Charles Wheelan '88 is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth. He is the founder of the Centrist Project.
Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. He joined the Dartmouth faculty fulltime in June of 2012, after teaching for eight years at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. In addition to teaching, Prof. Wheelan has spent time as a speechwriter, a correspondent for The Economist, and a Congressional candidate and in other policy-related positions that inform his academic work. He has written freelance articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications. His goal is to make important academic ideas understandable to the broadest possible audience and to use these powerful ideas to address real social challenges.