Dr. Stephen M. Krason is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Legal Studies) at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned his J.D. and Political Science M.A. and Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also holds an M.A. in Theology/Religious Education from Gannon University. He joined the University’s faculty in 1986, after serving for three years as Eastern Director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, Nebraska, the District of Columbia, and certain federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court.

He has been a visiting professor at Ave Maria School of Law. He was co-founder (in 1992) and since that time has served as the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists (SCSS), and in that capacity is also Publisher of its scholarly journal, The Catholic Social Science Review. He also serves as Director of the Society’s online/tutorial M.Th. program in Catholic Social Thought.

He has authored Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution; Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism (Forward by James Likoudis); Preserving a Good Political Order and a Democratic Republic; The Public Order and the Sacred Order (whose revised edition Library Journal in 2009 called “an important contribution to Catholic social thought”); The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic (which was nominated by its publisher, Transaction, for the 2013 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize of the Law and Society Association); Catholicism and American Political Ideologies, and a Catholic political novel, American Cincinnatus. He has also edited or co-edited Parental Rights: The Contemporary Assault on Traditional Liberties (which includes an essay from James Likoudis); The Recovery of American Education: Reclaiming a Vision; Catholic Makers of America; We Hold These Truths and More: Further Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition; Defending the Family: A Sourcebook (includes a contribution from James Likoudis); the two-volume Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (includes a contribution from James Likoudis); Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System: A Critical Analysis from Law, Ethics,
and Catholic Social Teaching; The Crisis of Religious Liberty: Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought; and Challenging the Secular Culture: A Call to Christians. He has also authored short monographs entitled The International Pro-Abortion Rights Litigation Strategy: An Anti-Democratic Secret Plan to Force Legalized Abortion on the World’s Governments (part of the Center for Family and Human Rights “White Paper Series”) and Family and Sexual Morality Issues in the SCSS series on “How to Argue About Current Public and Cultural Questions”).

He also has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews in such journals and publications as The Catholic Social Science Review, The Social Justice Review, The Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Ethics and Medics, The Review of Metaphysics, Catalyst, The Wanderer, and The Washington Times. He is also a contributor to both American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia and The New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd edn. and 2012-13 Supplement). For several years, he wrote a monthly column entitled “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic,” which appeared in Crisis Magazine, The Wanderer, and Aleteia. For several years, he was a consultant to the Pope John XXIII Medical- Moral Research and Education Center (now the National Catholic Bioethics Center).

He is on the Board of Directors of the Parental Rights Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. He has drafted or co-drafted and served as counsel-of-record for amicus curiae briefs in Troxel v. Granville and Camreta v. Greene/Alford v. Greene, major parental rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He was a visiting fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey in the 2008-09 academic year. Choosing the Right College, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s noted college guide, referred to Dr. Krason as being “renowned as a conservative scholar of the U.S. founding and the Constitution.” Dr. Krason is also a member of the James Madison Society, a group of distinguished scholars affiliated with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.