Brian Dille

Brian Dille has been teaching political science at Mesa Community College since 1999. In addition to teaching courses in international relations and American government, he directs the Model United Nations program and hosts a high school MUN conference every February. He published a textbook for Model UN, Engaging the United Nations, designed to be used by high school and community college students. Dr. Dille developed the Social Science portion of the ASU Fulton School of Education Teaching Foundations project (TFP). He codirects the Arizona Civic Education Project with Katherine Douglas, which offers free teaching materials to Arizona educators (available at https://learn.maricopa.edu/courses/1102445). In 2022, he convened a working group of several civic organizations in Arizona, and together they developed Creating Community, a workforce development tool for use in industry and organizations that teaches how to develop soft skills, reach consensus, and have difficult conversations in difficult times. He also published Arizona Voices, a digital textbook designed to supplement U.S. history and government high school courses with Arizonaspecific content that meets the state Social Science Standards. He attended Brigham Young University and received a Ph.D. in political science from Arizona State University.