Grove City College - The Center for Vision and Values

The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College

ABOUT

RESEARCH

FELLOWS & STAFF

DAVID J. AYERS, PH.D.

JASON R. EDWARDS, PH.D.

MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA, PH.D.

JEFFREY M. HERBENER, PH.D.

STEVEN L. JONES, PH.D.

PAUL C. KEMENY, PH.D.

PAUL G. KENGOR, PH.D.

DURWOOD B. RAY, PH.D.

CORY L. SHRECKENGOST

GARY S. SMITH, PH.D.

JOHN A. SPARKS, J.D.

E. WARREN THROCKMORTON, PH.D.

EARL H. TILFORD, PH.D.

KATHRYN A. VAN TIL

L. JOHN VAN TIL, PH.D.

EVENTS

04/16/2009 : CVV Conference: Faith, Freedom and Higher Education
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02/05/2009 : Third Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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12/11/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “Give me Liberty” -- Patrick Henry and Religious Freedom in America
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09/23/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Founders and the Presidents: from July 1776 to November 2008"
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06/10/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “Gun Control, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Second Amendment”
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04/10/2008 : CVV Conference: Church & State 2008
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04/02/2008 : Charles Wiley Lecture: "Principles for Developing a Sound American Foreign Policy"
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03/18/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "Hamilton and the Greenback"
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02/12/2008 : Second Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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12/18/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Significance of the Declaration"
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11/02/2007 : Heritage Foundation Lecture by Paul Kengor: "The Judge: Ronald Reagan's Top Hand"
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10/24/2007 : Albert A. Hopeman Jr. Lecture by Thomas J. Usher: "Engineering for Wealth Creation"
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10/15/2007 : Steve Mosher Lecture: "China's One-Child Policy"
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10/10/2007 : Lisa Thompson and Patricia Green Lecture
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10/08/2007 : Pew Memorial Lecture by Tom Ridge: “Security and the Future”
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09/11/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "James Madison and the Temptation of Terror"
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06/19/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Founders Abroad"
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04/12/2007 : CVV Conference: The De-Christianization of Europe
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03/20/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Founders, the Ten Commandments, and the Supreme Court"
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02/23/2007 : The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises
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02/22/2007 : First Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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02/14/2007 : Michael Kazin Lecture: “The Gospel of William Jennings Bryan”
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12/05/2006 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “The Maligned Faith of Thomas Jefferson”
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11/03/2006 : 2006 Austrian Student Scholars Conference
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10/04/2006 : Wilfred McClay Lecture
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09/19/2006 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “George Washington as the Model of American Statesmanship”
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04/05/2006 : CVV Conference: Mr. Jefferson Goes to the Middle East
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02/27/2006 : Global Perspectives Seminar
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02/22/2006 : Medicine and Theology: From Embryos to the Posthuman
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11/04/2005 : 2005 Austrian Student Scholars Conference
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07/20/2005 : Paul Kengor Lecture and Booksigning at the Ronald Reagan Library
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04/04/2005 : CVV Inaugural Conference: The Road From Poverty to Freedom
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Steven L. Jones, Ph.D.

Working Group Coordinator, Character & Ethics
Fellow, Character & Ethics

Dr. Steven L. Jones
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Steven Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grove City College, where he has taught since 2004. He is the coach of the College’s nationally recognized debate team and the director of the Koch Fellows program at Grove City College. Prior to arriving in Grove City he was associate director of the Pew Research Center on Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has also received fellowships from the Center for Children, Families, and the Law and the Civitas Forum.

He is the co-editor of the three volume Church and State in America Today Perspectives Series put out by Praeger Press, and the author of Religious Schooling in America: Private Education and Public Life, also with Praeger Press. His essays have appeared in several journals and reference works, including the award-winning Hedgehog Review, an interdisciplinary academic journal published by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.

His current research project focuses on the intersection between parental freedoms, children’s rights/interests, and advances in genetic or psychopharmacological treatments. He lives in Grove City with his wife and four children.

Steven L. Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Grove City College | Box 3090 | Grove City, PA 16127
Tel: 724.458.3388
Email: sljones@gcc.edu