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Professor of the Practice
Civic Life and Leadership

John Rose is a professor of practice who is a nationally known expert on teaching civil discourse. He will also direct the Morehead-Cain Scholarship Foundation’s Dialogue and Discourse Program. At Duke University, he served as the associate director of The Civil Discourse Project. His course “How to Think in An Age of Political Polarization” has helped hundreds of students learn to disagree better and has inspired similar courses at 70 colleges and universities across the country. His public-facing publications include “How I Liberated My College Classroom.” Rose received a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary.  John Rose has interests in virtue ethics and Christian theology. He earned his PhD at Princeton Seminary and is the author of Until Our Minds Rest in Thee: Open-Mindedness, Intellectual Diversity, and the Christian Life.