Stephen James Blackwood (born 1975) is a scholar, cultural commentator, and social entrepreneur.

Blackwood was born in Alberta, Canada, and grew up in Prince Edward Island. He is the eldest of ten children. He was educated at the University of King's College (BA), Dalhousie University (MA), and Emory University (PhD).

Blackwood is the founding president of Ralston College, a nascent university in Savannah, Georgia.

Blackwood lectures and writes on the intellectual and cultural development of the West, and specializes in the history of philosophy, especially Boethius. Oxford University Press published his book The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy in 2015.

Blackwood was a founding executive director of St George's YouthNet, an educational mentoring program for inner-city youth in the North End district of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was subsequently a teaching fellow in the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College. He is a member of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and sits on the Board of the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation.

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