Rouven Steeves

Assistant Professor of Political Science and German

United States Air Force Academy

Education: Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University

M.A., National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School

Dr. Steeves is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force. A 2001 Presidential Fellow, he has served as a political-military advisor and negotiator in Iraq and worked on NATO just war doctrine during the Kosovo intervention.

His interests range from the classical to the modern and focus on the interplay of religion, philosophy, and politics, especially the themes of statesmanship and republican virtue, metaphysics and theology, and the right ordering of the city-soul. His most recent publication is, “Dionysus versus the Crucified: Nietzsche and Voegelin and the Search for a Truthful Order” in Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition, edited by Lee Trepanier and Steven McGuire.

He is a member of The American Political Science Association and a founding member of the Ciceronian Society. He serves on the editorial board of Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine’.