Institutional Grants Manager
Dr. Thomas Saylor has served as Institutional Grants Manager since Summer 2023. He worked in this role to establish the Grants Office, with a focus on locating opportunities that can advance the mission of CSP. Thomas partners with faculty and programs across campus to secure funding for initiatives.
Prior to this role, Dr Saylor was a faculty member in the Department of History at CSP, where he taught courses on multiple subjects for more than 25 years. Active professionally in the field of oral history for more than 20 years, Thomas has authored or co-authored three books: Remembering the Good War (2005); Long Hard Road: American POWs During World War II (2007); and Minnesota in the ‘70s (2013). He was also selected to write the official oral history of Gen John W Vessey, Jr, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Ronald Reagan; this project was completed in 2016. Finally, Thomas researched and authored a history of CSP during the years 1993 – 2018 and most recently researched and presented at several professional conferences on the 2020 US presidential election.
Away from work, Thomas serves as an appointed member of the City of St Paul’s Heritage Preservation Commission, an advisory body to the Mayor and the City Council on municipal heritage preservation matters. And he served as a team leader for Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village program from 2012 – 2020, working in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Thomas enjoys road cycling, travel, good books, interesting beers, and the Twins and Wild. He and his wife Dr. Kimberly Johnson reside in St. Paul with their cats.