Instructors

  • Nathan Bupp Vice President of Communications for the Center for Inquiry and an associate editor of Free Inquiry magazine. Nathan has studied intellectual history and naturalistic and humanist philosophy extensively. Recently, Nathan edited the special section "Humanism and the Science of Happiness" in Free Inquiry magazine.
  • D J Grothe is the Vice President and Director of Outreach Programs for the Center for Inquiry and an associate editor of Free Inquiry magazine. He is also host of the internationally popular radio show and podcast, Point of Inquiry and the editor of the The Beauty of Science, about the life's work and worldview of Nobel Prize winner Herbert Hauptman.
  • R. Joseph Hoffmann, PhD, is an historian specializing in the social and intellectual development of early Christianity. He has been Chair of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER) since 2003 and also currently serves as Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Educational Programs at the Center for Inquiry.
  • Paul Kurtz, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of Free Inquiry, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Chairman of the Center for Inquiry/Transnational. For forty years, Kurtz has remained the leading organizational and intellectual figure in the humanist and skeptical movement.
  • Ronald Lindsay, JD/PhD, is a philosopher and a lawyer. He authored the amicus curiae brief that was submitted on behalf of the Council for Secular Humanism and the International Academy of Humanism in McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky. He has had articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and The American Journal of Bioethics.
  • Joe Nickell, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP) and a member of the Editorial Board of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. A former professional stage magician and private detective, Dr. Nickell is a world-renowned investigator of claims of the paranormal and the author of several books.
  • Robert M. Price, PhD, is an Executive Board member for The Jesus Project, and a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion. Price is the Founder and Editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism and a Fellow of The Jesus Seminar. Price's books include Beyond Born Again, Deconstructing Jesus, and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man.
  • John Shook, PhD, is Vice President for Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational. Among his current responsibilities are the Center for Inquiry's Naturalism Research Project and the expansion of the Center's Jo Ann Boydston Library of American Philosophical Naturalism.
  • Ibn Warraq, MA, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational, and a member of the CFI Collegium. He is the author of Why I Am Not a Muslim (1996) and Defending the West (2007); and the editor of The Quest for the Historical Muhammad (2000), The Origins of the Koran (2001), and What the Koran Really Says (2002).