Department of History & Philosophy
Faculty
Larry A. Jackson Library
William
Ramsey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Lee C. Archie, Ph.D.
Office: LC M33
Web: Lander Faculty Information
Blog: Notes on Philosophy
Blog: Notes on Logic
Dr. Archie, a native of Houston, Texas, studied chemistry at Austin College and philosophy at
American University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Arkansas. He worked as a
research chemist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Walter Reed Institute of Research and
served on the U. S. Army Nuclear Emergency Team. He is published internationally in the
fields of science, logic, and philosophy. The recipient of several National Endowment for
Humanities grants, he teaches survey courses in
logic,
ethics, existentialism, and
Eastern philosophy and specializes in
philosophy of science. At present he is developing a series of
open source readings in philosophy.
Joel S. Cleland, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of History
E-mail:
jcleland@lander.edu
Web:
http://webs.lander.edu/jcleland
Dr. Cleland, a native of South Carolina, received his B.A.and Ph.D. from the University
of South Carolina and an M.A.T. from the University of North Carolina. He teaches Western
Civilization, the World Since 1918, French Revolution, Nineteenth Century Europe, Latin America,
and Modern Mexico-Cuba-Central America. His scholarly interests include comparative
revolutions and the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico in the 1930s. He has researched
in France, taught in Honduras, completed a Fulbright exchange in Great Britain, and traveled
extensively in Europe and Latin America.
Robert C. Figueira, Ph.D.
John G. Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Honors Program Director
Office: LC 330
Tel: 388-8267
E-mail: jmoore@lander.edu
Dr. Moore earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in 1998, where he wrote a dissertation on Kant’s theory of the sublime and its relation to Aristotelian thought. At Lander, he teaches a variety of courses, including Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Ethics and a number of upper level courses in support of the Philosophy minor. In recent years, he has peer-reviewed papers at statewide philosophy conferences, hosted by Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, as well as several international conferences, including ones sponsored by the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the University of Helsinki, and Hiroshima University. In 2002, he was selected to participate in an NEH Summer Institute at Colorado State University on Kant’s Critique of Judgment and its influence on the early German Romantics. He also serves as the Director of the Honors Program, and is also a member of the Bioethics Committee of the Self-Memorial Hospital.
Kenneth N. Mufuka, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Office: LC 365
Tel. 388-8269
E-mail: kmufuka@lander.edu
Dr Mufuka is a native of Zimbabwe, Africa. He received a M. Litt at St. Andrews University in Scotland and a Ph.D. from Queens University in Canada. Although he has published two books in African history, a collection of short stories, and a short Western Civilization textbook, he is better known for his weekly column ("Letter from America") published in five African newspapers. This column has won him three journalism awards, two of which are from Reuters.
Jean Paquette, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Office: LC 352
Tel. 388-8219
E-mail: jpaquett@lander.edu
Dr. Paquette was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Paquette teaches a wide variety of history classes, including the World Since 1918, Britain, Vietnam, Hitler and Germany, and Modern East Asia. Her research interests include Victorian England, European Christian missionaries in China, and the effects of the Vietnam conflict on American women.
Kevin Witherspoon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Office: LC 359
Tel. 388-8265
Email: kwitherspoon@lander.edu
Raised in New Orleans, Dr. Witherspoon received a B.A. and Ph.D. from Florida State University, and an M.A. from the University of Maine. Dr. Witherspoon teaches widely on recent American History, including specialty courses on U.S. Cultural History and Sport History. His research has focused on international sport in the Cold War era, and his most recent book is titled Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics (Northern Illinois University Press, 2008).
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