Thomas Schnaubelt

Thomas (Tom) Schnaubelt is the Assistant Director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Tom focuses on the connections between democracy and education and on the formation of healthy civic identity through civic education, democratic deliberation, and experiential learning. He serves as senior advisor to the Deliberative Democracy Lab and Stanford’s Democracy Hub and is an affiliate with the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. His past Stanford roles include Associate Vice Provost for Education, Executive Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford and Resident Fellow in the public service theme dorm. Prior to Stanford, he was the Dean for Community Engagement & Civic Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and launched and led several AmeriCorps and service-learning programs in Mississippi. He earned a PhD from the University of Mississippi, MA from the University of Michigan, and a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.