Christian Dean
Dr. Dean started teaching at Dominican University of California (then Dominican College of San Rafael) as an adjunct instructor in the fall of 1996, after having spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He joined the full-time faculty in the fall of 1998, at which time he also assumed the role of Department Chair of Politics & International Studies. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004.
Department Chair, Associate Professor, and Pre-Law Advisor
Email: christian.dean@dominican.edu
Office: Bertrand 24F
Phone: (415) 485-3298
Fax: (415) 459-3206
Academic Area
Political Science
Educational Background
- BA San Francisco State University
- MA, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching and Research Interests
Dr. Dean teaches courses in Political Philosophy, Public Law, and American Politics. His research concerns the phenomenology of the development of moral character and ethical expertise.
Selected Publications and Presentations
- "Ethics of the Mundane: Cognitive Science and Cultivating Moral Character" (presented at the 2007 Midwestern Political Science Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois)
- "Authenticity, Virtue, Expertise: Ethical Being and Becoming Ethical" (International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 3, Number 3: 139-153 (2005/2006)
- "The Phenomenology of Moral Defensiveness" (presentedat the 2005 Western Political Science Association Conference in Oakland, California)
- "Virtuosity: Phenomenology of Expertise and Contemporary Models of Ethics" (presented at teh 2003 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado)
- "Heideggerian Phenomenology as a Method for Doing Moral and Political Theory" (presented at teh 2002 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference in Long Beach, California)
Weblinks
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