Dr. Dale T. Knobel Ph.D.

Dale T. Knobel is a 1971 graduate of Yale College. Earning a Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University, he taught and wrote about anti-immigrant animus in the United States at both large research universities and residential undergraduate liberal arts colleges.  He has published with Harvard University Press, Simon & Schuster, and Wesleyan University Press.

In 2013, Knobel retired after fifteen years as president of Ohio’s Denison University, during which time he received the American Council on Education’s Chief Executive Leadership Award.  Moving to Austin, Texas, he joined the Boards of Trustees of the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and of Southwestern University, which he led as interim president during academic year 2019-20. He has been deeply involved in the leadership of philanthropic organizations, serving as senior fellow and interim president for the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, director and board chair of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and member of the executive committee of the Texas Methodist Foundation. Dale and his wife Tina maintain a summer home at historic Lakeside Chautauqua in northwestern Ohio, where Dr. Knobel has provided leadership as chair of both the board and the supporting foundation.