Harlan Stelmach, Ph.D.
Professor, Chair of Humanities
50 Acacia Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: 415-485-3236
Email: hstelmach@dominican.edu
Dr. Stelmach joined the faculty of Dominican in 1997. He currently chairs and teaches courses within the Humanities Department which includes an MA in Humanities and the following undergraduate programs: Art History, History, Humanities, Latin American Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Social and Cultural Studies and Women and Gender Studies. He is president of the Board of the Marin Interfaith Council, co-founder and board member for The Center for the Common Good, and project volunteer for the Latin American Council of Churches.
Dr. Stelmach is married to Madelyn, a physical therapist. They have two grown children, Amy and Megan, and three grandchildren. He shares his office space on Wednesdays in Angelico with his labrador, Tellah. In his limited spare time he enjoys photography of history of regional architecture, garden "sculptures" and sports memorabelia.
Education:
Visiting Scholar; University of California, Walter Haas School of Business;
Berkeley, California (1982-83)
Post Doctoral study focused on business ethics and philosophy of systems management.
Ph.D.; Graduate Theological Union and San Francisco Theological Seminary; Berkeley, California (1970-77)
Cooperative program with the University of California, Berkeley in the interdisciplinary field of "Religion and Society" (theology, social theory and social ethics).
M.T.S.; Harvard University, The Divinity School; Cambridge, Massachusetts
(1967-70, degree awarded in 1971)
Focused on interdisciplinary field of "Church and Society" (theology, social theory and social ethics).
Certificate; Graduate School of Ecumenical Studies, Ecumenical Institute;
Bossey, Switzerland (1969-70, concurrent with Harvard)
Joint program with the University of Geneva and the World Council of Churches on the "Future of the Ministry."
B.A.; Whittier College, Whittier, California (1963-67)
Focused on International Affairs and Latin American Studies
Sophomore year at the University of Copenhagen (special courses in literature, art history and music appreciation).
Courses:
- Ethics in Health Care
- Classics in World Philosophy
- Native American Philosophy
- Religion and Social Theory
- Humanities Seminar
- Biographical Theology: Christianinity, Judaism and Islam
- Senior Project Workshop
Writings, Presentations and Research Projects:
Stelmach, Harlan, “Niebuhr’s Immoral Society and Bellah’s Good Society: A Conversation about Moral Man,” presented to the Niebuhr Society, American Academy of Religion, San Diego California on November 17, 2007.
- Click here for a pdf of the presentation.
Stelmach, Harlan, "God's People in Civil Society: Ecclesiological
Implications," a consultation report summary of WCC and Loccum Academy consultation on "Theology and Civil Society," (Loccum, Germany, 1996).
Stelmach, Harlan, et. al. (ed), Living in Spaces with Open Doors: A
Consultation Report, (World Council of Churches, 1995).
Stelmach, Harlan and Leslie Salmon, "Visioning Through Graphic Recording
for City Governments," presentation at the annual meeting of the California Healthy Cities Project, February 1995.
Stelmach, Harlan, "Creation and the Common Good, A North American
Perspective on Civil Culture," a paper based on the presentation at the Mark Gibbs Lecture in England at the annual meeting of the British Association of Lay Centers and Academies, 1994.
Stelmach, Harlan, "Implications for an Earth Charter," a paper for
consultation on Sustainable Development in San Jose Costa Rica, Co-sponsored by the Arias Foundation, United Nations Peace University, German Protestant Academies and Vesper Society, September 1994.
Stelmach, Harlan, "Hans May, ‘Mr. Academy’: A Celebration of a Friend and
Colleague and His Impact on an ‘Academy Movement’ in the United States of America," in Protestanische Zeitgenossenschaft: Festschrift zu Ehren Hans May (Loccumer Protolkolle, 35/94, Germany: August 1994).
Stelmach, Harlan, "Laity and Ethics of the Common Good," in The
Ecumenical Review, Vol. 45, Number 4, October 1993.
Stelmach, Harlan and Martin Paley, "The Ethics of Value-Based
Organizational Consulting," presentation at the Graduate Theological Union, June 1993.
Stelmach, Harlan, "The Post Laity Movement," in Laity Exchange,
Winter/Spring 1992.
Stelmach, Harlan and Mark Holman, "Fundraising and Ethics," Chapter in
Ethics and Higher Education (MacMillan: 1990) by Bill May, ed.
Stelmach, Harlan, "Ethics and Competition in Sports," TV panel on channel 5
with U.C. Berkeley basketball coach, Lou Campanelli and Forty Niner football linebacker, Keena Turner (August, 1988).
Stelmach, Harlan, The Cult of Liberation: The Berkeley Free Church and the
Radical Church Movement 1967-1972 (Graduate Theological Union doctoral dissertation, 1977).
Stelmach, Harlan, et. al., "Why a New Journal," Radical Religion (Fall 1974)
Vol. I, No. 1.
Stelmach, Harlan, "The Church and Revolution, by Francois Houtart and
Andre Rousseau," Book review in NACLA's Latin America and Empire Report (March 1972) Vol. VI, No. 3.
