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Institute for American Thought

David Pfeifer (Director)

Campus Address: ES0017N
Phone: 278-2306
Email: depfeife@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: Charles S. Peirce;
History of American Philosophy;
Pragmatism

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Kara N. Peterson (Secretary)

Campus Address: ES 0010
Phone: (317)274-2174
Fax: 274-2170
Email: knward@iupui.edu
Appointments: Administrative Assistant for the Institute for American Thought

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Martha Rujuwa (Administrative Assistant)

Campus Address: ES 0017
Phone: (317)274-2173
Fax: (317) 274-2170
Email: mrujuwa@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Administrative Assistant, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: General Studies Major

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Nathan Houser (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Founding Directory, Institute for American Thought Senior Fellow, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American thought
Pragmatism
Thought of C. S. Peirce
Formal semiotics
History of logic
Critical Editing
Theory of Text

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Nadia Alvarado Torres

Campus Address: ES0010
Phone: (317)278-1073
Email: nadalvar@iupui.edu
Appointments: Development Associate
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat/

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Ali Zimmerman

Campus Address: ES0017C
Phone: 278-8183
Fax: 274-2170
Email: alizimm@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Technical Editor, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: Anthropology, Philanthropy, Information Technology, Computer Science

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Center for Ray Bradbury Studies

Jonathan R. Eller

Campus Address: ES 0017A
Phone: (317)274-1451
Fax: 317-274-2170
Email: jeller@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of American Studies
Senior Textual Editor, Institute for American Thought
Director, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Volume Editor, The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury
Textual Editor, Peirce Edition Project
Textual Editor, Santayana Edition
Academic Interests: American literature, literature and science, textual studies with an emphasis on the work of Ray Bradbury, and the history of publishing.
Teaching: Core courses and electives for the scholarly editing concentration of the graduate research certificate program in Professional Editing, School of Liberal Arts.

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William F. Touponce

Campus Address: ES 0017A
Phone: (317)274-0081
Email: wtouponc@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English, Institute for American Thought, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies

Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~crbs
Academic Interests: textual theory and textual criticism
semiotics
fantasy and science fiction


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Frederick Douglass Project

John R. Kaufman-McKivigan (Director)

Campus Address: CA 531
Phone: (317) 274-5860
Fax: 317-278-78000
Email: jmckivig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History
Academic Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. history (the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras), American reform movements, and American ethnic history, American labor history

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Whitney Renee Smith

Campus Address: ES0020
Phone: (317)274-5834
Email: whirsmit@iupui.edu

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Peirce Edition Project

André De Tienne (Director)

Campus Address: ES 0017B
Phone: (317)274-2033
Email: adetienn@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director and General Editor of the Peirce Edition Project; Professor of Philosophy; Associated faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Semiology of the Université du Québec à Montréal
Academic Interests: Classical philosophy, pragmatistic philosophy, Charles S. Peirce, Josiah Royce, logic of signs, connection between phenomenology and semiotics, philosophy of text.
Teaching: Seminar in American Philosophy: The Idealisms of Peirce and Royce (P448/P748); The Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce (P503); Seminar on Josiah Royce’s Philosophy (P748); Peirce Seminar: Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy (P448/P701).

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Jonathan R. Eller

Campus Address: ES 0017A
Phone: (317)274-1451
Fax: 317-274-2170
Email: jeller@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of American Studies
Senior Textual Editor, Institute for American Thought
Director, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Volume Editor, The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury
Textual Editor, Peirce Edition Project
Textual Editor, Santayana Edition
Academic Interests: American literature, literature and science, textual studies with an emphasis on the work of Ray Bradbury, and the history of publishing.
Teaching: Core courses and electives for the scholarly editing concentration of the graduate research certificate program in Professional Editing, School of Liberal Arts.

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Nathan Houser (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Founding Directory, Institute for American Thought Senior Fellow, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American thought
Pragmatism
Thought of C. S. Peirce
Formal semiotics
History of logic
Critical Editing
Theory of Text

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Luise Helene Morton

Campus Address: CA 340A
Phone: (317)274-5338
Email: lmorton@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Department
Research Associate, Peirce Edition Project,
Lead Advisor for undergraduate philosophy majors
Academic Interests: Analytic philosophy, the philosophy of C.S. Peirce, logic, epistemology, philosophy of art

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David Pfeifer

Campus Address: ES0017N
Phone: 278-2306
Email: depfeife@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: Charles S. Peirce;
History of American Philosophy;
Pragmatism

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Diana Dial Reynolds

Campus Address: ES 0010D
Phone: (317)274-1539
Fax: 317-274-2170
Email: ddreynol@iupui.edu
Academic Interests: Scholarly and Documentary Editing

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The Works of George Santayana

Marianne S. Wokeck (Director)

Campus Address: CA441D
Phone: (317)274-5820
Fax: 317.278-2525
Email: mwokeck@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Chancellor's Professor of History
Adjunct Professor of American Studies, New Media, Women's Studies, and University College
General Editor and Director of the Santayana Edition
Fellow of the Max Kade German-American Studies Center in the Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American history, colonial and Revolutionary history, history of the Atlantic world 1500-1800, immigration and ethnicity, and women's history, scholarly editing.

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M. A. Coleman

Campus Address: ES 0025M
Phone: (317)278-8572
Email: martcole@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director and Lead Advisor, American Studies Program
Associate Editor, Santayana Edition
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Academic Interests: American Philosophy, George Santayana, John Dewey
Teaching: Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, American Philosophy, George Santayana, John Dewey, History of Philosophy

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Kristine W. Frost

Campus Address: ES 0017L
Phone: (317) 278-2637
Fax: 317-274-1162
Email: kfrost@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Director and Associate Editor of the Santayana Edition

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Johanna Resler

Campus Address: ES 0017K
Phone: (317) 278-2637
Fax: 317-274-1162
Email: jeresler@iupui.edu
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Academic Interests: Critical and documentary editing, children and young adult literature

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David E. Spiech

Campus Address: ES 0017 J
Phone: (317)278-1046
Email: dspiech@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Editor, Santayana Edition; Production Editor, The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition; Production Editor, The New Ray Bradbury Review

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