Thomas Fabisiak

Thomas Fabisiak, M.T.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Dean of Social Sciences

Thomas Fabisiak is Assistant Dean of Social Sciences at Life University. Thomas joined Life University in 2015 to support the launch of the Chillon Project, the first college degree program to be offered by a Georgia college or university inside a prison in over twenty years. While serving as Director of Chillon, Thomas co-founded the Georgia Coalition for Higher Education in Prison, a statewide partnership to expand higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Thomas now serves as Co-Executive Director of GACHEP. In that capacity, he has authored and is administering significant federal and private foundation grants to build the infrastructure for higher education in prison to grown in Georgia. Thomas has published work on secularism and religion as well as on higher education in prison. His current research focuses on moral injury and moral disengagement in the prison system.