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