Samuel Kimzey

Samuel Kimzey is an avid and dedicated scholar and teacher. His personal mission is to discern, embrace, and teach God’s truth. He loves to study ideas and their significance, as well as share his learning with others through teaching.  

Growing up as a homeschooled student in southwest Virginia, Samuel has always valued learning, reading, and self-study.  Through his years in high school, college, and graduate school, he pursued this goal in the study of history, literature, philosophy, theology, politics, logic, and music. Samuel completed his Bachelor of Arts in History and Christian Studies (as well as a minor in Music) from Bluefield College.  He also earned a Master of Arts in Humanities (concentration in Classical Education) from the University of Dallas, where he wrote his master’s thesis on John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in political philosophy and American Constitution and government through the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship of Hillsdale College.  

Since he was a young student, Samuel always wanted to be a teacher when he grew up. His love for learning and study translates into a desire to pass along what he has learned and to guide students in making connections between the most significant ideas. For four years, he taught Humanities and Choir at Valley Classical School in Blacksburg, Virginia, as well as serving as Logic School Academic Director for the latter two years. In addition, he has served in volunteer teaching roles as a tutor, academic intern in college, Sunday school teacher, and historical tour guide.  Guided by his love of music, Samuel also taught private piano and a local homeschool choir in Blacksburg. His current academic pursuit is to earn his Ph.D. from Hillsdale College to equip him in his lifelong passion for studying deeply and teaching clearly. He is incredibly grateful to have been guided at all stages of his education by so many wonderful teachers – both living mentors as well as the brilliant minds from prior generations of our history. His hope and prayer is to be a faithful steward of what he has received and to pass it onto the next generations for God’s glory and our blessing.  

Samuel has always loved many different areas of study, as well as organizing and understanding the relationships between them. His primary interests (of which there are many!) include: American political history; Constitutional law and originalism; natural law and natural rights; military history and foreign policy; classical economics and capitalism; historical theology and especially Reformed theology; music theory and church music; classical education. Having spent many years learning piano and singing in choirs, he still enjoys playing, singing, and writing music and tries to stay involved in local choirs or singing groups. While his official studies presently are in political philosophy and American political thought and history, he always enjoy reading, particularly theology, philosophy, history, and older novels.  Samuel also loves to spend time with his family and friends. Samuel is a member of Hillsdale Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Hillsdale, Michigan.  

Fides quaerens intellectum.