I currently serve as the Academic Program Director at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, a residential research and study center in western Michigan, and as an adjunct instructor of humanities at Faulkner University. In these roles, I teach and mentor students, design educational programs, and further the study of the Western cultural heritage and the liberal arts.
In addition to teaching and academic programming, I serve as Humanities Editor of The University Bookman, the Russell Kirk Center’s book review journal, and Assistant Managing Editor of VoegelinView, an interdisciplinary arts and humanities journal published by the Eric Voegelin Society.
I earned my Ph.D. in Humanities, with a concentration in History, from Faulkner University’s great books graduate program. I also hold an M.A. in Philosophy from Mount Angel Seminary, where I wrote my thesis on Dante’s philosophical poetry, and a B.A. in History from the College of Idaho.
My scholarly articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in outlets such as Humanitas, Pietas, The University Bookman, VoegelinView, The Imaginative Conservative, The Homiletic and Pastoral Review, and Dappled Things. My first book, Guardian of the Word: Russell Kirk and the Renewal of Liberal Education, is forthcoming from Catholic Education Press, an imprint of The Catholic University of America Press. I am also editing a forthcoming collection of Russell Kirk’s educational writings for Mecosta House Press. My next book project, tentatively titled Redeeming the Modern World: Christopher Dawson, T. S. Eliot, and the Renewal of Culture, examines the relationship between Christianity and Western culture in Dawson’s historical writings and Eliot’s poetry and criticism.
I live in western Michigan with my wife and daughters.