Keith Pavlischek

Fellow

Dr. Pavlischek grew up in Glassport, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley outside Pittsburgh. Upon graduation from Waynesburg College (magna cum laude) in 1977 with a B.A. in political science and history, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. Following four years of active duty he studied at the Institute for Christian Studies (Toronto) receiving an M.Phil. in systematic theology and at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) receiving a Th.M. in Christian apologetics. He studied for the doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh and was awarded the Ph.D. in Religion, Ethics and Society in 1990.

From 1989-1993 Dr. Pavlischek taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeast Missouri State University (renamed Truman State University in 1995) and from 1993-1998 he was Director of the Crossroads Program on Faith and Public Policy, a program sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

His academic research focuses on foundational issues in Protestant and Catholic political and social thought. His articles and reviews have been published in a number of national journals including the Journal of Church and State, Public Affairs Quarterly, The Journal of Law and Religion, Studies in Christian Ethics, First Things, Prism, Books and Culture, This World and Regeneration Quarterly. He is the author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration (Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994).

Since leaving active duty in 1981, he has served in a variety of assignments as a Marine Corps Reserve officer, most recently serving on the faculty of the Joint Military Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C., where he taught a variety of courses in the Post Graduate Intelligence Program. A veteran of the Gulf War, he holds the rank of Colonel and is assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps.

He is married to Nancy Barnes Pavlischek, an elementary school teacher at Annapolis Area Christian School, and has three children: Justin, Megan, and Jenna.

email: keith@cpjustice.org

phone: 410.571.6300