Professor Frey earned a B.A. in philosophy and medieval studies (with a classics minor) at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. She earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to teaching at UofSC, she was a junior fellow in the Society of the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago and Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Humanities.

Frey is a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America as well as a member of the Executive Council of the Society of Christian Philosophers. 

Read more about Professor Frey here, and the Thomistic Institute here. 

Hamersma taught at the University of Florida before coming to Syracuse University. Much of her most recent research focuses on health and nutrition programs, examining their consequences for food insecurity, health outcomes, and labor supply. New work funded by the Cornell Population Center and Center for Aging Policy Studies (Syracuse) will investigate food assistance and labor market decisions over the life cycle in New York State. An additional new project, funded by the USDA through the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, will use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to study the intergenerational transmission of food insecurity and the role of higher education and food assistance in breaking such transmission. Sarah received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. Hamersma also serves on the Board at the Consortium of Christian Study Centers. 

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The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections between university, church, and society. In doing so, it seeks to disrupt the perceptions that Christians are “anti-intellectual” and that higher education is “anti-Christian.” Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion with faculty around the country, with mediocre production quality but excellent content!

Penina Laker and John Inazu are Carver Project faculty fellows and members of the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where Laker focuses on communication design and Inazu teaches law and religion. They recently co-taught an interdisciplinary course, Law, Race, and Design: Examining the St. Louis Story.

Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass is an associate professor in the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University in St Louis.  He holds an MD and PhD (Information and Computer Sciences) from the University of California, Irvine.  Both a scientist and a physician, he uses computational methods to study information at the intersection of medicine, chemistry, and biology. 

Dr. Swamidass is a national voice in the dialogue between science and the Christian faith, where he explains how mainstream science (including evolution) can be understood within the context of historic Christian faith. Most recently, he proposed a genealogical Adam model that recovers most orthodox doctrines in an evolutionary context.  He has served for two years as a science advisor for the AAAS Science for Seminaries Program with Concordia Seminary, a bridge building effort between the scientific community and the religious community. From 2016-2018, he directed a collaboration of St. Louis Ministries called the Inquiry into Common Ground. Dr. Swamidass also speaks nationally with The Veritas Forum and InterVarsity on a wide range of topics. He blogs at Peaceful Science.

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The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections between university, church, and society. In doing so, it seeks to disrupt simultaneously perceptions that Christians are “anti-intellectual” and that higher education is “anti-Christian.” Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion with faculty around the country, with mediocre production quality but excellent content!

Penina Laker and John Inazu are Carver Project faculty fellows and members of the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where Laker is assistant professor of communication design and Inazu is a professor of law and religion.

Rosalind W. Picard is a scientist and engineer, member of the faculty of MIT's Media Lab,  founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, founding faculty chair of MIT's MindHandHeart Initiative, and a faculty member of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. She has co-founded two companies:  Affectiva (now part of Smart Eye) providing emotion AI technologies now used by more than 25% of the Global Fortune 500, and Empatica, providing wearable sensors and analytics to improve health. Starting from inventions by Picard and her team, Empatica created the first AI-based smart watch cleared by FDA (in Neurology for monitoring seizures), which is now helping alert to bring potentially life-saving help for people with epilepsy. 

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The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections between university, church, and society. In doing so, it seeks to disrupt the perceptions that Christians are “anti-intellectual” and that higher education is “anti-Christian.” Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion with faculty around the country, with mediocre production quality but excellent content!

Penina Laker and John Inazu are Carver Project faculty fellows and members of the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where Laker is assistant professor of communication design and Inazu is a professor of law and religion.

Dr. Mouw is continuing his research in Christian political thought, as well as working with faculty and students on special projects, and helping to organize conferences and symposia. He is on the Calvin campus for several one-week stays during each academic year while he continues to live in California.

Prior to his return to Calvin and the Institute in 2020, Mouw served as the President of Fuller Theological Seminary (1993-2013) and directed their Institute of Faith and Public Life (2013-2020).  His initial career in academia began at Calvin College, where he taught philosophy from 1968 to 1985.

A philosopher and scholar, Dr. Mouw is the author of more than 20 books and has been an editor of the Reformed Journal. His publications include The God Who Commands, (Notre Dame Press); The Smell of Sawdust (Zondervan); He Shines in All That’s Fair: Culture and Common Grace (Eerdmans); Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World, (IVP Books); The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship, (Eerdmans); Talking with Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals; (Eerdmans), Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground.(Brazos Press), and his forthcoming All that God Cares About: Common Grace and Divine Delight (Baker).

Dr. Mouw served for many years as a panelist for the Washington Post’s online forum “On Faith.” He received the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary in 2007. Dr.  Mouw has also participated on many councils and editorial boards, serving a term as president of the Association of Theological Schools, spending six years as cochair of the official Reformed-Catholic Dialogue, and is a leader in interfaith theological conversations, particularly with Mormons and Jewish groups.

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The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections between university, church, and society. In doing so, it seeks to disrupt the perceptions that Christians are “anti-intellectual” and that higher education is “anti-Christian.” Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion with faculty around the country, with mediocre production quality but excellent content!

Penina Laker and John Inazu are Carver Project faculty fellows and members of the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where Laker is assistant professor of communication design and Inazu is a professor of law and religion.