Trygve Throntveit

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• Political Theory
• Higher Education
• US Political, Diplomatic, and Intellectual History
• Civic Learning
• Civic Studies
• Civic Professionalism

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  Trygve Throntveit

  National Civics Fellow

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  Trygve Throntveit is research professor in higher education and associate director of the Center for Economic and Civic Learning at Ball State University. A historian of US politics, foreign policy, and social thought by training, Dr. Throntveit has for the past five years focused on developing and administering the nationwide Third Way Civics initiative in undergraduate civic learning.

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  Trygve Throntveit, PhD, is research professor in higher education and associate director of the Center for Economic and Civic Learning at Ball State University. He is also co-founder and director of the Twin Cities-based Institute for Public Life and Work, a civic renewal consultancy and thought shop. Prior to his appointment at Ball State, Dr. Throntveit served as director of strategic partnership and civic renewal programming at the Minnesota Humanities Center. A historian of US politics, foreign policy, and social thought by training, Dr. Throntveit has focused the past five years on developing and expanding the Third Way Civics initiative for undergraduate civic learning, training scores of faculty across multiple states to infuse student-centered, active civic learning into their regular courses and helping several colleges and universities build historical and civic learning into their general curricula. A sought-after scholar and program builder in the field of civic learning, Dr. Throntveit has delivered presentations and workshops across the United States as well as Austria, Germany, Japan, and Korea. He remains an active scholar in the fields of history and political theory as well as civic learning, having published articles and books examining past and present developments in US politics, foreign policy, and social thought and served for eight years as editor of The Good Society, the journal of the transdisciplinary civic studies field. Among his many publications are two books: William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic (2014) and Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment (2017), which received the 2018 Richard E. Neustadt award from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Throntveit has taught at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and Minnesota State University, Mankato, and has overseen public humanities programs bringing communities into productive conversation across their differences on issues as diverse as historical memory, election integrity, US-Tribal relations, and water use.

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