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CURRICULUM VITAE (Revised 04.26.07) CURRICULUM VITAE (Revised 04.26.07) Dr. Larry A. Hickman The Center for Dewey Studies Phone: 618.453.2629 Southern Illinois University Carbondale Fax: 618.453.1733 Carbondale, IL 62901 Email: <[email protected]> ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1993- Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale 1989-93 Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University 1991 Visiting Lecturer, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1981 Council on the International Exchange of Scholars Fellow, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 1980-89 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University 1974-80 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University 1973-74 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin 1971-73 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Erlangen and Universität Saarbrücken, West Germany EDUCATION Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 1971 B.A. Hardin-Simmons University, 1964 HONORS AND AWARDS 2005 Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award (National). 2005 Honorary Doctorate, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan. 2005 Elected President, the John Dewey Society. 2002 Southern Illinois University Carbondale “Outstanding Scholar for 2002.” 2002 Elected President, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 2000 “Dean’s Appreciation Award,” presented by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale “to faculty who serve the college particularly well as teachers and scholars.” 1999 “Outstanding Academic Title, 1999" award from Choice for The Correspondence of John Dewey. Vol. 1: 1871-1918. General Editor. Charlottesville, Va.: InteLex Corporation, 1999. 1999 “Outstanding Academic Title, 1999" award from Choice for The Essential Dewey. Vol. I: Pragmatism, Education, and Democracy. Vol. II: Ethics, Logic, Psychology. Edited and with introductions (with Thomas Alexander). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. 1996 Elected President of Phi Kappa Phi chapter at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 1995 “Award for Scholarly Achievement,” from Phi Kappa Phi, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Chapter. 1993 Elected President, Society for Philosophy and Technology. 1990 “Outstanding Academic Book, 1990" Award from Choice for John Dewey〉s Pragmatic Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 1989 Elected President, Southwestern Philosophical Society. 1989 Distinguished Teaching Award, presented by the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. 1982 Book of the Year Award (1982) from the American Journal of Nursing for Technology and Human Affairs, edited and with an introduction by Larry Hickman and Azizah al- Hibri. St. Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Co., 1981. GRANTS Illinois Board of Higher Education 1999-2006 (annually) “Ethics in the Workplace” (with John S. Haller) $41,600 National Endowment for the Humanities 2006 “The John Dewey Project” $50,000 2005 “The John Dewey Project” $75,000 2004 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $50,000 2003 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $100,000 2002 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $50,000 2001 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $100,000 2000 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $50,000 2000 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $100,000 1999 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $60,000 1998 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $226,000 1997 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $30,000 1996 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $177,500 1995 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 55,000 1994-96 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $190,000 1994 “The Letters of John Dewey, 1881-1951” $ 20,000 1993 “The Letters of John Dewey, 1881-1951” $ 20,000 1987-88 “John Dewey〉s Instrumentalism and the Culture of Technology” $ 50,825 The John Dewey Foundation 2007 “John Dewey Lecture Note Project” $50,000 2006 “Works About Dewey” $13,338 2005 “Works About Dewey” $7,000 2005 “The John Dewey Project” $ 50,000 2004 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 50,000 2002 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 50,000 2000 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 50,000 1999 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 60,000 1996 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 30,000 1995 “John Dewey Correspondence, 1881-1952” $ 55,000 1994 “The Letters of John Dewey, 1881-1951” $ 20,000 1993 “The Letters of John Dewey, 1881-1951” $ 20,000 The Makiguchi Foundation for Education (Secured for the Center for Dewey Studies) 2006 Unrestricted $10,000 Donald F. Koch and Barbara Sawyer Koch (Secured for the Center for Dewey Studies) 2007 Unrestricted $67,082 2006 Unrestricted $85,083 Jo Ann and Don Boydston (Secured for The Center for Dewey Studies) 2004 Unrestricted $25,000 The Spencer Foundation (Secured for the Center for Dewey Studies) 2002 “The Letters of John Dewey, 1881-1951” $ 11,300 Anonymous Private Sector Grants (Secured for The Center for Dewey Studies) 1999 Unrestricted $14,056.25 2 Illinois Humanities Council 1993-95 “John Dewey in Illinois” $ 2,500 Texas A&M University Honors Program 1992 Curriculum Development Grant $ 2,000 Texas A&M University Faculty Academic Study Program 1988 “The Ethics of Research with Human Embryos” $ 24,971 Texas A&M University Research Excellence Program 1988 “The Culture of Instrumentalism” $ 8,875 1987 “Ethical Issues in Zygote Therapy” $ 11,050 Texas Commission on the Arts 1989 10th Aggie Independent Film and Video Festival $ 3,000 1988 9th Aggie Independent Film and Video Festival $ 2,758 1987 8th Aggie Independent Film and Video Festival $ 3,000 1984 5th Aggie Independent Film and Video Festival $ 3,000 1983 4th Aggie Independent Film and Video Festival $ 3,000 Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Program 1986 “John Dewey〉s Contribution to a Philosophy of Technology” $ 7,750 Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts Sesquicentennial Film Series 1986 “A Celebration of Texas Images in Film” $ 1,250 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Authored Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism. New York: Fordham University Press (forthcoming, 2007). Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Also published as an e-book (http://usa1.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=129695). John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. (Recipient of an “Outstanding Academic Book, 1990” award from Choice.) Published in Italian translation as La tecnologia pragmatica di John Dewey. Rome: Armando Editore, 2000. Modern Theories of Higher Level Predicates: Second Intentions in the Neuzeit. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1980. Edited The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought by John Dewey: A Critical Edition. Editor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. The Correspondence of John Dewey. Vol. 3: 1940-1952. General Editor. Charlottesville, Va.: InteLex Corporation, 2005. John Dewey: Zwischen Pragmatismus und Konstruktivismus. Editor (with Stefan Neubert and Kersten Reich). Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2004. The Correspondence of John Dewey. Vol. 2: 1919-1939. General Editor. Charlottesville, Va.: InteLex Corporation, 2001). Second edition published 2005. The Correspondence of John Dewey. Vol. 1: 1871-1918. General Editor. Charlottesville, Va.: InteLex Corporation, 1999. (Recipient of an “Outstanding Academic Title, 1999” award from Choice.) Second edition published 2001. Third edition published 2005. The Essential Dewey. Vol. I: Pragmatism, Education, and Democracy. Vol. II: Ethics, Logic, Psychology. Edited and with introductions (with Thomas Alexander). Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1998. (Recipient of an “Outstanding Academic Title, 1999” award from Choice.) Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation. Edited and with introductions. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1998. 3 The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953: The Electronic Edition. Editor. Charlottesville, Va.: InteLex Corporation, 1996. Technology and Ecology. Editor (with Elizabeth Porter). Carbondale, Ill.: SPT Press, 1994. Technology as a Human Affair. Edited with introductions. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1990. Technology and Human Affairs. Edited with introductions (with Azizah al-Hibri). St. Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Co., 1981. (Book of the Year Award (1982) from the American Journal of Nursing.) AUDIO-VISUAL John Dewey: His Life and Work. Written and Narrated by Larry A. Hickman. (41 minutes) Davidson Films, 2001. (Winner of a CINE Golden Eagle award for Fall, 2001.) ARTICLES- Recent and Forthcoming Forthcoming “Evolutionary Naturalism, Logic, and Life-Long Learning: Three Keys to Dewey’s Philosophy of Education.” Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey: Pragmatism and Interactive Constructivism in the Twenty-First Century, ed. James Garrison. Albany: SUNY Press (forthcoming, 2007). “Adjustment.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. New York: Routledge (forthcoming). “Dewey, John, Influence.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. New York: Routledge (forthcoming). “Experimentalism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. New York: Routledge (forthcoming). “Functionalism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. New York: Routledge (forthcoming). “Instrumentalism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. New York: Routledge (forthcoming). “Logic, Experimental.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. New York: Routledge (forthcoming). “Technology.” Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy.
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