Jeremy Geddert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

LEX Director

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Jeremy Seth Geddert has taught Political Science for fourteen years at Assumption University. His work on religion, politics, and the interplay of classical and modern thought has appeared in Canadian Journal of Political Science, American Review of Canadian Studies, and Review of Politics. As a co-editor of What is Canadian Philosophy? (SUNY, forthcoming), his current research explores British political thought in Canada and the United States. He is working on a monograph seeking to recover and articulate the distinctives of Canadian nationhood in the twenty-first century, with a focus on its contrasts with the American technological republic.

Education Background

Ph.D., Politics, The Catholic University of America, 2012
Dissertation: Hugo Grotius’ Classical Conception of Justice (passed with honors)
Director: David Walsh

M. A., Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 2003
Thesis: Just War Theory and Humanitarian Intervention

B. A., High Honours, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 2002

Courses Taught

POL 409: Political Technology and Democratic Citizenship
POL 400: Secular Religion in American Politics
POL 399: Conservatism and Liberalism
POL 377: The Politics of Just Wars
POL 375: The Study of International Relations
POL 359: Medieval Political Philosophy
POL 358: Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
POL 322: Political Economy
POL 321: Public Policy

POL 207: Peace and War
POL 203: Modern States

POL 151: Art and Politics II
POL 150: Art and Politics I
POL 110: The Quest for Justice

Publications

MONOGRAPHS:

  1. Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom: Transcending Natural Rights (New York: Routledge, 2017).

EDITED VOLUMES:

  1. What is Canadian Philosophy?, co-edited with Janet Wesselius and Jason Bell (New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2026).

BOOK CHAPTERS:

  1. “The Quest(ion) of Canadian Philosophy,” in What is Canadian Philosophy?, ed. Janet Wesselius, Jason Bell, and Jeremy Seth Geddert (New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2026).
  2. “Loyalty as a Canadian Virtue,” in What is Canadian Philosophy?, ed. Janet Wesselius, Jason Bell, and Jeremy Seth Geddert (New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2026).
  3. “Technology as Empire: Comparing George Grant and Russell Kirk on American Conservatism,” in Reading George Grant in the 21st Century, ed. Tyler Chamberlain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 73-94.
  4. “Can Tories Exist in America?” in The Scholar-Gipsy: Thrownness, Memoricide & the Great Tradition: Liber Americorum for Ron S. Dart, Vol. II (Abbotsford, BC: St. Macrina Press, 2024), 92-103.
  5. “Tocqueville’s ‘Aristocracy Without Aristocrats’: John Strachan’s Loyalist Political Thought,” in Canadian Conservative Political Thought, ed. Lee Trepanier and Richard Avramenko (New York: Routledge, 2023), 52-67.
  6. “A Pedagogy of Beauty: Teaching Plato’s Republic through Mathematics and Music,” in J. Scott Lee, Scott Ashmon, and Kerri Tom, eds., The Arts and Sciences of a Core Text Education: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them? (Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2021), 51-57.
  7. “Hugo Grotius’ Modern Civil Religion: Source of Europe’s Stoic Liberalism?” in Ann Ward, ed., Classical Rationalism and the Politics of Europe (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 126-50.
  8. “Natural Rights and History: Hugo Grotius’ Modern Translation of Aristotle,” in Steven F. McGuire and R. J. Snell, eds., Concepts of Nature: Ancient and Modern (New York: Lexington, 2016), 71-90.

ARTICLES:

  1. “Lament for a Stillborn Post-Liberal America,” Cosmos + Taxis, Vol. 13, No. 11 (2025), 5-14.
  2. “Hoity Tory For Today: Jeremy Seth Geddert Reflects on George Grant,” Dorchester Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2025), 19-26.
  3. “Plato as Choirmaster: Cultivating Civic Friendship in the Modern Republic,” Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2021), 221-51.
  4. “Indigenous Sovereignty and the (Enlarged) Responsibility to Protect,” American Review of Canadian Studies, Vo. 51, No. 2 (2021), 251-71.
  5. “Right of (Northwest) Passage: Toward A Responsible Canadian Arctic Sovereignty,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2019), 595-612.
  6. “Too Subtle to Satisfy Many: Was Grotius’ Teleology of Punishment Predestined to Fail?” Grotiana Vol. 38, No.1 (2017), 46-69.
  7. “Beyond Strict Justice: Hugo Grotius on Punishment and Natural Right(s),” Review of Politics Vol. 76, No. 4 (2014), 559-88.  
    REVIEW ESSAYS:
  8. “Musical Harmony: A Missing Dimension of Democratic Citizenship?” Review of Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres, by Peter Pesic,” Voegelin View, 28 April 2019.
  9. “Review: Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718, by Marco Barducci,” Grotiana Vol. 39, No. 1 (2018), 142-48.
  10. “Saving Subjective Natural Rights from Subjectivism,” Humanitas Vol. 30, No. 1-2 (2017), 159-64.
  11. “Re-Discovering an Older Sovereignty: Review of Sovereignty: Moral and Historical Perspectives, by James Turner Johnson,” Voegelin View, 17 October 2016.
  12. “Review: The Just War Tradition: An Introduction, by David D. Corey and J. Daryl Charles,” Society Vol. 51, No. 2 (2014), 188-90.

REVIEWS:

“Review: A Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing, by Matthew D. Wright,” Review of Politics Vol. 82, No. 2 (2020), 337-39.

Presentations

“Must We Forgive?”, Panel Discussant, Center for Civic Friendship, Assumption University

“Measured Speech in an Age of Exaggeration,” Symposium Leader, Center for Civic Friendship, Assumption University

“Discover Nature’s Secrets,” Panelist, Foundations Program Lecture, Assumption University

“The American Voter,” Presenter, Humanities Scholars Collaborative, Assumption University

“On Conservatism: Grant’s Lament for Canada,” Renewing Canadian Conservatism Conference, Parliament of Canada, Ottawa ON

“Academic Freedom: Fact or Useful Fiction?” Panelist, Disputed Questions Forum, Assumption University

“George Grant: Canada’s National Conservative,” Civitas Canada Masterclass Series

“Edmund Burke: Father of Modern Conservatism,” Civitas Canada Masterclass Series

“Providing Asylum to Refugees: A Right or a Duty?,” University of Lethbridge

“Economistic and Humanistic Approaches to the Universal Basic Income,” Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services, Income Assistance Branch

“The Responsibility of Rights: Is Hugo Grotius Really an Early Modern Possessive Individualist?,” Medieval and Early Modern Studies Lecture, Assumption University