John Dedrick, Ph.D.
Faculty Fellow - School of Leadership Studies | Fielding Graduate University
Dayton, OH, CA, UNITED STATES
Deliberative politics; Political and social theory; Public policy; Civic engagement; Teaching innovations.
Biography
John Dedrick is vice president and program director at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. He has a longstanding research interest in the theory and practice of democracy and has worked closely with higher education professionals and community-based forum moderators on numerous scholarly and community-based research studies.
Dedrick has written on deliberative politics in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Gastil and Levine, eds., Jossey-Bass, 2005), The Journal of General Education, and Deliberation and the Work of Higher Education: Innovations for the Classroom, the Campus, and the Community (Dedrick et al., eds., Kettering Foundation Press, 2008).
Dedrick is the board president of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, and he serves on the executive committee of Deliberative Democracy Consortium, the public policy committee of Philanthropy Ohio, the editorial board of the Journal of Public Deliberation and the editorial advising board of The Journal of General Education. He is also a fellow at Fielding Graduate University, where he leads seminars on topics including deliberation, dialogue, and civic engagement.
Dedrick received a BA and MA from the College of William and Mary and an MA and PhD in political science from Rutgers University.
Industry Expertise (4)
Education/Learning
Research
Program Development
Writing and Editing
Areas of Expertise (6)
Research design and qualitative methods
Political and social theory
Civil Society
American philanthropy
American Politics
International Politics
Education (4)
Rutgers University: Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science 1997
Fields: Political Theory, Mass Politics, American Political Institutions Focus: Democratic Political Theory and Research Methods Dissertation: “Civil Society and Private Philanthropy: A Study of Philanthropic Foundations in the United States.” Advisor. Benjamin R. Barber.
Rutgers University: Masters of Arts, Political Science 1991
The College of William and Mary: Master of Arts, Government 1988
Fields: International Relations, Comparative Politics Thesis: “Antonio Gramsci and International Relations Theory.”