Jeffry Morrison

Jeffry Morrison is Professor of American Studies and Honors at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, and Director of Academics at the federal government’s James Madison Foundation in Alexandria.  In 2024-25 he will be Visiting Professor in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, Department of Politics, at the University of Virginia.  He has also taught in the Government Department at Georgetown University, the Political Science Department at the U. S. Air Force Academy, and the Politics Department at Princeton University.  He earned the M.A. and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Government from Georgetown University, where his fields were political theory and American government.  Morrison has published five books on American political thought and culture, as well as chapters, articles, and reviews in scholarly publications in the fields of political science, history, and religion.  His monographs John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic (University of Notre Dame Press), and The Political Philosophy of George Washington (Johns Hopkins University Press) afford new perspectives on the American founding, and his co-edited volumes deal primarily with religion and public life in early America.  He is currently editing The Political Writings of John Witherspoon for Cambridge University Press, which will be his principal research project while at UVA.  His articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of American History, Journal of Church and State, Perspectives on Political Science, Reviews in American History, and Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.  He has lectured at colleges and historic sites throughout the United States and in England (Hertford College, Oxford), and made media appearances on radio, video (YouTube), and television (C-SPAN, BBC).

Visiting Professor in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy

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