Stephen Blackwood

Stephen Blackwood is the founding president of Ralston College, an institution devoted to liberal education, freedom of thought, and the pursuit of truth within the Western intellectual tradition. His work as an educator and institution-builder centers on recovering forms of learning that integrate intellectual seriousness, moral formation, and cultural inheritance. Blackwood studied classics as an undergraduate, and received an MA (Classics) from Dalhousie and a Phd (Religion) from Emory University. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cambridge. His primary academic focus has been on the nature of the human person, specifically as it comes to be understood in ancient and medieval times, and on the evolution of the ideals, institutions, and cultural forms that enable human beings to flourish. His book on the Roman poet-philosopher-statesman, Boethius, was published by Oxford University Press.