Stephen J. Blackwood

Stephen James Blackwood (born 1975) is a scholar, academic administrator, and social entrepreneur. He is the founding president of Ralston College, a start-up institution of higher education in Savannah, Georgia.
Blackwood was born in Canada in 1975. He was educated at the University of King's College, Dalhousie University, and Emory University, from which he received a PhD in Religion in April 2010. In 2009-2010 he was a fellow in the English Department of Harvard University. His primary area of academic expertise is the literary history of philosophy, and he is a specialist in Boethius.
In his mid-twenties he was the founding executive director of St. George's YouthNet, an educational mentoring program for inner-city youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after which he was for two years a teaching fellow in the , a core-text program for first-year undergraduates at the University of King's College.
In 2010 he became the founder and first president of Ralston College, planned as a new liberal arts college in the "great books" tradition, to be located in Savannah, Georgia.
He is a citizen of both the United States and Canada.

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