Dr. Duke Pesta
The John Birch Society
Dr. Duke Pesta is a member of the National Council of The John Birch Society, Executive Director and Academic Director of FreedomProject Academy, host of the Dr. Duke Show, and a tenured professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
A nationally recognized authority on critical race theory, Common Core, and the federal role in education, Dr. Pesta has delivered more than 1,000 talks in 48 states and conducted more than 2,500 radio and television interviews. He regularly speaks at homeschool conventions and educational conferences on homeschooling, the decline of morality and critical thinking in public schools, and ideological influences in higher education.
Dr. Pesta earned his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at both major research universities and small liberal arts colleges, teaching subjects including Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, the Bible, Russian literature, Christian apologetics, and C.S. Lewis.
He has been active in educational reform, and was instrumental in developing and implementing an elective Bible course now available to public high-school students in Texas.
