Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul, MA, PhD Dr. Rosenthal-Pubul was for many years a Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University´s Center for Advanced Governmental Studies (AAP), later online from his home in Spain. The Director of the Petrarch Institute, he received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2005. He has taught at several colleges and universities including Loyola College (Maryland), Catholic University of America (CUA), and Johns Hopkins University where he served as Assistant Director of the Center for Governmental Studies. He has taught at many levels from high school and undergraduate students to adult learners from the government and the private sector. His research interests include European intellectual history and political philosophy. Among his publications is his book Crown Under Law which deals with the intellectual origins of modern constitutionalism focusing on John Locke and Richard Hooker and their interaction with the medieval scholastic tradition. He is also the author of The Theoretic Life: A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate, and co-author with Graham J. McAleer of The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition. He founded the Petrarch Institute to bring to a wider audience his long experience helping students to apply the timeless wisdom of the classic texts to enrich their lives, their work, and all their endeavors. Note: The Petrarch Institute has no affiliation with Johns Hopkins University, and its activities do not imply endorsement by such.
