Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for European Studies at Indiana University (EURO)
Seminar in the History of Philosophy (Aristotle) (PHIL P418)
Ethics (PHIL P120)
Publications
Publications
“The moral thinking of Macbeth,” Philosophy and Literature
“Agency implies weakness of will,” ProtoSociology: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
“Spirituality, economics, and education: A dialogic critique of ‘Spiritual Capital’,” with Robert J. Helfenbein, Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
“On perfect goodness,” Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics
“Dialogue as moral paradigm: Paths toward intercultural transformation,” Policy Futures in Education.
Other publications include “Socrates, dialogue, and us: Ignorance as learning paradigm,” with Deborah Biss Keller, in Epistemologies of Ignorance and Studies of Limits in Education, (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2011); “The practice of dialogue: Socrates in the Meno,” in An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. IV, (Athens, Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2010); “Mutuality or monopoly: Reflections on the ethics of international curriculum work,” in International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context(Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press, 2012).
Awards
Awards
Received the Langsam-Oswalt Summer Fellowship, 2016
Named to IUPUI 21 Club, academic year 2009-2010, for being identified by a freshman as an individual who has made a difference in his or her success at IUPUI
Nominated in 2010 for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars’ (NSCS) Inspire Integrity Awards
Named by a freshman student, fall of 2010, as the “one individual on the campus who has helped them be successful at IUPUI” and so listed by University College as part of the I-Care for IUPUI Students initiative
Identified by 49 graduating students over eight years as having a “positive influence” on their undergraduate learning experience
Gateway Scholar, $5,000 grant, summer institute, and year-long faculty learning group oriented toward transforming teaching and facilitating research in introductory college courses, 2005-2006
Honors Summer Faculty Fellowship, $3,000 stipend, summer 2007, to develop a new honors course under the title “Image and Reality in Film and Life: A Philosophical Perspective.”
Academic Interests
Academic Interests
Ethics
Contemporary social and political issues
20th-century thought
Continental philosophy
Philosophy of culture
Philosophy of literature
Service
Service
Gateway to Graduation Coordinator, Philosophy Department, 2008-present
Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2008, 2010
Reviewer, Philosophical Studies in Education, journal of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, spring 2010
“Being Good at Work: The Practice of Ethics in the Public Interest”, Lecture on Ethics to AGA/ASMC Joint Professional Development Conference at the Garrison at Fort Benjamin Harrison, fall 2007.
