Program Information
John Schroeder, Chair
Professor of Philosophy
240 895 4456
jwschroeder@smcm.edu
Sharon Newcomb, Office Assistant I
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.
Sybol Cook Anderson
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Departments: Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: Anne Arundel 102-D/E
Email: scanderson@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4278
Bio
Sybol Cook Anderson (Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University) is an associate professor of philosophy specializing
in social and political philosophy, Hegel, ethics, and the philosophy of race. She
teaches courses in ethics (including the philosophy of love), social and
political philosophy, early modern philosophy, Africana philosophy, and Continental
philosophy. She is also Faculty Director of the DeSousa-Brent
Scholars Program. Her current research focuses upon recognition theory,
oppression theory, and the philosophy of race. Professor Anderson is a
former Ford Foundation Fellow and a recipient of the Maryland Higher Education
Commission's Henry C. Welcome Fellowship. She is author of Hegel’s Theory of Recognition: From
Oppression to Ethical Liberal Modernity (Continuum International
Publishers, 2009), co-editor with Robert Bernasconi of Race and Racism in
Continental Philosophy, and co-editor, with Ellen K. Feder and Karmen
MacKendrick, of A Passion for Wisdom: Readings in Western Philosophy on Love
and Desire.
