Geoffrey Charles Manzi Curriculum Vitae

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1 Geoffrey Charles Manzi Curriculum Vitae Contact: Education Areas of Specialization Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas Doctorate of Philosophy in Philosophy (in progress) Loyola Marymount University Master of Arts in Philosophy 2009 Assumption College Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy 2006 cum laude Minor in English Minor in Political Science Bishop Hendricken High School High School Diploma 2002 cum laude 20 th Century Continental Philosophy (Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Existentialism); Psychology and Psychoanalysis; Philosophical Anthropology; History of Philosophy; Great Texts of Western Civilization Areas of Competence Teaching Philosophy and Literature, Aesthetics, Critical Theory Richland College, Honors Academy Faculty Fellow and Adjunct Instructor in the Philosophy Department Today s Loss of Innocence: Coming of Age in Contemporary Society. Co-instructor Mary Wood. This is a Learning Community, in which a cohort of students enroll in both Honors Ethics and Honors English Composition, with a shared syllabus and each class co-taught by both instructors (Fall 2017; Fall 2018) Honors Ethics (Fall 2016-Present) Ethics (Spring 2016-Present) Honors Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2018; Fall 2018) Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2016-Present) University of Dallas, Adjunct Instructor, English Department s Writing Program Fundamental Principles of Writing (Fall 2012-Spring 2016) 1

2 Publications Philosophy and the Ethical Life, UD Philosophy Department (offered this course multiple times by various departmental chairs but have been unable to accept each time due to prior teaching commitments) North Lake College, Adjunct Instructor, Philosophy Department Ethics (Fall 2014-Fall 2015) Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2010-Fall 2015) Loyola Marymount University, Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department Book Chapters Articles Translations Encyclopedia Articles Critical Thinking (Fall 2007) Methodology Matters: Researching the Far Right, Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method, and Practice. Coauthors Amy Fisher-Smith, John D. Macready, and Charles R. Sullivan. Editors Stephen Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin, and Aaron Winter. New York, New York: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right (forthcoming Fall 2018) Every Dream Is a Discourse: Lacan, Jung, and the Linguistic Nature of Unconscious Dreamscapes, Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, 5:1, Summer 2015 (currently the overall most viewed article on according to website statistics) Fragments from Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l existence, Mikel Dufrenne and Paul Ricoeur (Seuil), The Humanistic Psychologist Co-Translated with Thomas Keohane (forthcoming Winter 2018) Montesquieu, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Second Edition (winner of the New York Public Library Best of Reference Work Award). Edited by Michael Genovese. New York, New York: Facts on File, May 2010, Editorials Editor-in-Chief s Editorial: Volume VII, Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, 7:1, Fall 2018 Education s Role in a Student s Life-Story, TRIO Upward Bound Newsletter, Co-Edited with Victor Argueta. Irving, Texas: North Lake College, November 2009, 1-2 (Part I), December 2009, 1-2 (Part II) Presentations Rethinking De-radicalization: Some New Approaches to Understanding Terrorism in Far-right Extremists 2

3 Invited Talks Panel Participant: Terrorism from the Inside Out: Exploring the Structures, Scope, and Impact of Modern Terrorism, Co-presenters Amy Fisher-Smith, John D. Macready, and Charles R. Sullivan. 124 th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (Denver, CO), August 2016 Freud s Forked Tongue: Interpreting and Misinterpreting Freud with Ricoeur Paul Ricoeur: Thinker of the Margins? International Conference, sponsored by The Society for Ricoeur Studies and Fonds Ricoeur, hosted by the University of Antwerp s Center for Philosophy of Culture and VU-University of Amsterdam s Amsterdam Center for the Study of Cultural and Religious Diversity & Historical Philosophy (Antwerp, Belgium), September 2014 Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Godard on Responsibility and Response-Ability: Cinematic Expression as a Less Metaphysically-Violent Representation of Alterity Panel Participant: Rhythms and Representations: Phenomenological Explorations of Music and Film, 43 rd NTPA Conference, annual meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association, University of North Texas (Denton, TX), April 2010 Considering Simone Weil s Treatment of Force and Suppliance in The Poem of Force and What It Means for Aristeia in Homer s Iliad Panel Participant: Homer s Iliad, Institute of Philosophic Studies Biannual Colloquium, University of Dallas (Irving, TX), September 2009 Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, and E. M. Cioran on Life, Disease, and Death in the Modern Episteme Panel Participant: Skepticism and Episteme: Postmodern and Analytic Approaches, 35 th Conference on Value Inquiry: Values and Medicine, annual meeting of the American Society for Value Inquiry, The College of New Jersey (Trenton, NJ), April 2008 Session Chair, Analogies and Expectations (Speakers: Kelly Sorensen and Casey Karbowski) 35 th Conference on Value Inquiry: Values and Medicine, annual meeting of the American Society for Value Inquiry, The College of New Jersey (Trenton, NJ), April 2008 The Intrinsic Evil of Slavery Revealed through Immanuel Kant s Categorical Imperative Panel Participant: Kantian Ethics, 34 th Conference on Value Inquiry: Social Justice and Individual Responsibility, annual meeting of the American Society for Value Inquiry, Adrian College (Adrian, MI), April 2007 PHILM: A Conversation among Scholars, Actors, Critics, and Cinephiles on the Relationship between Film and Philosophy Faculty Organizer and Co-Moderator with the Lead Faculty in Religion, a community-wide, collaborative event featuring a panel of professors and 3

4 film critics from across the DFW area, Philosophy Department and Religion Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), April 2018 Keynote Address: Living in a World of Windows and Mirrors: Authenticity s Imperative, or the Significance of Free Expression and Empathy in Millennial Leadership - Texas Junior College Student Government Association Spring Conference Keynote Speaker (requested by the TJCSGA Student Officers), Texas Junior College Student Government Association Spring Conference, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), March 2018 Who am I, and Who is to Say? Jean-Paul Sartre and the Role that Roles Play in Integrating Competing Interpretations of Oneself Faculty Presenter, Learning Connections Workshop, The Learning Center, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), March 2018 Experiencing an Embodied Expression of Bodily Betrayal: POV as Cinematic Phenomenology in Julian Schnabel s Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) Faculty Guest Speaker (requested by the Faculty Program Director), Richland International Film Series, Institute for Global Citizenship, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), March 2018 The Surd that is Individuality: G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, and the Ontological Groundlessness of Transcendental Subjectivity Faculty Presenter, Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Religion Biannual Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), February 2018 Each Piece in Peacebuilding: Simone de Beauvoir and the Prioritizing Force of Personal Freedom Faculty Guest Speaker, Honors Student Organization Monthly Meeting & Colloquia, Honors Academy, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), February 2018 Ensconced and Embroiled: The Human Condition as Saturated with Ethical Significance Guest Presenter as part of Dr. Deb Stephens Integrative Learning Fellow Research Project, Community Engagement and Connectedness in the Classroom, ENG.1302: English Composition II, English Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), January 2018 Today s Loss of Innocence: An Existentialist Approach to Coming of Age in Contemporary Society Video Recording of Presentation Faculty Presenter, Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Religion Biannual Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), November 2017 Closing Remarks: Philosophy s Local Impact on Academic and Popular Culture- Richland College Biannual Undergraduate Student Philosophy Conference Faculty Speaker, Biannual Undergraduate Student Philosophy Conference, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), November

5 Interpreting Meaning and Meaningful Interpretation: Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Consequence of Context in Reading, Writing, and Living Faculty Presenter, Learning Connections Workshop, The Learning Center, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), November 2017 The Value of Cultivating an Ethics of Personal Integrity for Leadership Development in the 21 st Century Faculty Guest Speaker (requested by the TJCSGA Advisor), Business Ethics Breakout Session, Texas Junior College Student Government Association Spring Conference, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), October 2017 Preliminary Address: A Deeper Significance to the Privileged Position of Academic Achievement- National Society of Collegiate Scholars Induction Ceremony Faculty Guest Speaker (requested by the Richland Chapter of the NSCS Student Executive Board), Induction Ceremony for New Members, Richland Chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), October 2017 What is Philosophy at Richland College? A Live RLC Philosophy Faculty Interview Segment Faculty Guest Interview alongside the Lead Faculty in Philosophy, Moore & Friends, A Live Radio Show and Video Podcast, Hosted by Government Professor Patrick Moore; Produced by Erica Edwards, Lead Faculty in Journalism; Engineered by Jack Fletcher at KDUX Studios, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), October 2017 The Art in Everyday Experience: John Dewey and the Cultivation of an Aesthetic Attitude towards Life Faculty Presenter, Learning Connections Workshop, The Learning Center, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), July 2017 Michel Foucault s Anti-Platonic Socrates: The Parrhesiastes s care of the self or Delphic know thyself? Video Recording of Presentation Faculty Presenter, Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Religion Biannual Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), May 2017 Preliminary Address: Dynamic Hallmarks of Academic Communitas- Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony Faculty Guest Speaker (requested by the Alpha Alpha Xi- Phi Theta Kappa Student Executive Board), Induction Ceremony for new members, Alpha Alpha Xi- Phi Theta Kappa, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), April 2017 Michel Foucault on Individuality as a Creative Endeavor and the (Potentially) Enabling Influence of Higher Education Thereon Faculty Presenter, Learning Connections Workshop, The Learning Center, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), April

6 Incipient Notions of Happiness: What Was Your Earliest Experience of Happiness, and How Did You Know It to Be Happiness? Guest Speaker/Discussion Leader, J.H. Florence Elementary School s Student Organization for Philosophical Inquiry and Advancement (SOPHIA), grant-funded by the Mesquite Education Foundation, J.H. Florence Elementary School (Mesquite, Texas), February 2017 Individualism and Collectivism: Do You See Yourself as Part of a Global Community? A Phi Theta Kappa Forum Philosophy Faculty Participant in a Roundtable Discussion, Sponsored by Alpha Alpha Xi- Phi Theta Kappa, Richland College (Dallas, Texas). Additional faculty participants included Jon Ewing (Religion) and Patrick Moore (Government) December 2016 Martin Heidegger and Existential Anxiety in Higher Education s Student Culture Faculty Presenter, Learning Connections Workshop, The Learning Center, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), November 2016 When the Past Presents Itself: What the Experience of Nostalgia Reveals about Our Humanity Video Recording of Presentation Faculty Presenter, Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Religion Biannual Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), November 2016 Narrative Vision and Revision: Paul Ricoeur and the Dynamics of Selfhood Composition Faculty Presenter, Learning Connections Workshop, The Learning Center, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), June 2016 Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Paradox of Self-Expression: Articulating One s Style through Nature, Embodiment, and Language Video Recording of Presentation Faculty Presenter, Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Religion Biannual Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, Richland College (Dallas, Texas), May 2016 Establishing Cohesiveness through Transition: Or, How to Avoid a Truancy of Unity in One s Writing Faculty Presenter, Biannual Writing Colloquia, Writing Program-English Department, University of Dallas (Irving, Texas), March 2016 At the Crossroads of Freedom and Facticity: Ambiguity in Simone de Beauvoir Featured Guest Presenter, The Dallas Philosophers Forum, (Dallas, Texas), March 2014 Lecture (audio recording via YouTube) Seeing Jean-Paul Sarte s Notion of The Look as Foundational for Simone de Beauvoir s Understanding of Lived Experience Guest Lecturer, PSY.5322 Existential and Psychosocial Foundations of 6

7 Lifespan Development, Psychology Department, University of Dallas (Irving, Texas), March 2014 Locating and Cultivating Philosophy s Imperative of Lifelong Learning in the Contexts of Psychology and the Concrete Circumstances of One s Own Life Guest Lecturer, PSYT.1313 Psychology of Personal Adjustment, Psychology Department, El Centro College (Dallas, Texas), March 2013 Jacques Lacan on the Linguistic Structure of the Unconscious as Evidenced through Psychoanalytic Dream Interpretation Guest Lecturer, PHI.2141 Philosophy Colloquium, Philosophy Department, University of Dallas (Irving, Texas), October 2012 Jean-Paul Sartre on the Three Ontological Modes of the Body Guest Lecturer, PHI.2141 Philosophy Colloquium, Philosophy Department, University of Dallas (Irving, Texas), February 2012 Paul Ricoeur on Narrative Mediation and Personal Identity Formation Guest Lecturer, PHI.2141 Philosophy Colloquium, Philosophy Department, University of Dallas (Irving, Texas), November 2010 Montesquieu and the Founding of the American Presidency Guest Lecturer, POL.357: US-British Politics, Sponsored by Loyola Marymount University s Institute of Leadership Studies and hosted by The Queen s College, Oxford University and Michael Genovese, Teaching Fellow of The Queen s College, Oxford University and Director of Loyola Marymount University s Institute of Leadership Studies (Oxford, UK), November Unfortunately, after initially accepting the invitation, I had to cancel due to unanticipated personal obligations. Incontinence: What s the Big Deal? Identifying Akrasia in Bk.VII of Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics and on the Importance of Striving to Overcome It Interdisciplinary Research Student Presenter, Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Colloquium, Philosophy Department, Assumption College (Worcester, MA), February 2006 Richland College, Center for Integrative Learning and Teaching Innovation Yale University, Elm Institute Project Title: Concrete Contexts: Exploring Personally-Meaningful Educational Experiences through Phenomenon-Based Learning Project Description: This research project aims to determine how phenomenon-based learning affects students learning experiences with the overall objective of determining whether students learn as effectively, worse, or better when the course material is presented within a rich, interdisciplinary context and is anchored in actual, real-world phenomena. 7

8 Yale University, Elm Institute Seminar Title: Virtue, Happiness, and the Human Good (co-taught by William Beau Weston of Centre College s Sociology and Anthropology Department and Danilo Petranovich of Yale University s Political Science Department) Seminar Description: A weeklong intensive seminar for advanced graduate students devoted to philosophical and sociological approaches to the fundamental question of happiness as it manifests in the intersection of private and public life. Seminar included significant reading, practical exercises, project proposals, and constant participation in a Socratic Circle style of learning. (New Haven, Connecticut), June June Seminar Title: The Mystery of Money (co-taught by Leonidas Zelmanovitz of The Liberty Fund and James B. Murphy of Dartmouth College s Government Department) Seminar Description: A weeklong intensive seminar for advanced graduate students devoted to an exploration of the fundamental principles of social order through the lens of competing theories on the origin and nature of money. Seminar included significant reading, Oxford-style debating, and constant participation in a Socratic Circle style of learning. (New Haven, Connecticut), May June Think Tanks University of Dallas, Psychology Department Project Title: Dis-engagement from White Supremacist or Other Ideological Groups: A Quantitative Study Project Description: This is a qualitative study to identify the psychological mechanisms at work in the process of de-radicalization and dis-engagement from white supremacist organizations. Conducted Thematic Coding of transcriptions of interviews with former members of white supremacist organizations (Summer 2015-Present) Transcribed interviews of former members of white supremacist organizations, conducted by lead investigators Dr. Amy Fisher-Smith and Dr. John Macready (Summer 2015-Present) This research project is entirely grant-funded Center for Integrative Learning & Teaching Innovation (CILTI) Seminar Participant as a Team Member of the Richland College Center for Integrative Learning & Teaching Innovation (Recommended for inclusion thereon by Dr. Zarina Blakenbaker, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Success at Richland College), 2017 Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work, sponsored by the Association of 8

9 American Colleges and Universities, hosted by Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), July 2017 Academic Journals The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Book Series The Humanistic Psychologist Guest Reviewer for Special Issue: Phenomenology, Idealism, and Intersubjectivity, Volume XV, invited by the Guest Editors (forthcoming) Consulting Editor, appointed by the Editor-in-Chief (Spring 2016-Present) Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief, appointed by the Editor-in-Chief (Summer 2013-Fall 2015) Referee and Manuscript Coordinator (Summer 2013-Fall 2015) Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts Editor-in-Chief (Summer 2015-present) Represented Ramify at the 2015 Collegiate Network Editors Conference, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and hosted by Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA), June 2015 Secured a $2,000 grant from the Collegiate Network for the publication of Volume VII Associate Editor, appointed by the Editor-in-chief (Summer 2013-Spring 2015) Managing Editor (Summer 2014-Spring 2015) Represented Ramify at the 2014 Collegiate Network Editors Conference, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Fort Worth, TX), November 2013 Secured a $2,000 grant from the Collegiate Network for the publication of Volume VI Financial Officer (Summer 2013-Spring 2014) Represented Ramify at the 2013 Collegiate Network Editors Conference, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Fort Worth, TX), November 2013 Secured a $1,000 grant from the Collegiate Network for the publication of Volume V Bibliographia: An Online Publication for the History of Philosophy Associate Editor, appointed by the Editor-in-chief, (Fall 2012-Summer 2016) 9

10 Founding Editor Current Projects Ricoeur and the Hermeneuts of Suspicion: Nietzsche, Marx, & Freud Freud s Forked Tongue: Reading Ricoeur Reading Freud An Ambiguity of Authorship: Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Paul Sartre on Narrative and Personal Identity Co-Translation with Thomas Keohane: Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l existence (Authors Mikel Dufrenne and Paul Ricoeur) The Aesthetics of Baseball: Aristotle and John Dewey at the Ballpark Awards and Honors Honors Faculty Fellowship, Honors Academy, Richland College, Fall 2018 John & Suanne Rouche Excellence Award, The League for Innovation in the Community College, 2018 Innovations Conference (National Harbor, Maryland), Spring 2018 Honors Faculty Fellowship, Honors Academy, Richland College, Spring 2018 Integrative Learning Fellowship, Center for Integrative Learning and Teaching Innovation, Richland College, Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Excellence in Teaching Honorarium to pursue continued professional development in Philosophy, President s Office, Richland College, Fall 2017-Summer 2018 Excellence in Teaching Honorarium to pursue continued professional development in Teaching, President s Office, Richland College, Fall 2017-Summer 2018 Richland College Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient (student-nominated for consideration by the EIT Selection Committee), Fall Convocation, Richland College, Fall 2017 Video Recording of EIT Finalists Video and of Acceptance Speech; Faculty Profile Piece on Receiving Award Honors Faculty Fellowship, Honors Academy, Richland College, Fall 2017 Certificate of Recognition for completion of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Developing Learning Power Professional Development, Director Carol Kent, Richland College, Summer 2017 Richland College Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award Finalist Nominee (student-nominated for consideration by the EIT Selection Committee), Richland College, Spring 2017 Honorarium for serving as the Guest Speaker/Discussion Leader at J.H. Florence Elementary School s Student Organization for Philosophical Inquiry and Advancement (SOPHIA), grant-funded by the Mesquite Education Foundation, J.H. Florence Elementary School (Mesquite, Texas), Spring 2017 Honors Faculty Fellowship, Honors Academy, Richland College, Spring

11 Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander (AANAPI) Serving Institution grant of $1,000 to design and facilitate How to Have a Happy Life, a community-wide event at Richland College, featuring guest speaker William Beau Weston, Fall 2016 Intercollegiate Studies Institute Top Student Leader Nominee (nominated by Jacob Lane, Director of the Collegiate Network), Fall 2016 Honors Faculty Fellowship, Honors Academy, Richland College, Fall 2016 Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Amy Fisher-Smith, University of Dallas, Summer 2016-Fall 2016 Richland Adjunct Faculty Association Travel Stipend for Professional Development (to attend the Virtue, Happiness, and the Human Good seminar, Elm Institute (Yale University), Summer 2016 Richland Adjunct Faculty Association Travel Stipend for Professional Development (to attend The Mystery of Money seminar, Elm Institute (Yale University), Summer 2016 Editing Honorarium for Ramify, University of Dallas, Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Amy Fisher-Smith, University of Dallas, Summer 2015-Spring 2016 Editing Honorarium for Ramify, University of Dallas, Fall 2014-Spring2015 Graduate Assistantship under Dr. Scott Churchill, University of Dallas, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Editing Honorarium for Ramify, University of Dallas, Fall 2013-Spring2014 Graduate Assistantship under Dr. Scott Churchill, University of Dallas, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Adjunct Instructor of the Year Award Nominee (faculty-nominated), North Lake College, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Herman Buhrer Fellowship, University of Dallas, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Teaching and Mentorship Award, North Lake College TRIO Upward Bound Program, Summer 2010 Earhart Foundation Fellowship, University of Dallas, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Braniff Graduate School Fellowship, University of Dallas, Fall 2008-Spring 2011 Departmental Service Award, Loyola Marymount University, Spring 2008 Modern Foreign Language Certificate in French, Loyola Marymount University, Spring 2008 Travel Stipend, Loyola Marymount University (to attend the 35 th Conference on Value Inquiry: Values and Medicine (annual meeting of the American Society for Value Inquiry), Spring 2008 R.A.I.N.S. Academic Research Assistantship under Dr. Mark Morelli, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Teaching Fellowship, Loyola Marymount University, Fall

12 Teaching Orientation and Practicum Certificate, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2007 Travel Stipend, Loyola Marymount University (to attend the 34 th Conference on Value Inquiry: Social Justice and Individual Responsibility (annual meeting of the American Society for Value Inquiry), Spring 2007 Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Fellowship, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 2006-Spring 2008 President s Council Scholarship, Assumption College, Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Lyceum Award, Assumption College, Fall 2002-Spring 2006 Service Richland College Richland Adjunct Faculty Association Vice President (Summer 2016-Present) Vice President and Interim Treasurer (Spring 2018) Vice President and Interim Secretary (Fall 2017) Active Member (Spring 2016-Present) Serve as a liaison between Adjunct Faculty and Administration Co-lead monthly RAFA Board meetings and RAFA Member meetings Spearheading a potential pilot to create a cohort of super-adjunct faculty that could ascend to a Guest Lecturer position with fulltime benefits Spearheading a potential pilot to create and establish a Formative Feedback form that adjuncts complete of their Lead Faculty/Program Coordinator and which gets reviewed by their Dean and their Lead Faculty/ Program Coordinator Co-leading Friends of RAFA, an outreach initiative designed to promote collaborative partnerships among RAFA and those within Richland College and the wider community Working with the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success and the Fulltime Faculty President on a potential communication strategy for disseminating information to, and soliciting feedback from, faculty on a Student Progress Reporting System plan Coordinating with the Associate Vice President for Workforce and Continuing Education and the Student 12

13 Academic Council of Deans Student Success Council Government Association President to host an event that places interested students in internships appropriate to their field Organizer and Facilitator of Let s Chat: Richland Adjuncts in Conversation with Dr. Kay Eggleston, President of Richland College, and Dr. Bill Dial, Executive Director of Human Resources, Professional Development Session (November 2017) Organizer and Moderator of Let s Chat: Richland Adjuncts in Conversation with Dr. Kay Eggleston, President of Richland College, and Dr. Zarina Blakenbaker, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs & Student Success, Professional Development Session (April 2017) Organizer and Moderator of Let s Chat: Richland Adjuncts in Conversation with Dr. Zarina Blakenbaker, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs & Student Success, Professional Development Session (February 2017) Designer and Facilitator of RAFA Supporting Adjuncts, Professional Development for Student Success breakout session. Co-facilitator Doreen Roberts (January 2017) Organizer and Moderator of Let s Chat: Richland Adjuncts in Conversation with Dr. Zarina Blakenbaker, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs & Student Success, Professional Development Session (October 2016) RAFA Representative, voting member (Fall 2016-Present) RAFA Representative, voting member (Fall 2016-Present) Adjunct Onboarding Committee Philosophy Club Worked with and the Dean of Adjunct Faculty and the Dean of Technology Enhanced Learning to develop a resource guide for orienting new adjunct faculty to Richland College (Fall 2017-Present) Faculty Director, appointed by the Philosophy Department Lead Faculty (Spring 2016-Present) Revived the RLC Philosophy Club from a prolonged period of inactivity- now includes weekly meetings and radio shows that offer co-curricular credit, semesterly 13

14 fundraisers, frequent collaborations with other departments and student organizations, a monthly philosophy and film series, a prominent social media presence, a devoted student executive board, and an overall vibrant on-campus presence The most recent fundraiser, which featured student-designed club tee-shirts, raised more money than any single fundraiser in the history of Richland Student Life according to the Office of Student Life Featured as the cover story in the student-run, facultyoverseen RLC Richland Chronicle: Spring 2017 Student Club Piece Philosophy Club Radio Hour Video Podcast Host of the Philosophy Club Radio Hour, a weekly video podcast that recaps each Philosophy Club meeting and continues the conversation over the Richland College airwaves, including various faculty and administrative featured guests (Produced by Jack Fletcher, KDUX Studios) Season 1- eight episodes (Fall 2016); Season 2- thirteen episodes (Spring 2017); Season 3- fourteen episodes (Fall 2017); Season 4- currently in production (Spring 2018) Overall YouTube views are well into the thousands Nominated for Best Radio Show by DCCCD Student Life Awards (Spring 2018) PHILM: The Philosophy Club s Philosophy & Film Series Creator of a monthly film series that screens movies whose themes reflect one of the philosophical topics discussed over the previous few weeks, including conversation afterwards over pizza and soda funded by the Philosophy Club (Fall 2017-Present) Philosophy Undergraduate Student Conference Co-organized by, and co-moderated with, the Lead Faculty in Philosophy (Fall 2017-Present) Spearheading a plan to grow the conference from a Richland-specific to a district-wide, DCCCD Philosophy Undergraduate Student Conference, to remain hosted by Richland Developing a cost-effective plan of publishing the biannual conference proceedings annually Existentialist Art : A Philosophy & Visual Arts Collaboration Co-organized and co-facilitated with the Lead Faculty in 14

15 The Ethics Olympics : Honors Academy Honors Student Organization Philosophy, Visual Art Faculty, Art Club Faculty Advisor, and the Philosophy Club Student President (Fall 2017-Present) A biannual collaborative event between the Philosophy program and the Visual Arts program, whereat select students of the visual arts present their respective works in the context of a discussion on the way in which each piece is an artistic rendering of their interpretation of a given Nietzschean aphorism, and philosophy students engage them on their interpretative and artistic choices Co-developed, co-organized and co-facilitated with the Lead Faculty in Philosophy (Spring 2018) A biannual Ethics Bowl style of competition, in which a moderator asks all student teams various questions that pose an ethical problem on topics germane to a particular discipline, thereby encouraging collaboration with a different field of study each semester As part of the annual Richland College Honors Student Conference, my Honors Introduction to Philosophy section will host the Conference on Peacebuilding Keynote Speaker Dr. Rick Halperin, Director of the Southern Methodist University Embrey Human Rights Program (Spring 2018) Invited, organized, and hosted Dr. William Beau Weston, Van Winkle Professor of Sociology at Centre College and Teaching Fellow at the Elm Institute at Yale University, to deliver a public lecture as a guest speaker for the Honors Academy Lecture Series, co-teach one class of my Honors Ethics course, and attend a Philosophy Club meeting (Fall 2016) Interim Faculty Director, appointed by the Director of the RLC Honors Academy (Spring 2018) The Honors Academy extracurricular student club that focuses on community outreach and academic awareness Richland Collegiate High School Served as a faculty judge for the Richland Collegiate High School Senior Capstones, on which seniors devote one year to developing a community project, presentation, and analytic essay that, collectively, fits a theme that suits their academic interests, anticipates their prospective majors, and ties back to one of the United Nations Millennium 15

16 North Lake College Thesis Advising Philosophy Club Development Goals (Spring 2017; Spring 2018) Serving as the official Thesis Mentor for Lindsay Blair, a former student of mine at Richland College and current undergraduate student majoring in Political Science at the University of North Texas, whose undergraduate thesis, A Foucauldian Analysis of STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Progression and HASS (Humanities Arts Social Sciences) Regression in Higher Education, was inspired by a Learning Connections workshop that I led at Richland in April of 2017 (Fall 2017-Present) Working closely in the editing process with current Richland College Honors Academy student, Kristina Armitage, whose final essay for my Today s Loss of Innocence: Coming of Age in Contemporary Culture Learning Community, titled Loss of Ignorance and Censorship in Education, I have accepted for publication as part of a DFW Undergraduate Student Spotlight section to be included in the forthcoming Volume VII of Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, of which I serve as Editor-in-Chief (Fall 2017-Present) Served as a thesis advisor for Eveyen Calado, then a high school senior at the School For the Talented and Gifted (Dallas, TX). Her thesis, An Impulse to Survive, investigates the factors that influence a person s decision to save a stranger in a dangerous situation, with special attention paid to the characteristics one possesses that may make one more or less inclined to offer help to a stranger in such a situation. Eveyen Calado is currently an undergraduate at Southern Methodist University, where she is majoring in Philosophy. (Spring 2016) Faculty Director (Spring 2013-Fall 2015) Featured in the student-run/faculty-overseen NLC News-Register: Fall 2015 Faculty Profile Piece Featured in a final project of an Advanced Journalism class: Fall 2015 Student Club Profile Piece Revived the NLC Philosophy Club from a prolonged period of inactivity. Club activities included weekly meetings, monthly fundraisers, semesterly field trips, and collaborations with the Fine Arts department and with Student Life. 16

17 University of Dallas Community Events Conference Host Committee on Student Life Represented UD in Philosophers Jeopardy, an event at which graduate students from the University of Dallas, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at Arlington competed for cash awards for their respective philosophy departments. Sponsored by the Dallas Philosophers Forum and Hosted by Unity Church of Dallas (Dallas, TX), Summer 2014; Summer 2015 Helped to earn a $100 donation (2014) and a $200 donation (2015), respectively, to the University of Dallas Philosophy Department Served as a graduate student volunteer when UD hosted the 45 th Annual Meeting of CHEIRON: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Irving, TX), Summer 2013 Appointed sole Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts Student Representative by the BGSA President (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Braniff Graduate Student Association Executive Council Treasurer Elect (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) Braniff Graduate Student Association Senate Senator Elect (Fall 2009-Spring 2010) Founding member of the inaugural BGSA Senate Braniff Graduate Student Association Travel Stipend Committee Committee Member (Fall 2009-Spring 2011; Spring 2015) Committee Chairperson (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) Founding member of the inaugural BGSA Travel Stipend Committee Braniff Graduate Student Association Travel Stipend Review Board Board Member (Fall 2009-Spring 2012) Chairperson of the Board (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) Founding member of the inaugural BGSA Travel Stipend Review Board 17

18 Loyola Marymount University Assumption College Graduate Philosophy Society Appointed President of the GPS by the Philosophy Graduate Program Director (Spring 2008) Appointed member-at-large by the GPS President (Fall 2007) Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Forum Steering Committee Phi Sigma Tau, Ionis Chapter Appointed member by an SC Faculty Member (Fall 2007) Appointed Treasurer by the Chairperson of the AC Philosophy Department (Fall 2005-Spring 2006) Founding executive officer of the inaugural AC Philosophy Honor Society Student Government Association Senate Senator Elect (Fall 2005-Spring 2006) Student Government Association Policy Review Committee Appointed member by the SGA President (Spring 2006) Founding member of the inaugural SGA Policy Review Committee Student Government Association Finance Committee Philosophy Club Cinema Savants Jazz Ensemble Appointed member by the SGA Finance Committee Chairperson (Fall 2004-Spring 2006) Invited member by the AC Philosophy Club Faculty Director (Fall 2003-Spring 2006) Co-President (Fall 2005-Spring 2006) Founding member of the inaugural AC Film Club Principal Trombonist (Fall 2002-Spring 2006) 18

19 Tutoring Political Campaigns Concert Band Principal Trombonist (Fall 2002-Spring 2006) Le Provocateur: The Official Newspaper of Assumption College Staff Writer (Fall 2002-Spring 2005) 2002 Rhode Island Democratic Gubernatorial Primary University of Dallas Writing Center Selected by the campaign manager as the sole intern for then Attorney General of Rhode Island and current Rhode Island State Senator Sheldon Whitehouse s campaign for the Democratic Party s endorsed candidacy for Rhode Island s 73 rd State Governor (Fall 2001-Spring 2002) Writing Tutor (Fall 2010-Spring 2016) North Lake College Writing Center El Centro College Writing Center The Tutoring Place (Dallas, TX) Writing Tutor (Spring 2013-Summer 2013) Writing Tutor (Summer 2012-Fall 2014) Philosophy, Theology, and Writing Tutor (Summer 2012; Summer 2014) North Lake College TRIO Upward Bound Program Acknowledgements in Colleagues Publications English and History Tutor (Fall 2009-Summer 2012) Creative Writing Course Instructor, Summer Enrichment Program (Summer 2012) ACT Preparation Course Instructor (Spring 2012) SAT Preparation Course Instructor (Summer 2010, Fall 2011) Thomas Szanto, Husserl on Collective Intentionality, The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality: History, Concepts, Problems, Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality, Vol. VI. Edited by Alessandro Salice and Hans Bernhard Schmid. Dordrech, Netherlands: Springer, 2016 Takeshi Morisato, Nishida Kitaro s On Reading : A Translation, Bibliographia: An Online Publication on the History of Philosophy, 1:1, October

20 Takeshi Morisato, Nishida Kitaro s After the Great Earthquake : A Translation, Bibliographia: An Online Publication on the History of Philosophy, 1:1, October 2013 Scott D. Churchill, Heideggerian Pathways through Trauma and Recovery: A Hermeneutics of Facticity, The Humanistic Psychologist Special Edition: Bringing Heidegger Home: A Journey through the Lived Worlds of Psychologists and Philosophers, 41:3, August 2013 John Drabinski, Godard: Between Identity and Difference. New York, New York: Continuum Press, June 2008 Affiliations Society For Ricoeur Studies American Psychological Association North Texas Philosophical Association Dallas/Fort Worth Area Lacan Reading Group (Founder and Curator Dr. Stephanie Swales) Intercollegiate Studies Institute Collegiate Network Elm Institute (Yale University) Languages French Latin Functional Speaking, Reading, and Translation Competency Functional Reading and Translation Competency Graduate Coursework- Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas IPS.8532 Hegel, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky (Dr. Robert Wood), (Dr. Louise Cowan) IPS.8342 Hobbes & Rousseau (Dr. Thomas West), (Dr. Joshua Parens) IPS.8341 Dante & Milton (Dr. John Alvis), (Dr. Scott Crider) IPS.8326 Augustine & Aquinas (Dr. Richard Dougherty), (Dr. Matthew Walz) IPS.8321 Plato & Aristotle (Dr. Jonathan Culp), (Dr. Christopher Mirus) IPS.8311 Homer & Virgil (Dr. David Sweet), (Dr. John Alvis) PHI.8345 Philosophical Anthropology (Dr. Robert Wood) PHI.7344 Text Seminar, Early Modern Philosophy: Kant s Critique of Judgment (Dr. Robert Wood) PHI.6377 Special Topic: Imagination (Dr. Dennis Sepper) 20

21 PHI.6354 Philosophy of Language (Dr. Dennis Sepper) PHI.5360 Special Topic: Descartes & Husserl (Dr. Robert Wood) PHI.5360 Special Topic: Phenomenology of the Other: Heidegger & Levinas (Dr. Gilbert Garza) PHI.5360 Temporality, Freedom, and Responsibility: Sartre s Early Ontology (Dr. Scott Churchill) PHI.5359 The Phenomenological Tradition (Dr. Robert Wood) PHI.5345 Philosophy of Technology (Dr. Dennis Sepper) PHI.5301 Special Topic: Aesthetics (Dr. Robert Wood) PHI.5301 Special Topic: American Philosophy (Dr. Bradford Blue) PHI.5160 Phenomenology Workshop: Phenomenology of Feeling (Dr. Robert Wood) POL.6377 Special Topic: Leo Strauss Political Philosophy (Dr. Thomas West) PSY.5152 Special Topic: Mindscreen: Film Fantasy & Dreams (Dr. Scott Churchill) THE.6324 Synoptic Gospels (Fr. Denis Farkasfalvy) The following courses were taken alongside or shortly thereafter those listed above; however, due to certain contingencies that are standard with full tuition scholarships, they could not be taken for credit. To be sure, my engagement in these classes was, for all intents and purposes, no different than in those classes for which I received credit, and this includes perfect attendance, seminar presentations, class participation, essays and the like. Although the following courses do not appear on my official transcript, their influence on my education has been every bit as formative as that of those courses previously listed. PHI.7377 Special Topic: Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Facticity: Heidegger (Dr. Scott Churchill) PHI.7351 Directed Reading: Ricoeur s Time and Narrative (Dr. Robert Wood), (two-semester course) PHI.6377 Special Topic: Freud and Depth Psychology (Dr. Scott Churchill) PHIL.6361 Text Seminar, Postmodernity: Merleau-Ponty s Phenomenology of Perception (Dr. Robert Wood) PHI.6332 Embodiment & Alterity: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Lingis (Dr. Scott Churchill) POL.6378 Special Topic: Marx (Dr. Leo Paul de Alvarez) PSY.5322 Existential and Psychosocial Foundations of Lifespan Development (Dr. Scott Churchill) Graduate Coursework- Loyola Marymount University PHIL.698 Special Topic: Development of Catholic Moral Philosophy (Dr. Christopher Kaczor) 21

22 PHIL.698 Special Topic: Nietzsche (Dr. S.W.K. Cameron) PHIL.698 Special Topic: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Suffering (Dr. Roberto Dell Oro) Outside Interests PHIL.698 Special Topic: Plotinus (Dr. Eric Perl) PHIL.697 Teaching Orientation and Practicum (Dr. Brian Treanor), (two-semester course) PHIL.678 Ethical Theories in Bioethics (Dr. Roberto Dell Oro) PHIL.670 Social and Political Philosophy (Dr. James Hanink) PHIL.654 Contemporary French Philosophy: Foucault & Deleuze (Dr. Brad Stone) PHIL.648 Lonergan (Dr. Elizabeth Murray-Morelli) PHIL.642 Hermeneutics (Dr. S.W.K. Cameron) PHIL.618 Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will (Mary Elizabeth Ingham, C.S.J.) (audit) PHIL.610 Philosophy in Late Antiquity: Augustine (Dr. Eric Perl) (audit) PHIL.602 Plato (Dr. Mark Morelli) Yoga Musical Performance Daily practitioner of Hatha Yoga (primarily Vinyasa) and of Mindfulness Meditation Trombone 20+ years of experience, performed live with various concert, jazz, and improvisational bands at numerous local venues Bass Guitar 15+ years of experience, performed and recorded with many local musicians Sports Golf Skiing Racquetball Passionate fan of the New York Yankees Travel Road-tripped across the contiguous United States (Winter 2006) Backpacked across Continental Europe (Summer 2005) References 22

23 Scott D. Churchill Professor of Psychology Director of the Graduate Program in Psychology Affiliate Faculty Member of the Philosophy Department Affiliate Faculty Member of the Human Sciences in the Contemporary World Program American Psychological Association Fellow and Council Representative Editor-in-chief, The Humanistic Psychologist (APA Division Journal) Fellow, Founder and Director of the Film Program, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Senior Film and Performing Arts Critic, Irving Community Television Network University of Dallas Debra Romanick-Baldwin Associate Professor of English Director of the Writing Program President of the Joseph Conrad Society University of Dallas Robert E. Wood Professor of Philosophy President of the North Texas Philosophical Association Founder and Host of D.A.S.E.I.N. group (Dallas Area Seminar on European Inquiry) University of Dallas Mark Morelli Professor of Philosophy Founder and Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy Founder and Director of the Los Angeles Bernard Lonergan, S.J. Center Loyola Marymount University Roberto Dell Oro Professor of Theology Chairperson of the Theology Department Founder and Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics Affiliate Faculty Member of the Philosophy Department Director of the Loyola Marymount University Bioethics Institute Saint John s Bioethics Chair, Saint John s Medical Center, Santa Monica, California Loyola Marymount University rdelloro@lmu.edu J. Patrick Corrigan Associate Professor of Philosophy Chairperson of the Philosophy Department Founder and Director of the Fortin and Gonthier Foundations of Western Civilization Program Affiliate Faculty Member of the Fine Arts Department Faculty Advisor of the Philosophy Honor Society Faculty Director of the Philosophy Club 23

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