Dr. Stephen M. Garrett previously taught as an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, Lithuania and now serves as Curriculum Vice-President for Global Scholars. He leads an international team to develop resources and curriculum that equip, empower, and encourage Christian professors for redemptive influence in their teaching, research, and administration.
His teaching and research with Lithuanian and East European artists opened him to their historic suffering and current struggle to live between the social realism of the past and the late modern, democratic capitalism of the present. At the heart of these transitions are questions concerning God’s identity, human dignity, creativity, and freedom, all of which animate his research trajectory at the nexus of art and the political.