Jeffrey Paris
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Jeffrey Paris joined the USF faculty in 2001, and has taught
over twenty different courses in topics ranging from existential
and postmodern philosophy, to imprisonment, to science fiction. He
also taught as a volunteer in the
Prison University
Project, teaching
Introduction to Philosophy and
Ethics to inmate-students
at San Quentin Prison.
In 2005, he was presented with the
Service Learning Merit Award,
and then in 2006 with the
University Distinguished Teaching
Award. In 2012, he received the
College of Arts &
Sciences Full-Time Faculty Service Award.
He has two co-edited volumes -
Liberation between Selves,
Sexualities and War (PDC, 2006) and
New Critical Theory: Essays on
Liberation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) - and over a
dozen journal articles and book chapters. He also co-edited a
special issue of
Peace
Review on
Subcultures and Political
Resistance.
Jeffrey Paris has also served in an executive capacity in the
Peace & Justice
Studies Association, the
Radical Philosophy
Association, the
North American Sartre Society,
and the
North American
Society for Social Philosophy.
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Purdue University, 1998
M.A., Philosophy, Purdue University, 1995
B.A., Philosophy & Religious Studies, Humboldt State University, 1992
Administrative Appointments
Chair, Philosophy Department
Chair, Core Advisory Committee
Research Areas
Critical Theory, Social & Political Philosophy
Existentialism, Postmodern Philosophy
Philosophy of Imprisonment, Philosophy & Science Fiction
Teaching
- (Spring 2013) Phil 402 - Phenomenology
- (Spring 2013) SII 330 - Philosophy, Nature, Wildness
Publications
After the Law of
Peoples. International Journal of Humanistic Studies and
Literature (Special issue dedicated to Philosophy) 8 (Spring
2008).
Abolition Democracy and the Ultimate Carceral Threat. In
Reclaiming Democracy: Visions and Practices from the Radical Left:
Radical Philosophy Today, Volume 5, ed. by Peter Amato and Harry
van der Linden (Virginia, Philosophy Documentation
Center, Fall 2007), n.p.
Decarceration and the Philosophies of Mass Imprisonment.
Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 30,
no. 4 (2007).
American Power and
the Philosophy of World-Systems Analysis. Socialism
& Democracy 20, no. 2 (July, 2006):
103-120.
Philosophy Across Prison Walls. Academic Exchange Quarterly
10, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 185-191.
From Authenticity to Reification: Extension du domaine de la
lutte. Brock Review 9 (2005): 77-94.
Rethinking the End of Modernity: Empire, Hypercapitalism and
Cyberpunk Dystopias. Social Philosophy Today 21 (August
2005): 173-189.
The Black Bloc's Ungovernable Protest. Peace
Review: A Transnational Quarterly 15/3 (Fall 2003):
317-322.
Review Essay: After Rawls. Social Theory &
Practice 28, no. 4 (October 2002): 679-699.
The End of Utopia. Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly
14, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 175-182.
