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John M. Owen

Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
BA (Duke University), MPA (Princeton University), PhD (Harvard University)

John M. Owen (AB, Duke; MPA, Princeton; AM, PhD, Harvard) is Taylor Professor of Politics and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is author of The Ecology of Nations (2023), Confronting Political Islam (2015), The Clash of Ideas in World Politics (2010), and Liberal Peace, Liberal War (1997), and co-editor of Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order (2011). Owen has published essays in First Things, Providence, Christian Scholars’ Review, Foreign Affairs, The Hedgehog Review, The Washington Post, and The New York Times

Dr. Owen has held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Oxford, the Free University and WZB (Berlin), and the University of British Columbia. In 2015 he received a Humboldt Research Prize (Germany). He has served on the boards of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers and the Center for Christian Study in Charlottesville. He and his wife Patricia attend Holy Cross Anglican Church in Crozet, Virginia. They have three adult children.

John Owen teaches international relations at the University of Virginia. His books include Confronting Political Islam (Princeton, 2014), Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order (Columbia, 2011), and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics (Princeton, 2010).

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