Faculty and Staff

Bruce B. Janz, Ph.D.
Department Chair
janzb@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Research on Place and Space; Contemporary African Philosophy; Cultural Philosophy; Contemporary European Philosophy; Aesthetics and Visual Culture; History of Mysticism; Interdisciplinarity

Nancy A. Stanlick, Ph.D.
Assistant Department Chair
stanlick@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Ethics; Social Philosophy; Academic Ethics; History of Modern and American Philosophy

Mason Cash, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
mcash@mail.ucf.edu

Jane Compson, Ph.D.
Instructor
jcompson@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Theravada Buddhism and Comparative Religion; Environmental Ethics; Animal Ethics; Medical and veterinary Ethics; Contemplative Education

Kristin G. Congdon, Ph.D.
Professor
kcongdon@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Ways of Seeing; Art and Digital Media; Community Arts; Eco-Feminism; Feminist Art Criticism; Folk Art, Traditional Art; Multicultural Education; Teaching in Non-traditional Settings; Mental Health and Art Products and Processes; Art Criticism; Arts Organizations and Political, Cultural, and Sociological Power; Aesthetics; Folklore and New Technology

Harry Coverston, Ph.D.
Instructor
hcoverst@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Education and the Humanities, LBGT justice issues, Stages of moral/faith development (Kohlberg, Gilligan, Rest, Fowler, Beck, Wilber); Latin American Humanities; Liberation theology; Capital punishment attitudes and religious correlates; Ethics and Torture and Genocide; Religion in America; Religion in the 21st Century; Juergen Habermas/Frankfurt School; Holocaust studies

Sabatino DiBernardo, Ph.D.
Instructor
sdiberna@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Pyrrhonian Skepticism; Religio-Philosophical Deconstruction; Post-Secular A/theology; (Continental) Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy, Religion and Popular (Music) Culture

Doug Evans
Instructor
dkevans@mail.ucf.edu

Stephen Fiore
Assistant Professor
sfiore@ist.ucf.edu

Shaun Gallagher
Professor
gallaghr@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Phenomenology and philosophical psychology; Cognitive Science; Embodied cognition; Action theory; Self and personal identity; Time

Ronnie Hawkins
Associate Professor
liveoak@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

Donald Jones
Assistant Professor
donjones@mail.ucf.edu

Husain Kassim
Associate Professor
Kassim@mail.ucf.edu

Debra Maukonen
Visiting Instructor
dmaukone@mail.ucf.edu

Jennifer Mundale
Associate Professor
jmundale@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

Shelley M Park, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
spark@mail.ucf.edu

Claudia Schippert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
cschippe@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: The central focus of Schippert's research in queer theory and religion is the body: how bodies are discursively constructed in religious traditions as well as in American culture; how popular culture and various media affect representations and practices of bodies; and how these questions can be pursued in ways that call attention to the role of gender, race, and sexuality in contemporary society.

Michael Strawser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
strawser@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Continental Philosophy (both modern and contemporary), Ethics, Philosophy of Religion

Dale Truscott, D.Min.
Visiting Instructor
atruscot@mail.ucf.edu

Jennifer Vest
Assistant Professor
drvest@mail.ucf.edu

Leslie Gale
Administrative Assistant
lgale@mail.ucf.edu

Jaci Schock
Senior Secretary
jacischo@mail.ucf.edu