David Cox

  • Professor of History

Education

  • Ph.D. in Theology, Foundation House, Oxford/Graduate Theological Foundation, 2001
  • M.Div., S.T.M., Yale University, 1972, 1987
  • B.A. in History with University Honors, University of Virginia, 1969


Education


  • Ph.D. in Theology, Foundation House, Oxford/Graduate Theological Foundation, 2001
  • M.Div., S.T.M., Yale University, 1972, 1987
  • B.A. in History with University Honors, University of Virginia, 1969

Courses


  • Core: America and the Enlightenment
  • History Major: The Reformation, The American Century, Race in America

Teaching Positions & Professional Experience


  • Joined Southern Virginia University in 2006
  • Previously taught ethics at Dabney Lancaster Community College, 2006-2010
  • Ordained in the Episcopal Church, 1972; served parishes in Connecticut, northern
    Virginia, Richmond, and Hot Springs; served as rector of R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal
    Church in Lexington in 1987

Scholarship & Creative Work


  • “A Religious Biography of Robert E. Lee,” appeared as part of the “Library of Religious
    Biography” issued by the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017\
  • “Lee Chapel at 150,” a sesquicentennial history of the chapel built by Lee at Washington
    and Lee University, 2018
  • Published books on marriage and on ministry; presented historical papers at the Virginia
    Forum, 2015, 2016, 2019; has written regularly for newspapers and magazines

Awards, Leadership & Service


  • Faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta, 2018-present
  • 2018 Professor of the Year, awarded by the Southern Virginia University chapter of Phi
    Kappa Phi
  • Organized and executed Reformation Conference, Southern Virginia University, 2017
  • Ran for Virginia’s House of Delegates, 2005; for the state Senate, 2007; and was
    elected to the Lexington City Council, 2008-2012
  • Received fellowships at Harvard Divinity School (2001) and Virginia Theological
    Seminary (2000) for doctoral studies