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Dave Rankin, the
Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program, received his BA and
MA degrees in English from West Virginia University and his Ph. D.
in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
His graduate work was mainly in English linguistics, stylistics, and
computer analysis of language structure. In the last fifteen years,
most of his research has dealt with parallels between the structure
of language and the underlying structure of what we value logically
and aesthetically. His teaching in the Honors Program and in the MLA
Program have helped him develop new interests in the history of
science, cognitive science, and the acquisition of knowledge. He is
co-author (with Earl Wilcox) of a college textbook that has been
published by two different companies. He is the recipient of the Kinard Award for excellent teaching and has served as Winthrop's
faculty representative to the Board of Trustees. He is currently
working on a book on the structure of language and culture, a
project he hopes to complete before the end of the millennium. Dave
lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Vikki, and
daughter, Erin. |
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Houston Craighead is professor emeritus of
philosophy and religious studies at Winthrop University. He holds a
B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Baylor University and a Ph.D. in
philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. His area of
specialization is the philosophy of religion, and he has published
numerous papers in such journals as International Journal for
Philosophy of Religion, Sophia, Faith and Philosophy,
and The Thomist. He is the winner of three awards for
teaching excellence: the Phi Kappa Phi award, the Kinard prize, and
the Governor’s Distinguished Professor award. He was the 1999-2000
president of the American Academy of Religion/ Southeast and the
2007-2008 president of the Society for Philosophy of Religion. His
wife, Alice, now retired, taught 12th grade International
Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement English at Rock Hill High
School.
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Susan Ludvigson is a poet who has published
nine collections of poetry, six of them with Louisiana State University
Press. Her newest work, Sweet Confluence—New and Selected Poems,
was published by LSU Press in 2000. She has held fellowships from the
Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Fulbright and Witter Bynner Foundations, and
from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has represented the U.S.
at writers’ meetings in Yugoslavia, Canada (Quebec), France, and
Belgium. She gives readings of her poetry at colleges and universities
throughout the country, and recently read at the Library of Congress.
She and her husband, fiction writer Scott Ely, spend their summers
writing, reading and eating well in Puivert, France. |
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Tom Moore is Vice President of Academic
Affairs. He holds a BA in chemistry from Huntingdon College in
Montgomery, Alabama, and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the
University of South Carolina. His interests in history and philosophy of
science were developed by participation in National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. He taught at Georgia
Southern University and Birmingham-Southern College before coming to
Winthrop as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Physics in 1986.
Tom directed the Winthrop MLA program from 1991 until 2001. He enjoys
golf and photography and lives in Rock Hill with his wife, Marsha, and
sons, Charlie and Kirk. |
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