David Bogen

Sociological Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interface Design, Media and Cultural Studies, Participatory Design, Philosophy of Language, Critical Theory

David Bogen received his B.A. in philosophy from Macalester College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. He is currently the Vice President Academic + Provost at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation(SUNY Press: 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews that explore the intersection of language, technology, and everyday orders of social practice. His most recent work focuses on social, organizational, and perceptual issues in the design of computer mediated interactive environments.

Rafael Gomez

Cognitive, linguistic, emotion and moral development via relationships.

Rafael Gomez, MA. Ed. Psychotherapist at Dane County Mental Health Clinic, Counselor at Cherokee Middle School, Instructor at Viterbo College and freelancing lecture and researcher on Existential Pedagogy, Learning Spanish, Designing Education for the Oppressed.

Elizabeth Dorland

faculty development, improvement of college science teaching, Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning

Liz Dorland is a former NSF program officer and college chemistry faculty member who promotes information and visual literacy in the context of Web 2.0 at Washington University in St. Louis.

Emily Ryall

Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Existentialism, Sport, Ethics

Emily Ryall is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care at the University of Gloucestershire, England.

Shayya,Mohammad

-ncurrently, teaching:, contmporary Lebanese and Arab Thought, Middle East cultures, Methodology, Directing Master and Ph.D theses, involved in achieving a major project about: "A comparative statistical study about the recent difficulties of philo.profession at Lebanese and Arab universities"

- the condition and future prospects of Philosophy. as a profession and a job, in Lebanon and Arab countries, - the interculuralism of ME cultures and religions, - Simplifying approaching philosophy

- 1973 master graduate on General philosophy - 1973-77 teacher vof philosophy at Secondary schools - Ph.d. on modern philosophy - 1977- full time assistant then full professor of philosophy at Lebanese University - Author and Translator( in Arabic and English) - Coordinator andco-author of the new curriculum of " philosophy and civilazation" branch of Lebanese Bac.(secondary degree)

Timothy Quigley

Philosophy, Contemporary Art, Cultural Criticism

Timothy Quigley teaches philosophy & visual studies and currently serves as director of the Bachelor's Program for adult students at The New School in New York City.

Frank J. Stavish, Ph.D

Social Theory, Social Philosophy and Pehnomenology, Provisional Semiotics.

Assistant Professor, ACJ Graduate Div., Villanova Yniversity.

Thomas C. Hilde

Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: Reconstructing Institutions between Philosophy and Policy. Forthcoming., Editor, Pragmatism and Globalization (Rodopi), Editor, On Torture (Johns Hopkins University Press), Venezuela exchange project, Various papers and book chapters on philosophy and public policy

Philosophy, Public policy, International relations, Environmental ethics and policy, Development ethics and policy, Political theory, Globalization, Torture, Ethics, Human rights, Legitimacy, Accountability, Pragmatism, Democracy, Community, Travel

Tom Hilde teaches and writes in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. He is the editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism, and the forthcoming Pragmatism and Globalization (Rodopi) and On Torture, as well as a monograph on cosmopolitanism.

Linda E. Patrik

Buddhist ethics, TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) for Tibetan texts

Tibetan philosophy, Asian philosophy, Continental philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminism

Linda E. Patrik is Professor of Philosophy and is also active in the East Asian Studies Program and Religious Studies Program at Union College. She has published articles on Tibetan philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Archaeology, and Aesthetics, and she has edited a book on Existential literature. She is the faculty advisor for the online journal, I.D.E.A.S. (http://ideas.union.edu), which publishes undergraduate research articles in Asian Studies.