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You’ll work with practitioners
and scholars who have played a key role in developing
new approaches to dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement.
Click on the faculty names to learn more.
Collaborating & Core
Faculty
Harold Saunders, PhD Former Assistant Secretary of State; key drafter of the Camp David peace accords; creator of Sustained Dialogue to transform international and domestic conflict. Current director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation and President of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD).
Barnett Pearce, PhD President, Public Dialogue Consortium, internationally recognized communication theorist whose work informs public dialogue practitioners. He has organized dialogue processes in the U.S. and abroad.
Philip Stewart, PhD
Associate at the Kettering Foundation, and former professor at Ohio
State, and coordinator of the Dartmouth Conference, a high-level
U.S.-Soviet dialogue. Former Kellogg General Manager in Europe,
he works with the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue
(IISD).
Janice Elliott, PhD
Senior Associate, Public Policy Forum, Canada, who works to improve
dialogue among business, governments, and citizens. She has developed
public engagements that involve national decision-makers.
Linda Blong, PhD is a facilitator and project manager specializing in public-sector human services projects aimed informed by broad based stakeholder input. Her recently completed dissertation focused on better understanding the nature of public deliberation and how it is facilitated.
Dr. Lyn Carson is Academic Program Director, United States Studies Centre, at the University Of Sydney, Australia. She has written handbooks on consultation methods and
many articles and book chapters on public participation. She is
the author, with Brian Martin, of Random Selection in Politics.
Dr. Kath Fisher Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Southern Cross University, Australia works as a consultant facilitator to government and non-government organisations. She has many years experience in facilitation and group processes, especially in community consultation, strategic planning and team-building.
Keith Melville, PhD
Associate at the Kettering Foundation; Former senior vice president,
Public Agenda Foundation, he helped shape the National Issues Forums
and has played a key role in framing over fifty issues for public
deliberation.
John Dedrick, PhD Director of Programs and coordinator of
Kettering Foundation's extensive contract research, healso oversees
the work of the foundation's fellows and research assistants. His
responsibilities include the research for the civil investing project
and the public-government work. Before becoming a program officer
at Kettering, John was project director of the Walt Whitman Center
for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University.
His doctoral degree is in political science from Rutgers.
Dialogues
with leading figures in public engagement
Previous Scholar-Practitioner guests have included:
- Carolyn Lukensmeyer, Founder of AmericaSpeaks, http://www.americaspeaks.org/
- James Fishkin, Creator of the deliberative poll, http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/fishkin.html
- Jane Mansbridge, Award-winning scholar in deliberative democracy,
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Jane_Mansbridge
- Robert Stains, Program Director, Public Conversations Project,
http://www.publicconversations.org/
- Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, co-founders of The World Cafe,
http://www.theworldcafe.com/
- Frank Barrett, Appreciative Inquiry Summits, http://www.fielding.edu/hod/faculty/barrett.htm
- Shawn Spano, Public Dialogue Consortium, http://www.publicdialogue.org/consultants/index.html
- Joseph Peters, On-line deliberation, http://www.dialoguecircles.com/
- Martha McCoy,
Everyday Democracy, http://www.everyday-democracy.org/
- Janette Hartz Carp, Australian innovator in deliberative approaches
- Kim Pearce, Public Dialogue Consortium, http://www.publicdialogue.org/consultants/index.html
- John Gastil, scholar in deliberative democracy
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