Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer
Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Case Western Reserve University
11130 Bellflower Rd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7119
bendik-keymer@case.edu
++ 216-368-3563 216-368-0814 (fax)
b. 1970, New Haven, Connecticut
to Esther Ann Bendik & David King Keymer
Public Education
East Hill School, Ithaca, New York, 1975-1977
Oxford Road Elementary School, New Hartford, New York, 1977-1982
Perry Junior High School, New Hartford, New York, 1982-1985
New Hartford Senior High School, New Hartford, New York, 1985-1988; salutatorian, DAR citizenship award, choir award, Keilor award for swimming
Exchange Year
Lycée Corneille, Rouen, France, 1988-1989, literature & philosophy track (première A1); hosted by the Rotary Club of Rouen
Higher Education
Yale College, 1989-1993. BA, Philosophy; magna cum laude with distinction
Thesis: “ ‘Greatness of heart is the true human greatness’ –an open letter” (On forgiveness as the founding act of moral community)
Mentor: Susan Neiman
Yale University, 1993-1994. Audited courses in the graduate school with Jonathan Lear and Karsten Harries
The University of Chicago, 1994-2002. Ph.D. Philosophy
Dissertation: Conscience and Humanity (On conscience as the voice of common humanity; on the most basic moral orientation in society)
Chair: Candace Vogler Committee: Martha Nussbaum, Charles Larmore, Jean-Luc Marion
Languages
French (formerly fluent), German (reading and some speaking); introductions to Dutch, Spanish, Slovak, Arabic, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Greek, and Danish
Specialization
Moral philosophy
Memberships
American Philosophical Association, 2002- (lifetime member); North American Society for Social Philosophy, 2002-5; Human Development & Capability Association, 2007-8, 2015-17; International Association for Environmental Philosophy, 2010-11, 2017-19; International Society for Environmental Ethics, 2016-17; American Society for Aesthetics, 2017-18
Professional History
Academic appointments
Freshperson counselor, Yale College, 1992-1993
Course Assistant, Yale University, 1994
Course Assistant, University of Chicago, 1998-2001
Writing teacher, University of Chicago, 1998-2000
Lecturer, the Environmental Studies Program, Humanities Common Core, or the Graham School for Adult Education, University of Chicago, 2000-2002
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, the Colorado College, 2002-05 (on leave to American University of Sharjah, 2004-2005)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, 2004-08 (joint appointment with Le Moyne College, 2007-2008)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, 2007-2010
Associate Professor of Philosophy, with tenure, Department of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 2010-
Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, 2010-
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Hamilton College, Spring 2014
Researching, consulting, journalism
Researcher, Reggio Emilia/Chicago Commons Head Start schools project, Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development, 1999-2002
Talk-show host, Dubai Eye Radio, 2007
Columnist, Emirates Today, 2007
Educational consultant, TECOM/Dubai Academic City, Dubai, 2008
Occasional writer for Hyperallergic, The Conversation, eFlux, Tikkun, 2016-
Fellowships & Honors, Higher Education and after
Poet in Residence, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, 1989-1990
D.A.A.D. summer Stiftung, 1991
Focus in Action summer fellow, Dixwell Q House, New Haven, 1992
Century Fellow, the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago, 1994-1999
Junior Fellow in the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000-2001
The Wayne C. Booth Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Humanities Division winner, the University of Chicago, 2001 (nominated by students and selected by faculty)
Ross Trust Fellowship for World Service, the University of Chicago, 2001-2002
Nominee, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Case Western Reserve University, 2011 and 2012 (university wide award, nominated and selected by students)
Sabbatical leave, Fall 2013
UCITE Teaching Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 2015
Moral Development Mapping Project, project creator with principal investigator Adam Perzynski with Janelle Duda and Josh Terchek, College of Arts & Sciences grant, Case Western Reserve University, 2015-2016
Living Forms, principle creator, a multi-institution research & discussion group on the intersection of the environmental humanities and poetic craft with College of Wooster, University of Akron, John Carroll Universty; Baker Nord Center of the Humanities funded project, Case Western Reserve University, 2015-2016
Long-form Writing
Authored
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The Ecological Life: Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
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Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time, Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2017
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The Wind – An Unruly Living, Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2018
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(O) = All our Relations in the Void, Open Humanities Press (Critical Climate Change series), invited for full review, 2019
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Anthroponomists of the Anthropocene: Colony, Community, Collective, New York: Routledge, 2020
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Martha Nussbaum & the Politics of Wonder: On the Conditions of Democratic Life, New York: Bloomsbury, 2021
Edited
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Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future, Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 2012
As part of the research team
8. Dan Scheinfeld, Sandra Scheinfeld and Karen Haigh, We Are All Explorers: Learning and Teaching with Reggio Principles in Urban Settings, New York: Teachers College Press, 2008
Art Projects
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“Off-cycle,” video on the ecological dimensions of breath, made with Zlatan Filipovic and Isak Berbic, shown at the Tate Modern, London, Nov. 17th, 2007 for the symposium Take a deep breath
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“Short bits (1-10),” Brief Histories (Isak Berbic and Fawz Kabra, curators), Sharjah College of Fine Art, UAE, 2011
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“A voice from the future,” for Elaine Hullihen’s Declarations of Truth digital media and group performance installation, Cleveland, Ohio, 2011
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A Color Removed –with Michael Rakowitz, principle artist; Amir Berbić, graphic designer; and Christina Vassallo, director of SPACES Gallery; FRONT International / SPACES Gallery, 2017-2018 (installed June-August 2018 at SPACES Gallery (entire gallery))
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Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and Misty Morrison, Loss & the Lost, mixed-media (drawing, painting, print-making, academic text), in development
Short-form Writing
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“Analogical extension and analogical implication in environmental moral philosophy”, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Winter 2001
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“A sense of ecological humanity”, Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics, (Social Philosophy Today, v. 18), Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003 ( revised version of #1, published with permission of Philosophy in the Contemporary World )
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“Environmental maturity”, Social Theory and Practice, July 2003 ( full length review article with programmatic points toward virtue ethics in the last half )
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“Sacred places”, Routledge Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, New York: Routledge, 2003; reprinted in Encyclopedia of Community, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2003
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“The idea of an ecological orientation”, Environmental Philosophy as Social Philosophy, (Social Philosophy Today, v. 19), Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2004
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“Common humanity and human rights”, Religion and Human Rights (Social Philosophy Today, v. 21), Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2005
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“Mining in Irian Jaya: How Citizens Should Think about Environmental Justice”, South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture, v. 8, 2004-5, pp. 79-98
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“School-family relationships: an argument for the parallel process model”, Urban Children & Youth in the MENA Region: Educational Priorities, Dubai: World Bank / Arab Urban Development Institute / Dubai Municipality, 2005
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“For a time as shifting as sand: Walden in the U.A.E., Thoreau Society Bulletin, 2005
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“Le citoyen apathique : quand les institutions étatiques ne reflètent pas les droits de l’homme avec cohérence”, Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales, 2006
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“Human rights”, in Global Perspectives on the United States, Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2007 ( encyclopedia article )
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“Bringing schools to life: cross-class questioning and dialogue across the curriculum”, Sustaining Excellence in Communicating across the Curriculum : Cross-Institutional Experiences and Best Practices, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007
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“Higher court citizenship”, Citizenship(s), Porto: Universidad Fernando Pessoa, 2008
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“None and all”, catalogue commentary on Mark Pilkington’s Islander exhibition, Tashkeel, Dubai, 2008
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“The virtues of virtues in the law? Being humane to animals,” University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog, November 14th, 2008
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“Species extinction and the vice of thoughtlessness: the importance of spiritual exercises for learning virtue”, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Winter 2010
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“Development –concepts and considerations”, The Spirit of Sustainability: Encyclopedia of Sustainability, v.1, Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2010
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Untitled commentary on the photography of Louise Fowler-Smith, used by the artist for her purposes, 2010
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“From humans to all of life –Nussbaum’s transformation of dignity”, Capabilities, Gender, Equality: toward Fundamental Entitlements, Flavio Comim and Martha Nussbaum, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2014
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“Adapting Humanity”, co-authored with Allen Thompson, in Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future, M.I.T. Press, 2012
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“The sixth mass extinction is caused by us.” in Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future, M.I.T. Press, 2012
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“Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change,” European Financial Review, October 2012
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“The moral and the ethical: what conscience teaches us about morality”, in Vasil Gluchmann, ed., Morality: Reasoning on Different Approaches, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013
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“Everything is backwards now.” in George Dunn, ed., Avatar and Philosophy, New York: Blackwell, 2014
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“’Do you have a conscience?’” International Journal of Global Ethical Leadership, inaugural issue, v. 1, Fall 2012
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“Sustainability possibility and trajectory,” with Roger Saillant, International Journal of Global Ethical Leadership, inaugural issue, v. 1, Fall 2012 (note/short article)
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“Living up to our humanity: the elevated extinction rate event & what it says about us,” in Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 2014
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“Mass Extinction: the Science, the Ethics & the Civics,” with Chris Haufe, in S. Gardiner and A. Thompson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, 2016
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N. Hlaing, E. B. Taboada, J. Bendik-Keymer, D. J. Lacks, "Humanitarian Chemical Engineering", Chemical Engineering Progress, 2015
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““Goodness itself must change” – Anthroponomy in an age of socially-caused, planetary environmental change,” Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe), 2016, 6 (3–4), 187–202
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“The Fundamental Ethical Adaptation: Anthroponomy,” Inhabiting the Anthropocene, 2016
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“Decolonialism and Democracy,” Inhabiting the Anthropocene, 2016
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“The Neoliberal Radicals,” eFlux Conversations, 2017
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“The Politics of Wonder,” in M. Qizilbash et al., eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Capabilities, 2018
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“Democracy as relationship,” eFlux Conversations, April 2017
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“The Reasonableness of Wonder,” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017
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“How can I be strong when I am powerless?”, long program essay for José Carlos Texeira’s triptych, On Exile (Elsewhere, in Here; Fragments in Search of Meaning; and The Book), MAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017
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“A return of moral vision,” exhibit notes for José Carlos Texeira’s On Exile: Elsewhere, in Here, SPACES Gallery, 2017
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“Capacity building cuts in the sensorium,” Art World Roundtable, Aesthetics For Birds, 2017
Poems
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“A night tale” and “Fragments,” Yale Literary Magazine, Fall 1990
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“Winter song,” Yale Literary Magazine, Spring 1991
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“When there are many who have to mourn,” Zirkus, Spring 1991
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“A parting,” The Quarterly, Spring 1991
5. “Section urbaine,” The Yale Literary Magazine, Fall 1992
6. “The fire alarm” and “On stars,” Zirkus, Spring 1992
7. “Ondine,” The Quarterly, Spring 1992
8. “Don du poème –an incomplete project for symbolist poetry class” (authored long poem), The Yale Literary Magazine open reading event, 1993
9. “This is love?” group performance intervention in public space, Philosophical Theatre, American University of Sharjah, 2008
10. “Mirror : who are you?” group performance intervention in public space, Philosophical Theatre, American University of Sharjah, 2008
11. “Cell phone : bound,” group performance intervention in public space, Philosophical Theatre, American University of Sharjah, 2008
12. “Ethos” (“Ethos,” “Geography,” “A Theory of the Occasion”), H_ngm_n, Spring 2011
Journalism
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Your Turn columns, The Independent, Colorado Springs, 2003-2004
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“Self-work: politics” and “The lull around the war,” short philosophy pieces for the Pikes Peak Action Committee (online), 2003-4
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“Consience, osool”, invited commentary on the loss of Emirati culture, paired with an untitled commentary on the Opus exhibit, Sharjah Museum of Art, Jumeirah Beach Magazine, May 2006
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The Green Team, co-created, weekly talk show on the environment as part of Siobhan Live, Dubai Eye Radio, 2007
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Down to Earth, original, weekly column on how to improve our relation to the environment, Emirates Today, Dubai, 2007; some titles included, “A Scope for Green Business”, “A Book for Thought”, “Little Things Matter”, “Experience Nature by Living It”, “Consider ‘Inner’ Building Standards”, “How to Start Eating Smart”, “Protect Ecology of Body from Toxics”, “It’s a Date”, “All Planet Party People”, “Greenpeace Must Cool Rhetoric”, “The Lessons of Gonu”, “The Coup Factor of Climate Change”, “Green Can Be a Rich Colour”, “Gitex, Geckos and Leonardo DiCaprio”, “Clocking Up Debt”, “Drive in the Spirit of Ramadan”, “Don’t Imitate Gods”.
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(with Allen Thompson) “Really Saving the Environment”, Interview with a Philosopher by Tom Morris, The Huffington Post, May 18th, 2010
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Regionally Speaking, (radio) with Gladys Haddad, October 10th, 2011
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The Sound of Ideas, (radio) with David Suzuki and David Orr, September 6th, 2012
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“Locker Room Banter,” Case Observer, 2016
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“Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Protest,” Hyperallergic, December 2016
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“The Art of Protesting During Donald Trump’s Presidency,” The Conversation, January 2017, republished by Good as “Why the Smartest Anti-Trump Protest Strategy Is Solidarity –not Violence”
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“He’s arbitrarian,” featured on KPFK’s Beneath the Surface, replayed on Jacobin Radio, July & August, 2017
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“President Donald Trump is an arbitrarian, not a fascist,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, August, 2017
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“We must go to class, but we also should,” Case Observer, 2018
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“CWRU students: You can make it possible to plagiarize with impunity,” Case Observer, 2018
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“Why it’s good to be an ‘Ivy League reject’,” Case Observer, 2018
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“A challenge to Prof. Sarma and to ourselves,” Case Observer, 2018
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“‘This conversation never happened’,” Tikkun, 2018
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“Is CWRU hypocritical about ethics?” Case Observer, 2018
Book Reviews
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James Sterba’s Three Challenges to Traditional Ethics: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism, book note, Ethics, 2001
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“Vulnerable Citizens”, long review of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues, H-NILAS, 2002
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“The 7-11,” long review of David Rothenberg’s Always the Mountains, H-NILAS, 2002
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Paola Cavalieri’s Do Animals Have Rights?, book note, Ethics, 2002
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Val Plumwood’s Environmental Culture: the Crisis of Reason, mid-length review, Ethics, 2003
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“Environmental Maturity,” review article with original material, of Peter Hay, Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought and Robert Kirkman’s Skeptical Environmentalism in Social Theory and Practice, July 2003
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David Oates’s Paradise Wild: Re-imagining American Nature, long review, H-NILAS, 2003
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“Openness and Meaning,” very long review of Giorgio Agamben’s The Open –Man and Animals and Raimond Gaita’s The Philosopher’s Dog: Friendship with Animals, H-NILAS, 2004
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Susan Campbell’s Relational Remembering, book prize commentary in Social Philosophy Today, v. 21, 2005
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Philip Cafaro’s Thoreau’s Living Ethics, long review, H-NILAS, 2005
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Seyla Benhabib’s The Rights of Others, book prize commentary in Social Philosophy Today, v. 22, 2006
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Temple Grandin’s Animals in Translation, mid-length review, H-NILAS, 2006
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James Rachels’s The Legacy of Socrates: Essays in Moral Philosophy, mid-length review, Ethics, 2007
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Martha Nussbaum’s The Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, long review, H-NILAS, 2007
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Lisa Kemmerer’s In Search of Consistenty: Ethics and Animals, long review, H-NILAS, 2008
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Ronald Sandler’s Character and Environment: a Virtue Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, mid-length review, Ethics, 2008
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Dale Jamieson’s Ethics and the Environment, mid-length review, Ethics, 2008
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Pierre Hadot’s What Is Ancient Philosophy?, mid-length review, Philosophical Practice, 2008
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Christopher Preston’s Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III, mid-length review, Conservation Biology, 2009
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Susan Neiman’s Moral Clarity: a Guide for Grown-up Idealists, mid-length review, Philosophical Practice, 2009
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Robert Jackall’s Moral Mazes: the World of Corporate Managers, mid-length review, Philosophical Practice, 2010
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Roy Brand’s LoveKnowledge: the Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida, long review, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 2012
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Glen Pettigrove’s Forgiviness and Love, long review, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 2013
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Thomas Pincen’s Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order, mid-length review, Biolocial Conservation, Spring 2014
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Religion of the Future, long reviw, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Fall 2014
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D. Schlosberg and M. Wissenberg, Political Animals & Animal Politics, mid-length review, Environmental Ethics, Spring 2016
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S. Vogel, Thinking like a Mall, Environmental Ethics, 2017
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“Orbit around a void” long review of Sianne Ngai’s Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, for Criticism 59 (2), 2018
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B. Holland, Allocating the Earth, Environmental Ethics, 2019
Organizing
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Bosnia, teach-in, co-organized by a small group of students, Yale Law School, 1994
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Iraq: War?, teach-in, primary organizer, The Colorado College, 2002
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A.U.S. Harvard Model United Nations team (Malawi), Harvard University, 2007
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Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, conference, co-organized with Michaela Crimmin (Royal Society for the Arts, London), and Max Andrews and Mariana Campa-Luna (Lattitudes, Barcelona), Sharjah Biennial 8, 2007
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INSA (International Studies Student Association) constitutional revision process, American University of Sharjah Department of International Studies, 2007
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AUSMUN –the American University of Sharjah Model United Nations, founder and co-creator, 2007-2008
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Human Flourishing and Restoration in the Age of Global Warming, co-creator and co-organizer, Clemson University, September 2008.
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“How the Older Nations Can Help Focus the Nation”, with members of the Onondaga Nation and affiliate nations, Focus the Nation, Le Moyne College, 2009
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“Climate Change and the Challenge of Adapting Humanity”, co-organizer with Allen Thompson of a panel also including Ronald Sandler, Paul Hirsch and Helmut Hirsch; Old World and New World Perspectives on Environmental Philosophy, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2011
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