Curriculum
Vitae
Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Garden City,
Telephone: 516-877-4585
Fax: 516-877-4579
Telephone: 631-952-0524
e-mail: wchamblet@yahoo.com
Areas of
Specialization
Ancient Greek and
Hellenistic Thought; Ritual and Myth in the Western Tradition
Philosophy of “Evil”
(Holocaust and genocide studies, violence, human nature/nurture studies)
Theoretical Ethics,
Contemporary Moral Issues
History of Philosophy
Areas of
Competence
Political and Social
Theory
Eastern Philosophy and
Religion
African Philosophy and
Religion
Philosophy of Religion
Critical Inquiry
Educational
Background
2000. M.A./ Ph.D.
(Philosophy). The
Concentration: Ancient, Continental / Phenomenology, History of
Philosophy.
Dissertation Director: Charles E. Scott.
Committee: John Sallis,
Vincent Colapietro, Jeffrey Nealon.
"The
Ambiguity of Home" This work
attempts to explain the violent history of the West as a problem of the logic
whereby identity is formed and maintained. It
proposes that identity-formation may comprise the re-enactment of "ordering
mechanisms" bequeathed by violent ritual histories.
1997. M.A. (Philosophy).
Thesis: "The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas"
Thesis Director: David Goicoechea
Committee:
Ric Brown (Philosophy,
1996. B.A. Honours
(Philosophy). Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
1971.
Languages:
English, Ancient Greek, French (read only), Italian. Swahili
(elementary).
Teaching
Experience and Assistantships
September, 2003:
Introduction to Philosophy- 1 section
Ethics and Morality- 2 sections
Spring 2003:
Contemporary Moral Issues-(“War, Terror and Rhetoric”)- 1 section
Political Philosophy- 1 section
Introduction to Philosophy- 2 sections
Honors Service Learning Project- 1 section
Winter 2003: Contemporary
Moral Issues (“War, Terror and Rhetoric”)- 1 section
Independent studies- “War and Terror”- 2 students
Independent studies- “Philosophy of Education—John Dewey”- 1
student
Fall 2002: Intro to
Philosophy- 2 sections
Philosophical Inquiry- 1 section
Contemporary Moral Issues (core course to a “cluster” of Honors
courses)- 1 section
Thesis Director- Anthropology/Philosophy Studies in Non-Western Cultures-
1 student
Independent Studies- “Contemporary Ethical Problems”- 1 student
Summer 2002: Contemporary
Moral Issues- 1 section
Introduction to Philosophy- 1 section
Independent Study Director- Ethics- I student
Thesis Director- Anthropology/Philosophy Studies in Non-Western Cultures-
1 student
Spring 2002: Honors
Colloquium- 1 section
Introduction to Philosophy- 1 section
Philosophical Inquiry- 3 sections
Thesis Director- Anthropology/Philosophy Studies in Non-Western Cultures-
1 student
Fall 2001:
Philosophical Inquiry- 3 sections
Contemporary Moral Issues- 1 section
Thesis Director- Anthropology/Philosophy Studies in Non-Western Cultures-
1 student
Summer 2001:
Concepts of Home in Philosophical Perspective- 1 section
Introduction to Philosophy- 1
section.
Spring 2001:
Introduction to Philosophy- 2 sections
Contemporary Moral Issues- 1 section
Advanced Ethics- 1 section
Winter 2001:
Contemporary Moral Issues- 1 section
Fall 2000:
Introduction to Philosophy- 1
section
Philosophical Inquiry- 2
sections
Thesis Director- capstone project in Philosophy (topic: Levinas and
Husserl)- 1 student
The
June 1998- December 2000:
Research Assistant to Charles E. Scott (Philosophy), The
University
August 1997- May 1998:
Teaching Assistant "Philosophical Problems"
August 1996- December 1996:
Teaching Assistant "Philosophy of Sex"
August 1988- February 1989:
Teaching Secondary Level Maths and English
September 1985- August
1988: Computer skills.
IBM Canada/ Quinte Office Systems,
September 1970- August
1982: Elementary level teaching, all
subjects
January 1983-August 1985:
College Level Maths and English.
Special Projects: Debate Team and Public Speaking Club
August 1982- August 1985:
Established “Kutama Creche” preschool, raised monies and trained
preschool
aids
for teaching preschoolers. Location: Kutama Mission,
Project
for Reclaiming the Reserve Lands: Secured grant of $10,000 from Canadian
government,
organized
team of students and local villagers to plant trees and dig wells in “reserve
lands” around Kutama Mission.
Awards and
Distinctions
2002/2003 Research,
Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, CSU Stanislaus. ($600 awarded.)
2002/2003 Dean’s
Initiative Fund. CSU Stanislaus. ($300 awarded.)
March 2002 Faculty Merit
Bonus Award, CSU Stanislaus. ($500. awarded.)
The 1999 David Stang
Graduate Student Essay Contest, Department of Philosophy,
September 1998- August
1999. Edwin Erle Sparks Fellowship, Philosophy Department,
The
September 1997- August
2000. Graduate Assistantship and Scholarship, Philosophy
Department,
The
September 1996- August
1997.
September 1996- August
1997. Brock University Philosophy
Department Fellowship ($7000.)
April 1996
SUNY Free Inquiry Journal of Philosophy Undergraduate Essay
Competition, prize for the
paper: "Platonic Love:
Another Look"
September 1995 Brock
Philosophical Society Scholarship
April 1995
SUNY Free Inquiry Journal of Philosophy Undergraduate Essay
Competition for the paper:
"Plato's Proofs for the Immortality of the Soul: Revisiting the
Phaedo"
Conference
Participation
Grove,
Logic of Violence”
Peace” Session. Paper
Presented: “Sacred Home-spaces and Demonic Enemies: Collapsing the
Logic
of Violence”
for
International Politics and Ethics,
“Unleashing
the Demons: the Legacy of Ritual Violence in the Rhetoric of George W. Bush”
Sponsored
by Amnesty International and Women’s Advocacy Organization.
Terror
and Terrorism.
Violences’
and the ‘Just War.’”
Armenian
Genocide,” CSU Stanislaus (co-sponsors Global Affairs and Philosophy
Department,
CSU
Stanislaus) an event in memorial of the Armenian Genocide featuring keynote
address by Professor Vahakn Dadrian.
Paper Presented: “
Moderator of Session: Teaching About Genocide.
Paper Presented: “From
Walter Burkert’s Homo Necans
to Primo Levi’s Drowned Saved to Bataille’s Enraged
Torturer.”
Philosophy and Social Study of Biology,
Paper Presented: “Mutilated/ Mutilating Beings:
What is Genetically Encoded?”
September 2000.
Violence and Education. CSU
Stanislaus Philosophy Department
Lecture
Series. Paper presented: "What are we to do about the
Children?"
July 1999.
Participant. Collegium Phaenomenologicum,
Theme: Phenomenal Life, Material Life.
Paper presented at the Graduate Student Pre-conference: "Secrets of
the Heretic: A
Study
in the Phenomenology of Jan Patocka"
Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, C.M.S.U. Missouri.
Paper Presented: "Secrets of the Heretic: A Study in the
Phenomenology of Jan
Patocka"
Paper Presented: "A Paradoxical Virtue: The Failure of Doric Harmony
in
Emmanuel
Levinas"
Paper Presented: "A Paradoxical Virtue: The Failure of Doric Harmony
in
Emmanuel
Levinas"
Paper Presented: "Inhabiting the Erotic Space: Irigaray in Plato's
Symposium"
July- August Participant Collegium
Phaenomenologicum,
Theme: Truth, Translation, Interpretation.
Royal
Astronomical Society,
Paper Presented: "Suffering in the Cosmos: The Innocence of Evil in
Levinas and
Weil"
Paper Presented: "Plato's Universalism: Aporia and the Truth"
Paper Presented: "From Joy to Sorrow or Glory: Levinas' New
Pathology"
Conference.
State University of New York at
Buffalo
Paper Presented: Platonic Love: Another Look"
Paper: "Another Look: Plato's ‘Proofs’ of the Immortality of the
Soul."
Service
University Committee
Service:
2003-
Adelphi
Faculty Teaching and Advisement Committee
2004-
Adelphi
Faculty Senate (serving as senator representing Philosophy Department)
Teaching Service:
Community Service:
Lecturer. Paper Presented: “The ‘Rebounding’ of
Historical Violence.”
2 sessions.
Paper Presented: “Reconfiguring Ethics for a Post-Holocaust World”
Publications
Books:
Savage
Constructions: ‘Rebounding’ Violences in
The
Sacred Monstrous: Reflections on Violence in Human Communities.
Chapters
in Books:
"A Paradoxical
Virtue: The Failure of Doric Harmony in Emmanuel Levinas" (refereed)
chapter in
Practicing Levinas,
Laura Duhan-Kaplan,
"Plato's
Universalism: Aporia and the Truth" in Varieties of Universalism,
M. Zlomislic, D. Goicoechea,
Z.
Zeman, eds.
"From Joy to Sorrow
or Glory: Levinas' New Pathology" in Joyful Wisdom,
Vol. V, Port
"Inhabiting the
Erotic Space: Irigaray in Plato's Symposium" in Joyful Wisdom,
Vol. VI,
“From
Walter Burkert’s Homo Necans to Primo Levi’s Drowned Saved to Bataille’s
Enraged Torturer”
in Joyful Wisdom, Vol. VII,
Group. (forthcoming)
Articles
in Refereed Journals:
“Paradise
Lost and the Question of Legitimacy” in RATIO
Vol. xvii, No.1, (January, 2004).
“The Irresponsibility of
the Host: A
for Phenomenology
(forthcoming 2004).
“Murderous
Dichotomies” in Concerned Philosophers
for Peace Newsletter, Fall, 2003.
Solicited series joint
project on “Cruelty” co-authored with Giorgio Baruchello. First in series:
“What is
Cruelty?”
in Appraisal, Vol. 4, no. 4, (October,
2003).
"The Geography of
Goodness: Proximity's Dilemma," in Monist
86:3 (July, 2003).
"Identity,
Self-Alienation, and the Problem of Homelessness" in Symposium, Vol. 7, no. 2, (Fall 2003).
“Crusaders and
Sacrificial Others: The George W. Bush Administration.” in American Diplomacy for
UNC
Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, and Triangle Institute for Security
Studies, (June,
2003).
“The Crisis of Meanings:
Could the Cure be the Cause of Genocide?” in The Journal of Genocide Research
(2003),
5(2), 237-249.
“The Roots of Violence:
seeking reasons for unreasonable behaviors” in Appraisal, October, 2003, Vol. 4,
No.
4.
“Naming the Violence:
The Violence of Naming” in Concerned
Philosophers for Peace Newsletter,
January,
2003.
“An Embarrassing Inquiry
into the Meaning-fulness of Life” in The
Meaning of Life, Vol. 46, (January,
2003).
"The Uselessness of Philosophy" in Existentia for “Societas Philosophia Classica.” (October, 2002).
“What
are we to do about the Children?” in Ethica,
Vol.14, no.1, (2002), 101-122.
“Integrity
or Rupture? Seeking an Ethos for a
Holocaust-ing World” in Prima
Philosophia.
Traude
Junghans Verlag:
"Spinoza: Ironist and
Moral Philosopher" in Gnosis.
Summer 2001.
"The Disarming of
Being: The Metaphysics of Benedict de Spinoza" in Prima Philosophia,
Traude
Junghans
Verlag: Cuxhaven & Dartford, (January-March
2001).
"Swan Songs in the
Key of Holocaust: Levinas' Noble Lie of Freedom" in Ethica,
Vol. 13, no.1, Graham
Speake,
ed., (Spring, 2001).
"Ancestor
Worship" in Encyclopedia of
"Jean Genet: Love on
the Underside of Being" in Murmure, The
2000).
"Shaken Heroes: The
Secret Orthodoxy of the Heretic" in EIDOS, Vol. XVI, No.1.
"Edmund Husserl: The
Impossible Dominion" in CUSJP,
Vol.18, No.1, (Spring, 1999).
"Suffering in the
Cosmos: The Redemption of Evil in Levinas and Weil" in Philosophical Writings,
No.10.
(Spring,
1999).
Articles
in Non-Refereed Journals
“Teaching Socratically”
in
Abstracts
Solicited:
abstract of “The Geography of Goodness” (from Monist
86.3) in Review of Metaphysics,
Fall 2003.
Reviews:
Jay
D. Glass, The Animal Within Us,
Review,
Volume 3: 339-340, (August, 2003).
Clarissa Ryle
International
Politics and Ethics, 2001.
Enrico Coen,
The art of genes: how organisms make themselves,
University
Press, 1999, in New Genetics and Society, Vol. 20, no.3.
Freeman J. Dyson,
The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific
Revolutions,
Genetics
and Society, Vol. 20, no. 3.
Eric R. Wolf. Envisioning
Power: Ideologies of Dominance and
Crisis,
Matt Ridley, Genome:
the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,
Estate,
1999, in New Genetics and Society. Vol. 20, no. 2, 2001.
Jacques Rancière, Disagreement:
Politics and Philosophy, Julie Rose, tr.,
Editorships:
Associate Editor
Newsletter Concerned Philosophers for
Peace. (Spring 2003- ).
Associate Editor
Philosophies of Peace Book Series (Fall 2003-
)
Affiliations,
Collaborations
Alumnus of The
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the
Co-Director
of Pacific Division of Concerned
Philosophers For Peace.
Active
Member of The International Association of
Genocide Scholars (since 2001)
Active
Member of The Institute for the Study of
Genocide (since 2001).
Solicited
collaborator in the KLI Theory Lab project undertaken by the Konrad Lorenz
Institute
for Evolution and Cognitive Research, Altenberg (
Activist
Member of Amnesty International.
Researcher
for 9-11peace.org/ MoveOn.org.
Faculty
Advisor to “Good Works” Honors Club, CSU Stanislaus, a student club
dedicated to
community service. (2001-2002).
CSU
Campus Contact for “Women Interfering With Politics,” international support
organization for
Russian women. (2000-2003)
Participant
of Eco-Delphi Project Think Tank on Global
Sustainability,
References
Charles E. Scott.
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy.
The
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John Sallis.
Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy.
The
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Vincent Colapietro.
Professor of Philosophy.
The
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David Goicoechea.
Professor of Philosophy.
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Raj Ravindra Singh.
Chair and Professor of Philosophy.
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Austin Ahanotu, Chair and
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Pelaji Kyauka, Professor
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Valerie Broin, Professor of
Philosophy.
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