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William John Grassie
Curriculum Vitae
E-Mail: william @ grassie. net

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Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, August 1994.

• Master of Arts, Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, May 1991.

• Russian Language Summer School, Middlebury College in Vermont, Summer 1984.

• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, cum laude, Middlebury College, 1979.

• Junior Year Abroad, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel- Academic Year 1977/1978

Academic Positions

• Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies Program, City University of New York

• Senior Fulbright Fellow, lecturing in the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2007-2008.

• Founder and Emeritus Executive Director, Metanexus Institute, a Philadelphia-based educational center promoting the constructive engagement of science and religion. Managed rapid growth of the organization from 1998 to 2007. Staff of 17, distinguished board of 45 directors, some $30 million in funding over ten years supporting research and education with 400 university partner projects in 43 different countries. Online magazine and discussion forum with over 9000 subscribers www.metanexus.net ; 1998 to 2007.

• Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, Philadelphia. 1994-1999.

• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1995-2001, 2003.

• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Swarthmore College, PA, 1999-2000.

• Teaching Assistant, Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia. 1989-1994.

Academic Awards

• Senior Fulbright Fellow, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2007 – 2008.

• Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, Summers of 2003 and 2004.

• John M. Templeton Foundation, grant recipient with the University of Pennsylvania in the "Academic Teaching of Science and Religion Program," 1995- 1996.

• Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, and Delaware Humanities Forum Speaker, 1996-1997.

• Mary Campbell Fellowship, American Friends Service Committee, 1990, 1989.

• Roothbert Fellowship, Roothbert Foundation, 1991, 1990, 1989.

• Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), Student Fellow, Star Island Conference on Ecology, 1992, and Star Island Conference on the Neurosciences, 1994.

• Teaching Assistantship, Religion Department, Temple University, 1994, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989. Theology Fund Research Grant, Religion Department, Temple University, 1993.

Books

The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Politics by Other Means: Science and Religion in the 21st Century, Metanexus, 2010.

Advanced Methodologies in the Scientific Study of Religion and Spirituality, Edited. Metanexus, 2010.

Transhumanism and Its Critics, Edited with Gregory Hansell. Metanexus, 2010.

Reinventing Nature: Science Narratives as Myths for an Endangered Planet, doctoral dissertation, Temple University, defended May 1994.

Academic Publications

“Problems and Resources in Whitehead’s Process Philosophy,” Presented at Metanexus 2009 in Tempe, AZ, July 19, 2009. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2009_Whitehead.html

“In the Heavens as It is on Earth: Astrobiology and the Human Prospect,” published on Metanexus, April 2009. http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10746/Default.aspx

“Nationalism, Terrorism, and Religion: A Bio-Historical Approach” presented at the annual Teilhard symposium of the Subodhi Institute www.subodhi.net , in Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 20, 2008; University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, April 9, 2008; and BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 15, 2008. Published in Law and Society Trust Review, Sri Lanka, July 2008. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_A_Biohistorical_Approach.html

“The Medicine of Religion: Exploring the Nexus between Spirituality and Health” presented for the Society for the Integration of Science and Human Values at the University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, January 31, 2008. Publication forthcoming.

“Entangled Narratives: Competing Visions of the Good Life” presented at a symposium of the US-Sri Lankan Fulbright Commission in Colombo, January 4, 2008. Published in Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, XXXIV (1&2) 2008. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_entangled_narratives.html .

“The Neurosciences of Religion: Meditation, Entheogens, Mysticism” presented for the Society for the Integration of Science and Human Values at the University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, November 22, 2007. Published in Metanexus , Vol. 8, Issue 10, January 2008, available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_neurosciences_of_religion.html . Translated into Spanish and published in Tendencias21 http://www.tendencias21.net/m/index.php#3

“The Evolution of Religion: Memes, Spandrels, or Adaptations?” presented for the Society for the Integration of Science and Human Values at the University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, November 1, 2007. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_Evolution_of_Religion.html

“The Economics of Religion: Competition, Cooperation, and Spiritual Capital” presented for the Society for the Integration of Science and Human Values at the University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, October 17, 2007. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_economicsofreligion.html

“Teaching the History of Nature: Towards an Integrated Science Curriculum” November 2007. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_History_of_Nature.html. Published in Metanexus, March 2008.

Metanexus 2007 Keynote Address, published in Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion, June 2008. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_Metanexus_Keynote.html.

“The New Sciences of Religion” presented at Nanjing University, China, October 2006. Published online in May 2007. Published in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science in March 2008. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_sciencesofreligion.html

"Metanexus 2006 Keynote Address," published in Metanexus, 2006.07.26; available at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2006_metanexus.html .

“Science, Religion, and the Bomb”, presented at First International Congress on Religion and Science, Tehran, Iran, May 2006, published in Metanexus, May 3, 2006 and republished by the American Iranian Council Update 3:47, July 2006. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2006_thebomb.html.

“Universal Reason: Science, Religion and the Foundations of Civil Societies”, presented at Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon and National Congress on Science and Religion, Tehran, Iran, May 2005. Published in The Millennial Lecture Series: Religion & Science Interface 2002-2005, Notre Dame University Press: Louazie, Lebanon, 2006. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_universalreason.html.

“Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion” for ESSSAT, Barcelona, Spain, April 2004 and at ICHS in Beijing, China, July 2005. Published in Metanexus, 3/29/2004, and available at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_bioculturalevolution.html .

“Science, Semiotics, and the Sacred” in Spiritual Information, edited by Charles L. Harper, Jr. (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press) 2005, pp 39 – 43. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2002_semiotics.html

“Engaged Contemplation for a Troubled World”, Pune, India, January 2005. Published in India. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_engagedcontemplation.html

“Ecology, Religion, and Science”, for the Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition by Lindsay Jones 2005, first edition by Mircea Elliade 1987, 2005. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_ecologyreligionandscience.html

“Towards a Constructive Theology of Evolution,” for Science and Religion in the Post-Colonial World, edited by Zainal Abidin Bagir, (ATF Press: Adelaide) 2005, pp 153-179. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2003_theologyofevolution.html

“Hermeneutics in Science and Religion”, for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, 2003. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2003_hermeneutics.html

“Postmodernism: What One Needs to Know,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, March 1997. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/1997_postmodernism.html

“Powerful Pedagogy in the Science and Religion Classroom Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, September 1997. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/1996_pedagogy.html

Book Reviews

“A Thought Experiment: Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan,” a review of David Christian’s Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004, http://www.grassie.net/articles/2009_A_Thought_Experiment.html

“Universalism and Particularism: Judaism in an Age of Science” A review of Norbert Samuelson, Jewish Faith and Modern Science: On the Death and Rebirth of Jewish Philosophy. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009, http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10774/Default.aspx .

“A Teachable Moment: Our Common Story”, January 2009, http://www.grassie.net/articles/2009_Teachable_Moment.html .

“Eating Well Together: Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto”, December 2008, publication forthcoming. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_Eating_Well_Together.html .

“Review of Michael Dowd's Thank God For Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life, review published on Metanexus, March 6, 2008. Available online at http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/tabid/68/id/10333/Default.aspx

“Re-reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution” A review of Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, Harvard Business School Press, 2006; published in Metanexus, May 2007. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_re-readingeconomics.html.

“Useless arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths” A Review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007; published in Metanexus, April 2007. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_uselessarithmetic.html.

“Wired for the Future: Kevin Kelly’s Techno-Utopia”, Terra Nova: Nature & Culture, 2:4, Fall 1997. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/1996_ninelaws.html

"Cyborgs, Tricksters, and Hermes: Donna Haraway's Metatheory of Science and Religion," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, June 1996. Available online at http://www.grassie.net/articles/1995_cyborgs.html

Other Publications

Sri Lanka Impressions: Photographs from a Troubled Paradise, self-published, 2008.

“Leeches on the Road to Enlightenment”, published in Metanexus, 4/2008. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_Enlightenment.html

“Sleepless in Tehran”, published in Metanexus, 3/20/2007. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2006_tehran.html

“Beyond Intelligent Design, Science Debates, and Culture Wars”, Metanexus, March 2005. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_BeyondID.html . Republished on www.beliefnet.com .

“Ten Reasons for the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion,” Metanexus, May 2001. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2004_tenreasons.html

“Human Creativity in an Evolutionary Context”, Metanexus, August 2000. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2001_creativity.html

“Time Enough for Love,” Science & Spirit, (9:2), June 1998. http://www.grassie.net/articles/2000_timeenough.html

“Science as Epic?”, Science & Spirit, (9:1), March 1998. http://www.grassie.net/articles/1999_epic.html

"A Low-Tech Obstacle to a Higher-Tech Future: The Keyboard Problem" on the American Association for Higher Education Moderated Listserv, March 1995 (published in Edutech Report, May 1995.) http://www.grassie.net/articles/1996_dvorak.html

"Changing Education," Opinion Editorial, Kennett Paper, September 15, 1994.

"For Democracy, Redesign the Senate", Opinion Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 28, 1987.

"Quakers and Germany", Friends Journal, December 1, 1983.

"Where does the German Peace Movement go from here?", Signs of Reconciliation, Autumn 1983

"Ansprache in Krefeld am 25.Juni 1983 als Vertreter der Freeze-Bewegung aus Philadelphia" Der Quäker: Monatsschrift der deutschen Freunde, October 1983.

"But What Can I Do", Middlebury College Magazine, Spring 1982.

"Dealing with Dread", Fellowship, January/February 1981.

"The Race for Counterforce Capability", Middlebury College Magazine, Summer 1979.

Grants and Projects Organized

• Metanexus Online www.metanexus.net, $950k in multiple grants from the John Templeton Foundation over four years for editing online journal on science and religion, 8000 essays, 9000 subscribers, 300,000 page views per month. 1997 to present.

• Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Project, $700k administration budget to run a $2.2m request-for-proposals for social scientific research in the phenomena of spiritual transformation, 472 qualified letters-of-intent received, 60 invited to attend an interdisciplinary research conference in October 2002, and 24 projects selected, 2001 to present.

• Templeton Research Lectures on the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion, $200,000 administration budget to run a $600,000 request-for-proposals for a three-year interdisciplinary project with grants going to Columbia University, the University of California in Santa Barbara, Stanford University, Bar Ilan University, the University of California in Los Angeles, and the Université de Montréal, 1999 to the present. Recently renewed for eight years with funding increased to $1.5 million administration budget with over $3 million to be distributed to 9 research universities going to teams at Boston University, John Hopkins University, Arizona State University, Stony Brook University, Universität Frankfurt, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California.

• Local Societies Initiative, $1,250,000 administration budget from John Templeton Foundation to run a $3,900,000 request-for-proposals for small grants to support the formation of 200 societies world-wide dedicated to the exploration of science and religion, 2000 to the present.

• Research and Book Writing Grants, $150,000 administration budget to run a $700,000 request-for-proposals for seven grants to support new book publications, 1998 to 2000.

• Future Visions, State of the World Forum 2000, organized and managed a four-day consultation hosted by the John Templeton Foundation and the International Space Science Organization in parallel to the State of the World Forum in New York City, along with a series of four workshops in September 2000.

• Science and Ultimate Reality, March 2002, a $600,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation and the Peter Gruber Foundation to run a four-day conference for 300 of the world’s leading physicists in honor of John Archibald Wheeler’s 90th birthday and to publish a video of the proceedings on DVD and an edited book with 30 contributors due in 2003.

• International Society for Science and Religion, a $240,000 grant to organize and manage the founding conference in Granada, Spain for this new learned society.

• Amazing Light: The Frontiers of Discovery, October 2005, a $1m grant to organize a three-day symposium and book in honor of Charles Townes, at University of California Berkeley

• Spiritual Capital, a $4,000,000 request-for-proposals to distribute 3 center grants going to George Mason University, University of Southern California, and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as 10 individual research grants, including symposia, on the dynamics of religion and economics.

• Templeton Advanced Research Project, a $4.6 million request-for-proposals to fund new and innovation research design on religion and spirituality in the areas of health and healing, human flourishing, and competitive dynamics in the cultural evolution of religion.

Academic Teaching Experiences

• The New Sciences of Religion, University of Peradeniya, Spring 2008.

• A Short Course on Everything: An Introduction to Science and Religion, University of Peradeniya, Fall 2007.

• Becoming Human: Evolution of Religion, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2003.

• Problems in Modern Religious Thought, Swarthmore College, Fall 1999.

• Science and the Sacred, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Summer Session 1998.

• Intellectual Heritage, two semester, writing intensive, core curriculum of great books in philosophy, literature, religion, and science from ancient and modern periods, Temple University, 1994 -1998.

• Cosmos and Creation, co-taught with Norbert Samuelson, Temple University, Spring 1997.

• Introduction to Asian Religions, Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 1994.

• Death and Dying, Temple University, Fall 1992

• Introduction to World Religions, Temple University, Spring 1992, Spring 1993.

• Introduction to Western Religions, Temple University, Fall 1991.

• Introduction to Asian Religions, Temple University, Fall 1989, Spring 1991, & Spring 1994.

• Religion and Society, Comparative Religious Ethics, Temple University, Spring & Fall 1990.

Non-Academic Teaching Experiences

• Science and the Sacred, a four part study course for adult learners. First taught at St. David's Episcopal Church in Wayne, PA over four months in 1998-1999 with over 90 participants.

• Social Witness for the 21st Century, a nine week course for the resident students at Pendle Hill: A Quaker Retreat and Study Center, Spring 1993 and Spring 1994.

• Quakerism 101: Faith and Practice (A six session adult education program for Quaker Meetings): Downingtown MM, Fall 1993; Germantown MM, Fall 1994.

• Quakerism 201: Faith and Witness (A six session adult education program for Quaker Meetings): Goshen MM, Winter 1989; Kennett MM, Fall 1989; Plymouth MM, Winter 1991; Downingtown MM, Spring 1991: and London Grove MM, Fall 1991.

• Youth Leadership Training, designed and organized a four day program for 75 urban teenagers. Workshops were conducted on goal setting, community building, affirmation, unlearning racism, and nonviolence. Program was part of the 300th anniversary observance of the Germantown Protest Against Slavery in April 1988.

• Vorbereitungs Seminar, group leader in a four week training for new volunteers from Aktion Sühnezeichen/ Friedensdienste . Training program was an intensive encounter with German history and society around issues related to the Holocaust. Program included a ten day visit to Poland with an extended study-work camp at Auschwitz. March 1983 and September 1983.

• Re-Storying Ourselves Though Mythic Drama, four and five day workshops for twenty and thirty people respectively at Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology, May 1994, and Friends General Conference, July 1994 (co-taught with former wife, Babette Jenny, Psy.D.)

Partial List of Presentations

“Towards a Constructive Theology of Evolution,” presented at an international conference on science and religion at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, January 2003.

“Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion,” presented at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and the Université de Montréal in 2002, ICHS in Beijing, China, 2005.

“The Primordial Word: Genetics, Ethics, and Religion,” Valley Forge United Church of Christ, February 2001 and Berwyn Presbyterian Church, April 2001.

“The Sciences of Religion Revisited,” PowerPoint lecture presented at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA; CTNS Winter Workshop in Berkeley, CA; University of Pennsylvania, PA; University of Tehran, Iran; University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Katmandu, Nepal.

“IH Online Now,” webmaster, editor, and contributing author to an extensive online resource for Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage Program with over 400 documents.

“The Quest for the Holy Grail: Beyond the Productivity Paradox in Higher Education,” Multimedia presentation at the Technology Showcase at Temple University on June 4, 1998.

“DSM V Axis II Computer Relational Disorders or How to Integrate Technology into the Teaching and Practice of Psychiatry,” multimedia presentation for Grand Rounds at the Department of Psychiatry, Temple University Medical School, February 1998.

“The Epidemiology of Computers and the Future of Medical Education,” multimedia presentation and training to the faculty of the Temple University Medical School on Februray 25, 1997.

“‘The Nine Laws of God’: Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control Techno-Utopic Program for a WIRED World,” multimedia presentation at the Theology and Science Working Group of the American Academy of Religion in New Orleans, November 1996.

“Virtue(d) Reality: Socratic Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom,” multimedia presentation at EDUCOM ‘96 Conference in Philadelphia, October 1996 and at Syllabus Conference at Drexel University, October 1997.

“Science and the Sacred,” multimedia presentation for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Delaware Humanities Forum, presented at over a dozen venues in Pennsylvania and Delaware from 1997 and 1998.

“Reinventing Nature,” multimedia presentation for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Delaware Humanities Forum, presented at two venues in Pennsylvania from 1997 and 1998.

"An Inescapable Network of Mutuality: The Use of E-mail and Listserv in the Intellectual Heritage Program," multimedia presentation to the faculty seminar, February 27, 1995.

"Science and Religion: Who, What, When, Where, How and Why," presentation at the Templeton Winter Workshop on Science and Religion in Tallahassee, FL, January 1999.

"The Primordial Word: Continuing Revelation in our Social-Biophysical Conversations," presentation at the Templeton Summer Workshop on Science and Religion in Chicago, IL, June 1998.

“Postmodernism, Science, and Religion,” presentation at the Templeton Winter Workshop on Science and Religion in Tallahassee, FL, January 1997.

“Powerful Pedagogy in the Science and Religion Classroom,” presentation as a lecture at the Templeton Foundation’s Winter Workshop on Teaching Science and Religion in Tallahassee, FL, and in Berkeley, CA in January 1997.

"Cyborgs, Tricksters, and Hermes: Donna Haraway's Metatheory of Science and Religion," at the American Academy of Religion's Triregional Conference, Boston, March 1995.

"Quaker Epistemology: Towards a Friendly Philosophy of Education," presentation to the Friends Association for Higher Education, Haverford College, June 1995.

"Teaching Gandhi: Nonviolence as Epistemology," a presentation to the faculty seminar of the Intellectual Heritage Program, March 1995.

"The Collapse of the Nature - Culture Distinction at the End of the Cenozoic Era: The Figurative and the Literal", presentation to the Portrack seminar on Post-Modern Ecology, Santa Monica, March 1995.

"Computer-Mediated Communications as an Enhancement of the Core-Curriculum at Temple University", a report on an Experiment with the Use of E-mail and Class-based Listservers, Fall 1994.

Other Work Experiences

• Independent Computer Consultant, Macintosh and Windows systems and applications, 1989-1999.

• Real Estate Management and General Contractor, management of the rentals and repairs of a vacation home in Vinalhaven, ME (1984 to 2003), a coop house in Philadelphia, PA (1984-1991) and general contractor on the construction of our family home, apartment, and barn in Unionville, PA www.laurelsforge.com (1989-1991, 2000-2003).

• Disarmament Program Coordinator, Friends Peace Committee, a program of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Philadelphia. Co-founder National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and Co-director of the Pennsylvania Freeze, 1980 – 1982, 1985 - 1989.

• Director, 300th Anniversary Committee for the Germantown Protest Against Slavery, a non-sectarian project of Germantown Friends Meeting conducted in collaboration with community organizations and churches to revitalize Southwest Germantown, Philadelphia. 1987 - 1988.

• Director, U.S. Volunteer Program, Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste -- Action Reconciliation/Service for Peace, in West Berlin, Germany. 1983.

• Counselor, Farm and Wilderness Camps, Plymouth, Vermont; worked with teenagers, taught pottery, rock-climbing, and instituted Peace Studies Program. Summers, 1980, 1979.

• Research Intern, Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C. Fall 1979.

• Counselor, Beit HaBohnim in a slum district of Jerusalem, Israel for five months in a live-in/social work program for Sephardic children and teenagers. 1978.

• Intern, Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, Washington, D.C., Winter 1977.

• Summer and school jobs: managed newspaper routes from age ten to twenty, also worked as golf caddy, busboy, night watchman, farm hand (haying, dairy, and poultry), roofing, house painting, slaughter house, dish washer, mover, janitor, swimming pool maintenance, caretaker of multiply handicapped children, apprenticed in professional ceramic studio.

Languages

German: Excellent Reading and Speaking, Active

Hebrew: Completed Gimel in Ulpan System (Dormant)

Arabic Palestinian Colloquial: (Dormant)

Russian: Completed Nine-Week Immersion (Dormant)

Spanish: Equivalent Two Years University Training (Dormant)

Skills

Strategic Planning
Budgeting and Finance
Project Administration
Team-Building
Event Planning
Public Relations
Graphic Design
Grants Management
Proposal Writing
Meeting Facilitation
Program Metrics and Evaluation
Curriculum Design
Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution
Multicultural Sensitivity Training
Participatory Pedagogy

Computers:

- Advanced User of all Microsoft Office Apps
- Photoshop, Aperture, InDesign
- Dreamweaver
- FileMaker (Advanced Database Design of CRM)
- Quickens and QuickBooks

Membership

• American Academy of Religion
• American Philosophical Association
• Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation, 2000 - 2007
• Board of American Friends of Action Reconciliation/Service for Peace, 1989 – 1992.
• Buck and Doe Land Trust, Treasurer, 1992 - 1996.
• Institute for Religion in an Age of Science, Vice President for Interdisciplinary Affairs,1996-2002.
• Interfaith Council on the Holocaust, Board Member, 1985-1991.
• Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), membership: Middlebury 1979; Chestnut Hill 1981; Berlin 1983; Germantown 1985; Kennett 1990.

Personal Background

Married. I have two daughters, ages 23 and 25. Enjoy many sports – hiking, skiing, sailing, scuba, tennis, yoga. Amateur photographer. Dual citizen: USA and Switzerland. Born 1957 in Wilmington, Delaware to Canadian parents. References available.