Teaching Awards

Outstanding Professor of the Year Award – Teaching (university-wide), Butler University (2019)

• This award is given to one professor at Butler University each academic year and requires nomination by the faculty member's Department Chair and the Dean of the faculty member's college. Award winners are selected by the Provost, the Director of Faculty Development, and the members of the Faculty Development Advisory Committee. 

Courses Taught

California State University, San Bernardino
Capstone seminar: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Upper-level courses: Environmental Ethics; Moral Psychology; The Meaning of Life; Continental Philosophy; Existentialism; Phenomenology
Lower-level courses: Honors: Thinking Critically; Introduction to Ethics; Introduction to Philosophy
 
Butler University
Capstone seminar: Genealogy and Power: Nietzsche and Foucault
Upper-level courses: Wilderness and the Land Ethic; History of Modern Philosophy
Lower-level courses: Marginalized in America; Ethics, the Good Life, and Society; First Year Seminar: Becoming Who You Are (two semesters); Principles of Reasoning 
Honors theses supervised: Philosophy of Adoption and Parenthood; Omar Khayyam and Albert Camus on the Absurd                
                                   
The University of New Mexico
Lower-level courses: Introduction to Philosophy; Reasoning and Critical Thinking