Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics

“Some Challenges of Planetary Civic Engagement,” Montessori High School of Cleveland, 2017


Professional Teaching
At Yale College, 1994

The Problem of Evil (course assistant)
At the Legacy (experimental public) School, Manhattan, 1994

Ninth Grade (course assistant, final integrated study of a block in the lower East Village)
At University of Chicago, 1998-2002

As teaching assistant (1998-2001): Early Modern Philosophy, Human Rights, Introduction to Ethics, Natural Law and Human Rights, Nineteenth Century Philosophy

As a writing instructor (1999-2001): Greek Thought and Literature, Human Being and Citizen

As lecturer (2000-02): Environmental Ethics and Policy (co-taught), Environmental Moral Philosophy (awarded the Booth Prize for this course), Greek Thought and Literature, Human Being and Citizen, A Life Well Lived (continuing education)

At Concordia University River Forest (where my grandfather wished he could have earned a B.A.), 2001

Arts & Ideas (co-taught)

At Colorado College (learning to construct a liberal arts education), 2002-2004

17th-19th Century Philosophy, Citizens of the World, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Justice (co-taught); Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (independent study); Integrated Foundations in Education (co-taught, graduate level), Introduction to Ethics, Justice, Logic and Life, Medieval Philosophy (co-taught), Political Agency, Social Critique

At American University of Sharjah (building a university), 2004-2008

Al-Ghazali and Descartes (independent study), Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films (independent study), Ethics and the Environment, Ethics and Information Technology, Ethics for Professionals, Globalization, Heidegger’s Being and Time (independent study), Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Political Studies, Modern Identity, Philosophical Theatre, Philosophy of Art, Political Philosophy, Senior Seminar (American Pragmatism), Truth and Rhetoric (independent study)
At Le Moyne College (how can mission work enrich the classroom?), 2007-2010

Anarchism (independent study); Goodness, Truth & Beauty; On Education, On History, Philosophy of Human Nature, Plato’s Republic (for high schoolers), The Second Enlightenment, Soul-searching, Sustainability (independent study), The Virtues of the Future, What Is Philosophy? (for high schoolers)
At Case Western Reserve University (toward a broad institutional goal: ethics), 2010-13

Critical Attitude, Ethics of Science and Engineering, An Ethos, Exposing Familial Harms: Analyzing the Case for Cognitive Enhancement (independent study), “Happiness”, In Love, Kant & the Banality of Evil, The Literary Mind: a Challenge to Philosophy, The Moral Problems of Climate Change, On Structural Injustice, Planetary Citizens, vocation & Life
At Hamilton College (experimenting with self-generated curriculum), 2014

Environmental Ethics (Earth’s human moment), In Love, Jacques Rancière
At Case Western Reserve University (working against neo-liberalism), 2014-

Aesthetics, Challenges to Recognition, The Concept of Health (independent study), Courage (independent study), Crafting Your Own Freedom, Critical Attitude, Environmental Civics, Environmental Politics, Ethics in the Anthropocene, In Love, Introduction to Philosophy as a Way of Life, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (independent study), Moral Problems, Moral Relationships, Philosophy of the World, power & Invisibility, vocation and Life
University Service
At Colorado College

1. 
   Co-director, then director, Minorities in the Humanities program, “CC 11”, 2002-2004
   
2. 
   Faculty representative, staff hire in New Media Technology, 2003
   
3. 
   Philosophy Department web designer and webmaster, 2003-2004
   
4. 
   Center for Civic Engagement brainstorming group, 2003-2004
   
5. 
   Diversity member, hire in European History, 2003-2004
   

At American University of Sharjah

1. 
   INSA (International Studies Student Association) faculty director, 2004-2007
   
2. 
   Co-designer, new student study and lounge space, 2004
   
3. 
   Philosophy hire interviewer, Eastern Division A.P.A., 2004
   
4. 
   Creator and organizer, International Studies Student Orientation, 2005-2008
   
5. 
   Special assistant to the Chair of International Studies for U.A.E. final accreditation, 2005-2006
   
6. 
   International Studies web designer and webmaster, 2005-2008
   
7. 
   Chair, International Studies Teaching and Learning Committee, 2006-2008
   
8. 
   Special senate committee on research ethics code, 2006
   
9. 
   Special senate committee on housing, 2007
   
10. 
    Middle States university-wide re-accreditation task force, Mission Committee, 2007-2008
    
11. 
    Faculty Senate Parliamentarian and member of the Senate Executive Board, 2007-2008
    
12. 
    Sustainability Taskforce, 2008
    
13. 
    Special Faculty Integrity Disciplinary Committee, 2008
    

At Le Moyne College

1. 
   Initiator, new student study and lounge spaces, Riley Hall, 2009
   
2. 
   Chair, Student Learning Assessment committee, Department of Philosophy, 2009-2010
   
3. 
   Faculty representative to Board of Trustees Institutional Advancement Committee, 2009-2010
   
4. 
   Integrated Marketing Committee, 2009-2010
   
5. 
   Committee on Martha Nussbaum’s visit, 2009-2010
   
6. 
   Working group on the McDevitt Sustainability Chair, 2010
   

At Case Western Reserve University

1. 
   Sustainability Alliance organizing committee, 2010-2011
   
2. 
   Sustainability Alliance, 2010-
   
3. 
   Ethics Alliance, 2010-
   
4. 
   Presenter, Sustainability Alliance presentation to the 2010 University Strategic Planning Retreat
   
5. 
   Interviewer, Philosophy Department search, 2010
   
6. 
   Co-author, Sustainability Alliance internal grant proposal, 2010-2011
   
7. 
   Member of the Inamori Ethics Prize selection committee, 2011-13
   
8. 
   Diversity Leadership Council, 2011-14
   
9. 
   PowerUp! facilitator with area students for the Institute for Social Justice, 2012
   
10. 
    CWRU 2026, Strategic Planning Committee, 2012-13
    
11. 
    Beamer-Schneider Professorship Strategic Planning, 2013
    
12. 
    CAS strategic planning for Undergraduate Education, 2014
    
13. 
    Beamer-Schneider Teaching Fellow in SAGES, co-creator with Peter Whiting and Michael Householder, 2015
    
14. 
    Faculty Student Life Committee for the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, 2015-16
    
15. 
    Faculty Senate Personnel Committee, 2015-17, Chair, 2016-17
    
16. 
    Ad hoc committee on the Bias Reporting Systems (BRS), 2017
    

Advisory Work

1. 
   Advisor on the anti-war platform, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, 2002-2003
   
2. 
   Founding board of Directors, The Patchwork School, Louisville, CO, 2007-2008
   
3. 
   Interviewer for Yale University’s Admission’s Office, 2007-2009
   
4. 
   Volunteer administrator and curriculum / teaching advisor, The Dhaka Project, Dhaka, 2008
   
5. 
   Advisory board, The Patchwork School, Louisville, CO, 2008-2012
   
6. 
   Advisor, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C., on the Belmont 2 process towards the ethical treatment of non-human animal research subjects, 2009
   
7. 
   Committee on learning, St. David’s Church, Dewitt, N.Y., 2009
   
8. 
   Advisor on content for Green City Blue Lake Institute website ( http://www.gcbl.org ), 2012
   
9. 
   Guest, the Millenium Development Project nodes leader annual meeting, Toronto, 2012
   
10. 
    Faculty advisor to Pi Kappa Phi, Case Western Reserve University, 2014-15
    
11. 
    Advisor to Greek Life Office, Case Western Reserve University, on questions of integrity, 2014
    
12. 
    Advisor to SAGES on ethical learning outcomes, 2013-14
    
13. 
    Chapter advisor to Kappa Alpha Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, Case Western Reserve University, 2015-16
    
14. 
    Ad hoc advisor to multiple fraternities & sororities at Case Western Reserve University, including the Order of Omega, 2015-16
    
15. 
    Advisory board, Swetland Center for Environmental Health, CWRU School of Medicine, 2016-
    
16. 
    Occasional advisor to the Committee on the Undergraduate Experience, CWRU, 2016-17
    

Accreditation Team Service
1. Accreditation team, Middle States Commission, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2018
Community Service
1. Tutoring, New Haven, CT Public Schools, 1989-90

2. Big brother, Dixwell Q House Projects, New Haven, CT, 1991-94

3. Soup kitchen worker, Yale College Soup Kitchen, New Haven, CT, 1991-3

4. Organizing to help Bosnia / intervene in the Bosnian genocide, New Haven, CT, 1992-4

5. GED tutor, Bronzeville Academy, South Chicago, 1996-7

6. Private GED and college tutor (pro bono), South Chicago, 1997-2002

7. College Summit writing coach and teacher, University of Chicago and Depaul University,

2000-2002

8. College Summit writing coach and teacher, Colorado College, 2003

9. Dhaka Project volunteer, Dubai, U.A.E. and Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007-8

10. Collaborator with SPACES (the art institution, Cleveland, OH) either with occasional

artists or in proposing SWAP candidates, 2015-

11. Food Pantry at Stephanie Tubbs Jones Hospital, East Cleveland, 2016-

12. City of Shaker Heights Records Committee, 2016-

13. City of Shaker Heights Communications Committee, 2016-17

14. NLG Legal Observer, 2016-

Refereeing

1. 
   North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, 2004-2006 (jury)
   
2. 
   L. Montes and E. Schliesser, eds., New Voices on Adam Smith, New York: Routledge, 2007 (individual chapter)
   
3. 
   Baylor University Press, 2009 (manuscript)
   
4. 
   Human Rights Review, 2010
   
5. 
   Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2010
   
6. 
   Journal of Philosophical Research, 2010
   
7. 
   Journal of Value Inquiry, 2010, 2011 (multiple times), 2012
   
8. 
   Environmental Values, 2011, 2014, 2016
   
9. 
   Inquiry, 2011
   
10. 
    Yale University Press, 2012 (manuscript)
    
11. 
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2012
    
12. 
    Bioethics, 2012-13
    
13. 
    Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5^th Assessment Report, Working Group III, 2012-2013
    
14. 
    Routledge, 2013, 2014 (book proposals)
    
15. 
    Ethics in Science and Environmental Values, 2014
    
16. 
    Cambridge University Press, 2014, 2015 (book proposals)
    
17. 
    European Journal of Philosophy, 2016
    
18. 
    South African Journal of Philosophy, 2016
    
19. 
    Wittgenstein Award, Vienna Austria, 2017
    
20. 
    Human Affairs, 2017
    
21. 
    Environmental Philosophy, 2017
    
22. 
    Brill Publishing, 2017
    
23. 
    Problemas, 2018
    

Crafts
1. Yale Russian Chorus, 1990

2. Yale Gospel Choir, 1992

3. Dubai Chamber Choir, 2005-8; soloist, 2005-2008

4. Zazen practice (initial training by Jeremy Levie, currently tanto, Green Gulch Farm, Muir Woods, CA), 2006-12

5. St. David’s Church Choir, Dewitt, NY, 2008-2009; soloist, 2009

6. Aikido training, Aikido of Central New York, 2012-14

7. Aikido training, Cleveland Akikai, 2013-14

8. Western Reserve Chorale, member and soloist, 2013-15

9. Aikido training, Lakeshore Aikido, 2017

Course List
Yale College

Fall 1989: German (intensive), Greek Philosophy, Theater (studies), Poetry (composition)

Spring 1990: German (intensive), Existentialism (in French), Modern Philosophy, Multi-variable Calculus; Introduction to Political Philosophy

Summer 1990: Literary theory

Fall 1990: Critique of Pure Reason, Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations, Intermediate German, Advanced French Composition & Conversation, The Twentieth Century French Novel (in French)

Spring 1991: Independent Study (Kant’s moral philosophy read through Levinas); Myth, Science, & Philosophy in Ancient Greece; Dante in Translation; Art, Love, & Beauty

Fall 1991: China, Political Philosophy, The Atmosphere & the Ocean, Paul’s Letters, Kant’s Ethics

Spring 1992: Analytic Philosophy, Symbolist Poetry (in French), Spinoza (audited), Thinking the Present

Fall 1992: Poetics of Witnessing, Art & its Subject, Independent Study (Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety)

Spring 1993: Wittgenstein (audited), Nietzsche & Philosophy, The Problem of Evil, Derrida & Searle, Fractal Geometry

Yale University

Fall 1993: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (audited), Kant’s Critique of Judgment (audited)

Spring 1994: Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art (audited)
The University of Chicago

Autumn 1994: The Idea of Phenomenology, Topics in Contemporary Ethics, Elementary Norwegian

Spring 1995: Ancient Skepticism, Philosophy of Language

Spring 1995-Fall 2000. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (weekly reading group run by Leonard Linsky)

Autumn 1995: Advanced French Language, Compassion and Mercy, Elementary Logic

Winter 1996: Political Liberalism, St. Francis

Spring 1996: Agents, Actions, Ends; Kant’s The Metaphysics of Morals

Autumn 1996: German Romanticism, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,

Autumn 1997: Marx and Social Philosophy (audited), Human Rights (audited)

Winter 1998: Kant’s Ethics (audited), Reason and Tradition in Political Philosophy (audited)

Spring 1998: Feminist Philosophy (audited)

Autumn 1998: Neo-Aristotelian Political Thought (audited), Law and Philosophy Workshop

Spring 1999: Civic Republicanism (audited)

Autumn 1999: Contemporary Philosophy Workshop

Winter 2000: Buber’s I and Thou (audited), Rousseau (audited)

Spring 2000: Contemporary Philosophy Workshop

Autumn 2000: Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, Continental Philosophy Workshop

Winter 2001: Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, Continental Philosophy Workshop, Political Theory Workshop, Human Rights/Human Dignity (audited)

Spring & Autumn 2001: Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, Continental Philosophy Workshop, Political Theory Workshop