Evan Dutmer
Dr. Evan Dutmer is Senior Instructor in Ethics and Curriculum Leader in the Department of Leadership Education at Culver Academies, a boarding school in Northern Indiana, where he also holds a J.D. Williamson '63 Fellowship. Evan’s ethics teaching practice and research are rooted in an enlivened Aristotelian character and leadership education model charted across virtue acquisition modules for each student: all with the aim of empowering young people to grow in virtue and flourish as human beings. He received his PhD in Ancient Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2019. He has written nearly a dozen peer-reviewed articles and has also contributed to several public-facing academic blogs. He will contribute a co-written chapter in the upcoming Leadership for Flourishing (Oxford University Press). He has presented at over 30 conferences on his research and teaching practice (in ethics, leadership, philosophy, and classical languages pedagogy). He is the 2020 Indiana Classical Conference Teacher of the Year, Rising Star, where he served as President in 2021-22. Further, he was one of 60 teachers (from nearly 13,000 nominations from 112 countries) shortlisted for the 2021 Cambridge University Press Dedicated Teacher Awards. Last, he has been selected as for the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at his undergraduate alma mater, Northern Illinois University.
What interests you the most about the potential for Leadership and Flourishing?
Leadership for Flourishing is the most dynamic, inspiring group of professionals I've ever worked with. This collection of researchers and practitioners has the potential to effect real, long-lasting change in communities all around the world. This group cares about people on the deepest level and are passionate about sustained, selfless projects aimed at improving human flourishing at all levels of society.
What are you most excited about working on?
I can't wait to work more with this group on developing resources for a Leadership for Flourishing Model that can be shared widely. In my work at a boarding school we work to cultivate leaders with a deep sense of purpose and social responsibility along with a lifelong commitment to cultivation of character. A workable Leadership for Flourishing Framework would be invaluable for our community and for communities everywhere giving young people the tools for lifelong virtue acquisition!
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Character Education
Virtue Ethics
Social Justice and the Civic Virtues