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Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Considerations by the Way,” The Conduct of Life (1860).

Advisory Board

Dr. Beth Bailey History
Dr. Lewis Gordon Philosophy
Dr. Kimberley Ann Goyette Sociology
Dr. Espen Hammer Philosophy
Dr. Karen Klaiber Hersch Classics
Dr. Michael Kelin Music
Mr. Micah Kleit Temple University Press
Dr. Rita Krueger History
Dr. Peter Logan English
Dr. José Manuel Pereiro-Otero Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Hector Postigo Broadcast and Mass Media
Dr. Joseph Schwartz Political Science
Dr. Laurence Steinberg Psychology
Dr. Paul Swann Film and Media Arts
Dr. Heather Thompson History
Dr. Ashley West Art History
Dr. Lawrence Venuti English

Dr. Beth Bailey
Professor of History
Fields of Interest: War and American Culture/Society; History of Gender and Sexuality; Recent US History

Dr. Lewis Gordon
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy
Director, Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought
Fields of Interest: Race theory, Africana philosophy, Postcolonial Phenomenology, Philosophy of Existence, Social and Political Philosophy, Film and Literature, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Human Sciences

Dr. Kimberley Ann Goyette
Associate Professor of Sociology
Acting Director, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society (2010-2011) 
Fields of Interest: Education, Stratification, Asian Americans, Vietnam

Dr. Espen Hammer
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Fields of Interest: Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics

Dr. Karen Klaiber Hersch

Assistant Professor of Classics

Fields of Interest: Roman religion, Roman social history and imperial Latin literature

Dr. Michael Klein
Associate Professor of Music Studies, Music Theory Program
Fields of Interest: Narrativity, Nineteenth-Century Music

Mr. Micah Kleit
Executive Editor
Temple University Press
Acquires titles in: American Studies, Media Studies, Political and Social Theory, Sociology of Health, Religion, Sports, and Regional Studies

Dr. Rita Krueger
Assistant Professor of History
Fields of Interest: Modern Europe, Eastern Europe and Hapsburg History, European Gender, War and Society, Comparative Nationalism

Dr. Peter Logan
Professor of English
Director, CHAT
Fields of Interest: 19th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, History of the Novel, Realism, History of Human Sciences

Dr. José Manuel Pereiro-Otero
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Fields of Interest: 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish Literature and Culture, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Gender, Nationalism, Galician Studies

Dr. Hector Postigo
Associate Professor of Broadcast and Mass Media
Fields of Interest: new digital media, specically video game culture and online environments.

Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Associate Professor of Political Science
Fields of Interest: Political Theory, History of Political Thought

Dr. Laurence Steinberg
Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology
Fields of Interest: Adolescent brain, behavioral, and psychosocial development; parent-child relationships; developmental psychopathology; juvenile justice; implications of developmental research for legal and social policy

Dr.Paul Swann
Professor of Film and Media Arts
Fields of Interest:Ccultural Policy, Creative Economy, Visual Culture, Documentary Film

Dr. Heather Thompson
Associate Professor of History and African American Studies
Associate Director, CHAT
Fields of Interest: Crime and Punishment, Urban, Labor, Social Movements

Dr. Lawrence Venuti
Professor of English
Fields of Interest: Translation Theory and History, Early Modern Literature, World Poetic Traditions, Literary Translation

Dr. Ashley West
Assistant Professor of Art History
Fields of Interest: Northern Renaissance and Northern Baroque Art, History of Prints

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