Institute Staff

Jason Pedicone

President

President

Jason Pedicone

Jason Pedicone, the co-founder and President of the Paideia Institute, received his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 2013. Jason has taught courses in Latin, Greek, and the history of Classical Scholarship at the university level in the U.S. and Western Europe, and is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and Fordham University. Jason’s research and public speaking focus on public humanities and Latin and Greek pedagogy. Jason received a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Germany in 2004, and a Jacob Javits Fellowship in 2013 to support his graduate work. In 2015, together with Paideia's co-founder, Eric Hewett, Jason was awarded the President’s Award by the Society for Classical Studies for outstanding achievements in promoting the study of Classics. He lives in Manhattan.

Joseph Conlon

Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor, LLiR, LGiG, Telepaideia

Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor, LLiR, LGiG, Telepaideia

Joseph Conlon

Joseph Conlon has a BA from Reed College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught in various Paideia programs since 2011, including LGiG, LLiR, and LLiR(HS), and also teaches Sanskrit through Telepaideia. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship with Paideia and is creating digital resources for learning Latin and Ancient Greek, including a Latin high school textbook. He is interested in language pedagogy, theories of language acquisition, historical linguistics, Homer, Plato, and Plautus.

Jules Felix Culot

Gap Year Intern, Rome Office

Gap Year Intern, Rome Office

Jules Felix Culot

Jules is a proud alumnus of Schola Nova and spent a year in Rome at the Accademia Vivarium Novum at the tender age of 14, so speaking and writing Latin are quite natural to him. After finishing high school in Brussels, he joined the Paideia team for a six-months internship at our Rome office. He is currently a collaborator, working as a redactor for our Latin publications. Jules’ interests include Renaissance Neo-Latin, philosophy and history. When not busy learning a new language (he knows seven already), you’ll find him in the kitchen trying out a new Italian recipe. He plans to study Classics in college. At the age of 18, he is likely the most proficient Latin speaker for his age in the world.

Kamille Delgardo

Digital Humanities Fellow

Digital Humanities Fellow

Kamille Delgardo

Kamille built the Online Public Classics Archive (co-sponsored by the Society for Classical Studies) as a Digital Humanities Fellow for Paideia in 2017. In 2015 she graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Classical Civilizations with a Latin emphasis then capped off her college experience with Living Latin in Rome. She currently resides in the Promised Land (Northern California) where she works professionally as a web developer, drinks only the finest coffee, and grows questionable houseplants in an attempt to Keep San Francisco Weird.

Mitchell Towne

Rome Fellow 2016-2017

Rome Fellow 2016-2017

Mitchell Towne

Mitchell is an alumnus of Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece and Living Latin in Paris programs. He was a Rome Fellow 2016-2017 after receiving his B.A. in Classics from Williams College. His dream is to one day become a high school teacher. He also enjoys swimming.

Allegra Forbes

Outreach Fellow

Outreach Fellow

Allegra Forbes

Allegra is a former Development and Outreach intern (2017) and an alumna of the Living Greek in Greece program (2015). She has worked as a teaching assistant in Italian, Ancient Greek, and Art History classes at a study abroad program in Viterbo, Italy, and taught her own extracurricular Italian class at St. Mark’s School in Massachusetts. Allegra is currently a student at Barnard College and works at the Paideia Institute’s Brooklyn office on outreach projects such as the Aequora textbooks.

Diego Rojas Salvador

Digital Humanities Fellow

Digital Humanities Fellow

Diego Rojas Salvador

Diego is a Digital Humanities Fellow for Paideia, as well as a former Digital Humanities Intern (Summer 2016, Summer 2017) and a Living Latin in Rome (2015) alum. He will graduate in December 2018 from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Computer Science, and a minor in Drama. Based in the Rome, he works as the in-residence programmer and IT expert for the Paideia Institute. His projects include Palimpsest, the Paideia Institute website, and Delphin. Additionally, he has collaborated with the Aequora textbook team by writing the Spanish supplement for the first textbook.

Eric Hewett

Executive Director, Co-Founder

Executive Director, Co-Founder

Eric Hewett

Eric Hewett, co-founder and Executive Director of the Paideia Institute, graduated from Rice University in 1996 with a B.A. in Linguistics, with a focus on historical linguistics, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania Post-Bachelor in Classics. He spent the next seven years living and traveling in Western Europe, working as a teacher, tour guide, and translator. He speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Basque and is a published translator of Basque poetry. In 2004 Eric moved to Rome, where he has earned an M.A. in Patristic Sciences from the Augustinianum Pontifical Institute of the Lateran University and a joint Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy from the University of Salerno and Patristic Sciences from the Augustinianum. Eric serves as the Institute's Executive Director and Treasurer.

Alex Petkas

Greek Curriculum Development Fellow, Instructor, LGiG

Greek Curriculum Development Fellow, Instructor, LGiG

Alex Petkas

Alex is finishing his PhD in Classics at Princeton University. His interests include late antique Greek literature, ancient rhetoric and literary criticism, and animals in ancient thought. His dissertation is on the figure of the philosopher in the epistolary corpus of Synesius of Cyrene. He has taught at LGiG since its inception.

Amy Garland

Assistant Director for U.S. Operations

Assistant Director for U.S. Operations

Amy Garland

Amy is Assistant Director for U.S. Operations as well as a former Rome Fellow (2014-2015). She has an M.St. in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Oxford and an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University. She is an alumna of Paideia's very first program, Living Latin in Rome, 2011. She has taught as an assistant faculty member and also been Logistical Director for the Living Latin in Rome (High School) program. Based in the NYC office, she works on development, outreach, digital publications, and programs for Paideia.

Marco Romani Mistretta

Outreach Manager

Outreach Manager

Marco Romani Mistretta

Before joining the Paideia Institute, Marco Romani Mistretta received a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University in 2018. At Paideia, his main duties include managing the Aequora project, developing curricular materials, and co-supervising the Institute’s Summer Humanities Internship. As a classicist, he has taught a number of courses on ancient languages, literature, and philosophy. He has also published research articles on science and technology in the ancient world, as well as on the history of Classical scholarship in modern Europe.

David Hewett

Outreach Manager for Classical Tours; Instructor, Telepaideia

Outreach Manager for Classical Tours; Instructor, Telepaideia

David Hewett

David Hewett is a Ph.D. Candidate in Classics at the University of Virginia, where he is completing his dissertation on Seneca's Epistulae Morales. Beyond Seneca, he researches ancient philosophy in its social and literary contexts, Greek mythology and its reception, and ancient historiography. He has studied with Reginald Foster in Rome and participates regularly in Terence Tunberg's Conventicula. He graduated from Dickinson College in 2002 with a B.A. in Classical Studies, and has been a student at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and a Regular Member of the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. He currently lives in Southwestern Virginia with his wife, where he spends his free time obsessed with music, esotericism, and learning to farm.

Eric Simpson

Chief Development Officer

Chief Development Officer

Eric Simpson

Eric, Paideia's Chief Development Officer, received his B.A. in Classics from Yale College in 2011, and is now a Fellow of his residential college, Saybrook. He joined the Paideia Institute in 2018 after five years as an editor at The New Criterion. A violinist since age four, he has contributed reviews and articles on classical music to The Wall Street Journal, The Classical Review, The New Criterion, and The Hopkins Review.

Meaghan Carley

Senior Rome Fellow, 2017-2018

Senior Rome Fellow, 2017-2018

Meaghan Carley

Meaghan has a B.A. in classics from Stanford University, where she wrote a thesis on the relationship between politics, poetry, and gender in Catullus. Her other interests include ancient religion, Latin and Greek syntax, intellectual history, and Red Sox baseball. She is an alumna of Living Latin in Paris (2016), and was a Rome Fellow (2016-2017).