Faculty

Dr. Ryan Messmore serves as the fifth President of Magdalen College. He received his bachelor’s degree in public policy and religion from Duke University, master’s degrees in theology and Christian ethics from Duke Divinity School and Cambridge University, and his doctorate in political theology from Oxford University.

He is also the author of In Love: The Larger Story of Sex and Marriage, which was published in 2017. His commentary and analysis have appeared in venues such as The Washington Times, First Things, Touchstone Magazine, and The Australian. In 2012 he delivered the prestigious Acton Lecture in Sydney on Religious Freedom.

Messmore has served as President of Campion College (a Catholic liberal arts college in Sydney, Australia), Founding Executive Director of The Millis Institute at Christian Heritage College in Brisbane, and William E. Simon Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Most recently, he oversaw the academic program at St. David’s School in Raleigh, North Carolina.

After studying the great books as an undergraduate and earning a graduate degree at Boston College, John Klucinec returned to his alma mater and assisted in the development of the College’s courses in physics and astronomy. He has spent over twenty years teaching courses in the sciences, mathematics, non-western studies, and the Philosophy and Humanities sequence. He currently resides in Warner, New Hampshire with his wife Joan and their seven children.

Mr. Klucinec began his career by teaching in conjunction with founding academic dean George Stanciu. After Dr. Stanciu’s departure, he assumed full responsibility for the Geometry and Science sequence. In this sequence, Mr. Klucinec introduces students to the sciences in the spirit of the liberal arts, with an especially strong commitment to the Socratic method.

Dr. Eric M. Buck hails from a farm in Maine and loves New England above all other places on God’s green earth.

As a philosopher, prior to becoming Catholic, he took a tour of radical political philosophy, became a devotee of Benedict Spinoza and phenomenology, for a dissertation wrote a theory of architectural wholeness, and finally embraced Catholicism as his faith and as the basis for his intellectual work.

As a teacher he has specialized in phenomenology, Asian philosophy and world religions, the history of western civilization, and in close readings of the world’s speculative and religious literatures. He is presently working on a philosophy of the will.

Prior to joining Magdalen, he taught in many schools of all types. Between 2010 and 2015 he founded and ran a minimalist college on a shoestring budget for five years in and around Boston.

In addition to teaching part-time at Magdalen, Dr. Buck is a utility administrator. He served as interim president of Magdalen College for the academic term 2020-2021.

A Catholic artist and mother of five, Keri received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City and later pursued Christian Russian-Byzantine iconography, studying under the late renowned Russian iconographer Ksenia Pokrovsky. Her icons, created through Iconeye Studio, have been exhibited in galleries, churches, and museums throughout New England and in private collections internationally. Keri has also held a career for over twenty years in both non-profit and for-profit arts administration which includes serving as the Executive Director of the Sharon Arts Center of Peterborough and Sharon, NH, a senior manager of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, founder and CEO of Creative Hands Art Studio and Atelier Gallery in Madison, NJ, and co-founder of The Starving Artist in Keene, NH. Keri is currently director of OQ Farm: A Creative Sanctuary — a new initiative to bring a Christian arts colony into existence that centers around supporting the artist through both creative and spiritual renewal on a 500-acre farm in Bridgewater, Vermont, and is also working with master iconographer George Kordis on the new International Centre of Contemporary Iconography in Athens, Greece. She is enthusiastic about helping to equip and support the next generation of Catholic artists in order to build towards a renaissance of beauty through the arts and the on-going transformation of culture.