Faculty and Staff
Department ChairAssociate Professor, Philosophy Education Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Associate Professor, Religious Studies Lecturer, Philosophy Lecturer, Philosophy Lecturer, Religious Studies Lecturer, Philosophy Assistant Professor, Philosophy Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Education Interim Associate Dean, Arts and HumanitiesProfessor, Philosophy Lecturer, Religious Studies Professor, PhilosophyDirector, Helen Hawk Honors Program Lecturer, Religious Studies Lecturer, Philosophy Lecturer, PhilosophyCampus Ombudsperson Lecturer, Philosophy Lecturer, Philosophy Associate Professor, PhilosophyDirector, Philosophy for Children Program Assistant Professor, PhilosophyDirector, Interdisciplinary Studies Associate Professor, Religious StudiesContact Information
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
https://ioal.org/
Publications
https://www.academia.edu/87888665/Diagramming_Dasein
B.A., U.C. Davis
M.A., Linköping University
Teaching
Critical Thinking
Ethical Reasoning
Professional Ethics
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
M.A., Texas Tech University
Teaching
Critical Thinking
Contemporary Moral Issues
Professional Ethics
Research
Philosophy of Language
Race
Ethics
Mesoamerican thought
Mexican Philosophy
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
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.
M.A., CSU Long Beach
Teaching
Women, Religion, & Sexuality
Sexual Ethics
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.
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.
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
B.A., University California Berkeley
M.A., San Francisco State University
Teaching
Critical Thinking
B.A., California State University Bakersfield
M.A., Arizona State University
M.Arch., Arizona State University
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
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 
