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He sits on the Mackinac Center’s Board of Scholars, the Scholarly Advisory Board at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and he is a member of the National Association of Scholars.

He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Politics & Economics at the Claremont Graduate University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Claremont McKenna College, Hillsdale College, Ashland University, and George Mason University, among other places. 

He was formerly Vice President at The Claremont Institute, where he helped launch The Claremont Review of Books in 2001.

He’s been one of the principal instructors for the Leadership Program of the Rockies for over twenty years, where he directs the Defenders of the Declaration of Independence program, and he frequently advises businesses and charitable organizations on communications, employee culture development, branding, and fundraising.

Dr. Krannawitter has testified before state legislatures, though he doesn’t put much faith in politicians. That’s why he focuses on teaching citizens, helping teachers, students, business owners, employees, and others to improve our modern American culture through persuasion and moving stories. Americans won’t get principled constitutional policies from their government until they demand politicians who are principled constitutionalists.

Dr. Krannawitter’s research and published writings have ranged from history to constitutional law to economics to social commentary, from specific historic events to timeless philosophic questions.

His 2008 book, Vindicating Lincoln, was featured by The History Book Club and endorsed by the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. His 2014 book, Crisis of Our House Divided: A Guide To Talking Politics Without The Noise, applies the lessons of Lincoln to our challenges today.

His most recent book, Save the Swamp: Career Guidebook for Budding Bureaucrats, is different. Swamp is funny. It’s satire. He has also contributed chapters to numerous edited, scholarly collections. Please check out Dr. Krannawitter’s author’s page at Amazon.com.

Currently, Dr. Krannawitter is finishing a civic primer titled, Tragedy & Triumph: The American Founding and the Greatest Anti-Slavery Movement in History. He recently wrote a chapter on Professor Harry Neumann, which will be published by the SUNY Press in an edited collection of scholarly essays about select students of the political philosopher Leo Strauss.

Dr. Krannawitter has received many academic and research fellowships throughout his career, including the H.B. Earhart Fellowship (which puts him in the company of Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Larry Arnn, and Ed Feulner).

He was a Winston Churchill Society Fellow, a Henry Salvatori Fellow, a Richard Weaver Fellow, and the recipient of a John M. Olin Foundation Research Fellowship.

Dr. Krannawitter grew up in Hays, Kansas, where in his younger years he wrenched on cars in his father’s full-service Phillips 66 gas station. He can be tempted occasionally with a cigar or a peaty Scotch, or both. He is married and he has three children. He is romantic about baseball, though many people accuse him of rooting for the wrong team.

It’s not unusual for him to arrive at professional events with fur from his English Cream Golden Retrievers adorning his suit: When the choice is between staying tidy and smooching dogs, he smooches the dogs.