Dr. Timothy McCranor promoted to Assistant Dean of Academics

Dr. Timothy McCranor, who has served as IWP’s Academic Programs Manager since 2022, has been promoted to Assistant Dean of Academics.

In his new role, Dr. McCranor will help to strengthen and expand IWP’s academic programs, develop innovative learning resources, and oversee the American Statecraft Fellowship and the Civic Thought and Statecraft Fellowship. He will continue to teach courses on political philosophy, especially the thought of Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, and Nietzsche.

Dr. McCranor commented: “It’s an exciting time to be a part of higher education right now thanks to the recent establishment of departments, centers, and programs devoted to restoring civic education in the United States. Stimulating informed patriotism based on an understanding of, and appreciation for, American founding principles and the Western moral tradition has been a part of IWP’s mission from the very beginning. I’m honored to help further that mission.”

A 2012 graduate of IWP’s M.A. program, Dr. McCranor earned his Ph.D. in political science at Boston College, where his primary field of study was political philosophy, especially the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hannah Arendt. While at Boston College, Tim was awarded multiple teaching grants to incorporate technology and simulations in the classroom and to write a brief manual on social science methodology for undergraduate students writing a thesis.

In 2018-2019, Tim was awarded a grant by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation to study in Munich, Germany with Heinrich Meier. In 2021, he was invited by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History to participate in its Summer Institute on “Civic Education and the American Republic.”