Philosophy

Author: heldke

  • Kara Barnette (’05)

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    2005 graduate Kara Barnette is a member of the philosophy department at Westminster College in Salt Lake City Utah. Kara’s path took her first to graduate school at the University of Oregon, and then to a stint teaching back in her old department at Gustavus. While her teachers-then-colleagues miss her, we’re delighted that she found…

  • Jeanie Reese (’92)

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    Jeanie Reese (’92) is the mother of another philosophy department graduate; Don McNeil (’85).

  • Chris Marshall (’90)

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    Chris Marshall (’90) is Field Editor for Woodworker’s Journal. He lives in rural Ohio on a ten acre farm, where, he reports, “I build things from wood, write about them, photograph the process and am always there at the end of the driveway at the end of the day to get my kids off the…

  • Erica Lucast Stonestreet (2000)

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    Erica Lucast Stonestreet (2000) is assistant professor of philosophy at the College of St. Benedict. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. You can find her senior thesis on our webpage.

  • Mary Stone

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    Mary Stone is studying at University of Denver’s School of Social Work, where she will receive an MSW in animal-assisted social work.

  • Kristen Richardson Wilcox (’96)

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    Kristen Richardson Wilcox (’96) is a lawyer who is presently negotiating fulltime with her two children in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she is a “Domestic Goddess.”

  • Happy Birthday, Ghana!

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    Today, the West African nation of Ghana celebrates its fifty-second  independence day. Ghana  is  the first African nation to declare its idependence from colonial rule, which it did in 1957. The nation holds a particular significance for some philosophers, because its first leader, Kwame Nkrumah, was himself a philosopher. Nkrumah studied in the United States,…

  • Senior Colloquium 2009: All we know is that we know nothing, er, um, all we know is that we’d better have a thesis by the end of this week

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    Members of the philosophy department’s senior class recently took time out of their colloquium discussion to seek Socrates’ advice on their thesis topics. From left to right, they are: Caleb Phillips, Laurel Hoch, Kate Goodpaster (behind), Rhea Muchalla, Joe Hillman and Jeff Nichols.

  • Mike Hendrickson (’64)

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    Mike Hendrickson writes: “After graduating from GAC, I attended Luther Seminary in St Paul where I received my MDiv and a MTh in systematics.  I completed a clinical residency in Milwaukee and spent a few years in churches first in Luverne, MN and then in Minnetonka, MN.  I went to the University of Minnesota and…

  • Ted Stoneberg (’62)

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    Ted Stoneberg (’62) is retired from a career of pastoral counseling, and serving as a professor of pastoral care.