Savannah Eccles Johnston is an assistant professor of Political Science at Salt Lake Community College.

She received her PhD in political science from Claremont Graduate University. Her research focuses on ideology and American political thought.

Her dissertation, What Enemy Hath Done This: The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism, focuses on the theoretical division within the fusion (modern conservative) movement between classical liberalism and traditionalist conservatism and demonstrates how illiberalism—or the theoretical critique of liberalism—has gained the upper hand within the conservative intellectual movement over time. 

Matthew Brogdon is the Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation senior director of the Center for Constitutional Studies and associate professor of Political Science at Utah Valley University.

Most recently, Dr. Brogdon was an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he taught broadly in the fields of American politics, constitutionalism and political philosophy.

Brogdon’s scholarship examines American constitutionalism with special attention to the federal judiciary. He has published on the constitutional origins of judicial federalism and the development of the federal courts, among other topics.

He earned his PhD in Political Science from Baylor University.