D. Ben DeSmidt earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago, and his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He joined Carthage in 2005.

Christopher Lynch earned his B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, where he studied political philosophy and wrote his dissertation on Niccolo Machiavelli. He has studied in Japan and taught at Boston College and the Rome campus of the University of Dallas. His book, Machiavelli's Art of War, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003. He was awarded an Olin Faculty Fellowship to spend 2002-2003 doing research and writing on Machiavelli. He joined the Carthage faculty in 2000.