Автор: Timothy J. Shaffer

TimothyJ. Shaffer isan assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and assistantdirector of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas StateUniversity. He is also principal research specialist with the National Institutefor Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona. In addition to CreatingSpace for Democracy, his publications include Deliberative Pedagogy:Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement (Michigan State UniversityPress, 2017), Jumping in to Civic Life: Stories of Public Work fromExtension Professionals (Kettering Foundation Press, 2018), and A Crisisof Civility?: Political Discourse and Its Discontents (Routledge, 2019). Hehas published dozens of articles and book chapters on civic engagement, civicstudies, public deliberation, higher education, and democratic professionalism.He lives in Manhattan, Kansas, with his wife, Ellen, and his four children.