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Michelle Catalano is an Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her critical thinking courses ask students to analyze and take active sides on controversial issues. Catalano 1 Catalano 2 Catalano 3 Catalano 4 Catalano 5 Catalano 6 Catalano 7 Catalano 8 Catalano 9 Which of your courses get students out Continue reading →

Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. She also coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. By writing for general audiences and teaching (and learning) in prisons, she widens the impact of her work on carceral logics and entangled empathy. Gruen Continue reading →

Dan Hicks is a postdoctoral researcher in the Data Science Initiative at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on “public scientific controversies”—cases like climate change, vaccines, or genetically modified crops, where there is both technical and political disagreement involving scientists and/or members of the general public. The following interview was transcribed from spoken Continue reading →

Sharyn Clough is a Professor of Philosophy in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University. She is also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, Curriculum Coordinator for the Peace Literacy Program, and Director of Phronesis Lab: Experiments in Engaged Ethics. She has research expertise in philosophy of science, feminist theory, and Continue reading →

Stephanie Jenkins is an assistant professor in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University. Her “Philosophy School of Phish” gets students and artists in touch with philosophical questioning. Jenkins 2 jenkins-stephanie Jenkins 4 Jenkins 3 Which of your courses get students out of the classroom? What project(s) do your students do? Continue reading →

Cristina Cammarano is an assistant professor at Salisbury University. Her dissertation, The Philosophically Educated Teacher as Traveler, explores the metaphor of travel in its connections to teaching and learning. Cammarano 2106 007 Cammarano Cropped Cammarano photo 3 Cammarano we are learning! 2 Which of your courses get students out of the classroom? What project(s) do Continue reading →

Ian Olasov is a philosophy graduate student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research centers on moral discourse, which he spreads through the Brooklyn Public Philosophers talk series, The Owl podcast, and Ask a Philosopher booths in public spaces. Olasov1 Olsasov3 Olasov4 Olasov2 What type(s) of public philosophy work Continue reading →

Megan Halteman Zwart is an associate professor in the department of philosophy at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She has found her experiential learning courses to be the most rewarding of her career. 18192466_1674814832536263_6067661697349890111_o 18076846_1609625069077895_4660029949472163078_o 18121750_1609625272411208_503297163009081784_o 18056212_1609625062411229_6932290178413967839_o 18121222_1674814812536265_3759307370650912458_o Why did you choose to ask students to do civic engagement projects? I teach a Continue reading →

Eric Weber gets outside (of the academy). He writes columns for The Clarion Ledger of Jackson, MS, The Lexington Herald-Leader, and The Prindle Post at the Prindle Institute for Ethics; co-hosts the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast on WRFL Lexington, 88.1 FM; and serves as Executive Director of The Society of Philosophers in Continue reading →

John Torrey is a philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Memphis. He studies how Black Americans are recognized in society, effects on their right to rectification, and whether precollege philosophy can help diversify the philosophical canon and participants. What civically engaged project(s) or work do you do with students? What is your role? The Continue reading →