FULL TIME FACULTY - Fall 2011
BRODNAX, Dr. Mary
Office: 205F
Extension: 5630
email: mbrodnax@uco.edu
CHEW, Dr. Rick
Office: 205J
Extension: 5621
email: gchew@uco.edu
CHILDS, Dr. Jamie
Office: 205D
Extension: 5687
email: jchilds@uco.edu
DADLEZ, Dr. Eva
Office: 205A
Extension: 5636
email: edadlez@uco.edu
DEBOLT, Dr. Darian
Office: 205E
Extension: 5612
email: ddebolt@uco.edu
HEIT, Dr. Siegfried
Office: 205B
Extension: 5633
email: sheit@uco.edu
KYLE, Dr. Sarah
Office: 205C
Extension: 5856
email: skyle@uco.edu
LAW, Dr. Stephen C.
Office: 203C
Extension: 5615
email: slaw@uco.edu
MOCK, Dr. James W.
Office: 205I
Extension: 5624
email: jmock@uco.edu
MURPHY, M. John
Office: 205D
Extension: 5688
email: jmurphy9@uco.edu
MUSGROVE, Dr. Margaret
Office: 205C
Extension: 5852
email: mmusgrove2@uco.edu
SILCOX, Dr. Mark (Asst. Chairperson)
Office: 205J
Extension: 5625
email: msilcox@uco.edu
SNEED, Dr. Richard
Office: 205D
Extension: 5689
email: rsneed1@uco.edu
TAYLOR, Ms. Susan C.
Office: 205D
Extension: 5679
email: staylor@uco.edu
VAUGHAN, Dr. Theresa (Chairperson)
Office: 205G
Extension: 3434
email: tvaughan@uco.edu
PART TIME FACULTY
CHANCE, Dr. Brian
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
bchance2@uco.edu
FISHER, Mr. L. Dean
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: lfisher7@uco.edu
FOGEL, Dr. Dara
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: dfogel@uco.edu
FORTUNE, Dr. Aaron G.
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: afortune1@uco.edu
KIRK, Dr. Thomas A.
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: tkirk3@uco.edu
SAFFLE, Ms. Katherine L.
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: ksaffle1@uco.edu
SCHLITTLER, Mr. Ronald
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: rschlittler@uco.edu
SHELTON, Ms. Melissa J.
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: mseem@uco.edu
SLAKTER, Mr. David
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: dslakter@uco.edu
SPEARS, Mr. Joshua
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: jspears6@uco.edu
WEIGAND, Mr. Chris
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: cweigand@uco.edu or southpaw65@gmail.com
WOOLWINE, Dr. Sarah
Office: 203B
Extension: 3433
email: swoolwine@uco.edu
Dr. Mary Brodnax
Brodnax, Mary M., Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1978; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1980; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1987
Dr. Roksana Alavi
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Kansas Graduate Certificate, Women's Studies, University of Kansas, May 2004. M.A., Philosophy, Oklahoma State University, August 2001. B.A., Philosophy, University of Oklahoma, May 1996. Master's Thesis Title: Martha Nussbaum's Capability Argument: Oppression, and Female Genital Mutilation. Michael Taylor, Director, Oklahoma State University Areas of Research AOS: Ethics, Moral/Racial Identity, Stereotyping, Feminist Ethics, Women of Middle-East, Social and Political Philosophy: Oppression, Right. AOC: Logic, Critical thinking, Race Theory, Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Women and Pop Culture, Trafficking of Women, General Humanities. Publications Articles "Race, Identity, Stereotyping and Voluntary Oppression," Global Virtues Ethics Review. Vol. 6, no. 1,2010. "Robert Kane, Free Will and Neural Indeterminism," Philo: A Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 8, no. 2, Fall-Winter 2005. "Female Genital Mutilation: A Capabilities Approach," in Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy. Vol. XXVI, no. 2, 2003. Documentary Production Joined at the River: The Meaning of the Border in West Texas, Documentary Film, Co-Producer, 2007, Nominated for Best Documentary, Trailfest Western Film Festival. Book Reviews Book Review, Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy, by Susan Mendus. Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy. Vol. XXVI, no. 2, 2003. Honors and Awards University of Kansas Women of Distinction Calendar Award, 2004-2005. University of Kansas Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award, 2004. Summer Templin Fellowship, University of Kansas, Summer 2003, 2004. Robinson Essay Award Contest, Second Place, University of Kansas, 2003-2004. Recipient of semi-final and final Asia Society of Oklahoma Scholarship Award, Fall 2001. Recipient of the Women's Faculty Council Award for Outstanding Thesis Written on Women's Issues, Oklahoma State University, 2000-2001. Oklahoma State University President's Fellowship Scholarship, 1998-1999. Graduate International Student Minority Scholarship, 1998-1999.
Dissertation Title: Race and Oppression: Philosophical Reflections in Voluntary Oppression. Ann E. Cudd, Director, University of Kansas
Dr. Rick Chew
Chew, Rick, Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1966; J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1969; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1999
Dr. Jamie Childs
Childs, Jamie, Lecturer, Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1972; M.A., University of Oklahoma, 1987; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma 2004
Dr. Eva M. Dadlez
Dadlez, Eva M., Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts Dr. Eva M. Dadlez is a Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma. She received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She writes on issues at the intersection (often at the collision) of aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. She has written two books on the preceding: What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (Penn State University Press, 1997) and Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). She is also a feminist ethics dilettante.

B.A., Syracuse University, 1978; M.L.S., Syracuse University, 1982; M.A., Syracuse University, 1986; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1991Courses Taught
PHIL 1123, Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL 4203, Women and Values
PHIL 4213, Philosophy and Fiction
Dr. Darian Debolt
DeBolt, Darian, Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., Oklahoma University, 1968; FBINA, University of Virginia, 1984; M.A., Oklahoma University, 1985; Ph.D., Oklahoma University, 1993
Dr. Siegfried Heit
Heit, Siegfried E., Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1963; M.A., University of North Dakota, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, FRG, 1969; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1975
Dr. Sarah Kyle
Kyle, Sarah R., Assistant Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., University of Western Ontario, 2000; M. A., Queen's University, 2002; Ph.D., Emory University, 2010.
Dr. Stephen Law
Law, Stephen C., Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., Florida State University, 1978; M.A., Florida State University, 1980; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1986
Dr. James Mock
Mock, James W., Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., LeMoyne College, 1968; M.A., Syracuse University, 1977; M.L.S., Syracuse University, 1979; M.Ph., Syracuse University, 1984; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1988
Dr. John Murphy
Murphy, John A., Lecturer, Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., University of Central Oklahoma, 1999; M.A., University of Oklahoma, 2002
Dr. Margaret Musgrove
Musgrove, Margaret W., Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1984; M.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1987; Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1991
Dr. Mark Silcox
B.A., University of Toronto, 1992; M. A., University of Toronto, 1993; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2002
Dr. Richard Sneed
B.A., University of Texas, 1983; M.Div., Southern Methodist University, 1987; M.A., Michigan State University, 1989; Ph.D., Florida State University, August 1995
Susan Taylor
Taylor, Susan C., Lecturer, Humanities and Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
B. F. A., University of Montana, 1980; M. F. A. Wichita State University, 1987
Dr. Theresa Vaughan
B.A., University of Michigan, 1990; M.A., Indiana University, 1995; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999
Dean Fisher
B. A. University of Central Oklahoma, 1984; M. A., University of Central Oklahoma, 1987
Dr. Dara Fogel
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1998; M.A., University of Oklahoma, 2002; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2006
Dr. Aaron Fortune
B.A., Oklahoma City University, 2000; M.A., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2003; Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2007
Dr. Thomas Kirk
Casey McCulley
Ronald Schlittler
Melissa Shelton
B.A., University of Central Oklahoma, 2006; M.A., University of Central Oklahoma, 2010
David Slakter
Joshua Spears
Sandra Stanley
Dr. Acharya Vedala
Christopher Weigand
Dr. Sarah Woolwine
Dr. Brian Chance
B.A., Middle Tennessee State University, 2001; PhD., University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
Ms. Katherine Saffle
B.A., Valparaiso University, 2007; M.A.L.S., University of Oklahoma, 2012.


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