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Anthony T. Caito
Center for Leadership and Organizations
Center for Leadership and Organizations
Associate Professor of Leadership & Organizations
acaito@andersonuniversity.edu
(864) 231-5702
Center for Leadership & Organizations, 003
Academic Background
Dr. Caito’s mission is to equip the church to think better. He is an academic entrepreneur who loves turning vision into reality and values curiosity, clarity, and collaboration. He has served in non-profit leadership with Habitat for Humanity, Samaritan’s Purse, and Global Mapping International. When not deep in thought, he may be hanging out with his wife, four children, two cats, and one dog; watching his youngest son play soccer; taking a motorcycle road trip; or playing disc golf.
BA, Cornerstone University
MA, Biola University
Ph.D, University of Southern Mississippi
Fast Facts
The proof’s in the pudding. The foresight, competency, and mission focus of AU’s leadership is evident in its ability to grow the Center for Leadership & Organizations (CLO) from 0 to 100+ PhD students over its first five years. A Christian institution of higher education where I am free to be my full authentic Christian self and rigorous social scientist is a place I want to teach, research, and serve.
My PhD students are sold on the Center for Leadership & Organizations’ mission to prepare them as experts in their fields. A teacher’s highest joy is a motivated student: I have them in spades.God designs human choice to be bounded by institutions, trust, power, capital, and others’ choices. Successful Christian leaders are sensitive to these dynamics and align them strategically and ethically to their mission. Live out this prayer and you will be more likely to take appropriate responsibility and less likely to burn out.
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
Courage to change the
things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1926)
Trust is the Difference Podcast Co-Host, 2025
U.S. Fulbright Scholar, 2024
Jeffersonian Seminar Fellow, The Jack Miller Center, 2015
United Nations Temporary Advisor, 2006
Trust, Sociological Institutionalism, Organization Development & Change, Conflict, State Fragility, Mixed & Multi Research Methods, Social Networks, and Capital
Caito, Anthony. “Navigating Multidisciplinary Demands to Produce an Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Research,” SAGE Research Methods Cases (2019) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526478795.
Caito, Anthony. “Determinants of the Generalized Trust Radius in Scripted Fragile sub-Saharan African States.” PhD diss. University of Southern Mississippi, 2018.
Caito, Anthony T. “Shiva – Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply: A Decade Later,” Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 29, Issue 3 (2012), Pp. 433-433. 10.1007/s10460-012-9388-4.