David Bobb

For more than 20 years David Bobb has been one of the leading advocates for strong history and civic education in the United States. David is president and CEO of the Bill of Rights Institute, a position he’s held since 2013. David serves on the advisory board for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s National Civics Bee and on the Steering Committee for Educating for Democracy, a cross-ideological roadmap for civic learning and engagement. He also co-chairs the civics working group of the Aspen Institute’s Cross-Partisan Network. Author of Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America’s Greatest Virtue, and a chapter on Frederick Douglass in a volume published by Oxford University Press, David has written for the Wall Street Journal and Education Week, among dozens of other publications. David earned a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.

Civic learning and engagement, Civil dialogue, Early American political theory, Political polarization, Politics and religion