Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers (born 1960) is a journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Early life

Winfield Myers was born in 1960 in Georgia. He graduated from Young Harris College and the University of Georgia, and attended graduate school in history at Tulane University and the University of Michigan.

Career

He taught on the Great Books and Renaissance history at Michigan, world history at Xavier University of Louisiana, medieval history at Tulane, and early modern history and the philosophy of history at Georgia. He is director of Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia. Formerly, he was managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine, a monthly magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute, and managed the Washington office of the magazine.

The former CEO of Democracy Project, Myers is editor of a conservative college guide, Choosing the Right College, with an introduction by former Secretary of Education William Bennett (Eerdmans, 1998; 2001), and past editor of the ISI Study Guides to the Liberal Arts. He was formerly senior editor of two conservative publications, the Intercollegiate Review and Campus magazine and is author of a widely distributed pamphlet for parents and students, “Asking the Right Questions in Choosing a College.”

Myers lives in Rome, Georgia.