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Fifth generation Floridian (if my family had been here any longer I'd speak Spanish or Timucuan as my native language). Fifth generation teacher (third generation college instructor, great grand parents named Reed and Wright- guess it was fate). Lived in every part of Florida and taught every level from middle school to graduate students. Spent four years in the San Francisco Bay area and survived the Oakland fire in 1991. Have also spent a summer as a congressional intern in Washington, DC, a summer in Panama as a seminarian exchange, a summer in Mexico studying Frida Kahlo and about six months of my life in varying spots in Central America. I also spent the two weeks around Christmas in 1994 in Israel. I practiced law in Orlando for eight years in the juvenile and mental health courts, repented and went to seminary to become an Episcopal priest, quickly realizing that parish ministry was not where I needed to be. In the end, I returned to teaching. I rebuilt my home after Hurricane Charley put three tons of oak tree through the middle of it and regrew the jungle that surrounds it. I am owned by three cats and two dogs.

Education

• Ph.D. in Religion, Law and Society from Florida State University (2000)
• J.D. in Law from University of Florida (1981)
• M.Div. in Religion and Society from Church Divinity School of Pacific (Graduate Theological Union) (1995)
• B.A. in History, Sec. Educ. from University of Florida (1976)

Research Interests

Education and the Humanities, LBGT justice issues, Stages of moral/faith development (Kohlberg, Gilligan, Rest, Fowler, Beck, Wilber); Latin American Humanities; Liberation theology; Capital punishment attitudes and religious correlates; Ethics and Torture and Genocide; Religion in America; Religion in the 21st Century; Juergen Habermas/Frankfurt School; Holocaust studies

Awards

Excellence, Undergraduate Teaching 2008-9

Activities

Humanities Scholar, Prime Time Reading program, Orange County Public Libraries (Florida Humanities Council)Humanities Scholar, Lake County Caribbean Humanities program, Tavares, FL (Florida Humanities Council)

Spring 2010 Courses

Department of Philosophy • College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida
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