Jeremiah John
Assistant Professor of Politics
Jeremiah John is an assistant professor of politics at Southern Virginia University.
He joined the faculty in fall 2007. He currently contributes to the politics program as well as the general education curriculum.
Before joining the faculty at Southern Virginia, John graduated summa cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College in 2000. In January 2008, he earned his doctorate in political theory and comparative politics from University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was on law and morality in Hegel’s political philosophy.
His current research is in German political thought, Christian political theology and political ethics, and his recent writing includes a book chapter, “The Site of Mormon Political Theology,” under review for an edited volume at Georgetown University Press; a review of Ido Geiger’s The Founding Act of Ethical Life in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2008; and a paper presentation at the 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, “Enmity and Mortality in Sophocles’ Antigone and Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive.”
John is coordinator of the politics program and assistant advisor to the outdoors club. He lives in Buena Vista, Va. with his wife, Stephanie, and their four children.
B.A., Hampden-Sydney College, 2000; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2004, 2008
Contact Information:
Southern Virginia University
One University Hill Drive
Buena Vista, VA 24416
104 Magnolia Hall
540-264-2014 office
540-261-8451 fax
Jeremiah.john@svu.edu