Jeffrey Dill is Affiliate Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. He is also the Donchian Research Fellow for Character and Culture at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. in English from Wheaton College and his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he was a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His research focuses on questions of pluralism and difference in educational systems, moral and citizenship education, and socialization processes in schools. He is author of The Longing and Limits of Global Citizenship Education: the moral pedagogy of schooling in a cosmopolitan age. His work has been published in Social Forces, the Journal of Moral Education, Society, and The Huffington Post. He is currently researching the culture of homeschooling and its effects on moral and civic education. Dr. Dill is married to Heather, and they have four sons.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Virginia: Sociology
- M.A., Biblical Theological Seminary: New Testament Studies
- B.A., Wheaton College: English
Templeton Courses
HON 310 Modernity and the Good Society (3 credits)
The purpose of this course is to provide students with background and understanding of distinctly modern theories of society with a particular focus from the nineteenth century to the present. The course will explore the evolution and development of “modernity” less as an idea or epoch and more as a set of institutional transformations and practices. In the last two hundred years, changes in our understanding of the major spheres of human activity—political, economic, cultural, and religious—have revolutionized how human beings experience the world and their place in it. Our main framework of inquiry will be the empirical and theoretical methods of classical sociology, which take a macro-historical approach to making sense of modern times (College-specific indicator addressed: Knowledgeable about the Social Sciences)
HON 480 Honors Capstone (2 credits)
The Honors College core curriculum has been designed to nurture in students the cultivation of a rich, integrative, and coherent worldview—a worldview devoid of the common artificial divisions between academic pursuits, spiritual formation, cultural appreciation, and community life. The Honors Capstone is designed to revisit and, in some cases, recover the richness and coherence of an integrative humanistic, Christian worldview. Of particular importance for fourth-year students preparing for graduation, the course is posed as an opportunity for reflection and preparation for their vocational future. (GE indicator addressed: Formed in Christian Thought)
Publications: Books & Chapters
Books
Chapters
- “Education and the Culture Wars” – Handbook of the Sociology of Morality
- “Protestant Evangelicals and Global Citizenship Education” – International Handbook of Protestant Education
- “Rethinking Self-interest and the Public Good” with Mary Elliot in Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship, and Duty
- “Habits of the Hearth and Home” in The Content of Their Character: Inquiries into the Varieties of Moral Formation
Publications: Articles & Essays
Articles & Essays
- “The Moral Education of Global Citizens” – Society
- “Preparing for Public Life: School Sector and the Educational Context of Lasting Citizen Formation” – Social Forces
- “Durkheim and Dewey and the Challenge of Contemporary Moral Education” – Journal of Moral Education
- “Teaching the Virtues of a Global Citizen” – IASC’s Culture Magazine
- “Culture of American Families – Interview Report” – IASC
- “Margaret K. Nelson’s Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times” – Hedgehog Review
- “Cosmopolitanism: A Bibliographic Essay” – Hedgehog Review
Online Articles
- “The Work-Life Balance of Homeschool Moms” – Institute for Family Studies
- “The Intimate Parent” – Institute for Family Studies
- “The Irony of Overprotected Children” – Institute for Family Studies
- “Why Parents Worry About Technology, But Struggle to Limit Its Use” – Institute for Family Studies
- “What Parents Mean by ‘Think for Yourself'” – Institute for Family Studies
- “Are You Raising a Narcissist?” – Huffington Post
- “The summer of Fortnite: one dad’s struggle to keep his kids away from this year’s most addictive video game” The Philadelphia Inquirer
- “At local faith-based schools, compelling models of integration” The Philadelphia Inquirer
