{"id":29146,"date":"2018-04-27T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/?page_id=29146"},"modified":"2018-07-23T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:37:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/edmund-burke-society\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Edmund Burke Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Burker-Header.jpg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;30px|0px|29px|0px&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;][et_pb_row parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">About the Edmund Burke Society<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset3&#8243; box_shadow_vertical=&#8221;4px&#8221; box_shadow_blur=&#8221;27px&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_module=&#8221;29143&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_menu admin_label=&#8221;Burke Menu&#8221; global_parent=&#8221;29143&#8243; menu_id=&#8221;62&#8243; submenu_direction=&#8221;downwards&#8221; fullwidth_menu=&#8221;off&#8221; active_link_color=&#8221;#990606&#8243; dropdown_menu_line_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; dropdown_menu_text_color=&#8221;#990606&#8243; mobile_menu_text_color=&#8221;#990606&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.7&#8243; menu_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; custom_css_main_element=&#8221;text-align: center;||&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e8e8e8&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_menu][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;22px|0px|34px|0px&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#e5e5e5&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Committee<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion _builder_version=&#8221;3.2&#8243;][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Dr. Elizabeth R. Lambert | President&#8221; open=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29151 alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Elizabeth_personal_141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Elizabeth_personal_141.jpg 493w, https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Elizabeth_personal_141-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Elizabeth_personal_141-400x516.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>Elizabeth Lambert is Emerita Professor of English, Gettysburg College. She has published reviews and articles on various aspects of Burke\u2019s life and thought, his religion, his friendship with Samuel Johnson, and the ways James Boswell\u2019s portrayal of Burke in the\u00a0<em>Life of Johnson<\/em>\u00a0was influenced by their personal relationship. Her book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/161149219X\/?tag=kirkcenter-20\">Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield<\/a><\/em>, was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Dr. Ian Crowe | Director&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.2&#8243; title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221; custom_css_main_element=&#8221;||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29152 alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/crowe_2013.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ian Crowe is a Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center and director of the Edmund Burke Society of America. \u00a0\u00a0He is currently an associate professor of History at Belmont Abbey College and executive editor of the journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies in Burke and His Time.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0In 2012, he published <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Stanford University Press). He was also contributing editor for two volumes of essays on Burke: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of Missouri Press, 2005) and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Enduring Edmund Burke<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ISI Books, 1997). \u00a0He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is currently pursuing research into the writings, networks, and literary influence of the churchmen William Warburton and Richard Hurd in the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Dr. Steven Millies | Secretary&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.2&#8243; title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29159 alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/millies-250-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/millies-250-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/millies-250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steven P. Millies is associate professor of public theology and Director of the Bernardin Center at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He studied at The Catholic University of America, where he wrote on religion in Burke\u2019s political thought. Today, he writes both about conservatism and about religion and politics, especially the Roman Catholic tradition. He is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph Bernardin: Seeking Common Ground,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published by Liturgical Press in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Dr. Jeffrey O. Nelson | Treasurer&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.2&#8243; title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29160 alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nelson-j-2009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nelson-j-2009.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nelson-j-2009-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeff Nelson is Senior Vice President, Educational Program, for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), in which capacity he serves as the Institute\u2019s Chief Academic Officer. He holds a B.A. from the University of Detroit, a M.A.R. from Yale University Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He first joined ISI in 1991 and served for more than a decade as editor of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intercollegiate Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and as founding editor and publisher of the Institute&#8217;s press, ISI Books. Prior to returning to ISI in 2009, he was president of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and served on ISI&#8217;s board of trustees. Dr. Nelson is co-founder and vice chairman of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal and treasurer of the Edmund Burke Society of America. He is the editor of several books, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redeeming the Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Russell Kirk, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perfect Sowing: Reflections of a Bookman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Henry Regnery, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remembered Past<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by John Lukacs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Dr. Joseph L. Pappin III | President Emeritus&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.2&#8243; title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; title_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_vertical_length=&#8221;0em&#8221; body_text_shadow_blur_strength=&#8221;0em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29161 alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pappin-2014.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"79\" height=\"99\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph L. Pappin III is a former Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, and author of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0823213668\/?tag=kirkcenter-20\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1993). He was the first editor of the revived <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies in Burke and His Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a position he held from<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2002 to 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Reports&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.7&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Reports<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/uncategorized\/the-inaugural-conference\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A report from our inaugural May 2002 conference<\/span><\/a>, \u201cFresh Perspectives on Burke Studies in Higher Education,\u201d is available online.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.92&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#e5e5e5&#8243; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Explore selected resources on Edmund Burke&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.7&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Explore selected resources on Edmund Burke<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button admin_label=&#8221;VIEW OUR BURKE RESOURCES&#8221; button_url=&#8221;#&#8221; button_text=&#8221;VIEW OUR BURKE RESOURCES&#8221; button_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.7&#8243; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; button_bg_color_hover=&#8221;#781834&#8243; button_border_color_hover=&#8221;#781834&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Edmund Burke Society &nbsp; Committee Elizabeth Lambert is Emerita Professor of English, Gettysburg College. 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