Ian Crowe
Ian Crowe is a Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center and Senior Editor of The University Bookman. He is also the director of the Edmund Burke Society of America.
Ian is an associate professor in History at Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia. His specialty is the work of the eighteenth-century Irish politician and thinker Edmund Burke, the father of modern intellectual conservatism. He also writes and lectures on the wider history of the development of British and American conservative thought since the French Revolution. His publications include The Enduring Edmund Burke, Unwelcome Truths, “The Hereditary Peerage: a Voice in and for Rural Britain” in Another Country, and a number of articles and reviews in Modern Age, The Civil War Book Review, and Conference and Common Room. He is the editor of Reflections, the newsletter of The Edmund Burke Society in England and now also the Edmund Burke Society of America.
Ian is also editing a series of pamphlets on “Conservative Thinkers” designed to increase access to central texts of political and social thought among students and the wider public. In his own research, he is pursuing a comparative study of contemporary American and British conservatism and completing a pamphlet—Edmund Burke and the Politics of Common Sense—for the “Conservative Thinkers” series.
Ian is concerned to make Burke’s contributions recognizable to young scholars and conservatives. His efforts to move Burke studies on from the ideologically driven debates of the Cold War period are in the spirit of the invigorating Burke scholarship of such figures as Kirk, Stanlis, and Canavan, and help ensure that Burke’s thought remains vital and accessible to future generations.
Ian earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before moving to Chapel Hill, he and his wife were resident in Mecosta, where he also served as program director for the Kirk Center.
