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AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

History of Philosophy, Russian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Postmodernism

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Boston College, Boston, May, 1998

Dissertation: “Genetic Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity and the Husserlian Account of Ethics.”

Husserl Archives Seminar, “Manuscripts on Time,” Leuven, Belgium, 1994-95 directed by Rudolf Bernet and Ullrich Melle

Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, August, 1994

M.A., Boston College, Boston, May, 1993

Certificate, Moscow Socio-Political Institute, Moscow, Russia, May, 1991

Certificate, Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, Russia, Dec., 1989

B.A., The University of Iowa, Iowa City, May, 1989

EMPLOYMENT:

Associate Professor, University of West Georgia, 2003-Present.

Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia, 1998-2003.

Teaching Fellow, Boston College, 1992-1998. Graduate fellowship position.

PUBLICATIONS:

“Husserl and the Responsibility and Sacrifice of Derrida” in Review Journal for Political Philosophy, forthcoming November 2006.

“Rushing to Memorialize” in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. , November 2005, pp.

Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity: From Static to Genetic Phenomenology. Humanity Books Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences series. Prometheus Books. July 2004.

“Genetic Phenomenology and the Husserlian Account of Ethics,” Philosophy Today, Volume 47(2), Summer 2003, 160-175.

“Dwelling with Monuments,” Philosophy and Geography Volume 5(2), July 2002, 235-242.

“The Non-Presence of the Living Present: Husserl’s Time Manuscripts,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38(2), June 2000, 221-230.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Collective Memory, Tradition, and Place book project. Prospectus has been reviewed by Lexington Books and they are interested in seeing the completed manuscript.

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:

University of West Georgia Faculty Research Grant. Summer 2002. $1,500.

Deutsches Akademisches Austauschdienst Fellowship, appointment at the Husserl Archives in Köln, Germany, Summer 98. Approximately $3,000.

Boston College University Fellowship, 1996-97. Approximately $12,000.

Doctoral Comprehensive Exams passed with Distinction, February, 1996

Fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc., appointment at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium, 1994-95. $10,000.

Boston College Graduate Fellowship, 1992-97. Approximately $9,000 per annum.

Boston College Excellence in Teaching Award, 1994.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Tradition in Crisis: Benjamin, Heidegger, Husserl and the Primacy of Place,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Conference, North Carolina, July 22-27. 2006.

“Rushing to Memorialize,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Memphis, October 30-November 2, 2004.

“The Place(s) of Monuments,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Conference, North Carolina, July 15-18, 2004.

“On Passive Synthesis in Husserl: A Response to John Hartmann,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, February 20-21, 2004.

“Intermedialities of Tradition and Collective Responsibility,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 3-8, 2002.

“Place and Transference of Collective memory,” Society for Philosophy and Geography, Towson, MD, April 26-28, 2002.

“Tradition and Memory,” Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle, Milledgeville, GA, March 18, 2002.

“Dwelling with Monuments,” Society for Philosophy and Geography, Albuquerque, NM, April 6, 2000.

“From Memory to Intersubjectivity or From Intersubjectivity to Memory?,” Frontiers of Memory Conference, University of East London, London, England, September 18,1999.

“The Tension between Self-Responsibility and Renewal and Critique in Husserlian Phenomenology,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, March 5, 1999.

“Husserl’s Time Manuscripts and Intersubjectivity,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, Co, October 9, 1998.

“Next? New Readings of the Old: Edmund Husserl as Genetic Phenomenologist Concerned with Ethics,” University of Texas Graduate Conference, Austin, TX, March 21, 1997.

“Levinas and French Existentialism,” Romance Studies Conference of Boston College, Boston, MA, March 15, 1997.

“Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic as Key to the Fifth Cartesian Meditation,” Continental Philosophy, Contemporary Research Conference, University of Essex, Colchester, England, February 25, 1995.

“Truth and Being in Husserl’s Sixth Logical Investigation,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, August, 1994.

“Habermas as Phenomenologist,” Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse, NY, March, 1993.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Secretary, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, three-year term beginning August 2006.

Conference Host for Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Conference, July 2006.

Program co-chair for Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Conference, July 2006.

Program co-chair for Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Conference, July 2005.

Reviewer for Choice Magazine, Spring 2002-present

Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Spring 2002-present

Reviewer for McGraw Hill Press, 2000-present

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, University of West Georgia,

Phil 2100 Introduction to Philosophy, F98, S99, F99, S00, S01, S02, F02, S04, F04, S06, F06

Phil 2100H Introduction to Philosophy, Honors, F00, S03, S05

Phil 2110 Critical Thinking, F98, S00, F00, F01, S02

Phil 3100 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, S99, S00, F01, S03

Phil 3160 Philosophy and Literature, F99, F02, S06

Phil 4100 Phenomenology, S99, F00, F02, F04, F06

Phil 4150 Existentialism, S02, S04, S06

Phil 4220 Hermeneutics, S05

Phil 4240 Philosophy of Love and Friendship, F00, F04

Phil 4300 Senior Seminar, F06

Phil 4385 Feminist Theories, F99

Xids 2100 Postmodernism, Su99, S01, S04

Teaching Fellow, Boston College for Philosophy of the Person , 93-94, 95-96, 97-98. As an instructor in this core curriculum course, I had full responsibility for the syllabus, books, all teaching, and grading.

Instructor, Brookline Adult and Community Education

Philosophy through Literature, summer 97, winter 98

Existentialism, fall 96, spring 97, fall 97

Introduction to Philosophy, winter 96, winter 97

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:

General University Matters Committee, University of West Georgia, 2006-

University Academic Policies Committee, University of West Georgia, 2003-2005.

Faculty and Administrative Staff Personnel Committee, University of West Georgia, 2000-2002. Sexual Harassment subcommittee.

Area B-1 Outcomes Assessment Committee, University of West Georgia, 2002.

XIDS Syllabus Review Committee, University of West Georgia, 2000-2004.

Department of English and Philosophy Advisory Committee, University of West Georgia, 1999-2001. Chair 2000-2001.

Organizational Structures Subcommittee of President's Committee for Retention, University of West Georgia, Spring 2000.

Academic Advisor, West Georgia Philosophical Society, University of West Georgia, 1999-2003.

West Georgia Representative to the Georgia Humanities Council's Humanities Leadership Forum, October 29, 1999.

Writing Across the Curriculum Advisory Committee, 1999-2001.

Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student/Faculty Liaison Committee, Department of Philosophy, Boston College, 1995-96.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

German (reading competence), Russian (reading and speaking competence), French (reading competence).