The Public Honors College
St. Mary's College of Maryland

Program  Information

Björn Krondorfer, Chair
Professor of Religious Studies
240 895 4219
bhkrondorfer@smcm.edu

Sharon Newcomb, Office Clerk
240 895 2159

Program Highlight

The department offers a major and minor in Philosophy and a major and minor in Religious Studies. As an active and energetic department, we are committed towards an intercultural, international and interdisciplinary understanding of the world. We teach across the traditional fields of philosophy and religious studies, and beyond the cultural divides of East and West. Departmental faculty likes to teach in a variety of venues (Nitze Program; Women, Gender and Sexuality; Environmental Studies; Asian Studies; African and African Diaspora Studies), to take students on study tours (Greece, Germany/Poland, India, Thailand, and, in the future, England and Israel), and to bring questions of global relevance to the campus communities through scheduling events with renowned speakers and activists.

SybolCook Anderson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

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Departments: Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: Anne Arundel, 110-H
Email: scanderson@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4278

Bio

Sybol Cook Anderson (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is an assistant professor of philosophy specializing in social and political philosophy and the work of Hegel.  She also teaches courses in ethics (including the philosophy of love) and in modern and Continental philosophy.  Her current research explores the possibility of a liberal politics of recognition and considers especially the contemporary relevance of Hegel's social theory for such a project.  She is a former Ford Foundation Fellow and a current recipient of the Maryland Higher Education Commission's Henry C. Welcome Grant.  She is co-editor with Robert Bernasconi of Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy , and, with Ellen K. Feder and Karmen MacKendrick, of A Passion for Wisdom: Readings in Western Philosophy on Love and Desire .

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St. Mary's College of Maryland
18952 E. Fisher Rd
St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001
240-895-2000