John F. Fox, Jr., has served as an adjunct instructor in the Catholic University Politics Department since 2019. He has also served as the FBI Historian since 2003.  In 2001, he was awarded a PhD in modern American history from the University of New Hampshire and in 1993, he completed an MA in political science from Boston College.  His articles have appeared in a number of academic journals, the FBI’s website, and other venues. He has contributed chapters to several books and co-wrote The FBI: A Centennial History.  Fox has also been involved in a number of cooperative museum projects, including the temporary exhibit on the FBI and the media that was on display at the Newseum from June 2008 until June 2016 and the various iterations of the FBI Tour/FBI Experience.  He has appeared in many documentaries in the US and Europe, appearing on C-Span, CBS Sunday News, CNN, and Turner Classic Movies among other platforms.

North Bethesda Rotarian Claes Ryn is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America (CUA), where he was also Chairman of his Department. He is also Distinguished Senior Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus at CUA’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship. His many books include Democracy and the Ethical Life, America the Virtuous, A Common Human Ground, and, most recently, The Failure of American Conservatism. He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia, especially China, where he gave the Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures at Peking University in 2000. Three of his books have been published in translation in China. He was Chairman and co-founder of the National Humanities Institute, President and co-founder of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and President of the Philadelphia Society