Tim Dale

Dr. Tim Dale is one of the most senior members of the MUDI faculty. He was an assistant coach at Marquette University High School for three years, coaching many TOC, NFL and NCFL national qualifiers. Dr. Dale coached teams to elimination round placements at Glenbrook, New Trier, Wake Forest, and the Iowa Caucus as well. Dr. Dale was also successful as a college policy debater at Marquette University, winning one and breaking at several tournaments. Among his top accolades is a first place speaker award at the C.E.D.A. National Tournament. He brings wide-ranging coaching interest and expertise, which includes theoretical and philosophical argumentation, as well as in-round strategy and argument selection specialties. Tim's lab participants have gone on to a myriad of Wisconsin state tournament wins, and several have been national qualifiers as well.

While in graduate school at the University of Notre Dame Tim Dale served respective terms as a policy debate coach at the college level for both the Marquette University and Notre Dame Debate teams. He coached and judged at college tournaments all over the country, and helped to develop the NDT debate program at Notre Dame.

In May of 2006 Tim Dale completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a tenure track professor position at the University of South Carolina, Upstate. His primary research interest is in contemporary theories of democracy, but he teaches classes across a broad range of political science topics. In addition to debate, Dr. Dale has taught college courses on: campaigns and elections, education and politics, the U.S. Presidency, feminist and race theory, political philosophy, and American government.