About Jeffrey O. Nelson

Jeffrey O. Nelson co-founded the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal with Annette Kirk and was the Center’s Executive Director from 1995–2002. Currently he is vice president of the Center and secretary/treasurer of the board; his responsibilities include supervision of the Center’s publishing program and editing The University Bookman.

Jeff is currently President of The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Before that posting, he was senior vice president at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and publisher of ISI Books.

He also serves as secretary/treasurer of The Edmund Burke Society of America and chairman of the G. K. Chesterton Institute.

Jeff served for a time as Dr. Kirk’s personal assistant. Among his many editorial credits are Russell Kirk’s Redeeming the Time and Henry Regnery’s Perfect Sowing: Reflections of a Bookman. He was for ten years the editor of The Intercollegiate Review and is general editor of ISI’s “Guides to the Major Disciplines” series.

A native of Michigan, Jeff is a graduate of the University of Detroit and Yale University Divinity School. He is currently finishing his doctorate in American History at the University of Edinburgh. Jeff and his wife Cecilia (Russell and Annette Kirk’s second daughter) have three young children, Isabel, Thomas, and Julia. They live in New Hampshire.

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