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Center Staff

Current staff of the Center for Dewey Studies
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Matthew J. Brown

Director

Boydston Chair of American Philosophy

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Sunshine (Sunny) Heenen

Graduate Assistant

PhD Candidate in Philosophy; AOS: value theory, social and political philosophy, ethics, feminism, pragmatism. 

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Harrison S. Jackson

Graduate Assistant

PhD Candidate in Philosophy; AOS: process philosophy, social and political philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology. MA in Philosophy, New School for Social Research.

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Keyann Wilson

Graduate Assistant

MA student in Philosophy

Current Visiting Fellows

These scholars are currently visiting the Dewey Center through our Visiting Fellows Program.
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Siwen Yang

Visiting Fellow, September 2025 - February 2026

PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Project: Scientific Knowledge as Niche Construction: An Analysis Grounded in John Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry

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Affiliated Faculty

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Kenneth Stikkers

CDS International Liason, Professor of Philosophy

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Sabrina Starnaman

Assistant Professor of Practice in Philosophy

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Nicholas Guardiano

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Alwin C. Carus Archivist, Special Collections Research Center

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Kristen Cameron

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education and Curriculum & Instruction

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Previous Directors

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Larry Hickman

Director 1993-2015

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Jo Ann Boydston

Director, 1966-1992

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George E. Axtelle

Director, 1961-1965

Former Staff and Graduate Assistants

(The following list is a work in progress.)

  • Andrii Leonov, Graduate Assistant 2023-2025
  • Danica Jenck, Graduate Assistant 2023-2025
  • Carlos Garrido, Graduate Assistant 2023-2025
  • Stephen Houchins, Graduate Assistant, 2023-2024
  • Micah Klareich, Graduate Assistant 2023-2024
  • Joshua Grese, Graduate Assistant 2023-2024
  • James Downhour, Assistant to the Director, 2004-2016
  • Paula J.A. McNally, Textual Editor 2002-2017
  • Michael McNally, Textual Editor 2002-?
  • Jean Ohms, Clerk 1999-2016
  • Harriet Furst Simon, Textual Editor 1977-2011
  • Barbara Levine, Textual Editor 1975-2017
  • Anne S. Sharpe, Textual Editor 
  • Cho-Yee To, Graduate Assistant 1964-1967
  • Edward F. McClain, Research Assistant 1961

Former Visiting Fellows

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Fergus Selsdon Games

Visiting Fellow, January - March 2025

PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge

Project: Dewey’s Future: Progress and Democracy in American Thought, 1944-2000

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Jin, Shi

Visiting Scholar, October 2023-October 2024

PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Fudan University

Project: Returning Back to Practical Living Experience: A Comparative Study of Dewey and Heidegger

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Zhang, Nan

Visiting Scholar, May 2022 - May 2023

PhD Candidate in Education, Beijing Normal University

Project: Research on the Relationships between John Dewey's Theories and the Trends of Educational Thoughts in Modern China