Faculty

Eldon Soifer

Department Head; Professor
Ph.D (Oxford University); MA (University of Toronto); BA Honours (University of Toronto)

Office: AH 405
E-mail: eldon.soifer@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4301

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 370AI/470AI-001 Death and Well-Being

Research interests

  • Ethics
  • Applied Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law

Shannon Dea

Professor; Dean of Arts
Ph.D (Western University); MA (Queen's University); BA Honours (University of Waterloo)

Office: CL 426
E-mail: shannon.dea@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4895
Website: https://www.uregina.ca/arts/deans-office/faculty-staff/staff/1-shannon-dea.html

Research interests

  • Social Philosophy
  • Applied Philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • History of Philosophy (Early Modern and American Pragmatism)

Ryan Doran

Assistant Professor
Ph.D (Northwestern University); MA (Queen's University); BA Honours (York University)

Office: AH 409
E-mail: ryan.doran@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4142

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 100-001 Intro to Philosophy; PHIL 273-001 Biomedical Ethics

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • History of Analytic Philosophy
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Kant
  • Logic

David Elliott

Associate Professor (on leave)
Ph.D (University of Toronto); MA (Western University); BA Honours (University of Toronto)

Office: AH 410.2
E-mail: david.elliott@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4324
Website: http://phil.uregina.ca/elliotda/

Research interests

  • Ethics
  • Applied Ethics
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law

David Cruise Malloy

Adjunct Professor (King's College)
Ph.D (University of Ottawa); MA (Western University); BA Honours (Western University)

E-mail: david.malloy@kings.uwo.ca

Research interests

  • Applied philosophy in leadership and administrative contexts
  • Existentialism
  • Aristotle
  • Plato

David Meban

Associate Professor; Assistant Dean; Head of Philosohy and Classics (Campion College)
Ph.D (University of Toronto); MA (Ohio State University); BA (Queen's University)

Office: CM 303
E-mail: david.meban@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1220
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-david-meban/

Current classes
Fall 2023: CLAS 100-C97 Intro to Greece & Rome; CLAS 150-C01 Latin Language I; CLAS 290AD-C01 The Ancient World in Film

Research interests

  • Augustan poetry, esp. Virgil
  • Alexandrian poetry
  • Republican prose.

Dwayne Meisner

Instructor III
Ph.D (University of Western Ontario); MA (University of Western Ontario); BA Honours (University of Regina)

Office: CM 414
E-mail: dwayne.meisner@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1218
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-dwayne-meisner/

Current classes
Fall 2023: CLAS 120-C97 Latin & Greek; CLAS 160-C01 Intro to Ancient Greek I; CLAS 210-C01 Greek & Roman Epic

Research interests

  • Greek and Roman myth and ritual (focusing on mystery cult and the Orphic tradition)
  • Greek and Latin language and literature, including epic and tragic poetry, prose philosophy and history
  • Ancient social, cultural, and intellectual history
  • Theory and methodology in the study of myth and ritual

Jérôme Melançon

Adjunct Professor, (La Cité universitaire francophone, University of Regina)
Ph.D (Université Paris Diderot); MA (University of Ottawa); BA Honours (University of Ottawa)

Office: CT 220.9
E-mail: jerome.melancon@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5243

Research interests

  • Political Philosophy
  • Phenomenology Philosophy
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Democracy, Political Engagement and Action
  • Intercultural Relations
  • Reconciliation
  • Canadian Francophone Politics and Society
  • Literature, Philosophy and Social Science.

Anna Mudde

Associate Professor (Campion College)
Ph.D (York University); MA (Memorial University); BA Honours (University of Toronto)

Office: CM 510
E-mail: anna.mudde@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1241
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-anna-mudde/

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 100-C02 Intro to Philosophy; PHIL 210-C01 Pre-Socratics & Plato; PHIL 336/436-C01 Epistemology I/II

Research interests

  • Philosophy of craft and technology
  • Philosophy of science and Science and Technology Studies
  • Metaphysics and social ontologies
  • Feminist epistemologies, dealing with objectivity, self-knowledge and subjectivity, theories of responsible knowing
  • Metaphilosophy and philosophical methodologies
  • Critical philosophies of race and disability
  • Simone de Beauvoir and critical phenomenologies
  • New materialism(s)

Dustin Olson

Sessional Instructor (Luther College)
Ph.D (University of Rochester); MA (McMaster University); BA Honours (University of Regina)

E-mail: dustin.olson@uregina.ca
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/dustinzolson

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 100-L01 Intro to Philosophy

Research interests

  • Intersections between Social-Moral Epistemology
  • Public Reason, and Epistemic Agency
  • Metaphysics and Science of Time
  • History of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy.

Paul Omoyefa

Sessional Instructor (Campion College)
Ph.D (University of Lagos); MA (University of Lagos); BA Honours (University of Lagos)

Office: CM 413
E-mail: paul.omoyefa@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1236
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-paul-omoyefa/

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 100-C01 Intro to Philosophy; PHIL 150-C01 Critical Thinking

Research interests

  • Critical Thinking
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Political Theory
  • Applied Ethics
  • Mediation and Dispute Resolution
  • Terrorism
  • Security, Peace and Conflict Studies

Roger Petry

Associate Professor (Luther College)
Ph.D (University of Regina); MA (Oxford University); BA Honours (Oxford University)

Office: LC 224
E-mail: roger.petry@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5295
Website: https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/faculty-profiles/roger-petry

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 150-L01/02 Critical Thinking; PHIL 242-L01/02 Philosophy of Religion

Research interests

  • Knowledge production and sustainable development
  • Early Christian Church
  • Globalization

Robert Piercey

Professor (Campion College)
Ph.D (University of Notre Dame); MA (University of Warwick); BA Honours (Memorial University)

Office: CM 506
E-mail: robert.piercey@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1214
Fax: 306-359-1200
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-robert-piercey/

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 216-C01 Existential Philosophy; PHIL 291AB-C01 Pragmatism

Research interests

  • Post-Kantian European Philosophy
  • Historiography of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of History
  • Philosophy of Literature
  • Pragmatism.

Gillian Ramsey

Assistant Professor (Campion College) (On Leave)
Ph.D (University of Exeter); MA (University of Victoria); BA (University of Regina)

Office: CM 406
E-mail: gillian.ramsey@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-586-4228
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-gillian-ramsey/

Research interests

  • Hellenistic Culture and History
  • Women’s History
  • The Seleucid Empire

Paul Simard Smith

Assistant Professor; Graduate Coordinator (Philosophy)
Ph.D (University of Waterloo); MA (University of Windsor); BA Honours (University of Regina)

Office: AH 439
E-mail: paul.simard.smith@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4667

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 190AA-001 Comparative Indigenous & European Philosophy; PHIL 150-001 Critical Thinking; PHIL 274-001 Philosophy of Law

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Logic
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics

Emeriti

Peter Campbell

Professor Emeritus

E-mail: peter.campbell@uregina.ca

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Agency and Action
  • Rationality and Irrationality
  • Modernism and Postmodernism

Shadia Drury

Professor Emerita

E-mail: shadia.drury@uregina.ca

Research interests

  • History of political thought
  • Contemporary political philosophy (including Postmodernism)
  • Ethics
  • Meta-ethics
  • Canadian Politics
  • Religion
  • Anthropology
  • Literature

Phillip Hansen

Professor Emeritus

E-mail: phillip.hansen@uregina.ca

Research interests

  • Political Philosophy
  • Political Economy

Herbert Korté

Professor Emeritus

E-mail: herbert.korte@uregina.ca
Website: http://phil.uregina.ca/korte/

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Legal, Philosophical and Environmental Issues regarding Non-Human Animals
  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
  • Kant

George Marshall

Professor Emeritus (Campion College)

Research interests

  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty perception
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of Psychology
  • Methodology
  • Hegel Truth
  • Nineteenth Century Philosophy
  • Angels as an Object of Philosophical Reflection

Béla Szabados

Professor Emeritus

E-mail: bela.szabados@uregina.ca
Website: http://phil.uregina.ca/szabados/

Research interests

  • Moral Psychology
  • Aesthetics
  • Wittgenstein
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Literature
  • History of Philosophy

Staff

Doreen Thompson

Administrative Assistant

Office: AH 410
E-mail: doreen.thompson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4332