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Nate Olson
Nate Olson

Department ChairAssociate Professor, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2314Email: nolson@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 223Nate Olson's WebsiteMore About Nate Olson

Education
B.A., St. Olaf College
M.A., Ph.D., Georgetown University

Teachings
Theories of Ethics
Environmental Philosophy
Bioethics
Philosophy of Law
Professional Ethics
Business Ethics

Research
Ethics
Bioethics
Research Ethics
Ethics Education

Publications
“A Just Genomics Needs an ELSI of Translation” (with Meghan C. Halley, Aaron Goldenberg, Euan A. Ashley, and Holly Tabor) Hastings Center Report (forthcoming).  
“Practices of Partiality: Affinity, Loyalty, and Sports Fans” (with Kyle Fruh, Marcus Hedahl, and Luke Maring). In Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality, edited by Eric J. Silverman, 244-264. New York: Routledge, 2024.  
“Blurred Boundaries: Toward an Expanded Ethics of Research and Clinical Care” (with Meghan C. Halley). American Journal of Bioethics 23:8 (2023): 5-9.  
“Demonstrating Ethical Leadership in a Virtual World: Accessibility, Community, and Identity” (with Kallee McCullough). Teaching Ethics 21:2 (2021): 213-224.  “A Fair Shake for the Fair-Weather Fan” (with Kyle Fruh, Marcus Hedahl, and Luke Maring).  Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 48:2 (2021): 262-274.
“Why Should Medical Care Be Family-Centered?: Understanding Ethical Responsibilities for Patients’ Family Members.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 29:2 (2019): 159-185.  
“Parental Permission in the Context of Family-Centered Care.” American Journal of Bioethics  17:11 (2017): 26-27.  “Medical Researchers’ Ancillary Care Obligations: The Relationship-Based Approach.” Bioethics 30:5 (2016): 317-324.  
“Fiduciary Obligations in Medical Research.” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 14:1  (2014): 5-11.   “Conceptualizing Ancillary Care Obligations in Health Systems Research.” American Journal of  Bioethics 14:2 (2014): 46-47.

Faculty

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Shaheer Afaqi

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-2214Email: safaqi@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 220
Stephen Campagna-Pinto
Stephen Campagna-Pinto

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-6587Email: scampagna_pinto@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 217
Joel Chandler
Joel Chandler

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: jchandler8@csub.eduMore About Joel Chandler
Research
https://ioal.org/

Publications
https://www.academia.edu/87888665/Diagramming_Dasein
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Quinn Dimaya-Thurley

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: qthurley@csub.edu
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Ana Echeverria

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2248Email: aecheverria5@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 229More About Ana Echeverria
Education
B.A., U.C. Davis
M.A., Linköping University      

Teaching
Critical Thinking
Ethical Reasoning
Professional Ethics
Patrick Emmett
Patrick Emmett

Lecturer, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-2943Email: pemmett@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 216More About Patrick Emmett
Education 
B.S. Accounting, Indiana University
M.A. Religious Studies, CSU Long Beach
Ph.D. Religious Studies, UC Riverside

Teaching
Jesus, Buddha, and the Moral Life
Psychology of Religion
The Spiritual Quest
The Meaning of Death, among others.

Research
Religion and Addiction/Alcoholism/Recovery
Ethical Self-Assessment, Religion and American Exceptionalism
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Emily Evans

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: eevans7@csub.eduOffice: DDH BB204More About Emily Evans
Education
M.A., Texas Tech University

Teaching
Critical Thinking
Contemporary Moral Issues
Professional Ethics

Research
Philosophy of Language
Race
Ethics
Mesoamerican thought
Mexican Philosophy
Fran Fairbairn
Fran Fairbairn

Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2253Email: ffairbairn@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 228Fran Fairbairn's WebsiteMore About Fran Fairbairn
Education 
Ph.D., Cornell University
M.A., Cornell University
B.A., University of Leeds

Teaching
Personhood
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
Theories of Knowledge
Symbolic Logic
Philosophy, Technology, and Our Future
Critical Thinking

Research
Epistemology
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Education

Publications
Epistemic Injustice Through Transformative Learning, (2023), Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(3): 964-982
Teachers’ Existential Self-Doubt as a Form of Epistemic Self-Doubt, (2022), Philosophy of Education Quarterly, 78(1): 34-37
Epistemic Injustice in the Spaces Between Concepts, (2020), The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 58(1): 102-136
Trust, Power, and Transformation in the Prison Classroom, (2021), The Journal of Prison Education and Re-entry, 7(2): 160-181
Joseph Florez
Joseph Florez

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-3155Email: jflorez1@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 215More About Joseph Florez

Education
A.B., Harvard University
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Teaching
Latinx and Latin American Religions
Evangelicalism
Social Justice

Research
Latinx and Latin American History
Evangelicalism/Pentecostalism
Memory Studies
Lived Religion

Publications
Giving Life to the Faith: Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile. (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
w/ Pedro Feitoza (eds.), Evangelicalism in Latin America: Historical Documents in Context. (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
“Indigenization and Believers’ Accounts of Pentecostal Faith in Chile, 1910-1920” in The Gospel in Latin America. Edited by David Bebbington (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022)
“Pentecostal Eschatology, Public Discourse, and Political Engagement in Chile.” Studies in World Christianity, 30, 3 (2024): 306-326.
“A Prohibited History of Pentecostal Social Engagement: la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal and Authoritarian Chile,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, 40, 3 (2018): 287-305.
“Continuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet’s Chile,” Journal of Religion and Society, 19 (2017): 1-22.

Steven Gamboa
Steven Gamboa

Interim Associate Dean, Arts and HumanitiesProfessor, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2196Email: sgamboa@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 210
Katy Hanson
Katy Hanson

Lecturer, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-2257Email: khanson4@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 216More About Katy Hanson
Education
M.A., CSU Long Beach

Teaching
Women, Religion, & Sexuality
Sexual Ethics
Jacquelyn Kegley
Jacquelyn Kegley

Professor, PhilosophyDirector, Helen Hawk Honors Program

Phone: 661-654-2249Email: jkegley@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 224Jacquelyn Kegley's WebsiteMore About Jacquelyn Kegley
Education
B.S. Allegheny College
MA Rice University
PhD. Columbia University

Teaching
Contemporary Philosophy
Personhood
Philosophy of Science
Philosopy, Technology & the Future

Research
Josiah Royce, American Philosophy and Phenomenology, Bioethics, Philosophy of Science

Publications
Books and Text Materials Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy, New York: Lexington Press, 2013. Josiah Royce in Focus, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Informed Consent in an International Perspective: Case Studies, with A. Carmi, J. Arboledo-Flores, & T. LeBlang, UNESCO, 2003. Genetic Knowledge, Human Values, and Responsibility, (Editor). New York: Paragon, 1999.
Genuine Individuals and Genuine Communities: A Roycean Public Philosophy. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. 1997.
Paul Tillich on Creativity, (Editor) Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 1989.
Reasoning with Analogy: The King Returns, CAI Software Package for Critical Thinking. New York: McGraw Hill. 1984.
Introduction to Logic, (with Charles W. Kegley), Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America. 1982.
The Humanistic Delivery of Services to Families in a Changing and Technological and articles, “Naturalistic Spirituality, Religious Naturalism, and Community Spirituality,” in Ananta Kumar  Giri, Editor, Pragmatism, Spirituality and Spirituality. Springer, 2020.
“Not Neo-pragmatism but Critical Pragmatism. There are Tines When Private Must Become Public, in  Rorty and Beyond, edited Randal Auxier, Eli Kramer & Krystof Pitor Skownowski, Lexington 2020.
“Santayana on Josiah Royce: Different Conceptions of Philosophy and Different Styles of Criticism,”  Limbo, Boletin Internacionale de edtudies sobre Santayana. Universidad de Ovieda, Spain.
“Frank M. Oppenheim, SJ: A Model for Philosophical Interpretation and Reflection.,” - 2019 - The Pluralist 14 (2):1.
“Kant as Public Intellectual and Political Theorist,” Pragmatist Kant, Edited by C. Skowroński,, Brill, 2018. “Royce on Self and Relationships: Speaking to the Digital and Texting Self of Today,” The Journal  of Speculative Philosophy: Vol. 32, No. 2 (2018), pp. 285-303                     
“A return to humility and common sense: Santayana’s message to our current age,” Limbo. Boletin sobre los estudios sobre Santayana, Spain, August 2017.
Mark Lamas
Mark Lamas

Lecturer, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-2248Email: mlamas1@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 229More About Mark Lamas
Education
B.A., Religious Studies, CSUB
M.A., Biblical Languages, Fuller Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Christian Origins and New Testament, University of Edinburgh

Teaching
Religion and Film
Explorations in Scripture
A History of God
The Spiritual Quest
Christianity
New Testament Greek I, II, III
Women, Religion, and Sexuality

Research
Ancient Mediterranean Religion
New Testament and Christian Origins
Koine Greek
Roman Numismatics
Roman Epigraphy 

Publications
Did Mark’s Jesus Jesus ‘Behave Like a King?’: The Rex and Roman Imperial Ideology in Mark’s Gospel. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, under review. | Minting Worlds: Roman Coinage and Christian Origins in Context. Co-edited with Helen Bond and Michael Theophilos. Library of New Testament Studies. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, forthcoming. | “Summer of ’69: Reviving Libertas and the Odium of Kingship in Mark’s Gospel.” New Testament Studies, under review. | “Kiss of Judas, New Testament.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Edited by Jens Schröter et al. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
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Jacob Lanier

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: jlanier2@scub.eduOffice: DDH BB204
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G. Russell Ming

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: gming@csub.eduG. Russell Ming's WebsiteMore About G. Russell Ming
Education
B.A., CSU Bakersfield
M.A., University of Glasgow
PhD (in progress), UC Irvine

Teaching
Business Ethics
Professional Ethics

Research
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Philosophical Methodology
Maria Palaiologou
Maria Palaiologou

Lecturer, PhilosophyCampus Ombudsperson

Phone: 661-654-2417Email: mpalaiologou@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 227
Paul Palutikof
Paul Palutikof

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: ppalutikof@csub.eduOffice: DDH BB204More About Paul Palutikof
Education
B.A., University California Berkeley
M.A., San Francisco State University 

Teaching
Critical Thinking
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Travis Rosenlieb

Lecturer, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: trosenlieb@csub.eduOffice: DDH BB204More About Travis Rosenlieb
Education 
B.A., California State University Bakersfield
M.A., Arizona State University
M.Arch., Arizona State University
Senem Saner
Senem Saner

Associate Professor, PhilosophyDirector, Philosophy for Children Program

Phone: 661-654-2547Email: ssaner@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 226Senem Saner's WebsiteMore About Senem Saner
Education
B.S., Physics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
M.A., Philosophy, Purdue University, IN
Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Teaching
Introduction to Philosophy
Orientation and Methods
Philosophy for Children
Modernity and its Critics
Marxism
Political Power and Social Justice

Research
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy
Public Philosophy

Publications
https://philpeople.org/profiles/senem-saner
Tiffany Tsantsoulas
Tiffany Tsantsoulas

Assistant Professor, PhilosophyDirector, Interdisciplinary Studies

Phone: 661-654-2408Email: ttsantsoulas@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 225More About Tiffany Tsantsoulas
Education
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
M.A., University of Ottawa, B.Hum Carleton University

Teaching
Race Matters
Sexual Ethics
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
Existentialism
Political Power & Social Justice
Ethics and Social Identity
Feminist Philosophy

Research
Dr. Tsantsoulas is concerned with how structural oppression and privilege are reinforced and challenged within everyday experience. She is currently working on a project analyzing anti-feminist narratives of femininity in online spaces. Her specialization is in Feminist philosophy, Phenomenology (esp. critical, French), and the Philosophy of Race.

Publications
"On Feminism in Elemental Philosophy" in Syndicate (forthcoming)
"Lugones, Maria (1944-2020)" in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (Springer)
"Anger, Fragility, and the Formation of Resistant Feminist Space" in Journal of Speculative Philosophy 
Jonathan Young
Jonathan Young

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-3566Email: jyoung28@csub.eduOffice: Humanities Complex, 218

Emeritus Faculty

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Stafford Betty

Emeritus Professor, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: sbetty@csub.edu
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Christopher Meyers

Emeritus Professor, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: cmeyers@csub.edu
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Paul Newberry

Emeritus Professor, Philosophy

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: pnewberry@csub.edu
Tim Vivian
Tim Vivian

Emeritus Professor, Religious Studies

Phone: 661-654-2291Email: tvivian@csub.edu
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