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Samuel Kimzey

Ph.D. Student

Blacksburg, Virginia

Education

B.A. History & Christian Studies, Bluefield College

M.A. Humanities (Classical Education), University of Dallas

“I wanted to be able to combine my interests in many disciplines, and the graduate program here has the breadth to encompass simultaneously philosophy, American history, Constitutional law, foreign policy and military history, natural law, contemporary politics, and more. ”

About

Samuel Kimzey grew up as one of eight children in a homeschooling family in southwest Virginia. He completed his M.A. in History and Christian Studies with a Music minor at Bluefield College. He subsequently taught for four years at Valley Classical School in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he taught humanities, theology, logic, Latin, and music, as well as serving as middle school academic director. While teaching, he earned his M.A. in Humanities (concentration in Classical Education) from the University of Dallas, and wrote his master’s thesis on John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon. 

Awards, Memberships, & Fellowships

Claremont Institute Publius Fellow, Summer 2025

Contributing Editor, Beza Institute for Reformed Classical Education, 2025-present

Selected Writings

"The Right Reason on Rights." New Guard Press, May 3, 2025.

"A Magistrate Who Protects." The American Reformer: A Journal of Protestant Social and Political Thought, March 31, 2025.

"Trump, Departmentalism, and the Judiciary." The American Mind, February 28, 2025.

The Trivium – Arts or Stages? Beza Institute for Reformed Classical Education, 2024.

John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon. M.A. Thesis, University of Dallas, 2023.

Languages

Latin