James Griffith. Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Areas of Specialization

▫ Early Modern Philosophy
▫ Continental Philosophy

Areas of Competence

▫ Political Philosophy
▫ Ancient Greek Philosophy
▫ Critical Thinking

Education

▫ Ph.D. in Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 2014

▫ Ph.D. dissertation, “Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes”
Committee: Richard A. Lee, Jr. (chair), Peg Birmingham, Michael Naas

▫ M.A. in Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2006

▫ M.A. thesis, “Without a Name: The Difficulty of ‘Criminal’ and ‘Enemy’ as Categories for Globalized Terrorism”
Committee: Simon Critchley (chair) and Andreas Kalyvas

▫ B.A. in Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1999
▫ B.A. in English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1999

Academic Appointments

▫ Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2020-present
▫ Assistant Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2015-2020
▫ Contingent Faculty, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014-2015
▫ Adjunct Instructor, Philosophy Program, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014-2015
▫ Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 2013-2014
▫ Graduate Instructor, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 2008-2013
▫ Adjunct Instructor, Department of Philosophy, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, USA, 2006

Awards and Fellowships

▫ Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)
FIANS Group Project on Philosophical Anthropology (2016-2021)

▫ DePaul University

▫ Michael Mezey Excellence in Teaching Award (2014)
▫ Doctoral-Undergraduate Opportunities for Scholarship Fellowship (2011-2012)
▫ Doctoral-Undergraduate Opportunities for Scholarship Fellowship (2010-2011)
▫ John T. Richardson Fellowship (2008)

▫ The New School for Social Research

▫ Research Assistantship (2006)

Teaching

Courses Taught

Middle East Technical University

▫ Graduate Readings in Philosophy I: Spinoza’s Ethics (Spring 2020)
▫ Philosophical Texts II: Plato’s Republic (Spring 2020)
▫ Philosophy of State and Society (Spring 2020)

Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts

▫ Academic English I (Autumn 2015)
▫ Critical Thinking (Spring 2016, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, and 2019)
▫ Environmental Philosophy: Philosophical Views on the Anthropocene (Spring 2017)
▫ Feminist Political Philosophy (Autumn 2019)
▫ Foucault (Autumn 2016)
▫ History of Political Thought: Introduction (Spring 2016 and 2017)
▫ History of Political Thought: Antiquity (Autumn 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)
▫ History of Political Thought: Modernity (Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)
▫ History of Political Thought: Contemporary (Autumn 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)
▫ Independent Study: Derrida, Specters of Marx (Spring 2018)
▫ Plato’s Republic (Winter 2016, 2017, and 2019)
▫ Spinoza: Ethics (Autumn 2018)
▫ Theories of Democracy (Spring 2016 and 2017), co-taught

DePaul University

▫ Business Ethics (Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Winter and Spring 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring and Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014,
Winter and Spring 2015)
▫ Critical Thinking (Winter and Spring 2014)
▫ Early Modern Philosophy (Winter 2013)
▫ Love, Hatred, and Resentment (Winter and Spring 2012, Autumn 2014, Winter and Spring 2015)
▫ Philosophy and Its Issues (Autumn 2008, Winter and Spring 2009, Winter and Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013)
▫ Philosophy and Modern Society (Autumn 2010, Winter and Spring 2014)
▫ Plato’s Republic (Spring 2012)

Catholic Theological Union

▫ History of Ancient Philosophy (Autumn 2014)
▫ History of Modern Philosophy (Spring 2015)

LaGuardia Community College

▫ Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2006)

Undergraduate Theses

Director

▫ Kat Rožorová, “The Killings of Caesar and Cicero as Problems in the Lack of a Public-Private Distinction in the Late Roman Republic”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2019
▫ Jennifer Bergerová, “A Kantian Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts
defended May 2018
▫ Ľudmila Peruňská, “The Paradox of Freedom in Hobbes’s Leviathan,” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts
defended May 2018
▫ Barbora Sedlačková, “Does the Government of the United States Owe Reparations to the Descendants of Slaves?: A Lockean Investigation"
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018
▫ Haniah Závodská, “The Design Ethics of Electric Composters according to Borgmann’s Device Paradigm and Focal Things and Practices”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018
▫ Tomáš Badin, “There’s a Thin Line between Democracy and Totalitarianism: A Comparative Analysis of Two Opposing Manifestos”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2017

Opponent

▫ Dominik Novosád, “Doctrinal Notions about War, Violence, and Peace: Buddhist Mahayana and Catholic Christianity”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended January 2020
▫ Arnold Remenár, “What About the Internet? A Case Study of the Implications of the Non-Regulation of Virtual Public Spaces”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2019
▫ Simona Frölichová, “Concepts of Forgiveness in Relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Case Study of South Africa”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018
▫ Veronika Novotná, “Democracy and Corruption: The Failure of Democratic Reform in Relation to Corruption in the Slovak Republic”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018
▫ Terézia Švandová, “Vertical Horizons in Retribalized Societies: A Case Study of Egypt and Tunisia and the Arab Spring”
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2017
▫ Nikola Bakšová, “Socratic Dialogue as Moral Self-formation,” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts
defended June 2016
▫ Emma Jasmin Viskupič, “Democracy: Doomed to Fail since Plato,” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts
defended June 2016

Other

▫ Examiner, Slovak State Undergraduate Examinations, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2016

As Teaching Assistant

▫ Ancient Philosophy (Spring 2007)
▫ Business Ethics (Winter 2008)
▫ Joyce and Derrida (Autumn 2006)
▫ Philosophy and Its Issues, Honors (Autumn 2006, Winter 2007)
▫ Political Philosophy (Autumn 2007)

Service

Academic Service

▫ Co-coordinator, Critical Thinking Tutors, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2018-2020
▫ Co-coordinator, Orientation, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2016
▫ Coordinator, Adjunct Instructors, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2018-2020
▫ Curriculum Designer, Political Thought Minor, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2015-2016
▫ Faculty Advisor, Philosophy Society, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2017-2020
▫ Faculty Advisor, Il Ponte, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2016-2017
▫ Presidential Fellowship Selection Committee, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2019

Editorial Service

▫ Editor, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2004-2006
▫ Editorial Assistant, Philosophy Today, 2006-2009
▫ North American Correspondent, Bulletin Hobbes, 2012-present
▫ Proofreader, Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life by Agnes Heller (Lexington Books, 2005)
▫ Referee, Philosophy Today, 2014-present
▫ Referee, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2012-present

Talks and Conferences

▫ Co-organizer, Liberal Herald Conference, “Demos vs. Polis? Responsible Citizenship in Post-transitional Societies”
Bratislava, Slovakia, November 22-23, 2018
▫ Organizer, Jozef Majernik, “‘Becoming what you are’ through Nietzsche,” Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, October 1, 2019
▫ Organizer, Dimitris Vardoulakis, “What Does Spinoza’s Materialism Have to Do with Moses?” Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, May 28, 2019
▫ Jaroslava Vydrová, “Leisure, from the Perspective of Philosophical Anthropology,”
Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, May 21, 2019
▫ Béla Egyed, “On Plato’s Republic,” Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, April 9, 2019
▫ Michael Weinman, “The Parthenon and Liberal Education,” Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, November 24, 2018
▫ Organizer, František Novosád, “A Discussion of Some Motifs in Nietzsche,” Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, April 25, 2018
▫ Co-organizer, Hard Lines and Porous Borders: A Multi-disciplinary Workshop on Security, Population and Legitimacy
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, March 24-25, 2018
▫ Organizer, Martin Vacek, “Wittgenstein: The Roots of Analytic Philosophy,” Philosophy Society
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, March 14, 2018
▫ Organizer, Jon Stewart, “A Presentation on Søren Kierkegaard”
Philosophy Society, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, February 6, 2018
▫ Organizer, Jason Wesley Alvis, “An Introduction to Phenomenology”
Philosophy Society, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, December 13, 2017
▫ Co-organizer, Liberal Herald Conference, “(Dis)continuous Identities: Trauma, Silence and Reconciliation”
Bratislava, Slovakia, November 23-24, 2017
▫ Organizer, Andreas Beckmann, Presentation on the World Wildlife Fund in Central Europe, Philosophical Considerations of the Anthropocene
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, May 3, 2017
▫ Organizer, Yves Charles Zarka, “Cosmopolitanism, or Responsibility for Humanity”
DePaul University, November 1, 2013
▫ Organizer, Yves Charles Zarka, “The Political Monster”
DePaul University, November 6, 2012
▫ Organizer, John Walston, Presentation on Ethical Concerns at Kraft Foods, Inc., Business Ethics
DePaul University, May 12, 2011
▫ Organizer, Drew Hyland, “Going with the Flow: Heraclitus”
DePaul University, April 28, 2011
▫ Conference Committee Member, 15th Annual DePaul University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, “Aesthetics, Affect, and Politics”
April 18-19, 2008
▫ Organizer, Alan Kaplan, Presentation on Voting and Immigrants’ Rights, Introduction to Philosophy
LaGuardia Community College, May 19, 2006

Other

▫ Seminar Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, "Critical Phenomenology: Critical Politics, Affect, and Normativity," Città di Castello, Italy, 2019
▫ Seminar Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Embodying Temporalities: Deep Time, Genealogy, Exile”
Città di Castello, Italy, 2016

Languages

▫ English—reading, advanced knowledge; speaking, advanced knowledge (native language)
▫ French—reading, advanced knowledge; speaking, intermediate knowledge
▫ Latin—reading, intermediate knowledge
▫ Slovak—reading, beginner knowledge; speaking, beginner knowledge


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CURRICULUM VITAE Areas of Specialization ▫ Early Modern Philosophy ▫ Continental Philosophy Areas of Competence ▫ Political Philosophy ▫ Ancient Greek Philosophy ▫ Critical Thinking Education ▫ Ph.D. in Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 2014 ▫ Ph.D. dissertation, “Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes” Committee: Richard A. Lee, Jr. (chair), Peg Birmingham, Michael Naas ▫ M.A. in Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2006 ▫ M.A. thesis, “Without a Name: The Difficulty of ‘Criminal’ and ‘Enemy’ as Categories for Globalized Terrorism” Committee: Simon Critchley (chair) and Andreas Kalyvas ▫ B.A. in Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1999 ▫ B.A. in English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1999 Academic Appointments ▫ Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2020-present ▫ Assistant Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2015-2020 ▫ Contingent Faculty, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014-2015 ▫ Adjunct Instructor, Philosophy Program, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014-2015 ▫ Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 2013-2014 ▫ Graduate Instructor, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA, 2008-2013 ▫ Adjunct Instructor, Department of Philosophy, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, USA, 2006 Awards and Fellowships ▫ Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) FIANS Group Project on Philosophical Anthropology (2016-2021) ▫ DePaul University ▫ Michael Mezey Excellence in Teaching Award (2014) ▫ Doctoral-Undergraduate Opportunities for Scholarship Fellowship (2011-2012) ▫ Doctoral-Undergraduate Opportunities for Scholarship Fellowship (2010-2011) ▫ John T. Richardson Fellowship (2008) ▫ The New School for Social Research ▫ Research Assistantship (2006) Teaching Courses Taught Middle East Technical University ▫ Graduate Readings in Philosophy I: Spinoza’s Ethics (Spring 2020) ▫ Philosophical Texts II: Plato’s Republic (Spring 2020) ▫ Philosophy of State and Society (Spring 2020) Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts ▫ Academic English I (Autumn 2015) ▫ Critical Thinking (Spring 2016, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, and 2019) ▫ Environmental Philosophy: Philosophical Views on the Anthropocene (Spring 2017) ▫ Feminist Political Philosophy (Autumn 2019) ▫ Foucault (Autumn 2016) ▫ History of Political Thought: Introduction (Spring 2016 and 2017) ▫ History of Political Thought: Antiquity (Autumn 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) ▫ History of Political Thought: Modernity (Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) ▫ History of Political Thought: Contemporary (Autumn 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) ▫ Independent Study: Derrida, Specters of Marx (Spring 2018) ▫ Plato’s Republic (Winter 2016, 2017, and 2019) ▫ Spinoza: Ethics (Autumn 2018) ▫ Theories of Democracy (Spring 2016 and 2017), co-taught DePaul University ▫ Business Ethics (Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Winter and Spring 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring and Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Winter and Spring 2015) ▫ Critical Thinking (Winter and Spring 2014) ▫ Early Modern Philosophy (Winter 2013) ▫ Love, Hatred, and Resentment (Winter and Spring 2012, Autumn 2014, Winter and Spring 2015) ▫ Philosophy and Its Issues (Autumn 2008, Winter and Spring 2009, Winter and Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013) ▫ Philosophy and Modern Society (Autumn 2010, Winter and Spring 2014) ▫ Plato’s Republic (Spring 2012) Catholic Theological Union ▫ History of Ancient Philosophy (Autumn 2014) ▫ History of Modern Philosophy (Spring 2015) LaGuardia Community College ▫ Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2006) Undergraduate Theses Director ▫ Kat Rožorová, “The Killings of Caesar and Cicero as Problems in the Lack of a Public-Private Distinction in the Late Roman Republic” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2019 ▫ Jennifer Bergerová, “A Kantian Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts defended May 2018 ▫ Ľudmila Peruňská, “The Paradox of Freedom in Hobbes’s Leviathan,” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts defended May 2018 ▫ Barbora Sedlačková, “Does the Government of the United States Owe Reparations to the Descendants of Slaves?: A Lockean Investigation" Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018 ▫ Haniah Závodská, “The Design Ethics of Electric Composters according to Borgmann’s Device Paradigm and Focal Things and Practices” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018 ▫ Tomáš Badin, “There’s a Thin Line between Democracy and Totalitarianism: A Comparative Analysis of Two Opposing Manifestos” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2017 Opponent ▫ Dominik Novosád, “Doctrinal Notions about War, Violence, and Peace: Buddhist Mahayana and Catholic Christianity” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended January 2020 ▫ Arnold Remenár, “What About the Internet? A Case Study of the Implications of the Non-Regulation of Virtual Public Spaces” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2019 ▫ Simona Frölichová, “Concepts of Forgiveness in Relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Case Study of South Africa” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018 ▫ Veronika Novotná, “Democracy and Corruption: The Failure of Democratic Reform in Relation to Corruption in the Slovak Republic” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended May 2018 ▫ Terézia Švandová, “Vertical Horizons in Retribalized Societies: A Case Study of Egypt and Tunisia and the Arab Spring” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, defended June 2017 ▫ Nikola Bakšová, “Socratic Dialogue as Moral Self-formation,” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts defended June 2016 ▫ Emma Jasmin Viskupič, “Democracy: Doomed to Fail since Plato,” Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts defended June 2016 Other ▫ Examiner, Slovak State Undergraduate Examinations, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2016 As Teaching Assistant ▫ Ancient Philosophy (Spring 2007) ▫ Business Ethics (Winter 2008) ▫ Joyce and Derrida (Autumn 2006) ▫ Philosophy and Its Issues, Honors (Autumn 2006, Winter 2007) ▫ Political Philosophy (Autumn 2007) Service Academic Service ▫ Co-coordinator, Critical Thinking Tutors, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2018-2020 ▫ Co-coordinator, Orientation, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2016 ▫ Coordinator, Adjunct Instructors, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2018-2020 ▫ Curriculum Designer, Political Thought Minor, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2015-2016 ▫ Faculty Advisor, Philosophy Society, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2017-2020 ▫ Faculty Advisor, Il Ponte, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2016-2017 ▫ Presidential Fellowship Selection Committee, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, 2019 Editorial Service ▫ Editor, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2004-2006 ▫ Editorial Assistant, Philosophy Today, 2006-2009 ▫ North American Correspondent, Bulletin Hobbes, 2012-present ▫ Proofreader, Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life by Agnes Heller (Lexington Books, 2005) ▫ Referee, Philosophy Today, 2014-present ▫ Referee, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2012-present Talks and Conferences ▫ Co-organizer, Liberal Herald Conference, “Demos vs. Polis? Responsible Citizenship in Post-transitional Societies” Bratislava, Slovakia, November 22-23, 2018 ▫ Organizer, Jozef Majernik, “‘Becoming what you are’ through Nietzsche,” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, October 1, 2019 ▫ Organizer, Dimitris Vardoulakis, “What Does Spinoza’s Materialism Have to Do with Moses?” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, May 28, 2019 ▫ Jaroslava Vydrová, “Leisure, from the Perspective of Philosophical Anthropology,” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, May 21, 2019 ▫ Béla Egyed, “On Plato’s Republic,” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, April 9, 2019 ▫ Michael Weinman, “The Parthenon and Liberal Education,” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, November 24, 2018 ▫ Organizer, František Novosád, “A Discussion of Some Motifs in Nietzsche,” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, April 25, 2018 ▫ Co-organizer, Hard Lines and Porous Borders: A Multi-disciplinary Workshop on Security, Population and Legitimacy Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, March 24-25, 2018 ▫ Organizer, Martin Vacek, “Wittgenstein: The Roots of Analytic Philosophy,” Philosophy Society Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, March 14, 2018 ▫ Organizer, Jon Stewart, “A Presentation on Søren Kierkegaard” Philosophy Society, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, February 6, 2018 ▫ Organizer, Jason Wesley Alvis, “An Introduction to Phenomenology” Philosophy Society, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, December 13, 2017 ▫ Co-organizer, Liberal Herald Conference, “(Dis)continuous Identities: Trauma, Silence and Reconciliation” Bratislava, Slovakia, November 23-24, 2017 ▫ Organizer, Andreas Beckmann, Presentation on the World Wildlife Fund in Central Europe, Philosophical Considerations of the Anthropocene Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, May 3, 2017 ▫ Organizer, Yves Charles Zarka, “Cosmopolitanism, or Responsibility for Humanity” DePaul University, November 1, 2013 ▫ Organizer, Yves Charles Zarka, “The Political Monster” DePaul University, November 6, 2012 ▫ Organizer, John Walston, Presentation on Ethical Concerns at Kraft Foods, Inc., Business Ethics DePaul University, May 12, 2011 ▫ Organizer, Drew Hyland, “Going with the Flow: Heraclitus” DePaul University, April 28, 2011 ▫ Conference Committee Member, 15th Annual DePaul University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, “Aesthetics, Affect, and Politics” April 18-19, 2008 ▫ Organizer, Alan Kaplan, Presentation on Voting and Immigrants’ Rights, Introduction to Philosophy LaGuardia Community College, May 19, 2006 Other ▫ Seminar Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, "Critical Phenomenology: Critical Politics, Affect, and Normativity," Città di Castello, Italy, 2019 ▫ Seminar Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Embodying Temporalities: Deep Time, Genealogy, Exile” Città di Castello, Italy, 2016 Languages ▫ English—reading, advanced knowledge; speaking, advanced knowledge (native language) ▫ French—reading, advanced knowledge; speaking, intermediate knowledge ▫ Latin—reading, intermediate knowledge ▫ Slovak—reading, beginner knowledge; speaking, beginner knowledge

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