Paul Burdett Assistant Professor Humanities and Social sciences Department  Office: S-353 Phone: TBA
	E-mail: pburdett@raritanval.edu

Background/Education

• Professor of History, CUNY-Staten Island (1982-present)
• Veteran US Army, shortish career in journalism with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and Public Research
  Syndicate, brief stint in corporate communications with Bell Labs
• PhD (ABD) - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (1982)
  • Strategic Studies, Philosophy of Social Science, Comparative Jurisprudence
• MA - Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas (1975)
  • Political Theory, International Politics
• BA - SUNY-Plattsburgh (1972)
  • History, Philosophy, Political Science
  • Senior Honors - McGill University, Montréal, PQ, Canada

Educational Philosophy – WORK!!!

Courses Taught

• PHIL-105 Major World Religions
  • description from RVCC online course schedule
  • Syllabus (Web page)
• PHIL-113 Critical Thinking
  • course description from R.O.A.R.S.
  • Syllabus PHIL113sylRVCC.pdf (10k)
• PHIL-106 Current Moral and Social Issues
  • course description from R.O.A.R.S.
  • Syllabus PHIL106Syll.pdf (12k)
• HIST-101 World Civilization I
  • course description from R.O.A.R.S.
  • Syllabus HIST101sylRV05.pdf (19k)
• HIST-102 World Civilization II
  • course description from R.O.A.R.S.
  • Syllabus HIST102sylRV05.pdf (20k)

Current areas of Research Interest

1. 'Deconstructing "Justice": Jacques Derrida and Plato,'
   Philosophy Colloquium, Towson Univ., MD, Nov. 2005.
2. 'The Phenomenology of Choice and Responsibility,' forthcoming.
3. '"Raiders of the Lost Arc": Demotic Materialism, II -- Architecture and Civilisation Ascendent,'
   New England Historical Assoc., forthcoming.
4. 'Demotic Materialism: Architecture and Civilisation -- a BBC (Braudel-Barzun-Clark) View of Modernism in Decline,'
   New England Historical Assoc., Oct. 2004.
5. 'Resistancialisme: The Context of the French Resistance, 1942-1944,'
   New England Historical Assoc., Apr. 2004.
6. 'Paris IS Burning: The Underground "Fire" of the French Resistance, 1942-44,'
   The World on Wednesday, WSIA/CUNY-Staten Island, Apr. 2002.

Affiliations

• American Legion
• US Naval Institute
• World Phenomenology Institute
• Canadian Institute of International Affairs
• New England Historical Association
• American Institute of Archeology
• La Fondation Napoleon - Paris
• College international de philosophie - Paris
• Musée national des forces d'armes - Paris
• Centre Gaston Bachelard - Dijon
• Societe Sartrean - Bruges

Updated 2007/1/26 by L.W.B.