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Dr. Dirk Dunbar
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Dirk Dunbar

Northwest Florida
State College

J122 The Art Center
100 College Boulevard
Niceville, FL 32578

Telephone:
(850) 729-6058
Email: dunbardi@nwfsc.edu

Academic Affiliations

  • Northwest Florida State College

Personal Data

  • DOB: 1 April 1954, Cadillac, Michigan.
  • Married; three children.

Education

  • Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Humanities, Florida State University. Philosophy major and Classical Culture and Asian Studies minors (4/91).
  • M.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of West Florida. Philosophy major and minors in Art History and Religion (4/88).
  • B.S., Philosophy and Religion majors and Psychology minor, Central Michigan University (8/77).
  • B.A., Philosophy and Religious Studies majors and Psychology minor, Eckerd College (5/77).
  • Attended Universities of Iceland (8/78 to 4/79), Munich (8/82 to 3/83), Bamberg (8/84 to 3/85).
  • Diploma in German from the Eurosprachschule in Nurnberg, Germany (7/4/83).

Administrative Employment

  • Director, AA to BA program, Northwest Florida State College and University of West Florida (7/01 to 2008).

Teaching Employment

  • Professor at Northwest Florida State College from 8/96 to present. Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophy; Introduction to World Religions; Introduction to Ethics; Introduction to Humanities; Science, Religion, and Nature; and Cinema Appreciation.
  • Instructor for University of West Florida from 8/00 to 2008. Courses taught: Religion and Personality Theory; The Meeting of East and West in Contemporary Culture; Philosophy of Film; Philosophies of the East; Philosophy of Religion; Science, Religion, and Nature; Cinema Appreciation; Psychology of Religion; Taoism and Ecology; Philosophy of Art; Exploring the Arts; Alternative Philosophies; and Environmental Philosophy.
  • Assistant Professor at Unity College in Maine from 8/92 to 5/96. Courses taught: Aesthetics; Ethics; Humanities in World Civilization I and II; World Religions; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science; Ecophilosophy; The Meeting of East and West in Contemporary Culture; and Animal Rights (co-taught).
  • Graduate Assistant in Humanities at Florida State from 8/88 to 8/92. Courses taught: Humanities I and II; Multicultural Dimensions of Film; and Twentieth-Century Culture.

Publications

  • "The Rise of Logos and the Fall of Eros: Reason and Ecstacy in Presocratic Thought," Ashé Journal 8.1 (Fall 2009).
  • "The Dao of Hoops", in Basketball and Philosophy, eds. Gregory Bassham and Jerry Walls (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
  • "The Earth and Sky Gods of India and Greece: Finding the Feminine in Masculine Myths", Ashé Journal 5.3 (Fall 2006).
  • "The Yin and Yang of Nature's Way: Daoism's Ecological Legacy", Seeking Wisdom 3 (2006).
  • "Eranos, Esalen, and the Ecocentric Psyche: From Archetype to Zeitgeist", The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy 20.1 (2004).
  • "Renewing the Balance: Gender, Culture, and Cosmos", Ashé Journal 3.3 (Fall 2004).
  • "Hollywood's Transformed Hero: A Countercultural Journey", Journal of Religion and Popular Culture VI (Summer 2004).
  • "Revisioning Jesus: The Quest to Universalize Christ", Quodlibet 5.2-3 (July 2003).
  • "The Evolution of Rock and Roll: Its Religious and Ecological Themes", Journal of Religion and Popular Culture II (Fall 2002).
  • "Physics, Gaia, and Ch'i: Paths toward Integrative Knowing," ReVision (Spring 2000).
  • "The Environmental Crisis Transcends Politics", Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, FL, 11/5/98.
  • The Balance of Nature's Polarities in New-Paradigm Theory (New York: Peter Lang, 1994).

Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding Instructor Award, UWF College of Arts and Sciences, Emerald Coast, 2005.
  • Grant from Center of Theology and Natural Science for UWF Science, Religion, and Nature course in 2002.
  • UWF merit award presented by the Dean of the College of Art and Sciences in 2001.
  • Outstanding Instructor Award, UWF College of Arts and Sciences, Emerald Coast, 2001.
  • Received grant with colleague Jon Bryan from Center of Theology and Natural Science to teach Science, Religion, and Nature course in the Fall of 2000.
  • 2000 Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.
  • 1997 Teaching Award from National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development.
  • 1995 Unity College Merit Achievement Award.
  • 1995 Student Environmental Action Coalition Achievement Award.
  • Unity College student-elect 1994 Graduation Banquet speaker.
  • Ph.D., Summa Cum Laude.
  • Passed Ph.D. written and oral exams with distinction.
  • Recipient of 1991 Sarah Herndon Teaching Award, Florida State University.
  • Fellowship recipient from Arts and Sciences at University of West Florida.
  • M.A., Magna Cum Laude.
  • Honor's Program, University of Central Michigan, 1977.

Curricular Endeavors

  • UWF Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, 2006 to 2008.
  • The AA to BA Curriculum Committee, 2003 to 2007.
  • NWFSC College Wide Council, 1998 to 2005.
  • Chair, NWFSC Co-curricular/Student Committee, 2002 to 2005.
  • NWFSC Staff and Program Development Committee, 2001-2002.
  • NWFSC Recruitment and Retention Committee, 1999-2001.
  • NWFSC Advising Committee, 1998 to 2001.
  • Consulting Assistant for NWFSC/UWF AA to BA program, 2000 to 2001.
  • 2000 NWFSC Charter School Seminar Planning Committee.
  • Recruitment, Marketing, and Retention Committee, 1999 to 2001.
  • Planning Committee for UWF/NWFSC B.A. degree program.
  • NEH Grant-Writing Workshop, 1997.
  • Advising duties at Unity College from 1992 to 1996.
  • Unity College's Affirmation Committee for New England Association of Small Colleges, 1994.
  • Unity College Chair of Humanities Department, 1994 to 1996.
  • Unity College General Education Committee, 1994 to 1996.
  • Unity College Vision 2001 Committee, 1994-1995.
  • Consultant and Co-author for Council of Independent Colleges' Program of Environmental Studies and Teacher Preparation, 1996.
  • Co-authored the active B.A. program in Environmental Studies for Unity College, 1994.

Co-Curricular Endeavors

  • Faculty advisor for the NWFSC Environmental Club, 1996 to 2008.
  • Chair, Co-Curricular/Student Activities Committee, 2002 to 2006.
  • Faculty Advisor for Northeastern Student Environmental Action Coalition, 1994-1996.
  • Unity College faculty advisor for Philosophical Society.
  • Chair of Unity College's Recycling Club, 1993 to 1996.
  • Unity College basketball coach 1995-1996.

Presentations

  • "Renewing the Balance," Florida Humanities Council, Florida Then and Now: The BP Oil Spill, NWFSC, 11/3/10.
  • "Gender, Culture, and Cosmos," Unitarian Universalist Church of Valparaiso, FL, 7/10.
  • "Archetypes of Transformation," Unitarian Universalist Church of Valparaiso, FL, 7/07.
  • "The Dao of Leadership", UWF Honors Seminar, 9/06.
  • "The Passionate Life: Eros to Androgyny", Unitarian Universalist Church of Valparaiso, FL, 6/04.
  • "The Evolution of Rock and Roll's Religious and Environmental Themes", NWFSC Environmental Club, 4/02.
  • "Renewing the Balance", Unitarian Universalist Church of Valparaiso, FL, 04/01;
  • "Eranos, Esalen, and the Evolution of Ecopsychology", NWFSC Environmental Club, 2/01.
  • "Science, Religion, and Nature", Annual NWFSC Open Forums, 3/96-3/00.
  • "Nature, Ecumenism, and World Religions", Annual NWFSC Open Forums, 10/96-10/00.
  • "The Greening of Christianity", NWFSC Environmental Club, 11/99.
  • "The Yin and Yang of Nature's Way", NWFSC Environmental Club, 11/98.
  • "The Patriarchal Nature of New Guinea Art", NISOD convention, Austin, Texas, 5/97.
  • "The Tao of Eco-Movements", Student Environmental Action Coalition Regional Conference, Unity College, 2/96.
  • "Science, Religion, and the Emerging Ecocentric Paradigm", The Flying Fish Speakers Series, Unity, Maine, 2/95.
  • "Environmental Ecumenism and World Religions", Unity's Socratic Society, 3/94.
  • "The Spirit of Ecology: A Prelude to the Religion of the Future", Florida State, The Humanities Forum, 1/91.
  • "The Nietzschean Essence of Hesse's Demian", Florida State Film/Literature Conference, 2/90.

Continuing Education

  • Eranos Conference, "Die Stadt: Achse und Zentrum der Welt," Ascona, Switzerland, 7/06.
  • 30th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Pensacola, Florida, 10/05.
  • Esalen Institute Yoga and Meditation seminar, Big Sur, California, 6/00.
  • Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Conference, Berkeley, 6/00.
  • "The Life We Are Given" seminar at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, 2/97.
  • Common Boundary's "Inner Ecology/Outer Ecology Conference," Crystal City, Virginia, 11/95
  • "Ecology and Theology Conference" at the Centre for Ecology and Spirituality at Holy Cross, Port Burwell, Ontario, 7/94.
  • "The Vision and Practice of Human Transformation" seminar at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, 6/94.
  • The 16th Annual Gestalt Therapy Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 5/94.
  • Northern New England Philosophy Conference, New Hampshire, 1/93.

Current Memberships

  • Green Peace
  • The Wilderness Society
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • Sierra Club
  • Earthjustice
  • National Parks and Conservation Association
  • Amnesty International
  • Teaching Tolerance
  • Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Friend of Esalen
  • Niceville Chamber of Commerce

Languages

  • Fluent in German
  • Conversational knowledge in Chinese and Icelandic


 

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