Francis H. Conroy, Ph.D.
Address: Home: 407 Midway Ave., Riverton, NJ 08077
Telephone: H(856) 786-0579; W(609) 894-9311 (ext. 7620)
Email:
fconroy@bcc.edu
AKA: Rusty, Fran, France
Education:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- 2003-4: post-doctoral work, Religion Department (Mid-career Fellowship Program)
- 1994-5: post-doctoral work, Philosophy Department (Mid-career Fellowship Program)
- 1987-8: post-doctoral work, East Asian Studies (Mid-career Fellowship Program)
Union Graduate School, Cincinnati, OH
- 1975: Ph.D., Philosophy and Sociology, with a minor in East Asian Studies (Danforth Fellow)
Yale University, New Haven, CT
- 1972: MA, Philosophy (Danforth Fellow)
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
- 1970: BA, Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors
Punahou School, Honolulu, HI
- 1966: Diploma with Honors
Work Experience:
Burlington County College, Pemberton and Mt. Laurel NJ
Faculty member, 1979-
- Professor of Philosophy, 1989-
- Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Philosophy, 1984-89
- Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences and Basic Skills, 1979-84
President of the Faculty Senate, 2002-3
Founder and Director of the Liberal Interdisciplinary Foundations Program (LIFT), 1985-92
East-West Center, Honolulu HI
Fellow, Dialogue of Civilizations Program, Institute of Culture and Communications, 1991-2
- Assisted the Director, Prof. Tu Weiming, in organizing conferences on Primal and Axial Age Spirituality
- Organized an interdisciplinary conference on Cosmic History
- Organized the Paul Desjardins Seminars on Classical Texts
Punahou School, Honolulu HI
Academy (high school) teacher, summers 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994
Worked on Asian history/civilization team to decide curriculum
Taught 2 sections of 10th grade Asian history each summer
Camp Regis Apple-Jack, Paul Smiths, NY
Tennis Counselor, summers of 1989, 1990, 1991 and 2000
- Organized tennis curriculum and tennis staff
- Coached tennis to children and youth, ages 6-16
Fields of specialization and competence (in order of importance)
- East-West comparative philosophy
- Philosophy and geography
- Comparative religion
- Religion and ecology
- Philosophy/spirituality of place in Hawaii and southern New Jersey
- Confucian humanism
- Non-violence, social movements and peace studies
- History of Philosophy
- 19th and 20th century European Philosophy
- Plato
- Teaching
- Community college education
- Sociology
- China
Articles, papers and manuscripts
- 8/03: Introduction (with Allison Hayes-Conroy) to Hayes-Conroy, South Jersey Under the Stars: Essays on Culture, Agriculture and Place (book-length manuscript, seeking publication)
- 3/03: Paper, "South Jersey Under the Stars," with Allison Hayes-Conroy, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia PA
- 2003: Article, "Two Firesticks: Thoughts In Anticipation of a Third Fellowship," in Mid-Career Fellowship Program Bulletin, MCFP, Princeton University
- 2003: Article accepted for publication, "The Latest Teaching Innovation: A Liberal Arts Seminar"
http://staff.bcc.edu/philosophy/LIBARTSEM.htm,in Community College Humanities Review
3/03: Panel presentation,"The Morality of War: Thoughts from Camus," Burlington County College
11/02: Panel presentation, "The Iraq Question," Burlington County College
9/11/02: Panel presentation, "Thoughts from Simone Weil on 9/11," Burlington County College
4/02: Paper, "The Place of Instruction: Paul Desjardins and the Adirondack Study Center," Society for Philosophy and Geography, Towson MD
2002: Article, "Getting Nowhere Fast: Intrinsic Worth, Utility and Sense of Place at the Century's Turn" http://staff.bcc.edu/philosophy/GettingNowhereFast.htm, in Backhaus and Murungi, Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography and Architecture, Lexington Books, Lanham MD
2001: Paper, "Getting Nowhere Fast," Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia PA
8/01: Interview, "The Importance of Liberal Arts," Oregon Public Radio
7/17/01: Article, "In a technocratic age, study of the liberal arts is even more important," in The Christian Science Monitor
2000: Paper (with Raghu Bollini and Anne Miller), "Perspectives on Ethics and Technology," at Ethics and Technology Conference, Raritan Valley Community College
1999: Either/Or: Meditations on Ontology and Social Action from the Late Vietnam War Era, Burlington County College Print Shop (book-length manuscript, used in classes for 4 years)
1998: Paper, "Getting Nowhere Fast: Intrinsic Worth, Utility and Sense of Place at the Century's Close," Society for Values in Higher Education, Portland OR
1995: Paper, "Promoting Dialogue at a Community College: A Platonic Model," Collected Essays of Mid-Career Fellows, MCFP, Princeton University
1994: Keynote speaker, "Piety in Confucius's Analects I and Plato's Euthyphro," Haverford College alumni conference, Adirondack Study Center, Jay NY
1993: "Da Xue: Dialogues and Aphorisms in Memory of Paul Desjardins," Newsletter of the Society for Values in Higher Education (excerpt)
1993: Co-organizer (with Tu Weiming), "Paul Desjardins Seminar on Classical Texts: Wang Yang Ming," Adirondack Study Center, Jay NY
1992: Co-organizer (with Tu Weiming), "Paul Desjardins Seminar on Classical Texts: Xun Zi," Adirondack Study Center, Jay NY
1991: Paper: "Da Xue: Dialogues and Aphorisms in Memory of Paul Desjardins," at "Paul Desjardins Seminar on Classical Texts: Mencius," Adirondack Study Center, Jay NY (also co-organizer)
1991: Foreword (with F. Hilary Conroy), Breton and Largent, The Soul of Economies, Idea House
1990: Participant, 4-day seminar on Da Xue, Adirondack Study Center, Jay NY
1990: "Learning To Be Human: Confucian Resources for Person-Centered Education," The Personalist Forum, Greenville SC
1989: Article, "Getting Students To Sprout," Collected Essays from the New Jersey Master Faculty Program, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton NJ
1989: Article, "Learning To Be Human: Confucian Approaches," Community College Humanities Review, Philadelphia PA
1989: Paper, "Ethico-cosmic Listening: Clues from the 'Quaker' Strand in Chinese Thought," Association for Asian Studies, Eastern Division
1988: Manuscript, "Cosmic History Seminar: Dialogue Based on the Minutes" http://staff.bcc.edu/philosophy/cosdial.htm History Department, University of Pennsylvania
1988: Article, "Democracy in China?: A Memoir of Democracy Wall, 1979," in Goldstein, Israel and Conroy, America Views China, Associated University Presses
1987: Article: "China, the Soviet Union and the United States: Ideology and Politics," in New Tides in the Pacific: The Pacific Community Movement, Greenwood Press
1985: Paper, "To Repair the Universe: Quaker and Confucian Potential," John Woolman Memorial Lecture, Burlington County College
1983-88, Participant and secretary, Cosmic History Seminar http://staff.bcc.edu/philosophy/cosmic.htm, History Department, University of Pennsylvania
1982, "Teaching Social Science to Remedial Students," Innovation Abstracts, NISOD, University of Texas at Austin
1982, "China: Image and Reality," Peace and Change
1979-85: Various articles in the Courier-Post (Cherry Hill NJ), Chronicle (San Francisco CA), and US-China Review (US-China People's Friendship Association) on China
1978: "Business Ethics: Dialogue at a Shipyard" in Radical Philosophers' News Journal
1975-6: Various articles as staff writer for The Guardian (New York NY)
1973-9: Various lectures on China, politics, imperialism, socialism, and the Philippines at Friends Meetings, colleges and universities, and Movement events
1972: Article: "The Encounter of Buddhism and Socialism in Tibet," Peace and Change
Relevant Courses (or course equivalents):
Graduate Philosophy Classes: Plato (Alexander Nehamas), Conflict (George Schrader), Plato (Robert Brumbaugh), Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Taoism (Chung-ying Cheng), Philosophy of Religion (John E. Smith), Hegel and Nietzsche (Walter Kaufman), Utilitarianism (Roscoe Hill), Philosophy of History (David Carr),, Existentialism and Marxism (George Schrader), Existential Psychology (Melvin Lansky), Philosophy of Education (Ivan Illich), Buddhism (Kio Kanda), Confucianism (Paul Desjardins)
Graduate courses in sociology and social movements: Marxism and Labor (Boone Schirmer), Non-violent Movements (Movement for a New Society), Sociology of Erving Goffman (Melvin Lansky), Sociology of China (Committee for Concerned Asian Scholars), Sociology of Latin America (Ivan Illich)
Graduate courses in East Asian Studies: Chinese Calligraphy (Yale Department of Fine Arts), Chinese Thought Since the Year 1000 (Willard Peterson), 20th century China and Chinese Communism (CCAS)
Doctoral dissertation: Becoming Revolutionary Persons (A search for balance between Marxism and Existentialism). Doctoral committee chairs: George Schrader, Professor of Philosophy, Yale, and Goodwin Watson, President and Professor of Education, Union Graduate School