Alumni - Doctoral Program
Juan Antonio Casas
Ph.D. 2024
Juan Antonio Casas is a Ph.D. student at the Philosophy and Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. He obtained his Law degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an Ed.M. in Private School Leadership from the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College.
Born and raised in Bogotá, he moved from the practice of law to education as a middle and high school Social Sciences teacher at Gimnasio Campestre, a nationally-recognized K-12 boys school, where he taught for five years and served as Head of School from 2006 to 2017. His experience as a school leader and classroom teacher inform his research interests in moral development, curriculum design and school improvement.
Kirsten Welch
Ph.D. 2024
Safiye Yigit
Ph.D. 2024
Safiye Yigit graduated from the University of Houston in 2007, where she majored in Sociology and minored in Psychology. She also holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. For her Master's thesis, she has written on “Curiosity as an Intellectual and Ethical Virtue” and has given numerous lectures and talks in Turkey, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, US, UK, and Poland on curiosity. From 2012 to 2015, she worked as a Researcher at Bogazici University as part of a research project entitled “Curiosity: Epistemics, Semantics, and Ethics” directed by Ilhan Inan. As part of the project, she organized an international conference gathering various notable philosophers working on curiosity and is the co-editor and a contributor of the book Moral Psychology of Curiosity (forthcoming in 2018, Rowman and Littlefield) that came out of a series of curiosity conferences that took place in Istanbul, Slovenia, and Washington. She is also contributing a chapter entitled “The Curious Case of Curiosity: A Virtue or a Vice?” to the forthcoming book Just Curious About Curiosity: Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know. She has published articles in the Parmenideum Journal of Philosophy and the Croation Journal of Philosophy.
After studying virtue epistemology and intellectual virtues, she then became interested in the philosophy of education, and educating for intellectual virtues and wisdom. Currently, Safiye is continuing her studies as a doctoral candidate in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Last but not least, she is married and the mother of two boys: Selim and Halim.
Rebecca Sullivan
Ph.D. 2023
Rebecca Sullivan is a PhD student in the Philosophy and Education program. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Notre Dame. After working for a few years in the human service professions, she has returned to the formal study of philosophy to deepen her understanding of personhood and the intersection of philosophy and education that happens through everyday actions and encounters.
The title of her masters thesis was: "Bearing Witness to a Knowledge of Encounter: The Power of Perspective in Babette's Feast."
Xiaochen Zhao
Ph.D. 2023
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Bergen Community College
Eileen Reuter
Ph.D. 2023
Current Position
Supervisor of Student Teaching, Catholic University of America
Buddy B. North
Ph.D. 2023
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Education, Co-Director of Education, Alaska Pacific University
Select Publications
North, B. B. (2022). Refusing the University, But Not Philosophy. Philosophy of Education 78 (3):192-196.
North, B. B. (2019). Toward Promoting Humanity: Intellectual Virtues and Moral Responsibility. Philosophy of Education 75:461-466.
Rashad Raymond Moore
Ph.D. 2023
Current Occupation
Pastor, First Baptist Church of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York
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Moore, R. R. (2021). “I Brought Him Here to Be My Friend: Hope, DuBois & Friendship in Historically Black Education” in Philosophy of Education, vol. 77, no. 4.
Moore, R. R. (2021). “An Ensouling Education” in Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion through Case-Based Inquiry, Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz, eds., Harvard Education Press.
Moore, R. R. (2020). “Dear God, At What Cost? Toward a Theology of Historically Black Education” in LAPIZ (Annual Publication of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society), vol. 7.
Saori Hori
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation Title
Ignorance and Irony: The Role of Not-Knowing in Becoming a Person
Bing Quek
Ph.D. 2022
Current Position
Management Consultant at McKinsey and Company
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Quek, Yibing (2022). Moral Precarity of Teaching in Neoliberal Times—and Why the Public Should Care with Teachers. Philosophy of Education 78 (1):156-168.
Quek, Yibing (2021). An Interpretation of the 2019 Chicago Teachers’ Strike Through the Ethics of Care. Studies in Philosophy and Education 40 (6):609-627.
Rachel Longa
Ph.D. 2022
Current Position
Adjunct Instructor and a Freelance Editor
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Buck, B. and Longa, R. (2020), “Make the Education of the Youths Our Own Education”: Plato's Laches, a Dialogue for Educators. Educ Theory, 70: 199-213.
Sara Hardman
Ph.D. 2022
Current Position
Lecturer in the Philosophy and Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University
Select Publications
Sara Hardman, “Teacher Strikes as Education: The West Virginia Teacher Strikes Framed by a Theory of Counter-Conduct, Performativity, and Aesthetics,” PhD diss., (Columbia University, 2022).
Sara Hardman, “The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike as Counter-Conduct: The Fight Against
Neoliberalism from a Feminist Perspective,” Philosophy of Education 76, no. 1 (2020): 35–49.
Sara Hardman, “Finding Freedom within Existential Anxiety with Beauvoir,” Philosophy of
Education 75, no. 1 (2019): 578–583.
Qifan Zhang
Ph.D. 2022
Current Position
Independent Scholar and Juris Doctor student at UCLA Law
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Zhang, Q. “Play as Inter-play: A Dialogue between Gadamer and Schiller.” Beijing International Review of Education 4 (2022): 440–456. Lovely (poetry collection). Atmosphere Press, 2023.
Brandon Buck
Ph.D. 2020
Current Position
Senior Editor at HealthEquity
Select Publications
Buck, B. and Longa, R. (2020), “Make the Education of the Youths Our Own Education”: Plato's Laches, a Dialogue for Educators. Educ Theory, 70: 199-213.
Tomas Rocha
Ph.D. 2020
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, College of Education, University of Washington
Nicolas Tanchuk
Ph.D. 2019
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Select Publications
Maxwell, B., Boon, H., Tanchuk, N., & Rauwerda, B. (2021). Adaptation and validation of a test of ethical sensitivity in teaching. Journal of Moral Education, 50(3), 267-292.
Tanchuk, N., Rocha, T., & Krus, M. (2021). Is Comprehensive Liberal Social Justice Education Brainwashing? Philosophy of Education, 77(2), 44-59.
Tanchuk, N. (2020). Is Inquiry Learning Unjust? Cognitive Load Theory and the Democratic Ends of Education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54(5), 1167-1185.
Jessica Davis
Ph.D. 2019
Current Position
Philosophy Instructor, Western Governors University
LeAnn Holland
Ph.D. 2018
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Education and the Coordinator of the Graduate Program at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York
Select Publications
Ostrow-Michel, Jessica, LeAnn M. Holland, Claudine Brunnquell, and Stephen Sterling. "Transformative Sustainability Learning." Special Issue. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020.
Holland, LeAnn M. "A Philosophy of Weather: How We Learn in an Elemental, Aesthetic Environment." Dissertation. Columbia University, 2018.
Holland, LeAnn M. "Reconsidering the 'Ped' in Pedagogy: A Walking Education." Philosophy of Education Archive, 2018. 64-73.
Jason Wozniak
Ph.D. 2017
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, West Chester University
John Fantuzzo
Ph.D. 2016
Current Position
Director of the Prison Education Program at Eastern University
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Yoshiaki Nakazawa
Ph.D. 2015
Current Position
Department Chair and Assistant Professor, Education Department at the University of Dallas
Select Publications
Jonas, Mark E. and Nakazawa, Yoshiaki M. A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms (New York: Routledge) 2021.
Jonas, Mark E., Yoshiaki M. Nakazawa, and James Braun. "Appetite, Reason, and Education in Socrates’ ‘City of Pigs’." Phronesis 57.4 (2012): 332-357.
Patrick Comstock
Ph.D. 2015
Patrick Comstock passed away in 2022 in an unfortunate accident. We miss him dearly and remember him fondly.
Carmen James
Ph.D. 2015
Current Position
Lead Instructional Designer for Online Education, General Assemb.ly
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Hansen, David T. and James, Carmen. "The importance of cultivating democratic habits in schools: enduring lessons from Democracy and Education." Journal of Curriculum Studies. 48.1 (2016): 94.
James, Carmen. "Review of Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success by Scott Seider." Teachers College Record 17733 (2014).
James, Carmen. "Review of Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality by Arthur L. Costa, Robert J. Garmston, & Diane P. Zimmerman." Teachers College Record 17498 (2014).
Stephanie Burdick-Shepherd
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Associate Professor of Education, Lawrence University
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Hansen, David T., Stephanie Burdick-Shepherd, Cristina Cammarano, and Gonzalo Obelleiro. "Education, Values, and Valuing in Cosmopolitan Perspective." Curriculum Inquiry 39.5 (2009): 587-612.
Burdick-Shepherd, Stephanie, "Deep Education: Perception as Educational Response." Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children. Ed. Daniel Shepherd. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2005.
Michael Schapira
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hofstra University
Selected Publications
Schapira, M. (2014). Historical perspectives on the crisis of the university (Order No. 3620415). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1538017410). Retrieved from http://eduproxy.tc-library.org/?url=/docview/1538017410?accountid=14258
Kazuaki Yoda
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Part time lecturer at Waseda University in Tokyo
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Yoda, Kazuaki (2017). An Approach to Simone Weil’s Philosophy of Education Through the Notion of Reading. Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (6):663-682.
Gonzalo Obelleiro
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Instructional Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education, DePaul University
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Obelleiro, G. (forthcoming) “Cosmopolitanism.” in L. Stone (Ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Boston: Cengage Learning/Macmillan.
Obelleiro, G. (forthcoming) “Democracy without telos: On preparing for a future uncertain.” L. Waks, A. English (Eds.) Democracy and Education Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Obelleiro, G. (2013) “Cosmopolitan Dialogue in an Interconnected, Ever Changing World” in O. Urbain (Ed.) Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace. London: I.B. Taurus.
Obelleiro, G. (2012) “A Moral Cosmopolitan Perspective on Language Education.” Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. Vol. 9, Issue 1-2.
Dror Post
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Studying Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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Post, Dror. "A Hope for Hope: The Role of Hope in Education." Philosophy of Education Yearbook (2006): 271-79. http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/pes/article/viewFile/1551/289
Post, Dror. "Heraclitus’s hope for the unhoped." Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13.2 (2008): 229-240.
David Backer
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Backer, D. I. (2022). Toxic finance. Dissent Magazine, online: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/toxic-finance
Backer, D. I., & Cairns, K. (2021). Social reproduction theory revisited. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(7), 1086-1104.
Backer, D. (2020). School funding inequality in Pennsylvania: A base-superstructure analysis. Pennsylvania Educational Leadership Journal, 39(2), 35-61.
Cara Furman
Ph.D. 2014
Current Position
Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Hunter College, CUNY
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Furman, C. (2024). Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction. Harvard, MA: Harvard Educational Press.
Furman, C. & Karno, D. (2023) Teacher Talk in an Early Educator Blog: Building Culture Circles for Exploring Ethics. Ethics and Education.
Furman, C. (2023). “Eavesdropping Books as Testimony: Witnessing Secondhand Crimes Against Humanity with Young Children.” Educational Theory.
Matthew Hayden
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
Associate Professor of Education and Director, SOE International Programs
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Hayden, Matthew J. Cosmopolitan Education and Moral Education: Forging Moral Beings Under Conditions of Global Uncertainty. Diss. Columbia University, 2012.
Hayden, Matthew J. "Arendt and Cosmopolitanism: The Human Conditions of Cosmopolitan Teacher Education." Ethics & Global Politics 5.4 (2013).
Hayden, Matthew J. "What Do Philosophers of Education Do? An Empirical Study of Philosophy of Education Journals." Studies in Philosophy and Education 31.1 (2011): 1-27.
Guillermo Marini
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
Associate Professor at the School of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Marini, G. & Mondragon, H. (2023). Construir y habitar la escuela [To build and to dwell in school]. Santiago: Ediciones UC.
Mondragon, H., & Marini, G. (2022). Open-Air schools: Architectures for Care and Education. ARQ, (109), 114-127.
Marini, G. (2021). An introduction to everyday aesthetics in education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 40(1), 39-50.
Givanni Ildefonso
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
Associate Professor of Education and Language Acquisition, City University of New York
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M., Ildefonso-Sánchez Givanni. "Educating the Multicultural Gaze through Leisure." OMNES 6.2 (2016): 49. Web.
Ildefonso, Givanni M. "Not a laughing matter: The value of leisure in education." Curriculum Inquiry 41.1 (2011): 48-56.
Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
President of Creighton University
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Jesuit Higher Education in a Secular Age: A Response to Charles Taylor and the Crisis of Fullness (2022).
Martha Crowley
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
Adjunct Faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University
Cristina Cammarano
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University
Select Publications
Cammarano, Cristina. Philosophizing as Education. vol. Volume 3, Spring 2021. pp. 5-20. Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice.
Cammarano, Cristina and Stutelberg, Erin B. (2020). “Through serpent and eagle eyes”: Teachers as handlers of memory. Reimagining Research and Practice at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Teaching, and Teacher Education. vol. 122. no. 4. Teacher’s College Record.
Cammarano, Cristina. (2018). “Sweetness Follows. Notes on the Pedagogy of Critique in a Philosophy of Education Course.” in Megan Laverty (ed.), Philosophy of Education.
Christopher Moffett
Ph.D. 2012
Current Position
Research Scholar, Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College
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Moffett, Chris. Forthcoming. “Playing with Fire: Rethinking Play and Technology Today.” The Journal of New Child Studies.
Lewis, Tyson E., and Chris Moffett. 2022. “Educational Soundings: A Cryptogenealogy of Sounding Differently.” Postdigital Science and Education.
Moffett, Chris. 2021. “The Play of Art: Propensity and Pedagogy in Contemporary Chinese Early Childhood Education.” Studies in Art Education 62 (3): 222–35.
Winston Thompson
Ph.D. 2011
Current Position
Associate Professor, Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology
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Winston C. Thompson & John Tillson, Eds., Pedagogies of Punishment: The Ethics of Discipline in Education, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, (2023).
Winston C. Thompson, Ed., Philosophical Foundations of Education, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, (2023).
Winston C. Thompson, “More than Race: Mills, Ethnicity, and Education,” Theory and Research in Education, DOI:10.1177/14778785231162, (2023).
Terri Wilson
Ph.D. 2010
Current Position
Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder
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Wilson, Terri S. "Exploring the Moral Complexity of School Choice: Philosophical Frameworks and Contributions." Studies in Philosophy and Education 34.2 (2014): 181-91.
Wilson, Terri S., and Matthew A. Ryg. "Becoming Autonomous: Nonideal Theory and Educational Autonomy." Educational Theory 65.2 (2015): 127-150.
Jeff Frank
Ph.D. 2010
Current Position
Professor of Education, St. Lawrence University
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Frank, J. (2023). Rethinking the purposes of schooling in a global pandemic: From learning loss to a renewed appreciation for mourning and human excellence. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 42(1), 5-16.
Frank, J. (2022). Failures of imagination: Racial justice in philosophy and education. Theory and Research in Education, 20(1), 125-129.
Frank, J. (2021). The adventure of responsive teaching: Lessons from Cora and Julie Diamond. Ethics and Education, 16(1), 20-35.
Ariana Stokas
Ph.D. 2010
Current Position
DEI Consultant
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Stokas, A. G. (2015), A Genealogy of Grit: Education in the New Gilded Age. Educational Theory, 65: 513–528. doi: 10.1111/edth.12130.
Mark Jonas
Ph.D. 2009
Current Position
Professor of Education and Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy), Wheaton College
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Jonas, Mark E. and Yacek, Douglas W. On the Edge of Their Seats: What the Best Teachers Do to Engage and Inspire Their Students (Chicago: Post & Lintel Books) 2024.
Yacek, Douglas W., Jonas, Mark E. and Gary, Kevin H. Moral Education in the 21st Century (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press) 2023.
Jonas, Mark E. and Nakazawa, Yoshiaki M. A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms (New York: Routledge) 2021.
Benjamin Blair
Ph.D. 2009
Current Position
Co-founder of an educational tech firm called Teachur.
Rebecca Winthrop
Ph.D. 2008
Current Position
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution
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Transforming education systems: Why, what, and how | Brookings
Avi Mintz
Ph.D. 2008
Current Position
Associate Professor at University of Tulsa, Department of Educational Studies
Select Publications
“Why did Socrates Deny that he was a Teacher? Locating Socrates among the new educators and the traditional education in Plato’s Apology of Socrates,” Educational Philosophy and Theory 46(7), July 2014, pp. 735-747.
“The Happy and Suffering Student? Rousseau’s Emile and the path not taken in progressive educational thought,” Educational Theory 62(3), June 2012, pp. 249-265.
“Four Educators in Plato’s Theaetetus,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 45(4), November 2011, pp. 657-673.
Laura DeSisto
Ph.D. 2007
Current Position
Program Director and a Senior Lecturer for the Master of Liberal Arts program, Johns Hopkins University
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“Humanism and Education,” a chapter in A History of Western Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Kevin Gary, 121-144, Vol. 2 of A History of Western Philosophy of Education, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Gregory Bynum
Ph.D. 2007
Current Position
Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz Department of Educational Studies
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2012 “Immanuel Kant’s Account of Cognitive Experience and Human Rights Education,” Educational Theory, Vol. 62, No. 2, 185-201.
2011 “The Critical Humanisms of Dorothy Dinnerstein and Immanuel Kant Employed for Responding to Gender Bias: A Study, and an Exercise, in Radical Critique,” Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 30, No. 4, 385-402.
2011 “Kant’s Conception of Respect and African American Education Rights,” Educational Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, 17-40.
Darryl De Marzio
Ph.D. 2007
Current Position
Humanities & History Faculty, Portsmouth Abbey School
Select Publications
De Marzio, Darryl M. (ed.) (2020). David Hansen and the Call to Teach: Renewing the Work That Teachers Do. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
De Marzio, Darryl M. "What Happens in Philosophical Texts: Matthew Lipman's Theory and Practice of the Philosophical Text as Model." Childhood & Philosophy 7, no. 13 (2011): 29-47.
De Marzio, Darryl M. "The Teacher’s Gift of Sacrifice as the Art of the Self," Philosophy of Education Yearbook (2010): 166-173.
Shilpi Sinha
Ph.D. 2006
Current Position
Professor, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, Adelphi University
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Sinha, S. (2015), The Discourse of Humanness at the Intersection of Color-Blindness and Race Awareness. Philosophical Studies in Education, 46, 121-133.
Sinha, S. (2013), Derrida, Friendship and Responsible Teaching in Contrast to Effective Teaching. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (3), 259-271.
Sinha, S. (2010), Dialogue as a Site of Transformative Possibility. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 29 (5), 459-475.
Robert McNulty
Ph.D. 2006
Current Position
Director of Programs, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University, Founder and Executive Director of Applied Ethics, Inc.
Select Publications
“Reflections on the Importance of Business for Peace in 21st-Century Peacebuilding”
“The Global Compact's Inaugural Business for Peace Annual Event Prelude to a Movement?”
James Stillwaggon
Ph.D. 2006
Current Position
Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Iona University
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Stillwaggon, J. and Jelinek, D. (2016) Filmed School: Desire, Transgression and the Filmic Fantasy of Pedagogy. London: Routledge Books.
Stillwaggon, J. (2010) "Inviolable Laws, Impossible to Keep: Orwell on Education, Suffering and the Loss of Childhood." Educational Theory, (60)1, 61-80.
Stillwaggon, J. (forthcoming)" The Indirection of Influence: Poetics and Pedagogy in Plato and Aristotle." Journal of Aesthetic Education.
Doris Santoro
Ed.D. 2005
Current Position
Professor of Education, Chair of Education Department at Bowdoin College
Select Publications
Santoro, D. A. & Cain, L., eds. (2018). Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Harvard Education Press.
Santoro, D. A. (2018). Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay. Harvard Education Press.
Santoro, D. A. & Wilson, T. S., eds. (2015). Philosophical Enquiry through Empirical Research. Studies in Philosophy and Education 34, no. 2.
Patricia Rohrer
Ph.D. 2003
Current Position
Assistant Dean, Associate Professor/Lecturer, Honors College, University of Utah
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"Self-Creation or Choosing the Self: A Critique of Richard Rorty’s Idea of Democratic
Jose Mesa SJ
Ph.D. 2003
Current Position
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor and Worldwide Secretary for Jesuit Education
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Mesa, Jose. Moral Education in the Age of Individualism: Community, the Individual, and the Challenge of Moral Education. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. Print.
Jaramillo, Rosario, and José A. Mesa. "Citizenship Education as a Response to Colombia’s Social and Political Context." Journal of Moral Education 38.4 (2009): 467-87. Web.
Mesa, Jose. "The International Apostolate of Jesuit Education: Recent Developments and Contemporary Challenges." International Studies in Catholic Education 5.2 (2013): 176-89. Web. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19422539.2013.821339#.VunWA8f5Hc
Anna Fishbeyn
Ph.D. 2003
Current Position
Playwright, Actor, Producer, and Filmmaker
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The Secret Life of the Artist Mom was published the first time in Role Mommy.
Miniskirt Dilemma: Hellion Magazine.
There's Sex in Mommyville? A Chat with Playwright Anna Fishbeyn.
Mason Mark
Ed.D. 2002
Current Position
Professor and Head, Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning Hong Kong Institute of Education
Select Publications
Mason, M (2014) Culture in international and comparative education research: conceptual and methodological issues. In A. Reid, P. Hart & M. Peters (Eds.) A Companion to Research in Education (319-331). Dordrecht: Springer.
Mason, M. (2009) Making Educational Development and Change Sustainable: Insights from Complexity Theory. International Journal of Educational Development 29 (2), 117-24.
Mason, M. (2005) A Justification, after the Postmodern Turn, of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37 (6), 799-815.
Inna Semetsky
Ph.D. 2002
Current Position
Retired, Adjunct Professor at The University of Waikato, New Zealand and Chief Consultant to the Institute for Edusemiotic Studies, Melbourne, Australia.
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Semetsky, Inna, and Diana Masny. Deleuze and education. Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Semetsky, Inna. "Nomadic Education: Variations on a theme by Deleuze and Guattari." (2008). Semetsky, Inna, ed. Semiotics education experience. Sense, 2010.
Shaireen Rasheed
Ph.D. 2001
Current Position
Professor of Education, Post Campus Long Island University
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Kamler, Estelle, and Shaireen Rasheed. "Mentoring academic women: struggles for advancement and strategies for change." Research and Practice in Social Sciences 2.1 (2006): 1-15.
Rasheed, Shaireen. "The Existential Concept of Freedom for Maxine Greene: The Influence of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Greene's Educational Pedagogy." Philosophy of Education Archive (2002): 394-401.
Duck-Joo Kwak
Ph.D. 2001
Current Position
Professor in Department of Education at Seoul National University
Select Publications
Kwak, D. J. (2016), "Ethics of Learning and Self-knowledge: Two Cases in the Socratic and Confucian Teachings." Educational Philosophy and Theory, special issue, Vol. pp.7-23.
Kwak, D. J. (2011), Education for Self-transformation: Essay Form as an Educational Practice, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London & New York: Springe.
Kwak, D. J. (2010), "Practicing Philosophy, Practice of Education: Exploring the Essay Form through Lukács’ Soul and Form." Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vo. 44 No. 1, pp. 61-77.
Roben Torosyan
Ph.D. 2000
Current Position
Director of Teaching and Learning, Part-Time Faculty, Philosophy Department, Bridgewater State University
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Torosyan, R. (2014) Book review: Becoming a critically reflective teacher. By Stephen D. Brookfield. In Currents in Teaching and Learning 6 (2).
Torosyan, R. (2013). The Daily Show way: Critical thinking, civic discourse and postmodern consciousness. Refereed chapter in J. Holt (Ed.). The Ultimate Daily Show and philosophy: More moments of Zen, more indecision theory (pp. 181-196). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Torosyan, R. (2009). Things that make you go “what?” Colbert as anti-critical thinker. Refereed chapter in Schiller, A. A. (Ed.), Stephen Colbert and philosophy: I am philosophy (and so can you!) (pp. 29-49). Chicago: Open Court Press.
A Faculty Learning Community on Mindfulness Discusses Experiences (with Minae Savas, Kristine Keay, Lydia Burak, and Christine Brown), CARS May Celebrations (2013)
Ben Endres
Ph.D. 2000
Current Occupation
Private Psychotherapy Practice, Psychotherapist at Veterans Administration Hospital
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Endres, Ben, "Education for Economic Life: The Role of Communicative Action," Teachers College Record, v108 n10 p2001-2020 Oct 2006.
Endres, B. (2001), "A Critical Read on Critical Literacy: From Critique to Dialogue as as Ideal for Literacy Education." Educational Theory, 51: 401–413. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2001.00401.x
Amrita Dhawan
Ph.D. 2000
Current Position
The City College of NY, Associate Professor, Acting Chief, User Services & Information Literacy Librarian
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Dhawan, Amrita. "Spectators or Patriots? Citizens in the Information Age." International Journal of Progressive Education. (Forthcoming 2016).
Dhawan, Amrita, and Ching-Jung j Chen. "Library instruction for first-year students." Reference Services Review 42.3 (2014): 414-432.
Naoko Saito
Ph.D. 2000
Visit Naoko Saito's website for more information on her current work.
Selected Publications
Paul Standish and Naoko Saito (eds), Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation: The Truth is Translated (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
Naoko Saito and Paul Standish (eds), Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012).
Naoko Saito, The Gleam of Light: Education and Moral Perfectionism in Dewey and Emerson (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).