Dr. Jason R. Edwards currently serves as an Associate Professor of Education and History at Grove City College where he is the Director of Educational Policy Studies. He is a Fellow for the Center for Vision and Values and chairs its working group on the Study of Popular Culture. He also serves on Center for Vision and Values working groups centered on ethics and character formation, educational policy, and media analysis. He is a Lehrman Scholar and Salvatori Fellow for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and has worked in partnership with Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
In 2004, Edwards was awarded Kentucky’s highest honor by being named a “Kentucky Colonel.” While at the University of Kentucky he was named a “George Denemark Scholar,” and while at Grove City College has been named to “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.” In 2007, he was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa. At Grove City College, among other activities, Edwards is the faculty advisor to the college newspaper and helps coach the college’s nationally ranked debate team. He also advises and helped found the Fugitives, an “agrarian” reading group supported by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Edwards’ research interests center on Agrarian philosophy in Western Civilization, media ecology and cultural analysis, and American academic and intellectual history. Edwards received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of education from the University of Kentucky in 2003. He also holds a Master’s Degree in history from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. in history from Asbury College.
He is co-author of Ask the Professor: What Freshmen Need to Know (Greyhound Books 2008) and has published numerous entries in edited volumes on higher education, religion and society, and military history. His columns and reviews have appeared in the Washington Times, Touchstone, and other newspapers and journals across the country.
Edwards pretends to be from Kentucky but is actually a native of California. He currently resides in Grove City, Pennsylvania, with his wife Jennifer and son “R.J.” (Roy Joseph). His parents Henry and Beverlee Edwards also reside in Grove City.
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