Grant Cornwell
President
Professor of Philosophy
The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio

EDUCATION

The University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy, June 9, 1989.
The University of Chicago, Master of Arts, June 20, 1982.
St. Lawrence University, Bachelor of Arts, philosophy and biology, May 28, 1979.

CURRENT POSITION

President, The College of Wooster, 2007-continuing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President of the University and Dean of Academic Affairs, St. Lawrence University,
       2002-2007.

Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University,
       1998-2002.

Project Co-Director of the Ford Foundation “Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies” grant, 2001-2003.

• Project Co-Director of the Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation grant in Intercultural Studies, 1995-1999.

Associate Dean of the First Year, St. Lawrence University, 1992-1997.

• Director of the First-Year Program
• Director of Academic Advising

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University,
       1992-2000 (Assistant Professor 1989-1992; Instructor 1986-1989).

Graduate Research Intern, The Hastings Center: Institute of Society Ethics, and the Life Sciences, summer, 1983.

Humanities Lector for the College Common Core, The University of Chicago, 1982-1983.

Preceptor for "Social and Ethical Issues in Medicine", The University of Chicago Medical School, 1982-1983.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS and SERVICE

Member, Governing Board of the Wye Faculty Seminar, The Aspen Institute, 2008-
       continuing.

Member, Commission on International Initiatives, American Council on Education (ACE),
       2008-continuing.

Member, Eastern Advisory Council for NITLE: National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education,
       2005-2007.

Member Consultant of the SAGE Group: A consulting service of experienced senior administrators and educators formed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities to assist campuses committed to implementing the recommendations of AAC&U’s report Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College, 2003-continuing.

Donald C. Faber Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence: An endowed program at Miami University of Ohio “to foster the rigorous discussion and debate of ideas among Miami University students and distinguished national scholars.” September 25-27, 2002.

National Advisory Board Member: Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy, a national three-year faculty and curriculum development initiative of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.  Funded by FIPSE.  Advisory Board tenure, 2001-2004.

National Learning Communities Project Fellow: A leadership group convened by the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education to strengthen learning community initiatives across the country. Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.  Fellowship tenure, 2000-2004.

Outstanding Freshman Advocate: An award made annually by The National Resource Center for Freshman Year Experience for outstanding contributions to educational programmatic approaches to enhance the freshman year.  Awarded in 1995.

Board of Directors, American Association of Philosophy Teachers.  Elected January, 1991.

Louis and Francis Maslow Award: "The Louis and Francis Maslow Award is made annually to that member of the faculty who has shown the most interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the student body as a whole" (St. Lawrence University Faculty Handbook, p.87).  Awarded in 1989.

Dana-Eben Holden Fellow: "The Dana and Eben Holden Fellows Program gives students the opportunity to honor faculty members who have shown outstanding teaching ability, receptiveness to students, and a caring approach to their role as educators" (St. Lawrence University Faculty Handbook, p.87).  Awarded in 1987 and again in 1988.     

SCHOLARSHIP

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
“The Inseparability of Rights and Virtues in Ethical Theory.”  Dissertation Committee: Arthur Adkins, Alan Gewirth, Christine Korsgaard.

BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS
Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation.  A collection of original essays which analyze the diverse constructions of race, ethnicity, and national identity in a variety of cultures.  Co-edited with Eve Stoddard.  Lanham: Rowman &  Littlefield Publishers, December, 2000.

Globalizing Knowledge: Connecting International and Intercultural Studies. With Eve Stoddard.  One in a series of monographs commissioned and published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. September, 1999.

Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education. Co-edited with Richard Guarasci. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Globalization, Science, and Citizenship: Habits of Mind for Global Understanding.” In Diversity Digest, 9:3, 2006.
“Freedom, Diversity and Global Citizenship.” With Eve Stoddard. In Liberal Education, 92:2, Spring, 2006. A revised version of “Contestation and Respect.” See below.

“Contestation and Respect: Intercultural Inquiry and Global Citizenship.”  With Eve Stoddard. In Roanoke College Journal, Vol. 1, 2005.   

“Peripheral Visions: Towards a Geo-ethics of Citizenship.” With Eve Stoddard. In Liberal Education, 89:3, Summer, 2003.

“The Future of Liberal Education and the Hegemony of Market Values: Privilege, Practicality, and Citizenship.” With Eve Stoddard. In Liberal Education, 87:3, Summer, 2001.

“Caneel Bay, St. John: “The Island Nobody Spoiled” and Other Fantasies of Colonial Desire.” With Eve Stoddard. In Early Modernity and Europe's Race for the Globe, special issue of South Atlantic Review, guest-edited by Mita Choudhury, 65:2, Spring, 2001.  Received Honorable Mention for the South Atlantic Review Essay Prize Award for 2000-2001.

“Cosmopolitan or Mongrel? Reading Creolite and Hybridity via “Douglarisation” in Trinidad.” With Eve Stoddard. In European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2:5, September, 1999.

"Things Fall Together: A Critique of Multicultural Curricular Reform." With Eve Stoddard. In Liberal Education, 80:4, Fall, 1994.

"Democratic Education in an Age of Difference." With Richard Guarasci. In Perspectives: The Journal of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, 23:1, Spring, 1993. 

"The Conflict of Postmodern and Traditional Epistemologies in Curricular Reform: A Dialogue." With Baylor Johnson. In Studies in Philosophy and Education, 11:1, 1991.

Review of The Idea of a Democratic Community by Christopher Berry. In Teaching Philosophy, 14:3, September, 1991.

"From Pluralism to Relativism and Back Again: Philosophy's Role in an Inclusive Curriculum." In Teaching Philosophy, 14:2, June, 1991, pp.143-153. Invited as "Best Paper Finalist" at the American Philosophical Association's Central Division Meeting's symposium on "Cultural Pluralism and Diversity in the Curriculum," Chicago, April 24, 1991.

"Postmodernism and Teaching: Confessions of an Ex-Realist." In Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 8:1, Spring 1991.

"The Opening of the American Mind: The Democratic Alternative." With Richard Guarasci. In The Freshman Year Experience Newsletter, 3:1, 1990.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
"St. Lawrence University: Experiential Learning Communities: Dialectics of Ideas and Experience." With Eve Stoddard. In Learning Communities in Liberal Arts Colleges.  By Karen Spear and others. National Learning Communities Project Monograph Series. Olympia, WA: The Evergreen State College, Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, in cooperation with the American Association for Higher Education, 2003.

“Unity.“ With Eve Stoddard. In Collateral Language. Edited by John Collins and Ross Glover. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

“From Sugar to Heritage Tourism in the Caribbean: Economic Strategies and National Identities.”  With Eve Stoddard. In Caribbean Tourism: Alternatives for Community Development. Edited by Chandana Jayawardena. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers Ltd., forthcoming.

“Towards an Interdisciplinary Epistemology: Faculty Culture and Institutional Change.” With Eve Stoddard. In Reinventing Ourselves: Interdisciplinary Education, Collaborative Learning, and Experimentation in Higher Education. Co-edited by Barbara Leigh Smith and John McCann. Bolton: Anker Publishing Company, 2001.

“National Boundaries/Transnational Identities.”  With Eve Stoddard. Introduction to Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation. Co-edited by Grant Cornwell and Eve Stoddard.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

“Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation Building: The “Douglarisation” Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago.” With Eve Stoddard. In Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation. Co-edited by Grant Cornwell and Eve Stoddard.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

“Cosmopolitan or Mongrel? Reading Creolite and Hybridity via “Douglarisation” in Trinidad.” With Eve Stoddard. In Identity, Ethnicity and Culture in the Caribbean. Edited by Ralph Premdas.  St. Augustine: The University of the West Indies Press, 1999.  This is an expanded and revised version of the article in European Journal of Cultural Studies.  See below.

"Things Fall Together: A Critique of Multicultural Curricular Reform." With Eve Stoddard. In Interdisciplinarity: Essays from the Literature. Edited by William H. Newell.  New York: College Board Publications, 1998.  This is a reprint of the article in Liberal Education.  See above.

“Residential Colleges: Laboratories for Teaching Through Difference.” With Eve Stoddard. In Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education. Co-edited by Richard Guarasci and Grant Cornwell. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.

"Student Life as Text: Discovering Connections, Creating Community." With Richard Guarasci. In Gateway: Residential Colleges and the First Year Experience. Edited by Terry Smith. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993, pp. 41-48.

WEB SITE and CD-ROM
“Sugar Estates of St. Kitts: An Interpretive Essay of Plantation Heritage Sites.” http://it.wooster.edu/stkitts/. 2002.

GRANTS

INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS
“Diversity and Learning: Identity, Community, and Intellectual Development at St. Lawrence.”   Application on behalf of St. Lawrence to participate in the curriculum and faculty development project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, “Boundaries and Borderlands: The Search for Recognition and Community in America.”  With Susan Pankey.  Grant awarded in 2000.

“Interconnecting Diasporas: Globalizing Area Studies.” Faculty and curriculum development grant developed in collaboration with Trent University, Canada, and the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. With Kirk Fuoss, Project Director,  Eve Stoddard, and Susan Pankey, St. Lawrence, Charmaine Eddy and Susan Wuertle, Trent, and Keith Nurse and Brinsley Samaroo, UWI.  Granting agency: The Ford Foundation ($350,000).  Grant awarded in 1999.

“Pluralism and Unity at St. Lawrence University.”  Three-year grant to achieve a more inclusive campus climate.  Contributing author.  Granting agency: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($150,000).  Grant awarded in 1998.

“Global Studies at St. Lawrence University.”  Request to fund five new tenure-track positions in Global Studies at St. Lawrence.  Committee member.  Granting Agency: Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation ($1,000,000).  Grant awarded in 1998.

“Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies,” Faculty and curriculum development grant in international, intercultural, and area studies. With Bob Thacker, Project Director, Tom Coburn, Pat Alden, Judith DeGroat, Michael Farley, and Eve Stoddard. Granting agency: The Ford Foundation ($50,000).  Grant awarded in 1997.

“Intercultural Studies at St. Lawrence,”  Faculty and curriculum development grant in intercultural studies. With Patti McGill Peterson, and Eve Stoddard. Project Co-Director. Granting agency: The Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation ($560,000).  Grant awarded in 1995.

"Cultural Encounters at Saint Lawrence University," Faculty and curriculum development grants. With Eve Stoddard, Project Director, Thomas Coburn, Richard Guarasci, Ahmed Samatar, David Hornung, and Laura O'Shaughnessy.  Granting agencies: The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education ($256,000) and The Mellon Foundation ($150,000).  Grants awarded in 1992.

"Enhancing the Teaching of Cultural Legacies at Saint Lawrence," with Richard Guarasci and Marlene Guzman.  Grant award selected as one of 27 planning institutions to participate in the AAC-sponsored, NEH-funded project, "Engaging Cultural Legacies: Shaping Core Curricula in the Humanities." Grant awarded in 1990.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH GRANTS
St. Lawrence faculty sabbatical research grant.  St. Kitts and Nevis, spring, 2001.

“Transnational Team-Teaching: Intercultural Dialogue via the World Wide Web.”  Funded by the Mellon Foundation Grant to St. Lawrence for Teaching with Technology project.  Hardware upgrades and training to build web site for linking Cultural Encounters course, Comparative Studies in Racial and Cultural Identities, with parallel course being taught at the University of the West Indies. With Eve Stoddard. Summer,1999. 

“African Heritage in the Americas.”  The Eleggua Project faculty development seminar in Cuba, May, 1998.

St. Lawrence faculty sabbatical research grant.  Trinidad and Tobago, fall, 1997.

“Poverty, Race, and Participatory Democracy in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.”  Council on International Educational Exchange International Faculty Development Seminar, January, 1997.

“The Caribbean as a Nexus of Cultural Encounters.” Christian Johnson Endeavor Foundation Faculty Development Seminar in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Miami, Summer, 1996.

“Cultural Encounters in India.” Cultural Encounters Faculty Development Seminar, Summer, 1994.

“Cultural Encounters in Kenya.” Cultural Encounters Faculty Development Seminar, Summer, 1993.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

INTER/NATIONAL CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
“Interconnecting Diasporas: Globalizing Area Studies,” an international faculty seminar with St. Lawrence University, Trent University, Canada, and the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago as part of the trilateral collaborative project funded by a Ford Foundation “Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies” grant.  With Eve Stoddard.  St. Lawrence University, October, 2001.

“Global Studies and Faculty Development: Current Debates and Approaches,” Association of American Colleges and Universities Working Conference of the Network for Academic Renewal, co-director, with Eve Stoddard, Baltimore, March, 1999.

"Teaching Cultural Encounters as General Education," sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and St. Lawrence University, funded by the Mellon Foundation, co-director, with Eve Stoddard, New Orleans, March, 1995.

"Teaching Cultural Difference as General Education," sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, co-director, with Eve Stoddard, Philadelphia, February, 1994.

Vice Chair of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, August, 1992.

Program Committee of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, August, 1990.

CONSULTING: Faculty and Curriculum Development and Assessment

International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, 2005

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 2004

Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, 2004

Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 2003

Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education, 2003

Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, 2003

State University of New York - New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, 2002

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2002.

St. Michael’s College, Sherburne, Vermont, 2001, 2002.

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 2000.

Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1999.

Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 1999.

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1998, 1999, 2003.

Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1997.

University of New England, Biddleford, Maine, 1996.

St. John Fischer College, Rochester, New York, 1995, 2003.

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1994.

Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 1994, 1996.

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1994.

The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, April, 1993.

North Adams State College, North Adams, Massachusetts, 1993, 1996.

The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 1991.

PUBLIC LECTURES and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Public and Keynote Addresses
“Globalization and Scientific Inquiry: Education for Transnational Collaboration.”  Invited as the opening plenary address for AAC&U’s symposium, “Science and Global Learning in the Undergraduate Curriculum. January, 2006.

“Contestation and Respect: Intercultural Inquiry and Global Citizenship.” With Eve Stoddard. Invited as the address delivered on the occasion of the inauguration of Dr. Sabine O’Hara as the President of Roanoke College, October, 2004.

“The Politics of Language in the New American Empire.”  With Eve Stoddard.  Invited as the closing plenary address at the Enemies of Empire conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 13, 2004.

“Peripheral Visions: Towards a Geoethics of Citizenship.” With Eve Stoddard.  Delivered as the Donald C. Faber Distinguished Scholars-in-Residence at Miami University of Ohio, September 26, 2002.

“Positionality and Knowledge Production: On the Ethics of Transnational Research and Teaching.”  Keynote panel with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Obioma Nnaemeka, opening the conference Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, funded by FIPSE, May, 2002.

“Globalization and Liberal Education.” With Eve Stoddard. Delivered as keynote address at the annual conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, Chicago, November 2, 2000.

“Globalization, Diversity, and Democracy: Contested Visions, Possible Futures.”  With Eve Stoddard.  Delivered as a plenary address at the conference, “Diversity and Learning: Identity, Community, and Intellectual Development,” sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, funded by the Ford Foundation, Pittsburgh, October 28, 2000.

"Things Fall Together: A Critique of Multicultural Curricular Reform." With Eve Stoddard. Delivered as keynote address at  the conference, "Teaching Cultural Difference as General Education," sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Philadelphia, February, 1994.  Subsequently published in Liberal Education and reprinted in Interdisciplinarity: Essays from the Literature. See above.

On Research and Scholarship

“Globalization and Diversity: The Intercultural Endeavor We Call Science.”  Invited presentation at the Sigma Xi Workshop: “Assuring a Globally Engaged Science and Engineering Workforce,” National Science Foundation, September 22, 2006.

“The History of Sugar Production and the Formation of National Identity in St. Kitts.” Presented at the annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Kitts, May, 2004.

“Sugar Estates of St. Kitts: An Interpretive Essay of Plantation Heritage Sites.”  Presented at the annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Belize, May, 2003.

“Ruins, Memory, and Meaning: The Emergence of Sugar Mills as Neocolonial Icons,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at the annual conference on Language, Literature and History of the Eastern Caribbean, St. Croix, November 10, 2000.

“Comparative Race and Ethnicity: A Transnational Collaboration using the WWW,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at the annual meetings of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Lucia, May 30, 2000.

“Multiple Belongings: Globalization and Citizenship,” with Eve Stoddard, public lecture delivered by invitation at Southwest Missouri State University, September 10, 1999.

“Epistemology and Social Location: The Problem of Whiteness,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at the trilateral conference “Critical Border Crossings: Transnational and Transcultural Methodologies,” Trent University, Canada, June 12, 1999.

“The Semiotics of Sugar Mill Ruins,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at the Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Panama City, Panama, May 25, 1999.

“Building Faculty Capacity for Global Education” with Eve Stoddard, presented as a Featured Session at 85th The Annual Meeting of the Association of  American Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, CA., January 29, 1999.

“Mixing Metaphors: “Douglarisation” in Trinidad,” presented at the International Conference on Caribbean Literature, Nassau,  November, 1998.

“Towards an Interdisciplinary Epistemology: Faculty Culture and Institutional Change,” with Eve Stoddard, presented as an invited paper at The Evergreen Conference on Interdisciplinary Education, Olympia, Washington, October 31, 1997.

“Race in a Global Context: Revising U.S. Exceptionalism,” with Eve Stoddard and Randi Kristensen, presented at the American Council on Education’s conference

“Educating One-Third of a Nation,” Miami, Florida, October 18, 1997.

“Interculturalism as a Paradigm for Postcolonial Studies,” with Eve Stoddard, presented as visiting scholars in the N.E.H. faculty development seminar, North Adams State College, North Adams, April 17, 1996.

“Multiculturalism Across Cultures: The Universality of Difference,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Boston, March 31, 1995.

On Curriculum and Pedagogy

“Global Studies After September 11,” with Eve Stoddard, presented as a featured seminar at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Washington, D.C., January 14, 1998.

“New Models for Internationalizing the Curriculum: Global, Intercultural, and Diaspora Studies,” with Eve Stoddard, presented as a pre-conference workshop at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Washington, D.C., January 14, 1998.

“Transgressing Divisions: Academic and Student Affairs in Collaboration,” presented at the Ninth International Conference on the First-Year Experience, St. Andrews,

Scotland, July 17, 1996. Later versions of this paper were also presented by invitation at the 1996 Ford Foundation Campus Diversity Initiative Conference, Seattle, November 2, 1996, and at the combined national convention of NASPA/ACPA,  Chicago, March 22, 1997.

“Multiplicity, Interaction, Cross-Cultural Exchange: Interculturalism as a Developmental

Framework for Student Learning,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at AAC&U’s conference on Diversity and Learning: Identity, Community, and Intellectual Development, Washington, D.C., June 28, 1996.

“International Studies and American Pluralism: Is There a Connection?” with Eve Stoddard, presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., January 13, 1996.

“No Haven From Education: Dewey and Cultural Diversity in Theory and Practice,” with Judith DeGroat and Eve Stoddard, presented at The Annual Conference of The Institute for the Study of Postsecondary Pedagogy, “American Pragmatism, John Dewey, and Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society,” Mohonk Mountain House, 1995.

“Multiplicity, Interaction, Exchange: Interculturalism as a Model of Diversity for General Education,” with Eve Stoddard, presented at The Ford Foundation’s Fifth Annual Campus Diversity Initiative Conference, “Promises, Progress, and the Road Before Us,” Philadelphia, 1995.

“Collaboration Across the Curriculum: Promises and Pitfalls of Challenging Traditional Divisions,” with Richard Jenseth, Virginia Schwartz, and Eve Stoddard, presented at The Annual Conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, “The Future of Collaboration,” San Antonio, 1995.

“Integrating Experiential with Intellectual Learning,” with Eve Stoddard and Thomas Greene, presented at Eighth International Conference on The First-Year Experience, “Global Perspectives on the First-Year Experience, York, England, July 13, 1995.

“Assessing First-Year Programs: Politics, Complexity, and Insight,” with Eve Stoddard and Thomas Greene, presented at Eighth International Conference on The First-Year Experience, “Global Perspectives on the First-Year Experience, York, England, July 13, 1995.

“Student Life as Text: Integrating the Academic and Residential Curriculum,” with Virginia Schwartz, Jennifer Simmons, and Eve Stoddard, presented at The Annual National Conference of The Freshman Year Experience, Colombia, February 19, 1995.

“Recentering the Curriculum: Integrating World Perspectives Across the Curriculum,” Chair of the session presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, January 19, 1995.

“Creating a Culture of Change: Faculty Development and Interdisciplinary Programs,” with Richard Jenseth, Virginia Schwartz, and Eve Stoddard, presented at The Annual Conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, Savannah, October 28, 1994.

“Cultural Encounters: Developing a Curriculum in Intercultural Studies,” with Eve Stoddard, presented as a poster session at the 1994 FIPSE Project Directors’ Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1994.

"Cultural Encounters: The Role of Experience in Multicultural Education," with Eve Stoddard, presented as an invited presentation at The University of Chicago's National Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning, "Thinking Through Difference: Teaching Practices and Student Diversity," Chicago, November 20, 1993.

"Global Studies, Multiculturalism, and Core Curricula," with Judith DeGroat and Eve Stoddard, presented at the Institute for the Study of Postsecondary Pedagogy, "Interdisciplinary Curricula, General Education, and Liberal Learning," Lake Mohonk, November 11, 1993.

"Cultural Encounters in the Liberal Arts Curriculum," with Eve Stoddard, presented at the 1993 FIPSE Project Directors' Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1993.

"Engaging American Pluralism: Tensions in Multicultural Communities," with Eve Stoddard and Richard Guarasci, presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges, Washington, D.C., January 8, 1992.

"From Pluralism to Relativism and Back Again: Philosophy's Role in an Inclusive Curriculum," presented as a "Best Paper Finalist" at the American Philosophical Association's Central Division Meeting's symposium on "Cultural Pluralism and Diversity in the Curriculum," Chicago, April 24, 1991.  Earlier drafts of this paper were presented at:

• The Regis College Humanities Colloquium, Denver, October 9, 1990.
• The American Association of Philosophy Teachers' Seventh International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Amherst, August 10, 1988.

"Epistemology, Postmodernism and Pedagogy : A Dialogue on Teaching and Values," with Baylor Johnson, presented as an invited presentation at The University of Chicago's National Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning, "Values, Conflict, and Critical Inquiry in the Classroom," Chicago, April 14, 1991. Earlier drafts of this paper were presented at:

• The College of Wooster's "Conference on Interdisciplinarity," Wooster, March 29, 1991. Invited Address.
• The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges, "Knowledge Claims and Curricular Choices," Washington, D.C., January 12, 1991. Invited Address
• The American Association of Philosophy Teachers' Eighth International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Bloomington, August 7, 1990. Juried proposal
• The University of Chicago's National Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning, "Cultural Diversity and Liberal Education: Negotiating Difference in the Academy," Chicago, November 6, 1989. Juried Proposal.

"Student Life As Text: Difference, Community, & Character," with Richard Guarasci and Baylor Johnson, presented at the University of Chicago's Institute for Issues in Teaching and Learning, "Values Conflict and Critical Inquiry in the Classroom," Chicago, April 14, 1991.  An earlier draft of this paper was presented with Richard Guarasci at:

• The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges, "Knowledge Claims and Curricular Choices," Washington, D.C., January 12, 1991.

"On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Curricula for Life:  Postmodern, Feminist, and Marginalized Reflections on Positing a Core," with Darlene Hantzis and James Cadello, presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Core Curriculum's Third Annual Conference on the Reform of Curriculum in Higher Education, Keystone, October 6, 1990. Juried proposal.

"Rethinking the Philosophy Major: A Critical Perspective on Undergraduate Curricula," presented at The American Association of Philosophy Teachers' Eighth International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Bloomington, August 7, 1990.  Juried proposal.

"The Opening of the American Mind: The Democratic Alternative," presented at The Annual National Conference on The Freshman Year Experience, with Richard Guarasci, Colombia, February 18, 1990.

"Building a Residential Community: Challenging Student Values Through the Integration of Core Course and Student Life," presented at the Annual Conference on the Freshman Year Experience, with Joseph Kling and Virginia Schwartz, Pittsburgh, October 3, 1988.

"Creating a Pre-Disciplinary Discourse Community: Mapping the Territory in a Freshman Program," read at The University of Chicago's National Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning, "Teaching Critical Thinking: Campus Practice, Emerging Connections," with Thomas Hemmeter, Chicago, April 26, 1988.

TEACHING

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Ancient Greek Philosophy
• Ethical Theory
• Africana Philosophy
• Globalization

COURSES TAUGHT

Philosophy

• The Ethics of Global Citizenship
• Philosophy from Africa and the Diaspora
• Ethical Theory
• Comparative Philosophy of Nature
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Ethics, Politics & Aesthetics
• Economic Justice: Capitalism, Socialism, and the Ideal State
• Symbolic Logic
• Ancient Philosophy

Cultural Encounters

• Comparative Studies in Racial and Cultural Identities
• Introduction to Intercultural Studies

First-Year Program

• Knowing Nature: Gender, Culture, and Identity
• Tales for an Accelerated Culture
• The Human Condition: Nature, Self, and Societ