Keith Pavlischek is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Director of the Program to Protect America's Freedom. He is an expert on Ethics, Political Philosophy and Just War Theory and has served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps on both active duty and in the reserves since 1977.
Mr. Pavlischek was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Truman State University from 1989 to 1993. He then served as Program Director for the Crossroads Program and the Civitas Program on Faith and Public Life, both civic education and leadership development programs for graduate students sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. He is the author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration (Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994), and of many articles on ethics, political theory and public policy.
In May 2002, Colonel Pavlischek was recalled to active duty and spent five years in different assignments including Bosnia, Iraq, the U.S. Central Command, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Education
In 1977, Mr. Pavlischek graduated magna cum laude from Waynesburg College with a degree in History and Political Science. He later obtained an MPhil from the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, a Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), and a Ph.D. in Religion, Ethics and Society from the University of Pittsburgh.
