Professor of Liberal Studies
and Philosophy Department

Email: whippsj@gvsu.edu
Phone: 331-3624
Office: 235 Lake Ontario Hall

Classes:

• Lib 100: Introduction to Liberal Education
• LIB 301: Interdisciplinary Research Methods
• Lib 340: Utopias
• LIB 314: Life Journeys
• LIB 341: Leadership for Social Change
• LIB 400: Visionary Thinkers Jane Addams
• LIB 495: Senior Seminar (Capstone)
• PHI 370 Feminist Philosophy
• PHI 325 Professional Ethics
   

Selected Publications:

Books and Book Chapters:

• Jane Addams’s Writings on Peace Volumes 1-4, edited and introductions, with Marilyn Fischer. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2003.
•  “Reflection and Engagement: Liberal Education at GVSU. Lead editor (4 editions)
• Jane Addams’ Essays and Speeches on Peace. (Edited with Introduction, with Marilyn Fischer). London and New York: Continuum Publishing Group, 2006. Paperback reprint of Volume 4 of Jane Addams’s Writings on Peace.
• “Feminist-Pragmatist Democratic Practice and Contemporary Sustainability” in Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism. Ed Maurice Hamington and Celia Bardwell-Jones (Routledge 2012)
•  “Examining Addams’s Democratic Theory through a Post-Colonial Lens” Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams. Ed. Maurice Hamington. Penn State Press, 2010.
• “Touched by Suffering: American Pragmatism and Engaged Buddhism”  American Buddhism as a Way of Life Vol. 2 in the series New Perspectives in American Buddhism, SUNY Press, 2010.
• “Jane Addams – Pragmatist-Feminist Democracy in a Global Context” in Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in the Age of Globalization. SUNY Press, 2008

Journal articles:

•  “Learn to Earn: A Pragmatist Response to Contemporary Dialogues about Industrial Education.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Volume 22, Number 1, 2008.
• “The Feminist Pacifism of Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Laureate” National Women’s Studies Journal, December, 2006.
• “Jane Addams’s Social Thought as a Model for a Pragmatist-Feminist Communitarianism” Hypatia, 19.2 (Summer, 2004).
• “Food Practice as Epistemology” with Bill Whit. Journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Winter, 2000.
• “Interdisciplinary Studies Advising in International Education” Special Issue Review of The Advising Quarterly, 55 (Winter, 2001), for the Association of Integrative Studies Newsletter, Volume 23, Number 3 (October, 2001).
• Review of Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey, in Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society, Winter, 2005 Vol. XLI, No. 1 (215-220)

Encyclopedia  essays:

• “Feminist Pragmatism” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femapproach-pragmatism/,  2004/2010.
•  “Jane Addams” encyclopedia article in International Encyclopedia of Peace, ed. Eric Stannard. Oxford University Press, 2009.
•  “Communitarianism” and “Feminism” in the Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, Routledge, 2008.
• “Sarah and Angelina Grimké” in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, David Boersma area editor of American Philosophy. Winter, 2006/2010.
•  “Lucy Sprague Mitchell,” “Jessie Taft” and “Emily Greene Balch” three encyclopedia essays for Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John Shook, Thoemmes Press. 2005.
   

Awards:

• Brooks College nominee for Outstanding University Teaching Award 2011
• Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Service Award from the University Continuing Education Association. (Mid-America Region) 2009.
• Phi Kappa Phi inducted March, 2009.
• Ila and John Mellow Prize (conference paper award) Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March, 2008.
• Outstanding University Faculty Member from the GVSU American Humanics program, 2006.
• GVSU nominee for CASE Award (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education with the Carnegie Foundation) 2005 and 2006.
• Brooks College nominee for the Outstanding University Service Award 05-06
• Barbara Jordan Award, presented by the Women and Gender Studies program for contributions to women’s scholarship and leadership at GVSU, March, 2003.
• Presidential Service Learning Scholar award Fall, 2000, Winter & Fall, 2001
   

Selected University Initiatives:

• General Education Committee 2009-12. Revision of upper level general education.
• Chair, Religious Studies Major/Minor Final Plan Committee (approved winter, 2012)
• Chair, Liberal Studies Department 1999-2009
• Task Force on Procedures for Establishing New Academic Units or Programs 2008-10
• Interim Director of General Education, Fall 04-Winter 05
• Planning, Implementation and Faculty Training for Lib 100 Project for First Year Students.2005-2010
• Provost’s Reorganization Taskforce, (Winter, Summer and Fall) 2003 (Work to create the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies)
• University Strategic Planning Committee (First mission, vision, values), 2002
• University Assessment Committee, A & H representative, 2000-02
• Women and Gender Studies Committee to create major. Approved Fall, 08.
• Chair, Committee to create Liberal Studies Department, Approved 2004
• Created with Continuing Education the Liberal Studies program in Traverse City (2000); the Liberal Studies program for returning adults in Holland (2008) and the Liberal Studies Leadership Program in Muskegon (2010)
   

Professional Associations:

• Association for American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
• Association for Integrative Studies (Board Member 2010-11)
• Society for Values in Higher Education
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP)
• International Leadership Association