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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Dr. Steven Best Associate Professor Departments of Humanities and Philosophy University of Texas El Paso, TX 79968 915-747-5097(w) [email protected] (w) [email protected] (h) Home Page: http://www.drstevebest.org/ Blog: http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/ YouTube Video Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/drstevebest Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Steve-Best/258491547002 Google Scholar Citations: http://tiny.cc/s9b1dw Education College of Du Page, Illinois 1977-79 (Associate of Arts, Film and Theatre) University of Illinois (CU) 1979-83 (B.A. with distinction, Philosophy) University of Chicago 1985-7 (M.A., Philosophy) University of Texas, Austin 1989-1993 (Ph.D., Philosophy) Academic Employment 1993 -- Assistant Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at University of Texas, El Paso; promoted to Associate Professor in Spring 1999; promoted to Chair of Philosophy in Fall 2000 and served to summer 2005 1988-1993 Instructor of Philosophy at Austin Community College 1987-1993 Teaching Assistant at University of Texas 1983-5 Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois Honors and Awards Lois Green Scholarship, University of Illinois, 1982 Donald W. Doerscher Award for most outstanding philosophy undergraduate, University of Illinois, 1983 Scholarship for graduate work at University of Chicago, 1985-1987 Professional Development Award at University of Texas, 1989, 1990 University Research Grants at UTEP, 1994, 1995 Journalist for Animal Rights Online (1997-2007) The Postmodern Turn: winner of the Michael Harrington Best Social Theory Book Award (1997) The Postmodern Turn: selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books list (1998) The Postmodern Adventure: winner of Foreward Magazine's Best Philosophy Book of the Year Award (2001) Included in Contemporary Authors directory, 1996-9, and regularly invited Included in Who's Who in America, 17th and 18th editions, and regularly invited Included in Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century Included in Who's Who in Humanities Higher Education, 2005 Included in the Animal and Society Institute’s Guide to Experts on Animal Issues (2006). Voted one of the “25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians” by VegNews Magazine (May 2007). Listed as “Notable Alumnus” of College of Du Page Listed as “Notable Professor” at UTEP (Wikipedia) Bestowed with Honorary life membership to the Hellenic Society for Ethics (2011) Graduated UTEP’s Digital Academy training program for online teaching certification (2012) Areas of Specialization Continental philosophy, applied ethics (animal rights, environmental ethics, bioethics), social and political philosophy, media theory and cultural studies, Marxism and critical theory, science and technology studies, security and terrorism studies Areas of Competence Philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, philosophy of history, feminism, critical race studies Editorial, Committee, and Director Work June 10, 2011- Lifelong appointment to Editorial board of Ethics, journal of the Hellenic Society for Ethics June 15, 2011 – Added Kerulos Center Faculty (http://www.kerulos.org/about_kerulos/faculty.html#best) 2008- Advisory and Editorial Board of the Transformative Studies Institute (www.transformativestudies.org) 2008- Scientific Committee of Design Cinema (http://www.designcinema.org/) 2008-Reviewer Board of Political Media Review (http://politicalmediareview.wordpress.com/) 2007- Editorial Board of Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte (Romania) 2008-2010: Senior Editor of Cyrano’s Online Journal 2008- Advisory Editorial Board, Society for Applied Sociology, India 2007- Editorial Board, The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (http://www.jceps.com/) 2004 - Book Review Editor and Contributor to The International Journal for Inclusive Democracy (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/) 2002 –2009 -- Editorial Advisory Board and co-founder of Green Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Ecological Politics (http://greentheoryandpraxis.ecopedagogy.org) 2001- 2008: Co-founder and Chief Editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, a peer-reviewed online journal (http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/index.htm); co- produced and co-founded the “Institute for Critical Animal Studies” (http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org) 2001-2010 Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/) 2000- Editorial Board of Organization and Environment 1999 - Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organizational Change and Management (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=l189id60i6 26egigcsqqcto7f2&id=jocm) 1997 - Editorial Advisory Board, X-Alta I also serve as a regular reviewer for journals such as Theory and Society; Theory, Culture, and Society, Cultural Studies, Sociological Inquiry, and presses such as Palgrave, Macmillan, Polity, Pluto, Routledge, Columbia University, and Lantern Books. Professional Organizations Member of the American Philosophical Association, the Radical Philosophy Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Association of University Professors. Publications I. Books 1. (with Douglas Kellner) Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. (London and New York: MacMillan Press and Guilford Press, 1991. (Translated into Chinese) 2. The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, and Habermas. (New York: Guilford Press, 1995). 3. (with Douglas Kellner) The Postmodern Turn: Paradigms Shifts in Art, Theory, and Science. (Guilford Press, 1997). Winner of the Michael Harrington Best Social Theory Book Award for 1997; also selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books list 1998. 4. (with Douglas Kellner) The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium. (Guilford Press, 2001). Winner of Foreward Magazine's Best Philosophy Book of the Year Award, 2001. 5. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II) Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals. (New York: Lantern Books, 2004). (http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/behind-the-mask-uncovering-the-animal- liberation-front/) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5z_cF9xVg). 6. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II) Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. (Oakland: AK Press, 2006). (http://www.peacebuilding.info/ignitingarevolution/toc.html) (http://www.peacebuilding.info/ignitingarevolution/intro.html) 7. Introduced and edited Inclusive Democracy: Preserving Liberatory Politics in the 21st Century (Athens, Greece: Grammata Press, 2007). 8. Introduced and edited Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left: Renewing Radicalism through Inclusive Democracy. Koukkida, Athens, Greece, 2008 (English translation available online at: http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For- Life/GlobalizedCapitalismAndTheDemiseOfTheLeft/GlobalizedCapitalismAndTheDemi seOfTheLeft.pdf.) 9. (with Jason Miller) The Pied Pipers of Pacifism: Gary Francione, Lee Hall, and the Betrayal of Animal Liberation. (Los Angeles: NAALPO Press, 2009). 10. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II and Peter McLaren), Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic-Industrial Complex. (AK Press, 2010, 590 pages). 11. Introduced and co-edited (with Richard Kahn and Peter McLaren) The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination (New York: Lexington Books, 2011, 311 pages). 12. The Animal Liberation Front: A Political and Philosophical Analysis (E-book, Lantern Press, 2011) (http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?session=&id=9781590562710). 13. Total Liberation: Rethinking Politics in the 21st Century. (collection of essays translated into Greek; Eleftheros Typos: Athens, Greece, 2011). 14. The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action and “Violence” (Warcry Publishing, 2012). 15. Global Crisis and Global Resistance Movements (Echo Verlag, Germany, 2013) 16. Animal Liberation and Moral Progress: The Struggle for Human Evolution. (Roman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2013). II. Articles 1. “Reading Baudrillard Critically,” The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1985. 2. “The Existential Politics of Yukio Mishima,” The Chicago Literary Review, Spring 1986. 3. “Antonio Gramsci’s Concept of `Hegemony’ and the Politics of Everyday Life,” The Chicago Literary Review, Spring 1986. 4. “Paul Ricoeur: Rupturing the Narrative,” The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1986. 5. (with Douglas Kellner) "(Re)Watching Television: Notes Toward a Political Criticism," Diacritics, vol. 17, #2, Summer 1987, 97-113. 6. (with Douglas Kellner) "Critical Reflections on Television and Postmodernism," Science as Culture, Spring, 1988 7. "The Chicago Experience: The City as Hyperreal," Social Text #18, Winter, 1987/88. 8. "After the Catastrophe: Hermeneutics and Postmodernism," Canadian Journal of Social and Political Theory, Vol. XII, #3, Fall 1988. 9. "In the Detritus of Technology," Jump Cut, #34 Summer 1988. 10. "Robocop-out: The Recuperation of the Subject," Canadian Journal of Social and Political Thought, vol. 13, numbers 1-2, 1989. Reprinted in X-Alta, October, 2002, pp. 117-126. 11. "The Reality of Commodification and the Commodification of Reality: Jean Baudrillard and Postmodernism," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 9, 1989, pp. 23-51 12. "Jameson, Post-Structuralism, and the Critique of Totality," in Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique, Maissoneuve Press, Fall 1989. 13. (with Douglas Kellner) "Kierkegaard and The Corsair Affair," International Kierkegaard
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