Curriculum Vitae

Highlights

• more than ten years of teaching experience
• more than ten years of experience as copy editor and translator
• strong cross-cultural experience, over twelve years living abroad
• experience with the arts
• experience with online learning

Select Work Experience

Philosophy Lecturer (08-08 - Present)
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
• Courses: Politics and Law, Religion and Politics, Non-Western Religions (WS 2008)
Philosophy Lecturer (08-07 - 08-08)
Colorado State University-Pueblo
• Courses: Non-Western Religions, Deductive Logic, and Early Modern Philosophy (WS 2007), Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Non-Western Religions (SS 2008)
Philosophy Lecturer (03-06 - 07-07)
Ecosign Academy of Design: Cologne, Germany
• Courses taught: Environmental Ethics (SS 2006), Science and Normativity (SS 2006), The History of Political Ideas (WS 2006), Nineteenth Century German Philosophy (SS 2007), Feminist Philosophy of Science (SS 2007).
Translator/Copy Editor/Reviser (06-00 – 08-07)
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods: Bonn, Germany
• Translated texts from the areas of law, political science and economics into English
• Revised (rewrote) and edited texts for publication
Research Assistantships, Contracts (09-95 – 05-00)
University of Bielefeld (linguistics department, women’s studies center, department of sociology): Bielefeld, Germany
• Did translations for the above departments
• Revised and read copy of numerous books and articles
English Instructor (11-92 – 11-99)
Inlingua Language School: Bielefeld, Germany
• Taught English as a foreign language to beginners and advanced students
• Did some copy-editing and interpreting work
Philosophy Lecturer (Teaching Assistantship) (09-87 - 05-90)
St. Louis University: St. Louis, Missouri
• Taught multiple sections of Introduction to Greek Philosophy and Ethics
Philosophy Lecturer (04-89 - 08-89)
Parks College: Cahokia, Illinois
• Taught Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics

University

Doctor of Philosophy – University of Bielefeld. Bielefeld, Germany
Master of Arts – Saint Louis University. St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Bachelor of Arts – Bellarmine College (now Bellarmine University). Louisville, Kentucky, USA

References

Available upon request.

Publications

• Hegel and the Nineteenth-century Life Sciences. 2000. Ph.D. diss. University of Bielefeld.
• Political Epistemology: Hegel and Critical Feminist Philosophy of Science. 2007. Hegel-Jahrbuch.
• Ethical Insight and the Problem of Provability. 2007. In: Andreas Remmel (Ed.) Wahrheit jenseits von Beweisbarkeit. Bonn: Bernstein Verlag.
• Georg Simmel: The Stranger as a Social Category. In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference – 2008. Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
• Hegel, Kant and Systems Theory. Under review.

Select Published Translations

• Baraulina, Tanja, et al. 2007. Egyptian, Afghan and Serbian Diaspora Communities in Germany: How Do They Contribute to Their Country of Origin? Hamburg: Hamburg Institute of International Economics.
• Mantavinos, Chysostomos. 2005. Naturalistic Hermeneutics. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press.
• Blδttel-Mink, Birgit, et al. 2004. Doing Gender in Mathematics. IFF-Forschungsreihe, 16, Bielefeld.
• Stulik, Torsten. Rating Agencies and Systematic Risk. Paradoxes of Governance. 2002. In: Adrienne Hιritier (Ed.) Common Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Women in the Information Society: International Conference within the Framework of the German EU Presidency. 2000. German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Select Revising Work

• Engel, Christoph. 2006. Predictabilty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kφlliker, Alkuin. 2006. Flexibility and European Unification: The Logic of Differentiated Integration. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Adrienne Heritier. 2002. Common Goods, Reinventing European and International Governance. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

Select Non-published Translations

• Becker, Florian. Globalization and the Economization of European Environmental Law.
• Becker, Florian and Christoph Knill. Divergence Despite Diffusion.
• Dausein, Bettina. The Boundaries of Biographical Experience and Narration.
• Grande, Edgar. The European Union as a Regulatory State.
• Grande, Edgar. Your Torture of Choice.
• Willke, Helmut. Crisis of Governance.
• Willke, Helmut. Crisis of Knowledge.
• Willke, Helmut. Crisis of the Economy.
• Willke, Helmut. Brave New Economy.
• Mantzavinos, Chysostomos. The Anti-Cartel Model of Evolutionary Institutional Economics.
• Blδttel-Mink, Birgit. Structural and Institutional Conditions of Ecologisation of Innovation Systems. A Comparative Approach. 2002. A paper for presentation at a conference for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
• Mischau, Anina. 2004. The Institutionalization of Women’s and Gender Research, a paper for presentation at the Gender Workshop, International University of Bremen.
• Wrede, Birgitte. 2004. Women and Money, a paper for presentation at the Gender Workshop, International University of Bremen.
• Finke, Peter. 1995. Cultural Ecosystems and the Human Condition. Essays in the Ecology of Mind (select chapters presented as conference papers).

Hobbies

• Songwriter: German Independent CD of the Year: 2002. Shows with Eric Burdon, The Yardbirds. Produced four CDs. Tours in Italy, The Czech Republic, Germany, Holland. See the music site
• Bicycling: Tours through France, the U.S., Holland, Germany.
• Website Coordinator: www.lecturesarchive.com
• Photography.