Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI

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1 CHRISTIAN DIEHM Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI AREAS OF TEACHING & RESEARCH INTEREST Specialization: Environmental Ethics; 20 th Century Continental Philosophy Competence: Ethics (applied and theoretical); Eco-Feminism; Philosophy of Nature; Metaphysics; Ancient Philosophy EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, 2001 Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania M.A., Philosophy, 1996 Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania B.A., Philosophy, 1994 Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2012-present Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Environmental Ethics Program Coordinator, 2007-present Awards: University Excellence in Teaching Award, University Excellence in Teaching Award nominee, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Philosophy Instructor, Awards: Lindback Outstanding Teacher Award, Honorable Mention, 2005 The Harvey Award for Teaching Excellence, Bridgebuilders Award, 2002 (student-nominated award issued by the Office for Students with Learning Disabilities) Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland Adjunct Philosophy Instructor, summer 1999 and 2000

2 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 2 COURSES TAUGHT Senior Seminar in Environmental Philosophy Topics include: The Ethics of Wildlife Conservation Environmental Philosophy and the Experience of Nature Biocentrism and Biodiversity Environmental Activism in Theory and Practice Anthropocentrism and Non-Anthropocentrism Radical Environmentalism The Philosophy of Holmes Rolston, III Environmental Ethics Ethics Eco-feminism American Indian Environmental Philosophies Nature Conservation in Historical and Philosophical Perspective (team-taught course) Deep Ecology Metaphysics Philosophy of Nature Independent Study Logic and Critical Thinking Introduction to Philosophy SCHOLARSHIP Books Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought, ed. William Edelglass, James Hatley, and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2012). Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, ed. James Hatley, Janice Maclane and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006). Journal Articles Darwin and Deep Ecology, Ethics and the Environment 19, no. 1 (Spring 2014): Wolves, Wisconsin, and Aldo Leopold, Minding Nature 6, no. 2 (May 2013): Unnaturally Cruel: Rolston on Animals, Ethics, and the Factory Farm, Expositions 6, no. 1 (2012): Introduction to the Roundtable: Holmes Rolston III s A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth, Expositions 6, no. 1 (2012): Biophilia and Biodiversity: Environmental Ethics in the Work of Stephen Kellert, Environmental Ethics 34, no. 1 (Spring 2012):

3 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 3 Finding a Niche for Species in Nature Ethics, Ethics and the Environment 17, no. 12 (Spring 2012): Ecotage, Ecodefense, and Deep Ecology, The Trumpeter 27, no. 2 (2011): Minding Nature: Val Plumwood s Critique of Moral Extensionism, Environmental Ethics 32, no. 1 (Spring 2010): Staying True to Trees: A Specific Look at Anthropocentrism and Non- Anthropocentrism, Environmental Philosophy 5, no. 2 (Fall 2008): Identification with Nature: What It Is and Why It Matters, Ethics and the Environment 12, no. 2 (2007): Ethics and Natural History: Levinas and Other-Than-Human Animals, Environmental Philosophy 3, no. 2 (Fall 2006): Gestalt-Ontologie und Identifikation mit der Natur: Über Arne Naess und die Philosophie der Deep Ecology, Natur und Kultur: Transdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit 7, no. 2 (2006): German translation of Gestalt Ontology and Identification with Nature: A Study of Arne Naess and the Philosophy of Deep Ecology. Arne Naess and the Task of Gestalt Ontology, Environmental Ethics 26, no. 1 (Spring 2006): Deep Ecology and Phenomenology, Environmental Philosophy 1, no. 2 (Fall 2004): Here I Stand : An Interview with Arne Naess, Environmental Philosophy 1, no. 2 (Fall 2004): The Self of Stars and Stone: Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology and the Ecological Self, The Trumpeter 19, no.3 (2003): Gaia and Il y a: Reflections on the Face of the Earth, Symposium 7, no. 2 (Fall 2003): Arne Naess, Val Plumwood, and Deep Ecological Subjectivity: A Contribution to the Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate, Ethics and the Environment 7, no. 1 (Spring 2002): Facing Nature: Levinas Beyond the Human, Philosophy Today 44, no. 1 (Spring 2000): Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters Alterity, Value, Autonomy: Levinas and Environmental Ethics, in Faces of Nature (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2012), pp

4 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 4 Predators and Prey: On Hunting and Human Identity, in Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America, ed. Dennis Cutchins and Eric Eliason (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009), pp Facing Nature: Levinas Beyond the Human, in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments, vol. 4, ed. Claire Katz (London: Routlege, 2004), pp (Reprint) Natural Disasters, in Eco-Phenomenology: Getting Back to the Earth Itself, ed. Ted Toadvine and Charles S. Brown (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003), pp Scholarly Awards Visiting Scholar, Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies, Pace University, New York, New York, Fall Grant awarded to conduct research and direct faculty colloquia on the subject of ecofeminism and deep ecology, sponsored by the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies. Book Reviews Telling Stories of Ourselves in Places, review of Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, ed. Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler, and Walking in the Land of Many Gods: Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature by James A. Wohlpart, Nature and Culture (forthcoming). Developing Ecological Consciousness: The End of Separation by Christopher Uhl, Biological Conservation 178 (October 2014): 11. Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World by Stephen R. Kellert, Biological Conservation 167 (November 2013): 354. Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests by Joan Maloof, International Journal of Environmental Studies (November 2011): 1-2. Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Marti Kheel, Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography 13, no. 2 (June 2010): Troubled Waters: Religion, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis by Gary L. Chamberlain, Journal of Peace and Justice Studies 19, no. 1 (2009): Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Tina Chanter, APA Newsletters 3, no. 2 (Spring 2004): Politics and Worldviews: Review of John M. Meyer s Political Nature, Philosophy and Geography 6, no. 1 (February 2003):

5 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 5 Professional Presentations The Significance of the Ecological Self: Conservation Psychology and Deep Ecology meeting of the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA, December Should Extinction Be Forever? Restitution, Restoration, and Reviving Extinct Species, 11 th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Allenspark, CO, June Facing Nature With or Without Levinas, Faces of Nature book session respondent, meeting of the North American Levinas Society, Ocean City, MD, May Restitution, Restoration, and Reviving Extinct Species, Florida Atlantic University Spring Speaker Series, Boca Raton, FL, March Levinas and Environmental Ethics, Phenomenology Colloquium, UW-La Crosse, April Finding a Niche for Species in Nature Ethics, meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, February, What Are Humans If Humans Are Animals?, 29 th Annual Spring Symposium, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, April Minding Nature: Ecofeminism and Moral Extensionism, meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association), Baltimore, MD, December Hunting, Predation, and Ecological Community: Critical Reflections on Hunting and Belonging to Nature, Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities, Western Carolina University, NC, August Deep Ecology and Identification with Nature, lecture to the department of Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina University, NC, August Transcending Natural History: Levinas and Other-Than-Human Animals, 6 th biennial meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of Oregon, OR, June Gestalt Ontology and the Task of Deep Ecology, Colby College Philosophy Colloquium, Colby College, ME, February Effacing Nature: Levinas s Erasure of the Other-than-Human, 7 th annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Boston, MA, November Reflections on the Face of the Earth, 7th annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, San Francisco, CA, July 2001.

6 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 6 Public Presentations Personal Energy Consumption: Know What s Big and Then Go Small, presentation sponsored by Neale Hall Green Advocates, UWSP, March Wolf Week Town Hall Meeting, session organizer and moderator, UWSP, November What is Ecofeminism? Ecofeminists on Theory, Practice, and Population, presentation sponsored by the UWSP College Feminists, October Aldo Leopold: A Philosophical and Biographical Sketch, a two-part lecture given as part of UWSP s Learning Is Forever (LIFE) program, October Environmental Ethics, a three-part lecture given as part of UWSP s Learning Is Forever (LIFE) program, November In Conversation with Julia Butterfly Hill, public-forum interview with forest activist Julia Butterfly Hill, UWSP Theater, April 21, Thinking About Sustainability: A Philosophical Perspective, Student Government Association forum on Environmental and Legislative Sustainability, UWSP, December Forms of Ecological Community, The Leopold Education Project s Teaching Aldo Leopold seminar, Mead Wildlife Area, Milladore, WI, April Hunting: A Sport on the Decline, invited participant on National Public Radio s Talk of the Nation program, February 2, Participant in a panel discussion on Animals in the Moral Community, Villanova University, February The New Discipline of Environmental Ethics, Pottstown Unitarian Universalist Church, Pottstown, PA, November Animals, Ethics and the Law, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund Colloquium, Villanova University School of Law, November Participant in a panel discussion on Eating as a Moral Issue, Villanova University, October Participant in a panel discussion on Men and Feminism: Men Have Their Say on the F Word, Villanova University, September Work in Progress The Significance of the Ecological Self: Conservation Psychology and Deep Ecology (in preparation).

7 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 7 SERVICE University Service Faculty Mediation Committee, 2011-present (UWSP). Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, 2006-present (UWSP). Environmental Literacy Assessment Committee, (UWSP). Student Advising Faculty Mentor, Knutzen Residence Hall, 2013-present (UWSP). Advisor, Philosophical Society, (UWSP). Advisor, Environmental Council, (UWSP). Advisor, Sustainable Agriculture in Communities Group, (UWSP). Advisor, Villanovans for Ethical Treatment of Animals, (Villanova). Advisor, Villanova Environmental Group, (Villanova). Advisor, Eco-Trips, spring 1999 and 2001; fall 1999 (Villanova). Advisor, Habitat for Humanity Service Trips, spring 1997; fall 1998 (Villanova). Thesis Direction Doctoral Thesis Reader, Tasmania University, Senior Thesis Director, Villanova University, Master s Thesis Reader, Prescott College, Senior Thesis Director, Villanova University, Honor s Thesis Director, Villanova University Honors Program, Honor s Thesis Reader, Villanova University Honors Program, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Philosophical Association International Association for Environmental Philosophy International Society for Environmental Ethics REFERENCES Thomas W. Busch Professor of Philosophy Villanova University Department of Philosophy 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA (610) thomas.busch@villanova.edu

8 CHRISTIAN DIEHM, page 8 James D. Hatley Professor of Philosophy Salisbury University Department of Philosophy Philosophy House # Camden Avenue Salisbury, MD (410) jdhatley@salisbury.edu James Sage Associate Provost Southern Utah University 303 Administration Building Southern Utah University Cedar City, UT (435) jamessage@suu.edu