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Randall Auxier, Professor
Communication Studies and Philosophy
Randall Auxier was educated in the philosophy departments of the University of Memphis (B.A. 1986 and M.A. 1988) and Emory University (MA 1991 and Ph.D, 1992). His specialization in semiotics and symbol theory prepared him for a career spanning from extensive work in logic and metaphysics to popular culture and practical ethics, all based on symbolic and semiotic systems.
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Matthew Brown, Professor, Director of Center for Dewey Studies
Philosophy
Matthew J. Brown is the Jo Ann and Donald N. Boydston Chair in American Philosophy and Director of the Center for Dewey Studies. He is a pragmatist philosopher of science and historian of philosophy whose research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century philosophy (especially John Dewey and American pragmatism, Marxism, and the history of philosophy of science) and on the intersection of science, values, and politics. He has also done theoretical and empirical research in cognitive science on the interaction of culture and cognition, as well as in the interdisciplinary field of comics studies.View Full Bio
Alfred Frankowski, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Philosophy
Alfred Frankowski specializes in Critical Philosophy of Race, African American and Africana Philosophy, Aesthetics, Post-Colonialism and Critical Genocide Studies. He also specializes in19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy and Contemporary Global Political Philosophy.View Full Bio
Faner, Room 3331
618-453-7435
alfred.frankowski@siu.edu
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Nicholas Guardiano, Associate Professor
Philosophy, Special Research Collections Center
Nicholas Guardiano specializes in American transcendentalism and pragmatism (esp. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Peirce), metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of nature, semiotics, and nineteenth-century American art. He teaches broadly in the history of philosophy, and he oversees the philosophy collections at the Special Collections Research Center where he is Alwin C. Carus Archivist.
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Joseph Smith, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Philosophy
Philosophy, Africana Studies
Dr. Joseph L. Smith has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Africana and Multicultural Studies, and the School of History and Philosophy. Smith received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2020), an LL.M. in International Economic Law from Xiamen University (2021), M.A. in Black Theology from Union Theological Seminary in NYC (2006), and a B.A. in Philosophy from Kutztown University (2001). Smith's teaching and research interests include Black Male Studies, Africana Philosophy, Foucault Studies, Prison Studies, and the emergence of the Breton-Woods Institute, WTO, Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements.View Full Bio
Faner 4032
618-453-7145
smithjl@siu.edu
F: 618-453-7131
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Sabrina Starnaman, Assistant Professor of Practice
Philosophy
Sabrina Starnaman specializes in Buddhist religion and philosophy, and Progressive Era (1880-1930) literature and philosophy. She holds a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California at San Diego, an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, and an MA in (Zen Buddhist) Pastoral Care and Counseling from New York Theological Seminary. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice and a Zen Buddhist Chaplain with the Southern Illinois Heath Care system.
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Kenneth Stikkers, Professor
Philosophy
Kenneth Stikkers earned his PhD at DePaul University and arrived at SIUC in 1997. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He has also been a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico, the University of Warsaw, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Ca'Foscari University, Venice, Italy. His areas of specialization are American philosophy (Wm. James, African American philosophy), contemporary continental philosophy (Max Scheler, Michel Foucault), and philosophy of economics. He has published three books and over 90 chapters and articles. His most recent book is "Philosophy in the Time of Economic Crisis." Recently he received the Stuart Hall Award, for outstanding mentorship.View Full Bio
Faner, Room 3022
618-453-7433
kstikker@siu.edu
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Andrew Youpa, Professor
Philosophy
Andrew Youpa specializes in early modern philosophy, history of ethics, and contemporary ethics. He is the author of The Ethics of Joy: Spinoza on the Empowered Life (Oxford University Press, 2020). He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2002 from the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Youpa joined the faculty in the Department of Philosophy at SIU in 2003.
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