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Steven F. Hayward
Professor, Theories of Constitutional Interpretation

Dr. Hayward has served as an F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. since February 2002. Previous to working at AEI, Dr. Hayward was a Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy for ten years. Dr. Hayward also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Ashland University, presenting guest lectures to the honors political science students. His research areas are environment, law, public policy, and the presidency.

Dr. Hayward has appeared on ABC News, Washington Journal, C-Span, the Fox News Channel, and NPR. He has had articles published in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The National Review and The Weekly Standard. Dr. Hayward graduated with a B.S. in business and administrative studies at Lewis and Clark College. He later received both an M.A. in government and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Claremont Graduate School.

Thomas C. Rustici
Professor, Economics and Public Policy Problems

Dr. Rustici has served on the faculty of The Fund for American Studies since 2001, teaching economics and public policy for the Institute on Political Journalism. He has taught economics at George Mason University since 1995. He previously taught at Avila College, DeVry Institute of Technology, and William Jewell College. For the past eight years, the George Mason faculty has nominated Rustici for the Excellence in Teaching Award and in 2000, the students named him Professor of the Year, an honor Rustici calls “the most important accomplishment in my life.”

In 1999, Dr. Rustici wrote the student guide that accompanies John Stossel’s Greed, Freeloaders and Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death videos. His Stossel in the Classroom guides are in almost 1,100 classrooms and have been read by more than 600,000 students. He earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees in economics at George Mason University, and completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy at George Mason University. Prior to teaching, he was an entrepreneur and owned 2 businesses for 7½ years.

Ken Masugi
Professor, Public Affairs Internship Seminar

Dr. Masugi has been a speechwriter for two Cabinet officials and for now-Justice Clarence Thomas, when he was Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Since 1974, Dr. Masugi has served as a visiting professor and lecturer of political science at many universities including Princeton and the United States Air Force Academy. He was formerly a John M. Olin Fellow at the United States Air Force Academy, a Salvatori Summer Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Fulbright Fellow and a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute. Dr. Masugi’s research interests include American politics, constitutional law, public policy and political theory.

Dr. Masugi has authored and edited over a dozen books and publications and is currently producing a book titled Reconstituting American Citizenship: Natural Rights and the American Political Identity. Dr. Masugi received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from The New School for Social Research in New York.

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