Nathaniel Peters 

director

Nathaniel Peters is the Director of the Morningside Institute. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in linguistics, with a focus on French and Latin, his M.T.S. from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in the history of Christian thought and Christian ethics from Boston College. At Boston College, he taught courses in the Department of Theology and lectured in the Perspectives Program, BC's great books program. He has published articles and reviews in Religious Studies Review, America, Commonweal, First Things, and Plough Quarterly.  A native of Edgartown, MA, he lives in Stamford, CT with his family.

Matthew Rose

Director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life

Senior Fellow

Matthew Rose is Senior Fellow and Director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life. A scholar of religion, Matthew was previously Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute and Ennis Fellow in Humanities at Villanova University, where he taught courses in philosophy, politics, and literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago after receiving his M.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of A World After Liberalism (Yale, 2021) and Ethics with Barth (Ashgate, 2010), as well as of articles in Political Theology, The Thomist, Logos, Pro Ecclesia, Studies in Christian Ethics, Journal of Catholic Moral Theology, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, and The Weekly Standard.

Luke SemInara

director of operations

Luke Seminara is the Director of Operations at the Morningside Institute. Raised in Morristown, NJ, he received his B.A. in political science in 2023 from Columbia University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. His interests include natural law jurisprudence, virtue ethics, and the liberal philosophical tradition.