|
Lund, Kathy, Administrative Support Coordinator
Office: FT 104E Phone: (661) 654-2291 Email: klund2@csub.edu
Stephen Campagna-Pinto, Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas: Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking; Religion in America; Religion in Politics
Office: FT 101E Phone: (661) 654-6587 Email: scampagna_pinto
Gamboa, Steven, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, and Early Modern Philosophy
Office: FT 103B Phone: (661) 654-2196 Email:sgamboa
|
Gubkin, Liora
, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Areas: Sociology of Religion, Judaism, Women and Religion, Holocaust Studies
Office: FT 103E Phone: (661) 654-2314 Email:
lgubkin
Liora Gubkin conducts research on memory and representation of the Holocaust and on gender
in Judaism. Her most recent publications include You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust
Memory in American Passover Ritual (Rutgers University Press) and “I will espouse you with
righteousness and justice: domestic violence and Judaism” in Violence against Women in
Contemporary World Religion: roots and cures (Pilgrim Press). Prof. Gubkin’s interest in
religious studies began with the course “Major World Religions” her first semester of
college, and she hopes to inspire a similar enthusiasm in her students through the wide
range of courses she teaches.
|
|
Jackson, Debra
, Ph.D., Purdue University
Areas: Feminist Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Social/Political Philosophy, and Critical Thinking
Office: FT 104F Phone: (661) 654-6829
Email:
djackson9
Debra Jackson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Her research focuses on legal,
political, and epistemological issues regarding gender and race, especially with regard to
sexual violence against women. Most recently, she has published “Utopian Fantasy and the
Politics of Difference” in World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher
King(Open Court, 2009), co-edited a special issue of the APA Newsletters on Feminism
and Philosophy on Feminist Critical Theory (2005), and is co-authoring Critical
Thinking: A User’s Manual (Cengage, 2011) with Paul Newberry.
|
Jones, Bruce W., Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies,
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Areas: Bible Studies and Literature, Ancient Near East, Islam, Death Studies
E-mail: bjones
|
Kegley, Jacquelyn Ann K.
, Ph.D., Columbia University - Dept. Chair
Areas: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Technology, Self and Mind, Philosophy and Literature
Office: FT 103D Phone: (661) 654-2249 Email:
jkegley
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley is Professor of Philosophy, Chair Department of Philosophy &
Religious Studies and was named the CSU Outstanding Professor in 1988 and received the
CSU Wang Award for Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service in 2000. Dr. Kegley served
as Chair of the CSU Academic Senate, the faculty governing body for the 23 campuses, from
2000-2003. In addition to her book, Genuine Individuals and Communities on the public
philosophy of Josiah Royce, (Vanderbilt University Press)and her new book, Josiah Royce in
Focus (Indiana University Press) she has published on a diversity of topics including
technology and philosophy of science, bioethics and genetics, and health care as well as
contributions to The Library of Living Philosophers volumes on the work of Marjorie Green,
Charles Hartshorne, Richard Rorty, Paul Weiss and Alfred North Whitehead. Two of her books
concern Genetics and Bioethics; and the fifth was a logic text authored jointly with
Charles W. Kegley. She has produced five edited volumes with an authored chapter, 62
articles or chapters. She currently chairs the Royce Critical Edition Committee for the
Josiah Royce Society She received the 2006 Herbert W. Schneider award for career-long
contributions to American philosophy. Her fields of interest include American Philosophy,
Bioethics, Neuroethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of
Technology.
|
Kessler, Gary E., Professor Emeritus and Philosophy and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Columbia University - Union Theological Seminary
Areas: Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, History of Philosophy
E-mail: gkessler
|
Meyers, Christopher
, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Areas: Applied and Theoretical Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
Office: FT 103F Phone: (661) 654-2072 Email:
cmeyers
Christopher Meyers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Kegley Institute of
Ethics at CSU Bakersfield. He is also a member of the medical staff at Kern Medical
Center, where he provides ethics consulting and education, services he also provides for
most the major hospitals in the Bakersfield area. Most of his research is in practical
ethics, particularly bioethics and journalism ethics. Recent publications include, A
Philosophical Approach to Journalism Ethics (Oxford: 2009) and A Practical Guide for
Clinical Ethics Consulting: Expertise, Ethos and Power (Rowman and Littlefield: 2007).
|
Newberry, Paul, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Areas: Moral Psychology, Critical Thinking, History of Western Philosophy, Ethics, Metaethics, Contemporary Philosophy
Office: FT 104A Phone: (661) 654-3068 E-mail: pnewberry
Paleologou, Maria, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Areas: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics
Office: FT 104D Phone: (661) 654-2417 E-mail: mpaleologou
Saner, Senem, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Areas of Specialization: Hegel, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy
Areas of Competence: 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy
Office: FT 102F Phone: (661) 654-2547 E-mail: ssaner@csub.edu
|
Vivian, Tim
, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
Areas: Western Religion, Western Scriptures, Christianity, New Testament, Islam,
Mysticism, Native American Religion
Office: FT 101B Phone: (661) 654-2214
Email:
tvivian
Tim Vivian's primary teaching field is Western Religions and Scriptures: Introduction to
Western Religions, Sacred Scriptures of the West, Hebrew Bible, New Testament, New
Testament Greek, Christianity, and Islam. He also teaches the introductory Religious
Studies and the Quest for Meaning, and Native American Religion. He enjoys working with
students in and out of class to deepen their undertsanding and appreciation of religion.
Prof. Vivian's research is in early Christian monasticism and he has published thirteen
books and over 100 articles in that field.
|
|
|
