Still More Visitors to Our Program

Sally Packard, a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas, spent June 2000 in the department working on an environmental exhibit and participating in a seminar in environmental ethics.

Albert Cinelli from the University of Kansas spent 2000-2001 in the department in order to undertake postdoctoral research on environmental ethics.

;	David Kronlid of the Center for Ethics of Environmental and Development Studies at the University of Uppsala spent summer 2001 doing research on ecofeminism. Kronlid is also a Ph.D. student in the Ethics Department of the Department of Theology at the University of Uppsala.

Julien DeLord from the Ecole Doctorale lettres et sciences humaines of the University of Paris spent part of summer 2001 in the department in order to undertake doctoral research on environmental ethics.

;	Robert Hood of the Department of Philosophy at Middle Tennessee State Univeristy spent summer 2001 doing research on how to establish and manage an environmental philosophy center.

Lars Fischer is from the University of Tuebingen and the University of Greifswald. He is doing research on environmental aesthetics. He also visited UNT in Summer 2001.

;	Yong-Gae Cho, a research member of the Catholic University of Daegu, and a publisher of Eco-Friends, spent Spring 2002 at the university, engaged in research into environmental ethics and environmental education.

Yang Tongjin visited the department and center in early June 2002. He is an associate professor in the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China. He the fall of 2001 and the spring of 2002 at Colorado State University with Holmes Rolston, III before visiting UNT.

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Pandu Hegde spent the month of October 2004 in the department as a Fulbright Scholar. Hegde is the leader of a peoples organization known as Appiko, which means to hug. It has raised environmental consciousness in the Western Ghats of India utilizing the strategy of the earlier Chipko movement of northern India of hugging trees to shield them from the axe.

Johan Hattingh of the Unit for Environmental Ethics of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa made a brief visit with his son to the University of North Texas during Thanksgiving week in 2004. His visit included a talk for faculty and students.

;	Chigbo Joseph Ekwealo, a lecturer on a leave of absence from the Philosophy Department of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria, spent fall 2005 through fall 2006 doing research on environmental philosophy.

Kurt Heidinger, a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut, is engaged in research and writing at the center in cooperation with the Omara Foundation in Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino, Chile. Heidinger is the former President of the Naubesatuck Watershed Council (2000-2005).

;	Xiaohua Liu, is a visiting professor from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, on a one-year leave of absence (2006-2007), to engage in comparative research on on environmental ethics between East and West.

Myungsik Kim, a visiting professor from the Department of Moral Education, Chinju National University of Education, Sinan-dong, Jinju, Gyungnam-do, South Korea, engaged in research into environmental philosophy from fall 2008 to summer 2009.

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Xiaona Yao, a lecturer of ethics from the Department of Social Science, East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, spent fall 2008 to summer 2009 doing research in environmental ethics. Her research interest is in applied ethics and moral education. Her focus at UNT was on the application of environment ethics theory in environmental education in China.

First Visitors - More Visitors - Research Opportunities - CEP - PHIL - UNT August 7, 2009