Meet our Curators

Jane Shaw Stroup (who also writes as Jane S. Shaw) is chairperson of the Raleigh-based James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, where she retired as president in 2015. Currently, she is an editorial consultant for the John Locke Foundation. She is a coauthor of the new edition of Common Sense Economics (St. Martin’s Press).

Before coming to North Carolina in 2006, Jane was a senior fellow with PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, in Bozeman, Montana. She wrote and edited many articles about what became known as free market environmentalism. She coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment with Michael Sanera (Regnery) and co-edited A Guide to Smart Growth with Ron Utt (Heritage Foundation). Before joining PERC, she was an associate economics editor of Business Week in New York City.

Jane has a bachelor’s degree in English from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in history from North Carolina State University. She was married to the late Richard L. Stroup.

Bob Rosser has more than 40 years of experience in the design and execution of strategic communications, public relations and marketing plans for his company’s corporate, non-profit and political clients.  He guided and advised major state trade associations, Fortune 500 companies working in our state, and statewide candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress, Governor, and state legislature.  He brought to his clients the combined strengths of creative development and implementation of campaign strategy and message, grassroots advocacy, fundraising, and creating and producing TV, digital, radio and print ads. 

Currently, Bob is Coordinator for the John Locke Foundation’s NC 250 project celebrating our country’s semiquincentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and American Revolution.  Bob has a great love for history – particularly America’s colonial period and the American Revolution – and believes it is important to communicate the principles of liberty that arose from the Revolution to our citizens today and to coming generations.

Bob is married and has three boys.  He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1979, earning the Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics.  In 1994, he received the Master of Arts degree from N.C. State University in History.