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Areas of expertise: Environmental Studies, Writing, Philosophy, Ethics


Biography, Education and Training

- Lecturer with a Continuing Appointment, Rachel Carson College, UCSC, 2016-present - Lecturer, Rachel Carson College, UCSC, 2001-2016 - Lecturer, Stevenson College, UCSC, 2000-2009 - MA and PhD in Philosophy, UMass Amherst, 1998 - BA in Psychology, UCSC, 1984 - BSC in Finance, Santa Clara University, 1983 - Graduate of General Electric Company's Human Resources Leadership Program, 1985 - I worked in HR in the high-technology, aviation, and nuclear energy industries for four years prior t... more »


Areas of expertise: Philosophy


Jerome Neu

Jerome Neu

Distinguished Professor Of Humanities

Humanities Division

Areas of expertise: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Legal Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Harvard Law School Fellow in Law and Philosophy Guest Student Boston Psychoanalytic Institute Special Student Harvard University D.Phil Oxford University A.B. Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude

Janette Anne Dinishak

Janette Anne Dinishak

Associate Professor, Associate Director, Center for Public Philosophy

Philosophy Department

Areas of expertise: Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Autism


Biography, Education and Training

PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto BA, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles


Areas of expertise: Philosophy, Ethics


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles B.A. Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles


Areas of expertise: Sociology, Philosophy, Nationalism


Biography, Education and Training

1986 - Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1979 - M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1976 - B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Dana Takagi is a professor of Sociology at UCSC, since 1987; before coming to UCSC, she taught at UC Irvine in the program in social ecology. She is a committed to empirically based research, theoretical innovation, and linking interdisciplinary knowledge to understanding the world-as-it is.

Kyle Stuart Robertson

Kyle Stuart Robertson

Lecturer, Assistant Director, Center for Public Philosophy

Philosophy Department

Areas of expertise: Philosophy, Ethics


Ronald David Glass

Ronald David Glass

Professor of Philosophy of Education

Education Department

Areas of expertise: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Education, Ethics, Epistemology, Democracy, Community-based Research, Discrimination and Inequality, School Reform and School Policy


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Stanford University; Philosophy of Education M.A. Stanford University; Philosophy C.Phil. University of California, Berkeley; Philosophy of Education Ed.M. Harvard University B.A. Harvard University; cum laude, History and Science Professor Glass is a Professor of Philosophy of Education. He currently investigates the ethical issues raised by justice-oriented collaborative research methodologies, and has long focused his philosophic work on education as a practice of freedom, id... more »


Areas of expertise: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ancient World / Classics, Classics, Classical Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin M.A. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin M.A. General Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago M.B.A. Finance and International Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business B.A. English Literature, University of Chicago


Areas of expertise: Philosophy


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Philosophy M.A.  University of California, Santa Cruz, Philosophy     B.A.   University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy


Areas of expertise: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics, Feminist Theory


Biography, Education and Training

Prior to arriving in Santa Cruz, I was at Brown doing postdoctoral research funded by SSHRC. I have received my PhD from the University of Alberta. I work on contemporary issues in value theory, in particular moral psychology and aesthetics, and on the history of these fields.

Rachel Achs

Rachel Achs

Assistant Professor

Philosophy Department

Areas of expertise: Philosophy, Ethics


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