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Roger S. Gottlieb

Professor of Philosophy

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
508-831-5439; gottlieb@wpi.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE
Education | Publications | Editorial Advising | Outside Evaluator | Presentations | Professional Associations

EDUCATION

1975 Ph.D. Philosophy, Brandeis University, Thesis: Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's Theories of the Transition from One Value System to Another.

1968 B.A., Brandeis University, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Special Honors in Philosophy.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1981- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Professor of Philosophy; Granted tenure, 1985;

1995-97 Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor

1980-81 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

1978-80 Tufts University: Visiting Assistant Professor.

1977-78 Tufts University, Bentley College, University of Mass., Boston.

1974-77 University of Connecticut, Storrs: Graduate & Undergraduate Courses: Visiting Assistant Professor.

1974 Simmons College: Instructor.

MAJOR TEACHING AREAS

MAJOR TEACHING AREAS: Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Oriental Philosophy, Philosophy and Gender, Philosophy and the Holocaust, Disability.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2006.
A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom.. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth. Paperback edition, with a new 'Afterword.' Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Second Edition. Routledge, 2003.
Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change. Westview Press, 2002, Paperback edition, 2004.
Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground. co-edited with David Barnhill. State University of New York Press, 2001.
A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth. Crossroad, 1999.
The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics, and Morality. Routledge, 1996.
This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Routledge, 1995.
Radical Philosophy: Tradition. Counter-Tradition, Politics. Temple University Press, 1993.
Marxism 1844-1990: Origins, Betrayal, Rebirth. Routledge, 1992.
A New Creation: America's Contemporary Spiritual Voices. Crossroad Press, 1990.
Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust. Paulist Press, 1990.
An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukacs and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism. Oxford University Press, 1989.
History and Subjectivity: The Transformation of Marxist Theory. Temple University Press, 1987; Humanities Press Paperback edition, 1993.

Articles and Review Essays

“Justice in a Time of Madness,” forthcoming, Or Rose, ed., A Jewish Cry for Justice, Jewish Lights.
“The Beginnings of a Beautiful Friendship,” forthcoming, Reflections: Journal of Yale Divinity School.
“Buddhism/America: Two-Way Street,” America,” BRIDGES, Special issue on Buddhism in America, February 2007.
“Some Good News for a Change,” EMagazine Online, www.emagazine.com, February 2007.
“Religious Environmentalism: What it is, where it’s heading and why we should be going in the same direction,” forthcoming, Journal for the Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, forthcoming 2007. .
“9-11 and the American Empire: Some Jewish Questions and Answers,” in Kevin Barrett, John Cobb, and Sandra Lubarsky, eds., 9/11 and American Empire: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out, forthcoming, Interlink Press, 2007.
“Spirituality of Resistance,” in Michael Lerner, ed., Tikkun Reader: Twentieth Anniversary, Roman and Littlefield, 2006, pp. 323-322.
“Vampire or Teacher,” Tikkun Magazine Website, http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/article.2006-10-24.5326, October, 2006.
“A real coda to an imaginary trial,” Conservation Biology, Fall, 2006.
“Pluralism Ain’t as Easy as it Looks,” Tikkun, July-August, 2006.
“Introduction,” and “Religious Environmentalism in Action,” in Roger S. Gottlieb, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Marxist Philosophy,” in Donald Borchert, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 739-44
“The Human Material is Too Weak,” in John Roth, ed., Reflections on Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide, (NY: St. Martins, 2005), p. 287-297.
“The Holocaust and the Environmental Crisis,” in Bron Taylor, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (London and New York: Continuum, 2005), pp. 783-785.
“Disability and Social Justice,” Spotlight on Teaching¸ American Academy of Religion, May, 2005.
“Earth 101,” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, Volume 8, no. II-III, 2004, pp. 377-393.
Review essay: “Religion and Ecology, Tikkun, July 2004.
“Review Essay: Reinventing Eden and “From Apocalypse to Way of Life,” Capitalism, Nature Socialism, Volume 15, No. 2, June, 2004.
“Hasidism, Tradition, and Spiritual Freedom,” Tikkun, May, 2004.
“Trauma in the Second Degree,” Tikkun, March 2004.
“Saving the World,” Chapter 7 of Joining Hands, reprinted in Liberating Faith.
“No Place to Hide,” Chapter 2 of A Spirituality of Resistance, reprinted in This Sacred Earth Second Edition.
“Is There an Alternative? Theories of Globalization,” Tikkun, September 2003.
“Globalization and its Alternatives,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, June 2003.
“We Could Still Love, and We Could Still Mourn,” Tikkun March, 2003.
“Ethics, Justice, and Disability,” in Michael Lerner, ed., Best Jewish Writing 2002, Los Angeles: Jossey-Bass, 2003, pp. 292-303.
“A Spirituality of Resistance,” in Richard Foltz, ed. Worldviews and Nature, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002, pp. 554-560.
"One True God," Tikkun, Sept.-October, 2002.
“The Tasks of Embodied Love: Moral Problems in Caring for Children with Disabilities,” Hypatia, Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 225-236.
"You Gotta Serve Somebody," Tikkun, July-August 2002.
"Mad as Hell?" Tikkun, May-June, 2002.
"Heaven on Earth," in Michael W. Howard, ed. Socialism, Buffalo: Humanity Books, 2002.
On The Ambivalence of the Sacred, Ethics, Vol. 112, No. 1, October 2001.
“Introduction,” in Roger S. Gottlieb and David Barnhill eds. Deep Ecology and World Religions, Albany: SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 1-15.
“Deep Ecology and World Religion: A Shared Fate, A Shared Task,” in Roger S. Gottlieb and David Barnhill eds. Deep Ecology and World Religions, Albany: SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 17-34.
“The Dangers of Misinterpretation: Earth Spirituality and Self-Deception,” in Donald Conroy ed. Earth at Risk: An Environmental Dialogue between Religion and Science, Buffalo, NY: Humanity Books, 2000, pp. 183-198.
“Religion Passion and Justice?” Tikkun Fall, 2001
“Can’t We All Just Get Along,” Tikkun Summer 2001.
"The Boundaries of Humility," Tikkun, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan./Feb. 2001.
“Caring for the Disabled,” Tikkun, Vol. 15, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp.76-9.
“Seeing in the Dark: Facing the Shadow of Ecocide,” ReVision, Summer, 1999.
“Niches and Dwellings,” Review Essay, Boston Review of Books, Vol. 7, No. 3, April, 2000.
“Of Things that Swim,” Review Essay, Boston Review of Books. Vol. 6, No 5., December 1999.
“Excerpt from A Spirituality of Resistance, Orion Afield, Spring 1999.
“Spiritual Resistance,” Featured Cover Article,” Tikkun, March/April, 1999.
“The Transcendence of Justice and the Justice of Transcendence,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March, 1999, Vol. 67, No. 1., pp. 149-166. Reprinted in Janet K. Ruffing ed., Mysticism and Social Transformation, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001, pp. 179-194.
“A Sleepless Ethicist,” in Roger S. Gottlieb ed. The Ecological Community, New York and London: Routledge, 1996. pp. 139-162.
"Marxism," Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, New York: MacMillan, 1996.
“Karl Marx,” Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, NY: Garlend, 1996.
"Mothering and the Reproduction of Power: Chodorow, Dinnerstein and Social Theory," reprinted in C. Gould, ed. gender, Atlantic Highlands, NJ and London: Humanities Press, 1996.
"Deep Ecology and the Left: An Effort at Reconciliation," and “Reply to Critics,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 6. #3, 1995, pp. 1-20, 40-4. Reprinted in This Sacred Earth.
“The Dominated Self,” in Richard Schmitt, ed. Alienation and Social Criticism, Atlantic Highland: Humanities Press, 1994.
"Ethics and Trauma," Crosscurrents: A Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, Summer 1994.
“Introduction,” in Roger S. Gottlieb ed. Radical Philosophy, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
“Broken Relations: Some Barriers to the Triumph of Feminine Virtue,” in Roger S. Gottlieb ed. Radical Philosophy, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
"Levinas, Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide," in Robert S. Cohen ed. Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice, Amsterdam and New York: Kluwer, 1993.
"Masculine Identity and the Desire for War: A Study in the Sickness of Power," in Thomas Wartenberg ed. New Theories of Power, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
"Heaven on Earth: A Dialogue Between a Political Radical and a Spiritual Seeker," in The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, February, 1991; reprinted in A New Creation.
"Jews and Christians Remembering the Holocaust: Sameness and Difference," in Peace/Shalom After Atrocity: First Scholars' Conference on the Teaching of the Holocaust: Greenburg, PA: National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, 1991. Reprinted in Martyrdom and Resistance, Spring and Summer, 1991.
"Remembrance and Resistance: Philosophical and Personal Reflections on the Holocaust," Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1988), pp. 25-40; reprinted in Roger S. Gottlieb ed. Thinking the Unthinkable; reprinted in J. Michalczzy, ed. Resistors, Rescuers, and Bystanders: Historical and Ethical Issues (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1997).
"Historical Laws, Historical Materialism and Social Primacy: A Response to Critics," Science and Society, Vol. 51, No. 2, Summer 1987, pp. 188-199.
"Three Contemporary Critiques of Historical Materialism," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Volume 11, No. 1, Spring, 1985. pp. 1-23.
"Forces of Production and Social Primacy," Social Theory and Practice, Volume 11, No. 1, Spring, 1985, pp. 1-24.
"Response to Chodorow and Dinnerstein," Socialist Review, No. 78, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1984, pp. 124-26, 129-30.
"Mothering and the Reproduction of Power: Chodorow, Dinnerstein and Social Theory," Socialist Review, No. 77, Vol. 14 No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1984, pp. 93-120.
"Feudalism and Historical Materialism: A Critique and a Synthesis," Science and Society, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1, Spring 1984, pp. 1-37.
"Engineering and Critical Communication: The Relevance of Philosophy to Engineering Education," IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Vol. III, No. 2, Winter, 1983.
"The Concept of Resistance: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust," Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 1983, pp. 31-49, reprinted in Thinking the Unthinkable.
"Some Implications of the Holocaust for Ethics and Social Philosophy," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 8, #3, pp. 309-27. Reprinted in L. Rouner ed. Foundations of Ethics, University of Notre Dame Press (1983).
"The Contemporary Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas," Ethics, Vol. 91, No. 2, January 1981, pp. 280-95.
"Herbert Marcuse," signed article, Encyclopedia Americana, 1981 edition.
"Israel and the Palestinians," Jewish Currents, May, 1981.
"Kierkegaard's Ethical Individualism," Monist, July 1979, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 351-67.
"Marxism and the Three Forms of Social Primacy," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXVI, No. 10, October 1979, pp. 519-30.
"The Dialectics of National Identity," Socialist Review, No. 47, September-October 1979, pp. 19-52.
"The Dialectics of National Identity Revisited: A Reply to Johnson," Socialist Review, September-October 1979, pp. 63-70.
"A Critique of Kierkegaard's Doctrine of Subjectivity," Philosophical Forum, Vol. IX, No. 4, Summer 1979, pp. 475-96.
"Habermas and Critical-Reflective Emancipation," in Th. Gereats, ed., Rationality Today, University of Ottawa Press, 1979, pp. 434-41.
"A Marxian Concept of Ideology," Philosophical Forum, Vol. VI, No. 4, Summer, l975, pp. 380-96.

Shorter Reviews

An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory, European Journal of English Studies, Summer, 2004.
Nature, God, and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 72, No 2. June 2004.
Alienation and Freedom, Teaching Philosophy: 26:4, December 2003.
There is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Worldviews, Vol. 7, No. 3, Fall 2003.
The New Earth Reader, Parabola, Fall 2000.
Prayers for a Thousand Years, Tikkun, January-February 2000.
Cool Capitalism, Boston Review of Books. Vol. 6, No 3., September 1999.
The Ostrich Factor, Boston Review of Books. Vol. 6, No 3., April 1999.
Nature’s Keeper and Ecocritique, Social Theory and Practice. Fall 1999,
Ecological Democracy and The War Against Nature, Boston Review of Books, Vol. 6, No. 1. January, 1999.
Review essay on Ethics in a time of plague, Tikkun, August, 1998.
Review essay on “Spirituality and Death,” Tikkun, June, 1998.
The Ecology of Eden, Boston Sunday Globe, June 1, 1998.
Review essay on “Engaged Buddhism,” Tikkun, Feb. 1998.
Review essay on “Spirituality and Nature,” Tikkun, Dec. 1997
The Spell of the Sensuous, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Fall, 1997.
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, Sunday Boston Globe, Sept. 1997.
Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, Ethics, Vol. 106, No. 3 April, 1996, pp. 650-3.
Against Capitalism, Ethics, Vol. 106 No.1, October 1995, pp. 202-204.
Ecology and The Green Fuse, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Fall, 1994.
At the Hand of Man, The New Toxics Wars, Toxic Struggles, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Spring, 1994.
Ecology and Ethics, Ethics, Vol. 104, No. 2, January 1994.
Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice, Ethics Vol. 103, No. 3, April 1992.
The Logic of Marx's Capital, Ethics, Vol. 102, No. 1, October 1991.
Maternal Thinking and The Ways of Peace: A Philosophy of Peace as Action, Journal of Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. III, No. 2, 1991.
Historical Understanding, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 20, #2, June, 1990, pp. 259-263.
Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of an Existential Politics, Journal of Politics, Summer, 1990.
Echoes From the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, Journal of Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. II, No 2. 1990.
Utopianism and Marxism, Ethics, Fall, 1989.
Alienation and Class, Science and Society, Volume 52, No 3., Fall 1988.
The Notion of Encounter, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. II, #2-3. April-June 1982.
Georg Lukacs--From Romanticism to Bolshevism, Slavic Review Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter 1981.
Communication and the Evolution of Society," Philosophical Review, April 1980, pp. 295-98.

EDITORIAL ADVISING

Manuscript Reviewing

National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, Palgrave, Cornell University Press, MIT Press, National Science Foundation, Oxford University Press, Westview, Routledge, Rutgers University Press, University of Minnesota Press, SUNY Press, Continuum Press, Humanities Press, University Presses of Florida, Prentice-Hall, HarperCollins, McGraw Hill, Ethics, Social Theory and Practice, Socialist Review, Worldviews, Hypatia, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. Environmental Values, Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health

Book Series

General Editor for Book Publication Series: Nature's Meanings, with Rowman and Littlefield.
General Editor for a Book Publication Series: Radical Social and Political Theory, with State University of New York Press.
General Editor for a Book Publication Series: Revolutionary Thought/Radical Movements, with Routledge.
General Editor for Book Publication Series: Key Concepts in Critical Theory, and Flashpoints: Moral, Legal and Policy Conflicts in the Environment with Humanity Press.
General Editor for Book Publication Series Religion/Society//Society/Religion, with Humanities Press.

Journal Editing

Guest Editor, Social Theory and Practice:
Special Issue on Religion and Politics, May 2005.
Special Issue on Disability and Philosophy, Volume 27, #3, Fall, 2001.
Special Issue on The Environmental Challenge to Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 21 #2, Summer 1995.
Special Issue on Marxism-Feminism: Powers of Theory/Theories of Power, Volume 14, No. 3, Fall, 1988.
Book Review Editor and Board of Advisors: Social Theory and Practice.
Editorial Board: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology.
Editorial Board Worldviews. Social Theory and Practice; Journal of the Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.

OUTSIDE EVALUATOR FOR TENURE, PROMOTION, AND/OR GRADUATE DEGREES

University of South Africa, University of South Australia, Harvard University, MIT, Norwich University, University of Wisconsin, University of Louisville, City University of New York, University of Oregon, DePaul University, Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Florida, University of Florida, Northwestern University.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1983

“The Promises of Religious Environmentalism,” “Ecological Democracy,” Campus Lectures, Sewanee: University of the South, April 2007.

“A Path Beyond Faith and Despair,” Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton, MA, March 2007.

“Religious Environmentalism in a Global Context,” Hellenic College, Brookline, MA, March 2007.

“Jewish Environmentalism,” Temple Kerem Shalom, Concord, MA, January, 2007.

‘The Holocaust and Environmental Atrocity,” American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., December 2006.

“Tasks of Unity,” Conference on Perspectives on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Sherborn, MA, December, 2006.

“Moral and Spiritual Duty to Environmental Activism,” GreenScare Conference, Worcester, MA, December, 2006.

“Empire’s Other,” American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C., November 2006

“Religious Environmentalism,” Temple Beth Zion, Brookline, MA, October 2006

“Ecological Democracy,” Keynote address, Conference on Environmental Citizenship University of Dayton, October 2006

“Hope in a Dark Time,” Keynote address, Interreligious Eco-Justice Network Sacred Trust Forum, Hartford, CT, October 2006

“Religious Environmentalism: What it is, where it’s heading and why we should be going in the same direction.” Plenary panel, Inaugural conference, Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, University of Florida, May 2006.

“Hope in a Dark Time,” St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newton, MA, April 2006.

“The Environmental Crisis and the Problem of Evil,” Divinity School, Wake Forest University, March 25, 2006.

“A Greener Faith,” Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light, Worcester, March 2005.

“Working Ourselves to Death,” Divinity School, Wake Forest University, February 25, 2006.

“Religion, Politics and Religious Environmentalism: Finding Hope in a Dark Time,” Aquinas Lecture, Manhattan College, April 2006.

Guest Professorship Graduate Lecture Series on Religious Environmentalism, Wake Forest University, January, February, March, 2006.

“Spiritual Identity, Holocaust, Ecocide,” Program for Religion in the Secondary Schools, American Association of Religion, Nov. 2005.

Panel on “Hauerwas and Disability,” American Association of Religion, Nov. 2005.

“Religious Environmentalism and Ecological Democracy,” Philosophy Colloquium, University of New Hampshire, October 2005.

“Earth Day Lecture, “ Thiel College, April 2005.

“What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Democracy, Marxism, and the Rights of Nature,” American Philosophical Association, December 2004.

“Spirituality and Resistance,” Episcopal Divinity School, December 2004

“Religious Environmentalism and the 2004 Election,” American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, November 2004.

“Teaching Disability Issues,” American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, November 2004.

“Religion, Politics, Justice,” Conference on Religious Studies in Secondary Schools, San Antonio, November 2004.

“Experiencing the Heart of ecology,” Boston Social Forum, Boston, MA, July 2004.

“Religion and Environmental Activism,” Boston Social Forum, Boston, MA, July 2004.

“Religious Values and the Environmental Crisis,” Colorado College, April 2004.

“Religious and Political Approaches to Violence and Trauma,” Colorado College, April 2004.

“Spiritual Life and Political Life,” Gaucher College, March 2004.

“Religious Environmentalism: Prospects and Context,” 14th Annual Environment and Community Conference, Empire State College, February 2004.

“The World Situation and the Future of the Left,” American Philosophical Association, December, 2003

Panel Discussion of Joining Hands: Religion and Politics Together for Social Change, American Philosophical Association, December, 2003.

“Religion and the World Environmental Movement,” American Philosophical Association, December, 2003.

“Love’s Limits: Religion and Politics in the Civil Rights Movement,” American Academy of Religion, November, 2003.

“A Spirit in Love with the Earth,” Holy Cross University, November, 2003.

“Religion, Politics and Social Change,” Tufts University, October, 2003.

“Religious Environmentalism,” Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, September 2003

“Resistance and Work in the Holocaust and the Environmental Crisis,” Northern New England Philosophy Association, September, 2003.

“Rethinking Resistance in the Holocaust and Contemporary Politics,” Summer Institute for Holocaust Scholars, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., August 2003.

“Restorative Justice, Religion and Politics,” Boston Theological Institute Program on Restorative Justice, Newton, MA, June, 2003.

“Spring, Renewal, and Resistance,” First Church of Framingham, April, 2003.

“Finding Common Ground,” Temple Israel, Boston, April, 2003.

Keynote Speaker, Costas Consultation, Boston Theological Institute, March 2003.

Keynote Speaker: The Brown Symposium XXV 'Spiritualities of Resistance," Southwestern University, February 2003.

"Environmentalism as a Spiritual Movement," Hampshire County Interfaith Council, Amherst, MA, December 2002.

"The Hope of Religious Environmentalism," General Assembly of Unitarian Universalists, Quebec City, June 2002.

"Religion in a world of Politics," EarthSave Boston, June, 2002.

"Five Theses on Religious Environmentalism," Regional AAR meetings, Brandeis University, April, 2002.

"Multiculturalism and Universal Justice," NNEPA, Clark University, October 2001.

“Disability, Justice, Children,” American Academy of Religion, Nov. 2000.

“Judaism, Gender, Nature,” American Academy of Religion, Nov. 2000.

“Spirit and Earth,” EarthSave Boston Lecture Series, co-sponsored by P’Nai Or, Boston, October 2000.

“The Spirit that Sustains,” Conference on Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity and Health in the Millennium, San Jose, Costa Rica, June, 2000.

“Spiritual Sustainability,” Sustainability and Justice Conference, Tufts University, May 2000.

“Religion and Political Life in the New Millennium,” ReImagining Society, Politics and Meaning Conference, New York, May 2000.

“The Role of the Sacred in the Defense of the Earth,” BioDevastation 2000 Conference, Boston, April 2000.

“Environmental Ethics and Global Warming: Session Commentator,” International Society for Environmental Ethics,” American Philosophical Association, December 1999.

“Marx and Idealism: The Case of Religion,” American Philosophical Association, December 1999.

“Avoiding the Follies of Modernity,” American Academy of Religion, November 1999.

“A Spirituality of Resistance,” Makor Center, New York City, October 1999.

“Environmental Resistance and the Days of Awe,” Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Boston, October 1999.

“Environmental Tshuvah,” Temple Israel, Boston, September 1999.

“Ethics and Politics in a World of Difference,” American Philosophical Association, Dec. 1998.

“The Dialectical Circle of the Concrete and the Universal,” American Academy of Religion, Nov. 1998.

Public and Scholarly lectures given as Marshall Dodge Memorial Visiting Scholar, University of Maine, “Environmental Ethics ain’t as Easy as it Looks”; “Ethics and Multiculturalism” February 1998.

“The Tasks of an Environmental Thinker,” Keynote Address, Conference on the Individual and the Environment, Norwich University, Fall 1997.

“What the Holocaust teaches about Ecocide,” American Academy of Religion, November 1997.

“A Hidden Brilliance,” American Academy of Religion, Fall, 1997

“The Deep Values of Ecosocialism,” Conference on Ecosocialism, University of California, May 1997.

“Domination of People and Nature,” Conference on Technology and Ethics, WPI, Spring 1997.

Commentator, “Judaism and Ecology,” Boston Research Institute for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, MA, February 1997.

“Deep Ecology and World Religions,” American Academy of Religion, Fall 1996.

“Technology, Genocide and Ecocide,” Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, June 1996.

“Thinking About the Environment,” Alabama Endowment for the Humanities Speaker, Mobile AL, June 1996.

“Ethics and the Environment,” Swarthmore College, April 1996.

“WPI and the Environmental Crisis,” Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 1996.

“Moral Dilemmas in an Ecocidal Age,” Yale University, February 1996.

“Parenting and Gender,” Brandeis University, February 1996.

“Deep Ecology and Social Transformation,” American Academy of Religion, November 1995.

Session Commentator: “Environmental Movements,” American Academy of Religion, November 1995.

“An Ethic of Equity?” Conference on Population, Consumption and the Environment,” Boston Theological Institute and Union of Concerned Scientists, November 1995.

“Morality in an Age of Ecocide,” Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, Boston, June 1995.

"Truths of Despair and Resistance," Fourth Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, University of Colorado/Colorado Springs, March 1995.

Invited Workshop Speaker, "Creation as the Beloved of God," Boston Theological Institute, December 1994.

"Planet Auschwitz," American Academy of Religion, November 1994.

"Fathering and Male Identity," Session Commentator, American Academy of Religion, November 1994.

“Whose Life is it Anyway?" American Philosophical Association, December 1993.

"Deep Ecology, Social Oppression and Spiritual Life," American Academy of Religion, November 1993.

Panel Member, "Capitalism and the Environment," AESE Conference, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, October 1993.

"Spirituality and Political Power: Reflections on Holocaust, Ecocide and Progressive Political Movements," Center for Study of Psychology and Social Change, Harvard University Medical School, February 1993.

"Levinas, Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide," American Academy of Religion National Meetings, San Francisco, November 1992.

"A Spirituality at Home in the World," Lecture at Interface Institute, October 1992.

"Marxism and Ecology," Lesley College, May 1992.

Presentation on "Is A New Spirituality Emerging?" and Workshop Leader, at Emerging Spirit: Celebrating Spirituality in Everyday Life, Conference at Interface Institute, February, 1992.

"Ecocide and Genocide," Harvard University Hillel, February 1992; Clark and WPI Hillel, March 1992.

"Holocaust, Genocide, Ecocide," American Philosophical Association, Dec. 1991.

"Weapons of the Spirit: Jewish Resources for the Environmental Crisis," American Academy of Religion, November1991.

"Despair and Sorrow, Memory and Meaning: Subjectivity and the Holocaust," The Cross and the Star: Faith and the Holocaust, Boston College, April 1991.

"Group Identities and Histories of Suffering," American Philosophical Association (Pacific), March 1991.

"A Sane Response to the Environmental Crisis: Resources from Jewish Tradition and Experience," Renewing Shalom Conference, January 1991.

"Compassion and Love in Radical Politics," American Philosophical Association 1991.

"Spirituality and the Limits of Marxism," Midwest Socialist Scholars Conference 1990.

"Spiritual Teachings and the Politics of Human Emancipation," American Academy of Religion National Meetings, November1990.

"Response to Critics," American Philosophical Association symposium on my book, History and Subjectivity, December 1989.

"Joining the Spiritual Path and the Struggle for Social Justice, Interface Institute, Watertown, MA, May 1989.

"Jews and Christians Remembering the Holocaust: Sameness and Difference," Conference on Teaching the Holocaust, National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, April 1989.

"The Politics of Group Identity: From Suffering and Anger to Compassion and Love," Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, December 1988.

"Left Anti-Semitism, Internalized Oppression and Self-Worth, Tikkun national conference, December 1988.

"Heaven on Earth: Progressive Politics and Spirituality," American Political Science Association, August 1988.

"Thinking about Resistance in the Holocaust," New Hampshire Humanities Council Seminar for teachers, August 1988.

"Marxism, Feminism, Holocaust," Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, December 1987.

"Successes and Failures of the American Left," American Political Science Association National Meetings, August 1987.

"Remembrance and Resistance," Ethics and the Holocaust Lecture Series, Keene State College, April 1987.

"Nuclear War and Male Identity," Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, March 1987.

"Resistance Revisited," Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 1986.

"The Politics of Nuclear War," American Political Science Association National Meetings, August 1986.

"Historical Tragedy, Existential Choice and Natural Pain: Some Dilemmas of Contemporary Feminist Thought," Special Session Paper, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, May 1986.

"Are There Laws of Socio-Historical Transformations?" Invited Paper, Socialist Scholars' Conference, April 1986.

"Social Differentiation and the American Left," American Political Science Association National Meetings, August 1985.

"Science and Ethics," Frontiers in Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, July 1985.

"Experience, Intentionality and Historical Understanding," Canadian Philosophical Association, May 1985.

"Rationalization, Professionalization and Commodification in Animal Experimentation," University of Massachusetts Medical School, March 1985.

"Masculine Identity and the Desire for War," Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, March 1985.

"Domination and Selfhood," Colloquium Paper, Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, December 1984; Joint Meeting of the Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought and the North American Society for Social Philosophy, February 1985.

"Some Currents Debates in Historical Materialism," University of Massachusetts Philosophy Graduate Program, November 1984.

"Feminism and Justice: Contributions and Dilemmas," American Political Science Association National Meetings, August 1984.

"Legitimation and Domination," Philosophy Lecture Series, Framingham State College, April 1984.

"The Ethical Status of Animal Experimentation," University of Massachusetts Medical School, April 1984.

"Empty Mirrors: The Disappearance of the Person in Popular Culture." Panel on "The Ideological Content of Popular Culture," Chair and participant, Theory and Methodology Section of the Popular Culture Association, Toronto, March 1984.

"Everywhere Elsewhere: The Fate of the Self in Contemporary Society," Conference on Political Futures, University of Akron, January 1984.

"The Philosophical Importance of Language: A Reply to Cook," Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, December 1983.

"Political Power and the Dominated Self," Second International Conference on the Comparative Historical and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy, New School for Social Research, September 1983.

"Critique as Ideology: Western Marxism and Socialist-Feminism," Boston University Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, March 1983; Philosophy Colloquium, Holy Cross College, March 1983.

"Mothering and the Reproduction of Power: Chodorow, Dinnerstein and Social Theory," American Philosophical Association (Pacific), March 1983; Kirsch Center, University of Massachusetts/Boston, February 1983.

"Ethics and the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit," Conference on Ethical-Legal Issues in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, University of Massachusetts Medical School, September 1983; Symposium of Boston Institute for the Study of Childhood.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member: American Academy of Religion (steering committee, Religion and Ecology Section, 1994-97; steering committee, Religion and Disability Section, 2002-2005); International Society for the Study of Environmental Ethics; American Philosophical Association; American Political Science Association; Philosophical Society for the Study of Genocide and the Holocaust (co-founder); Radical Philosophy Association; Interdisciplinary Environmental Association.

Grant Applications

“The WPI initiative in Religion, Environmentalism and Democracy,” Ford Foundation Program on Diversity, May 2005

Service

Class of 1879 Prize Award Committee, C Term, 2006

Religion/Ethics Search Committee, C-C, 2006-07.

Environmental Studies Program planning committee, 2006-2007

Other

Dozens of radio interviews on the topics of my books.

Several web published interviews with publications such as American Prospect and Chronicle of Higher Education.