A professor of American Studies and Honors at Christopher Newport University and the Director of Academics for the federal government’s James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Jeffry Morrison has taught at Georgetown University, the U. S. Air Force Academy and Princeton University. 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).   

He 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.   

His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of Church and State, Perspectives on Political Science, Reviews in American History, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.  

Morrison earned his Ph.D. (with distinction) and M.A. in government from Georgetown University. 

His principal research project this academic year, as a Visiting Professor of Politics at UVA, will be editing a one-volume collection, The Political Writings of John Witherspoon, for Cambridge University Press.