About Us

Dr. Bill Bruening

Professor

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 15
Phone: 260-481-6090
E-mail: bruening@ipfw.edu
Homepage: Bill Bruening's Homepage
Education: University of Notre Dame, PhD
Areas of Interest: Ethics, Applied ethics, Medical ethics, Wittgenstein, and Philosophy of Religion

Dr. Bernd Buldt

Professor, Department Chair

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 21
Phone: 260-481-6091
E-mail: buldtb@ipfw.edu
Homepage: Bernd Buldt's Homepage
Education: University of Bochum, PhD
Areas of Interest: Modern Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Heidegger, History of Philosophy of Science (Probabalistic Reasoning, Mathematics), Kant, and 19th Century Philosophy

Dr. Clark Butler

Professor
Director of IPFW HRI

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 05
Phone: 260-481-6364
E-mail: butler@ipfw.edu
Homepage: Clark Butler's Homepage
Education: U of Southern California, PhD
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Hegel, 19th Century Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Metaphysics

Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht

Limited Term Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 28
Phone: 260-481-6366
E-mail: caseldij@ipfw.edu
Education: Purdue University, M.A.
Areas of Interest: Ethics, American Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Critical Thinking

Dr. Johnathan Decker

Limited Term Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 28
Phone: 260-481-6366
E-mail: deckerj@ipfw.edu
Education: Trinity Theological Seminary, PhD

Dr. Quinton Dixie

Assistant Professor

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 13
Phone: 260-481-5724
E-mail: dixieq@ipfw.edu
Education: Union Theology Seminary, PhD
Areas of Interest: African-American Religious History, Religion and Labor, Hip-Hop and Spirituality, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement

Jeff Governale

Limited Term Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 28
Phone: 260-481-6366
E-mail: governaj@ipfw.edu
Education: DePaul University, M.A.

Dr. Joyce Lazier

Limited Term Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical Room 28
Phone: 260-481-6366
E-mail: lazierj@ipfw.edu
Education: U of Nebraska-Lincoln, PhD
Areas of Interest: Kant, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ancient Philosophy, Applied and Normative Ethics, and Philosophy of Mind.

Ken Long

Continuing Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 07
Phone: 260-481-6853
E-mail: long@ipfw.edu
Education: Ohio State University, M.A.
Areas of Interest: Symbolic Logic, Philosophy of Science, and Ethical Theory

Dr. Sheila McGarry-Bruening

Limited Term Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 23
Phone: 260-481-6366
E-mail: bruenins@ipfw.edu
Education: Purdue University, PhD
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Women

Dr. Duston Moore

Assistant Professor, Lead Advisor

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 19
Phone: 260-481-6363
E-mail: moored@ipfw.edu
Education: Catholic University of Louvain, PhD
Areas of Interest: Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ancient Philosophy, and Medieval Philosophy

Dr. Erik S. Ohlander

Assistant Professor
Religious Studies Program Coordinator

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 09
Phone: 260-481-0504
E-mail: ohlandee@ipfw.edu
Education: University of Michigan, PhD
Areas of Interest: Islamic Studies, Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, Mysticism, and Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.

Dr. L. Michael Spath

Continuing Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 11
Phone: 260-481-0509
E-mail: spathl@ipfw.edu
Education: St. Louis University, PhD
Areas of Interest: Islam and Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Sufism, Middle East Studies , and Comparative Spirituality

Dr. Kathleen M. Squadrito

Professor

Office: Kettler Hall, Room 257
Phone: 260-481-6365
E-mail: squadrit@ipfw.edu
Education: Washington University, PhD
Areas of Interest: History of Philosophy, Locke, Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Environmental Ethics, and Feminism

Jeff Strayer

Continuing Lecturer

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 07A
Phone: 260-481-6301
E-mail: strayerj@ipfw.edu
Homepage: Jeff Strayer's Homepage
Education: Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A.
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Art, Ethical Theory, and History of Analytic Philosophy