Dr. Throntveit is director of strategic partnership at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, and co-founder and director of the Twin Cities–based Institute for Public Life and Work. Throntveit grew up in St. Paul and graduated from Central High School before earning his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. Trained as a historian, he taught history at the college level for several years before shifting his focus to the revitalization of higher education—particularly its role in fostering effective citizenship—and the civic renewal of communities more broadly. Throntveit is the architect of the Third Way Civics (3WC) initiative, an effort to put civic learning and purpose at the center of a rigorous and workplace-relevant undergraduate education. His books include William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic and Power Without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment.