Staff
Alan R. Crippen II
President & Founder
John Jay Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Alan R. Crippen II is founder and president of the John Jay Institute. Previously Mr. Crippen served for nine years as founding rector of the Witherspoon Fellowship, a leading civic and cultural leadership development program for college-age students based in Washington, D.C. He has two decades of experience in non-profit executive management and college level teaching including vice-president for policy and academic affairs at Family Research Council, senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and director of development at International Students, Inc. in Colorado Springs. His military service includes platoon and battery command as well as various battalion staff operations and planning positions in the U.S. Army Field Artillery. Mr. Crippen’s vocational passion is for the formation of young leaders who aspire to public life. He is particularly inspired to prepare them with the contours of a worldview, knowledge, and piety requisite for faith-informed service in the public square. Mr. Crippen holds degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A.R.) and Cairn University (B.S.) and is an ordained presbyter and archdeacon in the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). He, and his wife, Michelle, have five children and reside in Bala Cynwyd, a western suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Douglas C. Minson
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Programs
John Jay Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Douglas C. Minson is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Programs at the John Jay Institute, where he directs all planning, research and development, and operations related to academic programs. Mr. Minson’s professional experience includes positions in para-academic educational program administration and college-level teaching, editing of a public policy journal, and writing for public discourse. Prior to joining the John Jay Institute, he worked nearly four years as executive director of academic affairs at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, overseeing and directing national core educational programming and ISI’s student journalism initiative. Mr. Minson’s coming to the John Jay Institute reunites him with the Institute’s founder Alan Crippen, with whom he worked closely as the associate rector of the Witherspoon Fellowship at the Family Research Council. He also held editorial management and research positions at Prison Fellowship Ministries, working with and writing for ministry chairman Charles W. Colson. His abiding vocational passion is communicating and cultivating in students an appreciation for the perennial ideas that animate and sustain the cultural, intellectual, moral, and political traditions of Western Civilization. Mr. Minson is an alumnus of the College of William and Mary in the Commonwealth of Virginia and received his M.A. and doctoral studies in Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He and his wife Jennifer make their home with their four children in historic New Castle, Delaware, where they are active parishioners in St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church.
Tiffany Bradley
Director of Philanthropy
John Jay InstitutePhiladelphia, PA
Tiffany Bradley is the Director of Philanthropy at the John Jay Institute, where she directs and manages all philanthropy activities including major gift and planned giving programs as well as all public relations and external communications. Prior to joining the John Jay Institute, Miss Bradley served as the Director of Philanthropy for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute in Herndon, Virginia, the Director of Development for the Alabama Policy Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Philanthropy and Event Planning Specialist for the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Miss Bradley is passionate about developing faith-centered, principled leadership for our nation and enjoys mentoring aspiring leaders both personally and professionally. Miss Bradley graduated from Appalachian State University, Summa Cum Laude, with a B.S. in Political Science. Miss Bradley is a member of McLean Presbyterian Church and resides in Bala Cynwyd, a western suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Nancy Browne
Executive Assistant
John Jay Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Nancy Browne is an Executive Assistant at the John Jay Institute. A native of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Philadelphia Biblical University with a B.S. in Bible and a minor in Missions. Nancy and her husband served as missionaries with Crossworld in rural Haiti for 17 years. Since returning to the U.S. she worked as a financial assistant at a local community bank and at the U.S. office of Arab World Ministries. Nancy and her husband, Paul, have three adult children and reside in Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Bell
Program Associate and Recruitment Coordinator
John Jay Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Bell serves as program associate and recruitment coordinator at the John Jay Institute. Thomas received a Bachelor of Arts at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas in May 2011, where he studied political science. Thomas hopes to pursue graduate work in political science, focusing his studies on the intersection of religion and politics through the study of law and political philosophy. As an undergraduate, Thomas conducted a research project in which he examined how church structure (hierarchical versus congregational) affects civic engagement; he presented his findings at the 2011 Midwestern Political Science Conference in Chicago. Following his John Jay Fellowship, Thomas interned at the American Enterprise Institute where he worked on Dr. Leon Kass’s What So Proudly We Hail project, and he interned in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation. From the great state of Texas, Thomas considers Amarillo his home.
Janice Anselm Chik, M.A., Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
John Jay Institute
St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Janice Anselm Chik is a research associate with the John Jay Institute. Her academic research concerns the metaphysics of human action, the philosophy of psychology and ethics. In treating the foundational issues surrounding human behavior, she also works to develop their considerable relevance in the fields of law, political theory and economics. A former Witherspoon Fellow in Washington, D.C., Ms. Chik holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, with Certificates in the Woodrow Wilson School of Policy and International Affairs as well as in Music Performance, and a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005-2006, she was a High Meadows Fellow at Princeton University where she worked in the Office of the Dean of the College, followed by graduate studies in philosophy as a recipient of the Darrell K. Royal Fellowship in Ethics and American Society. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in contemporary philosophy of action and metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews. Ms. Chik resides in St. Andrews, Scotland.
Lorraine E. Krall, Ph.D.
Research Associate
John Jay Institute
Philadelphia, PA
Lorraine E. Krall is a research associate with the John Jay Institute. Ms. Krall’s research and scholarship are directed to understanding the conception of women’s freedom in the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Hannah Arendt, with particular attention to exploring the dangers of abstracting the liberal ideal of freedom from nature and custom. Ms. Krall also has research interests in the intersection of religion and politics, as well as in the relationship between politics and literature (especially poetry). She has been awarded several academic fellowships for her scholarship, including the Hooper, Weaver and Earhart Fellowships, and was a Tocqueville Forum Graduate Fellow as well as a Witherspoon Fellow. Her reviews have been published in the Journal of Church and State. Ms. Krall graduated (summa cum laude) from Grove City College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and English. She has studied at Baylor University’s Institute for Church-State Studies and is a doctoral candidate in government at the Georgetown University. A native of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ms. Krall resides in the Philadelphia suburb of Bala-Cynwyd, PA.
Marty Manor, M.A., Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
John Jay Institute
Seattle, Washington
Marty Manor is a research associate with the John Jay Institute. Her research and scholarship focus on East Central European history, politics and urbanity as well as Soviet history. Ms. Manor’s interest in the region stems from living in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice, where she worked as a missionary teaching English to university students from 2000-2002 and returned to teach full-time at a Slovak secondary school in Kosice from 2005-2008. While in Slovakia she was an active participant in the Ladislav Hanus Fellowship, a professional fraternity of public service professionals and an organizational partner in the John Jay Institute’s Global Leadership Network. Ms. Manor speaks fluent Slovak and looks forward to returning to the region in September 2011 to perform dissertation research on the history of Kosice under Communism, which will be the first 20th century urban history of the city in English. Ms. Manor graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Social Science Education and earned her Master’s degree in History at the University of Richmond in Virginia. A former Witherspoon Fellow in Washington, D.C., Ms. Manor also received the Imre Boba Fellowship enabling her to speak at the State Scientific Library in Kosice in the summer of 2010. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Karen Rupprecht, Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
John Jay Institute
Washington, D.C.
Karen Rupprecht is a research associate with the John Jay Institute. Her academic research interests are in natural law and the interplay of religion and politics in international affairs. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ms. Rupprecht was a Witherspoon Fellow in Washington D.C. and John Jay Fellow prior to her doctoral studies. She holds joint Bachelors of Arts degrees in Political Science and French from Marquette University and is currently studying comparative political theory with a focus on the medieval era in both Islamic and Western political philosophy at Georgetown University. She holds a certificate in Classics from Northwestern University, where she began her doctoral studies. Before her fellowship at the John Jay Institute, Karen was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco as a health and hygiene educator, English instructor and advisor to local NGOs.
Jonathan D. Teubner, M.A., Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
John Jay Institute
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jonathan D. Teubner is a research associate with the John Jay Institute. Over the past several years he has been engaged with research on the relationship between theology and economics, focusing on the metaphysical and ontological commitments of 20th century economic theory. As an Arabist, he also takes a particular interest in the growth of Christian communities in North Africa and the Middle East. A former Witherspoon Fellow in Washington, D.C., Mr. Teubner holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree in historical theology from Yale Divinity School. In 2009-2010, he was a teaching fellow at Yale Divinity School and received a grant from the Global Commerce Network to research the influence of Christian commitments in the labor market. The recipient of a Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme Studentship, he is currently pursuing doctoral studies in philosophy of religion at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where his research explores the formation of the Augustinian tradition in the 6th century. His academic memberships include the American Academy of Religion and the Royal Economic Society (UK). Jonathan and his wife Rachel live in Cambridge, England.
Kody Cooper, Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
Austin, Texas
Kody Cooper is completing his doctoral studies in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including one from the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, where he was also a Research Scholar, a Publius Fellowship, and a Weaver Fellowship. Cooper has published in The Review of Politics. A 2007 alumnus of the Witherspoon Fellowship, he received a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Kansas State University.
Connor Ewing, Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
Austin, Texas
Connor Ewing is a doctoral candidate in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, and a M.A. in Social Science from the University of Chicago. A 2008 alumnus of the John Jay Institute, Ewing is a regular contributor to Humane Pursuits.
Miriel Thomas, Ph.D. (Candidate)
Research Associate
Waco, Texas
Miriel Thomas is a doctoral candidate in political science at Baylor University with concentrations in American politics, constitutional law, and political theory. Her interests include American political institutions, structural constitutionalism, the federal equity power, separation of powers dynamics, and civil liberties jurisprudence. To date, Thomas has presented research at meetings of the Texas Political Science Graduate Student Association, the New England Political Science Association, and the American Political Science Association. She currently serves as a member of the editorial board at Humane Pursuits. Thomas holds a BA in politics from Ave Maria University and is a Fall 2009 alumna of the John Jay Institute.
