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, Philosophy of Religion

Dr. Bernd Buldt

Professor, Department Chair, Lead Advisor

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 IHR

Office: Classroom Medical, Room 05
Phone: 260-481-6364
E-mail: butler@ipfw.edu

Homepage:
Clark Butler's Homepage

Education: University of Southern California, PhD

Areas of Interest: Human rights, Hegel, 19th century philosophy, social and political philosophy, 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, 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: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, PhD.

Areas of Interest:
Kant

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, 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 and literature, philosophy of women, dissertation "The Tragic Ethic" (an application of Aristotle's Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics to the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King)

Dr. Duston Moore

Assistant Professor

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, 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, Islamic languages and literatures, 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, 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, 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, history of analytic philosophy