Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq) teaches for the MA program in Islamic Studies at George Washington University. His courses focus on various aspects of Shi‘ite Islam, including political thought, philosophy, mysticism, and law. His research and teaching areas encompass Islamic studies, philosophy of religion, comparative philosophy, ethics, modernization and critical theory, inter and intra-religious dialogues, and religion and environment.

Akhlaq previously served as a Visiting Scholar at Catholic University of America (2012-2017), George Washington University (2013-2016), Princeton University (2017), and Boston University (2017-2018). Outside of GW, he is a member of the Board of Directors for American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and teaches Philosophy, Ethics, Business Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, and Critical Thinking at Marymount University and Coppin State University.

A native of Afghanistan, Akhlaq obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Allameh Tabataba'i University (Tehran, Iran) in 2009. He also graduated in Islamic Classical Studies (kharij-i fiqh wa usual) from Hawza Ilmiya Khurasan (Mashhad, Iran, 2009). Before relocating to the USA, he taught various subjects, including Comparative Philosophy and Theology, History of Philosophy, Peripatetic Philosophy, Transcendental Philosophy, Sufism, Comparative Religion, Islamic Theology, and Current Theologies in Islam, at Iranian universities such as Al-Mustafa International University (2006-2010) and Payam-e Noor (2008-2010).

Mario Lupoli teaches Philosophy of History and Academic Writing at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University Antonianum.

He holds degrees in Theology (Florence) and Philosophy (Naples), and earned a PhD in Philosophy (Rome), in the historical-theoretical track, with a dissertation on the philosophy of history of the English Franciscan friar Roger Bacon.

He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Coimbra, Portugal, with a project on the Historicist Hermeneutics of Apocalyptic Thought.

He pursued advanced studies in Critical Theory of Society (Milan).

He is a teacher of Philosophy and History in secondary schools and an adjunct scholar in Medieval History of Philosophy at the University of Naples; he also conducts teaching and research activities in various Faculties and Institutes. He is a philosophical counsellor and cultural mediator.

His current research focuses on theologies and philosophies of history from the late Middle Ages to the early Modern period.