Born:
N.Y.C.

Degrees and Studies:
B.A., SUNY-Stony Brook; M.A., Ph.D., Boston College.

Biographical Information:
Distinguished Ph.D. alumnus award in philosophy, Boston College, 2004; professor of philosophy, Pennsylvania State U. (2003-2006); professor and chair, Department of Philosophy, U. of Colorado, Denver (1995-2003); director of Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs in Humanities and Social Science, U. of Colorado, Denver (1997-2003); assistant, associate, and professor of humanities and philosophy, U. of Houston-Clear Lake (1978-95); director, Project for Professional Ethics, U. of Houston; co-director, Center for Ethics and Community, U. of Colorado. Books and other publications: Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism (Stanford U. Press, fall 2010); The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy (Illinois); The Mediating Self: Mead, Sartre, and Self-Determination (Yale); The Self-Winding Circle: A Study of Hegel's System (W.H. Green); editor, Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Thought of George Herbert Mead (SUNY); co-editor, Habermas and Pragmatism (Routledge); author of articles in social theory, American philosophy, and European thought. Co-editor of the journal Contemporary Pragmatism.

The Juilliard School:
Faculty since 2006; Chair of Liberal Arts 2006-2008; Director of Interdivisional Liberal Arts, 2008 to present. Co-director with Professor Anthony Lioi of the Writing and Communication Center.