David Timmerman
David Timmerman
- Provost and Executive Vice President for Operations, Professor of Rhetoric
David M. Timmerman has served as Carthage Provost and Chief Academic Officer since August of 2018. In July 2019, he was named Chief Operating Officer.
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, Provost Timmerman went on to earn a Master of Divinity from the Denver Seminary. After earning a Doctor of Philosophy in communication from Purdue University, he began his formal academic career at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1994. There, he worked in roles of increasing responsibility for 16 years, receiving the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2005.
An accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator, Provost Timmerman came to Carthage from Monmouth College in western Illinois, where he served as dean of the faculty and vice president of academic affairs. While at Monmouth, he oversaw the development of the college’s academic program, and worked collaboratively with faculty to create successful interdisciplinary programs in global food security, global public health, arts management, and peace and social justice. His scholarship has focused on rhetoric in ancient Greece, and how rhetoric developed as a discipline in conjunction with the birth of democracy and the liberal arts tradition. Provost Timmerman has taught courses such as Citizenship, Classical Rhetoric, African American Rhetoric, and The Rhetoric of Humor.
Provost Timmerman has contributed to a number of books on the subject, most recently as co-author of “Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speaking, Listening and Deliberating in The Civic Realm.” Published in 2016, it addresses civic engagement at a time of increasing turbulence in the public realm.