affairs, and local community programs.  His previous experience includes positions in corporate administration and government affairs for Kennametal Inc., and social services for the State of Arkansas.  Mr. Boxx was instrumental in founding the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government at Saint Vincent College and was the founding chairman of its Council of Advisors, on which he continues to serve.  He also founded, with Gary M. Quinlivan, the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent and focused on developing its initial political and cultural programs.  As Senior Fellow of the Center he contributes to its planning and general administration and advises on programming and academic affairs.  Mr. Boxx's other current affiliations include: founding board member and past chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives in Harrisburg, PA; founding board member of the Pennsylvania Business Council and chairman of its Education Foundation also in Harrisburg; and board member of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and founding member of its National Civic Literacy Board in Wilmington, DE.  Mr. Boxx has co-edited books and written on political and social thought.  Mr. Boxx's educational background includes a B.A. in Sociology from Arkansas State University, M.A. in Theology from Saint Vincent Seminary, and additional graduate studies at Duquesne University.

Professor Nicholas Racculia
Instructor of Finance, Saint Vincent College
Fellow in Capitalism and Freedom

nicholas.racculia@email.stvincent.edu
724.805.2899
Aurelius Hall, Room 221 

Mr. Racculia is the Center’s Fellow in Capitalism and Freedom and is an instructor of Finance in the Alex G. McKenna School.  He currently oversees the Alex G. McKenna Economic and Policy Scholarship program.  Racculia's fields of specialization include investment management, portfolio theory, and corporate finance.  He is finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University and holds an M.A. in economics, an M.S. equivalent in finance from Princeton, and a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Saint Vincent College.  During his time at Princeton University he earned the Towbes Award for Outstanding Teaching and was the Student Liaison to the Princeton University McGraw Center for Learning.  Before joining the finance department at Saint Vincent College, he was a senior analyst for the Princeton Investment Company, where he passed the CFA Level 1 exam.

Andrew R. Herr, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor of Economics, Saint Vincent College
Fellow in Economics and Policy

andy.herr@email.stvincent.edu
724.805.2130
Aurelius Hall, Room 224

Dr. Herr is the Center's Fellow in Economics and Policy, is in charge of internships and special economic conferences, and directs the Alex G. McKenna Ecnonomic Education Series.  Herr's fields of specialization include industrial organization, game theory, and experimental methods, natural resource and environmental economics, and public economics.  He has received numerous awards, including the Boniface Wimmer Faculty Award, which recognizes continuing, distinguished achievement and loyal service to Saint Vincent College and its students.  In the summer of 1994, he received a summer research fellowship award with the Political Economy Research Center at the University of Montana.  In 1994, Herr received the Henry Oliver Award, which is awarded to the best graduate student in Economic Theory at Indiana University.  He has refereed publications in the Journal of Development Economics, The Economic Journal, and Games and Economic Behavior, and has produced a series of labor market studies for the Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board.  Andrew Herr received his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University, his M.A. in mathematics at The Ohio State University, and his B.S. in mathematics education from North Carolina State University.

gabriel.pellathy@email.stvincent.edu
724.805.2125
Aurelius Hall, Room 215 

Dr. Pellathy received his Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University in New York City, which also granted him a Master of Laws degree in International Law.  He also holds a Master of Education degree from Hofstra University in the State of New York.  He has received fellowships from various organizations including the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In the Fall of 2003, he was a Fullbright teaching scholar in Hungary, lecturing on American Environmental Law and Policy at the Pazmany University Faculty of Law in Budapest, Hungary.  He is widely traveled and speaks several languages.  His article on Hungarian political posters, used in the key parliamentary elections of 1990, will appear in an anthology honoring Duquesne Distinguished Pofessor S. Vardy.  He is a fellow in Government and Legal Affairs in the Saint Vincent Center for Political and Economic Thought. His teaching areas now include American politics, both at the national and state and local levels.  A number of political office holders visited Dr. Pellathy's class on state and local government, among them State Senator Robert Regola, County Commissinoer Tom Ceraso and Gaming Commission staff member Michael Walsh.  He also teaches environmental law and policy.  He is active in faculty affairs and has been President of the Faculty Council at the college.  For several years he was Student Government Advisor.  He is the moderator of the college Pre-Law Club, and organizes meetings for students and alumni interested or engaged in the law.  He was honored by the establishment of the Dr. Gabriel S. Pellathy Law Education Fund.

brad.watson@email.stvincent.edu
724.805.2145
Aurelius Hall, Room 324

Dr. Watson holds the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought at Saint Vincent College, where he is also Chairperson of the Department of Political Science.  He has also held visiting faculty appointments at Princeton University and Claremont McKenna College.  As Fellow in Politics and Culture at Saint Vincent’s Center for Political and Economic Thought, he directs the Center’s Government and Political Education Lecture Series (GPES) and its Culture and Policy Conferences (CAPC), in addition to its George Washington Fellowship Program.  His teaching areas include political philosophy and American political thought and institutions.  Watson is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of American Civic Literacy, a project of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and serves on the Boards of Directors of the National Association of Scholars and the Association for the Study of Free Institutions.  He is a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, and the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University.  Watson has authored or edited many books, including Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence, Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Courts and the Culture Wars, Civic Education and Culture, The West at War, and Ourselves and Our Posterity: Essays in Constitutional Originalism.  He has also published articles and essays in a variety of professional and general interest forums, including Armed Forces and Society, Claremont Review of Books, Encarta Encyclopedia, The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, National Review, and Perspectives on Political Science.  His research interests are both theoretical and practical, including Progressive jurisprudence, Western political thought and the American regime, same-sex marriage, liberalism and communitarianism, and immigration law and policy.  He has recently written, spoken, or given media interviews on each of these topics.  He has received fellowships from numerous national and international organizations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, the Earhart Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and the John Templeton Foundation.  Prior to becoming a political scientist, he practiced as a civil litigation attorney in Vancouver, Canada.  He was educated in Canada, Belgium, and the United States, and holds advanced degrees in law, philosophy, and political science.

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Mrs. Kim Shumaker, B.S.
Program and Events Coordinator

kim.shumaker@email.stvincent.edu
724.805.2120
Aurelius Hall

Mrs. Shumaker is responsible for coordinating logistical details for all Center-hosted events.  She is the primary point of contact for event and scheduling issues for the Center.

Ms. Linda Rodkey
Program Coordinator

linda.rodkey@email.stvincent.edu
724.805.2429
Aurelius Hall

Ms. Rodkey is responsible for assisting in coordinating logistical details for all Center-hosted events.

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Professor of Economics, The University of Texas at Arlington 

Philip M. McKenna Foundation

Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance; Director, International Finance Section, Princeton University

Director, The Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College.

H. J. Heinz Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University

Professor and Chair of Public Policy Director, Privatization Research Organization, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D.

Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Chairman, Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University

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