Our Founders

Susannah Black

Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Plough, associate editor of Providence Magazine, and editor of The Davenant Trust’s journal Ad Fontes. She's a founding editor of Solidarity Hall and is on the Board of the Distributist Review. Her writing has appeared in First Things, The Distributist Review, Solidarity Hall, Providence, Amherst Magazine, Front Porch Republic, Ethika Politika, The Human Life Review, The American Conservative, and elsewhere. She blogs at Radio Free Thulcandra and tweets at @suzania. A native Manhattanite, she is now living in Queens.

Matthew dAl santo

Matthew Dal Santo was a Danish Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen 2014 - 2017. He has written on Russian and European affairs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (Canberra, Australia), The Lowy Institute for Foreign Policy (Sydney, Australia), The Center for the National Interest (Washington, D.C.) and The Nation (New York). He has a BA (first-class honours and University Medal) from the University of Sydney and a Mphil and PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was Lightfoot Scholar in Ecclesiastical History. He is a former Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and foreign policy officer with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife and daughter.

Paul grenier

Paul Grenier is an essayist and translator who writes frequently on political philosophy, urbanism and foreign affairs. His essays have appeared in American Affairs, The National Interest, The American Conservative, Solidarity Hall, Consortium News, The Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Ethika Politika, Johnson’s Russia List, Russkaya Idea, Tetradi konservatizma, and in translation in Russian, Spanish and French. He holds graduate degrees in International Affairs and Geography (Columbia University) and a certificate from the Harriman Institute of Columbia University where he studied Russian intellectual history under Marc Raeff. He worked for many years as a simultaneous interpreter for the U.S. Defense and State Departments, interpreting for Gen. Tommy Franks and serving as lead interpreter for US Central Command’s peacekeeping exercises with post-Soviet states. He was a research director at the Council on Economic Priorities, where he led collaborative projects between US and Russian academics on military-economic affairs. He was a founding editor at Solidarity Hall. In October 2016 he was keynote speaker at the Berdyaev Readings Conference in Paris. He lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.