Dr. Sandra Harding

(retired)

 

         ·        Instructor Humanities 3302: Medieval and Renaissance Culture (1991-2003)

·        Instructor U.S. history survey in Spanish

·        Instructor courses in Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation history

·        Instructor in the history of Spain and Portugal

  

Dr. John Haddox

·        Professor of Philosophy

·        Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame

·        Publications include:

§         “Personal values in the thought of Gabriel Marcel and Jose Vasconcelos” in Issues in Contemporary Personalism ed. Thomas Buford (Oxford: Rodop; Press), 1998

§          “Maritain e idiritti degli immigrati” in Prospecttiva Persona, Milan, v.5, no. 24, June, 1998.

§          “Jose Vasconcelos,” “Alfonso Reyes,” and “George Santaynan” (12 pages) in Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. Tracey Chevalier (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publisher), 1997

§          “The Give-Away of Native American Life”, 22^nd American Culture Association Conference, April 12-14, 2001.

§         “Nutrition: Breastfeeding—The Informed Choice, Ethical Issues in Infant Feeding for Pediatricians”, Annual Meeting of the Texas Pediatrics Society, 2001.

 

Dr. Bruce Louden 

• Associate professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics and the Humanities Program at UTEP. 
• Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley. 
• Research specialty is Homeric epic
• Publications and presentations include:

• The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning  (Johns Hopkins University Press).
• The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning manuscript under review  
• The Odyssey and the Near East book in progress.
• “Eurybates, Odysseus, and the Duals in Book 9 of the Iliad,” Colby     Quarterly 38      (2002): 62-76.

 

• “The Tempest, Plautus, and the Rudens,” Comparative Drama,m 33 (1999): 199-223.
• "A Typology of Divine Conflict in the Iliad," Annual meeting of CAMWS, April 2003, Lexington Kentucky.

 

Dr. David Ruiter

• Assistant Professor of English  
• Ph.D Baylor University 
• Publications and presentations include:

• a chapter in Spiritual Shakespeares, (Routledge: 2005)

• Shakespeare’s Festive History, (Ashgate Publishing: 2003) 
• “Shakespeare and the Masses: Promoting Larger Intellectual Arenas.” Nova 37.2 (Winter 2000)
• “Life on the Frontier: Frederick Jackson Turner and Rick Bass.” Journal of the American Studies Assoc. of Texas 26 (1995): 66-73.
• “Political Festivity in 1 Henry IV: Hal’s Creation of the Feast of Falstaff.” 2001 Meeting of the Shakespeare Assoc. of America, April, 2001
• “Shakespearean Drama: Creating Ligitimacy from Diference.” 2000 Meeting of the 16^th-Century Studies Assoc.
• “To sport would be as tedious as to work’: Festivity and Politics in 2 Henry IV.” 2000 Meeting of the Shakespeare Assoc. of America. Public lecture:
• “Guilty Parties: The Culture of Violence in Macbeth,” Shakespeare on the Rocks, September, 2001.

 

Dr. Julius Simon

• Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Ph.D. Temple University
• Publications and presentations include:

• History, Religion and Meaning: American Reflections on the Holocaust and Israel, Greenwood Press, 2000
• “Religious Hermeneutics in Husserl, Heidegger, Rosenqweig and Levinas” trans. of Bernhard Casper, 1999.
• “The Life of Franz Rosenzweig,” “Rosenzweig’s ‘The Star of Redemption’” World Philosophy, Salem Press 2000
• “German-Jewish Philosophers Facing the Shoah,” Conference on Remembering For the Future 2000, July, 2001.
•  “Philosophy, Genocide and, Nationalism” Conference on Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Future, October, 1998.
• “Levinas on the Border(s),” The World Congress of Philosophy, August, 1998.

 

Dr. Ronald J. Weber

• Associate Professor of History and Western Cultural Heritage
• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
• Publications and presentations include:

• “A Search for Order in the Cosmos: Using Plato’s Symposium to Examine Herodotus”  D. Thompson (ed.) Universality and History: Foundations of Core 2002.
• “The Composition of Livy 45.25-34: Illyricum and the End of the Third Macedonian War” C. Deroux (ed.). Collection Latomus, vol. VIII: 1996.
• "Polybius vs Cato: The Composition of Livy 45.19-25," C. Deroux (ed.). Collection Latomus, Vol VII: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History (1993)
• "Albinus: The Living Memory of a Fifth‑Century Personality," Historia, Vol. XXVI. 1989.         
• "The Taulantii and Pirustae in Livy's Version of the Illyrian Settlement of 167 B.C.: The Roman Record of Illyria" C. Deroux (ed.). Collection Latomus, Vol. V: Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History (1989) 66-93.
• Co-Editor, “Re-forming Liberal Education: The Core—Its Teachers, Students, and Texts—After the 20^th Century” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2000. To be published in 2004.
• Electronic, On-Line Textbook of Greek Art, Lesson One: "The Greek Bronze Age", Lesson Two: "Greek Painted Pottery"; dmc.utep.edu/westhc

 

Dr. Robert Wren

• Lecturer Western Cultural Heritage
• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
• Publications and presentations include:
• “Literary Effects of Virginia Woolf’s Marriage to Leonard Woolf”  MLA Twentieth Century Literature Group.
•  “See of Alexandria between 300-6000 CE” MLA Twentieth Century Literature Group