Faculty
Scott Abbott
Professor
Humanities, Philosophy
AOS: German Romanticism,
Literature and Philosophy
Kim Abunuwara
Associate Professor
humanities
AOS: Theatre, Performance Studies,
Divinity in the Arts
Brian Birch
PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY
AOS: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics,
Wittgenstein, Epistemology
Thomas Bretz
assistant PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY
AOS: Environmental Philosophy,
Phenomenology, Deconstruction
Alex Caldiero
Senior Artist In residence
Humanities
AOS: Poetry, Intermedia, History of
the Avant-Gardes.
Elaine Englehardt
Distinguished Professor
Ethics, Philosophy
AOS: Ethics, Moral Theory,
Professional and Practical Ethics, Business Ethics,
Media Ethics, Engineering Ethics
Michaela Giesenkirchen-Sawyer
Associate Professor
Humanities
AOS: American Modernist Literature,
Gertrude Stein, Intersection of Literature,
Film, Music, and Art with Science and Philosophy.
Laura Guerrero
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
AOS: Buddhist Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy,
Epistemology, Metaphysics
Wayne Hanewicz
PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY
AOS: Buddhist Studies, Psychoanalysis
and Archetypes, Thinking and
Consciousness Studies, Quantum Paradigm
Alexandra Karl
lecturer
Humanities
AOS: Darwinism in Art, Contemporary Art
(Utah and International), Criticism, Museums.
Pierre Lamarche
PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY
AOS: Existential Phenomenology, Critical Theory,
Post-Structuralism, Marxism, History of Skepticism
Samuel Liang
Associate Professor
Chinese Studies, Humanities
AOS: Modern Architecture & Urbanism,
Chinese Cultural Studies, Chinese Art History,
Theories of Modernity, Postcolonial Cities.
Michael Minch
Professor
Philosophy
AOS: Political Philosophy, Democratic Theory,
Peace and Justice, Political Ecology,
Christian Theology and Political Theory
Karen Mizell
Professor
Philosophy
AOS: Philosophy of Childhood, Aesthetics,
Philosophy of Education, Ethics
Shannon Mussett
Professor
Philosophy
AOS: Existentialism, Feminism,
German Idealism
Jeffrey Nielsen
LECTURER
PHILOSOPHY
AOS: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics
Kelli D. Potter
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY
AOS: Philosophy of Religion,
History of Analytic Philosophy
Leslie Simon
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Humanities
AOS: 19th Century Literature and Culture,
Relation of Literature to Mathematics,
Structures of Narrative, The Rise of the Novel.
Eric Stencil
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Philosophy
AOS: Early Modern Philosophy
Christine Weigel
PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY
