STAFF
Vinton Bruton
Director of the Wilson Center
Phone: (434) 223-6212
Email: vbruton@hsc.edu
Jennifer Meitz
Assistant Director of the Wilson Center
Phone: (434) 223-7077
Email: jmeitz@hsc.edu
FACULTY
Dr. John H. Eastby
Phone: (434) 223-6312
Email: jeastby@hsc.edu
John H. Eastby is Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampden-Sydney College. He has published on international organization, political theory and international relations, European integration, American foreign policy and Woodrow Wilson. He served for a year as Associate Dean of the Faculty at Hampden-Sydney and recently completed a six year term as Director of the interdisciplinary Western Culture program. He holds the B.A. degree from Augustana College and the Ph.D from the University of Virginia.
Dr. David E. Marion
Phone: (434) 223-6240
Email: damarion@hsc.edu
Dr. Marion has taught at Hampden-Sydney College for 42 years. He is a scholar of constitutional law and public administration. Dr. David E. Marion is a member of the Academic Advisory Board at the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington and served as a consultant for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Dr. Marion founded the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest, originally named the James Madison Center for Leadership in the Public Interest. His is the author of The Jurisprudence of Justice William Brennan, Jr.: The Law and Politics of 'Libertarian' Dignity, and co-author of Founders and the Constitution and The Deconstitutionalization of America.
LECTURERS
Colonel Greg Eanes, USAF (Ret)
Phone: (434) 223-6017
Email: jeanes@hsc.edu
Colonel Greg Eanes is a Visiting Lecturer at the Wilson Center and retired intelligence officer with over 34 years' experience supporting operations in the Cold War, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, DESERT SHIELD/STORM, and post 9/11 operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. A special operations veteran, he retired as the Reserve Director for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance at Air Force Special Operations Command in 2011. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious wartime achievement at Special Operations Command-Central in DESERT STORM and an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Bronze Star as the Deputy and Acting Director of Human and Counterintelligence for Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan. A regional military historian and public speaker, he has published over 16 books and monographs. A businessman and former journalist, he is active in veteran and civic affairs currently serving as the Mayor of Crewe. He holds a B.S. in Occupational Education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, a Master's in Military History from American Military University and graduate certificates in military leadership and national security studies from the Air War College and Air Command & Staff College.
Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Phone: (434) 223-7267
Email: bgudmundsson@hsc.edu
Bruce I. Gudmundsson uses decision-forcing cases to foster such virtues as decisiveness, critical thinking, and empathy. Over the course of the past sixteen years, he has conducted such exercises at the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, the Yale Alumni College, the Marine Corps University, the Army War College, and Dickinson College, as well as at workshops for several private companies as well as the armed forces of Georgia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. In addition to this, Dr. Gudmundsson has lectured at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and served as a tutor at Oxford University.) A veteran of both the United States Marine Corps and the Icelandic Coast Guard, Gudmundsson has devoted a great deal of time to the study of military history. The fruits of this effort include four monographs, two short books, and more articles than he cares to count. He holds a BA, in modern history, from Yale College and a DPhil, also in modern history, from Oxford University.