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Executive Director

Gary M. Quinlivan, Ph.D. is Dean of the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics and Government at Saint Vincent College. He is the director of the Center's Alex G. McKenna Series and co director, with T. William Boxx, of the Center's Religion, Culture, and Public Policy programs. Quinlivan is also the coeditor, with Dr. Andrew Herr, of the Center's publication: Economic Directions. Quinlivan has written several articles on international trade and finance topics, authored several op ed pieces, and co edited ten books with T. William Boxx. From 1988 to 1989, Quinlivan was a Fulbright Scholar at Shandong University in People's Republic of China. In 1997, he received an honorary professorship at Shandong University. In 1993, he received the Saint Vincent College Professor of the Year award. Since 1989, he has been an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon University (economics department) where he taught international trade and monetary theory. In 2000, he received the Sustained Teaching Excellence Award from Carnegie-Mellon. Quinlivan has a B.A. from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Ph.D. in economics from the University at Albany (SUNY).


Fellows of the Center

T. William Boxx, T. William “Bill” Boxx is Chairman and CEO of the Philip M. McKenna Foundation, a private grant making foundation with an emphasis in public affairs based in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.  He previously worked in government affairs and corporate services for Kennametal Inc. of Latrobe and in social services for the state of Arkansas.  Mr. Boxx has long been active in public policy and educational affairs at the national, state, and local levels. Currently, he serves on the board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Wilmington, Delaware and is a founding member of its National Civic Literacy Board.  He is a founding director and past Chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  He is a board member and Chairman of the Education Committee of Pennsylvanians for Effective Government, also in Harrisburg.    Actively involved with Saint Vincent College in Latrobe for many years, he helped found its Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government and was the founding Chairman and is a member of its Council of Advisors.  He also helped found the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent and serves as its Senior Fellow.  He previously served on the College’s board of directors.  In addition, he serves on the board of the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College in California.  He has published articles and co-edited books on political and moral-cultural topics including Public Morality, Civic Virtue, and the Problem of Modern Liberalism, and Toward the Renewal of Civilization: Political Order and Culture, both published by Eerdmans.  He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Arkansas State University and a Master of Arts in Theology from Saint Vincent. 

James R. Harrigan, Ph.D. is the Center's Fellow of Civic and Constitutional Affairs and is an assistant professor of political science at Saint Vincent College.

Andrew R. Herr, Ph.D. is the Center's Fellow in Economics and Policy and an associate professor of economics at Saint Vincent College. Dr. Herr co edits Economic Directions with Dr. Quinlivan and is in charge of internships, the Alex G. McKenna Scholarship, and special economic conferences. Herr's fields of specialization include industrial organization, game theory and experimental methods, natural resource and environmental economics, and public economics. 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. His publications include "An Experimental Study of Time-Independent and Time Dependent Externalities in the Commons," with James Walker and Roy Gardner, forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior and "Voting on allocation Rules in a Commons: Predictive Theories and Experimental Results," (also with James Walker and Roy Gardner) which is currently under review at American Political Science Review. Andrew Herr received his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University, his M.A. in mathematics at The Ohio State University, and his B.A. from North Carolina State University.

Gabriel S. Pellathy,  is Professor of Political Science in the McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government at Saint Vincent College.  He 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.

Bradley C. S. Watson, holds the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought. 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, its annual Civitas Forum on Principles and Policies for Public Life, and its biennial Culture and Policy Conference, in addition to its George Washington Fellowship Program. He also edits the Center’s political science publications. His teaching areas include political philosophy and American political thought and institutions. Watson has authored or edited several books including Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal DemocracyCourts and the Culture Wars (2002), Civic Education and Culture (2005) and the forthcoming collection entitled The West at War (2006). He has also written in a variety of professional and general interest forums, including Armed Forces and Society, Claremont Review of Books, Encarta Encyclopedia, Modern Age, and Perspectives on Political Science. His current research interests are both theoretical and practical, including Progressive jurisprudence, liberalism and communitarianism, Western political thought and the American regime, same-sex marriage, and immigration law and policy. He has recently written, spoken, or given media interviews on each of these topics. He is an Adjunct 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, and is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of American Civic Literacy, a project of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. 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 Earhart Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation. Prior to becoming a political scientist, Watson practiced as a civil litigation attorney in Vancouver, Canada.

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Program Coordinator

Eva M. Kunkel, B.S. is responsible for budget projections, expenditure and accountability of funds, fundraising, and coordinating logistical details for all Center-hosted events. Mrs. Kunkel also supervises the Center's student staff as well as managing the day-to-day operations of the Center. Mrs. Kunkel earned her B.S. and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Accountancy program at Saint Vincent College.

 
Student Assistants

Ashlee Erny, is a senior Marketing major at St. Vincent College. 

Gabrielle Nelson, is a sophomore business major at St. Vincent College. 


Advisory Board
  • Ryan C. Amacher, PhD, Professor of Economics, The University of Texas at Arlington.
  • T. William Boxx, MA, Chairman, Philip M. McKenna Foundation.
  • Robert George, PhD, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Politics, Princeton University.
  • Peter B. Kenen, PhD, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance Director, International Finance Section, Princeton University.
  • Charles Kesler, PhD, Director, The Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College.
  • Bennett T. McCallum, PhD, H. J. Heinz Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • E. S. Savas, PhD, Professor and Chair of Public Policy Director, Privatization Research Organization, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York.
  • Dean G. Taylor, PhD, Professor and Area Coordinator of Finance, College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado at Denver.
  • Murray L. Weidenbaum, PhD, Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Chairman, Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University


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