Stephen J. Blackwood

Stephen J. Blackwood (2012)

Stephen James Blackwood is a scholar, academic administrator, and social entrepreneur born in 1975.^[1] He is the founding President of Ralston College, a start-up institution of higher education in Savannah.^[2][3][4] He specializes in the literary history of philosophy,^[5] and his work has focused particularly on Boethius.^[6][7][8][9] Oxford University Press published his book The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy in 2015.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15]} He was educated at the University of King's College, Dalhousie University,^[16] and Emory University,^[17] and has been a Fellow in the English Department of Harvard University and a Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity of Trinity College, Toronto. Some years ago he was the founding Executive Director of St George's YouthNet,^[18][19] an educational mentoring program for inner-city youth in the North End district of Halifax, Nova Scotia, after which he was for two years a teaching fellow in the Foundation Year Programme,^[20] a core-text program for first-year undergraduates at the University of King's College.^[21] He is a citizen of both the United States and Canada, and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He also sits on the Board of the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation.^[22] He has recently been in the public eye as a defender of the integrity of the private sphere^[23] and as an opponent of Obamacare.^{[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]}

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External links

• Higher Ed--Time to Begin Again
• The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy
• Philosophia's Dress
• Rhythm, Memory, and the Habit of Prayer
• Why Harvard and Yale Had to Merge
• How to Choose a College
• Stephen Blackwood at the Internet Movie Database