Areas of Interest: Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Augustine, Philosophy for Children
Email: ekenyon@friendsacademy1810.org
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University (Classics: Joint Program in Ancient Philosophy) 2012
Dissertation: Augustine and the Dialogue
M.A. University of Vermont (Greek & Latin) 2004
Thesis: The Trinitarian Doctrine of Boethius in Light of the Problem of Universals
B.A. University of Vermont, magna cum laude (Philosophy, Greek & Music) 2002
Honors Thesis: A Commentary on the Mystical Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius
Phi Beta Kappa; Eta Sigma Phi; John Dewey Honors Program
Employment
Friends Academy, N. Dartmouth, MA, Latin and Humanities Teacher (2020-present)
Rollins College, Director of Student and Faculty Engagement for the Evening Program
Affiliated Faculty in Classical Studies & Philosophy (2016-2020)
Rollins College, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy & Classical Studies (2013-16)
Rollins College, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy & Classical Studies (2012-13)
Books
Ethics for the Very Young: A Philosophical Curriculum for Early Childhood Education, Diane Terorde-Doyle & Sharon Carnahan, co-authors (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
Augustine and the Dialogue (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Articles & Chapters
"P4C & Community-Engaged Pedagogy," Intentional Disruptions, ed. Stephen Kekoa Miller (Vernon Press, 2021) 35-48.
"Socrates at the Wrestling School," Athletics, Gymnastics, and Agon in Plato, ed. Heather Reid et al. (Parnassos Press, 2020) 51-66.
"Philosophy at the Gym," (National Teaching and Learning Forum 2020) 29/6, 6-8.
“In teaching philosophy to preschoolers, college students aim to mend breakdown in civic discourse” Sharon Carnahan & Diane Terorde-Doyle, co-authors (Education Dive, June 13, 2019).
“Bringing Undergraduates to Preschool: An Ethics Course for the Very Young,” Big Students, Little Kids, and Picture Books, ed. Thomas Wartenberg (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) 1-16.
“From Augustine to Eriugena” Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics, ed. Thomas Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2018) 9-31.
“Review of Joseph Pucci, Augustine’s Virgilian Retreat,” Augustinian Studies 49:1 (2018) 162-169.
“Art & Dialogue: An Experiment in Pre-K Philosophy,” Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, Diane Terorde-Doyle, co-author 37:2 (2017) 26-35.
“The Three R’s of Thinking: Nurturing Discussion in Preschools,” ASCD Express, Diane Terorde-Doyle, co-author 12:10 (2017).
"Platonic Pedagogy in Augustine’s Dialogues” Ancient Philosophy 34:1 (2014) 151-168.
“Augustine and the Liberal Arts,” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 12:1 (2012) 105-113.
“The Order of Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues,” Augustinian Studies 42:2 (2011) 173-188.
Translations
“Boethius, De Trinitate” (translation, 2004). http://pvspade.com/Logic/index.html
“Boethius, Utrum Pater” (translation, 2004). http://pvspade.com/Logic/index.html
Media Coverage & Awards
“Rollins College Teaches Ethics for Children” Fox 35 Orlando (2019)
“Rollins College teachers develop children’s ethics, philosophy class” WKMG News 6 Orlando (2019)
ASCD Express 10 Best Articles of 2017 (ASCD Express 13:8, 2017 for “The Three R’s of Thinking”)
“A Philosophy Day in the Neighborhood” Winter Park Magazine, Summer 2019
“Course Spotlight: Teaching Philosophy to Kids” Rollins 360 (2016)
Student Government Association Outstanding Faculty Award, Rollins College (2015)
Professor of Excellence, Rollins College (awarded to two faculty by the first-year class, 2014-15)
Philosophy Courses
Skepticism (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, 2014)
Medieval Philosophy: Dialogues on God & Happiness (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, 2014)
Philosophy for Kids (First-Year Seminar, 2015; Foundations in the Liberal Arts, Humanities, 2016)
Introduction to Ethical Theory (2013 & 2014)
Evil (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, 2013)
Hot for God: Augustine’s Confessions (First-Year Seminar, 2013)
Ancient Philosophy Survey (2012)
Socrates: What is the good life? (First-Year Writing Seminar, 2008)
Classics Courses
Advanced Latin: Boethius (2015), Plautus & Seneca (2016), Apuleius (2017), Augustine (2018)
Introductory Greek (Independent Study, 2013-2015)
Intermediate Latin: Lucretius (2013), Pliny (2014), Catullus (2014), Ovid (2015)
Religious Intolerance in Late Antiquity (Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, 2013)
Greek Mythology (2012 & 2015)
Greek Tragedy (First-Year Writing Seminar, 2011)
Summer Intensive Latin (with Prof. Michael Fontaine, 2010 & 2011)
Introductory Latin (2009, 2011 & 2012)
Humanities / Interdisciplinary Courses
Introduction to Liberal Studies (with Diane Doyle, David Telleria & Patricia Simmons 2017-18)
Virtue In Civic Education (Foundations in the Liberal Arts, Humanities, 2016)
Early Medieval Ethics (Master of Liberal Arts Seminar, 2016)
Philosophy at the Gym (Foundations in the Liberal Arts, Humanities, 2016, 2017; Humanities 2018)
Greek Initiation (Foundations in the Liberal Arts, Humanities, 2015 & 2016)
Liberal Arts Education in the U.S. (with Prof. Lisa Ryan Musgrave, 2015-2017)
Socrates & the Art of Living (Foundations in the Liberal Arts, Humanities, 2015)
Theater of Ideas (with Prof. Thomas Ouellette, theater; Honors First-Year Seminar, 2014, 2018)
Thinking about Thinking (Honors Senior Seminar, co-taught with Prof. Lisa Ryan Musgrave, 2013)
Community Engagement Partners (working with local schools to introduce philosophy to children)
St. Margaret Mary School, after-school program, Winter Park, FL (grades 2-4, 2017-2018)
Winter Park Day Nursery (age 4, 2016-)
Walden Community School, Winter Park, FL (grades 1-6, 2015-2016)
Rollins Child Development and Student Research Center, Winter Park, FL (ages 3-5, 2015-)
Fern Creek Elementary School, Orlando, FL (grades 4 & 5, 2015)
Thesis Supervision
Keenan Smith, “Secondary Orality Revisited” (Adviser, 2018)
Fritz Engel, “The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics” (Committee Member, 2018)
Morgan McConnell, “Modern Mysticism: A Collection of Short Stories” (Committee Member, 2018)
Robert Secrist, “A Practical Model of Sports Fan Classification” (Committee Member, 2018)
Olivia Baquerizo, “Roman Metapoetics: Vates in Early Christian Poetry” (Adviser, 2017)
Mollie Jones, “Philosophy of Liberal Arts Education” (Adviser, 2015)
Marcus Vu, “Urbanitas in Catullan Literature” (MLS Thesis Committee Member, 2015)
Victor Villatoro, “Pyrrhonism and Scientific Realism” (Adviser, 2015)
Chandler Armistead, “Parameters of Moral Responsibility” (Committee Member, 2015)
Alex Earl, “Sex, Love & Suffering: A Biblical View of Love” (Adviser, 2014)
Calli Singleton, “Punishment of the Mentally Ill” (Committee Member, 2014)
Conference Papers & Presentations
“Theater of Ideas,” Thomas Ouellette, co-presenter (2019); PLATO Conference, Rollins College
“Taking the LEAP: Infusing Community Engagement in General Ed” (2018); AAC&U’s “Global Engagement and Spaces of Practice” Seattle, WA
“How Low Can You Go: An Experiment in Pre-K Philosophy” (2017); PLATO Conference, University of Chicago
“Unity in Augustine’s Dialogues: A new reading of De ordine” (2015); XVII. International Conference on Patristics Studies, Oxford, UK
“Skepticism is not the Enemy: Methodology in Augustine’s Dialogues” (2013); Society of Christian Philosophers, American Philosophical Association Meeting, Baltimore, MD
“Reading Scripture in Augustine's De Trinitate” (2011); The Philosophy of Mind in Augustine's De Trinitate, University of Bonn, Germany
“The Skeptic's Progress: Reordering Augustine's Early Dialogues” (2011); American Philological Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX
“(Skeptical) Academics and the Surprise Ending of Augustine's Contra Academicos” (2010); American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA
“Mothers of Infants & Fathers of the Church: Consensus Arguments in Augustine’s C. Iulianum”; Patristic, Medieval, Renaissance Conference, Villanova University (2007)
“Miracles and Persuasion in Augustine” (2007); Religious Authority in the Ancient Mediterranean, University of Buffalo
Invited Presentations
Graduation Keynote Address (2018); Socrates Preparatory School, Casselberry, Florida
“Teaching Children Philosophically” (2016); Walden Community School, Orlando, Florida
“Eternal Law & Contemporary Politics: An Augustinian Argument for Same-Gender Marriage” (2015); Philosophy & Religion Club, Rollins College
Response to Isabelle Bochet, “Consentire sapientiae: Going Beyond Skepticism in C. Acad.” (2015); Townsend Lecture, Cornell University
“Why Study Evil?” (2014); Philosophy & Religion Club, Rollins College
“Platonic Pedagogy in Augustine’s Dialogues” (2013); Friends of Minerva, Rollins College
“The role of renovatio in Augustine's project: Trin. 14.22-23” (2011); The Philosophy of Mind in Augustine's De Trinitate, King’s College, London, UK
“Shortcuts to Wisdom: Liberal Study in Augustine's De ordine” (2011); Classics Department Colloquium Series, Cornell University
“Bach's Hercules Cantata (BWV 213)” (2011); Greek Initiation (Prof. Pietro Pucci), Cornell University
“Woman and the Imago Dei: Trin. 12.9-12” (2009); The Philosophy of Mind in Augustine's De Trinitate, Cornell University
“Response to Iakovos Vasiliou, The Immateriality of the Soul in Plato’s Phaedo” (2008); Cornell Philosophy Graduate Student Speaker Series
Augustine Lectio (annual workshop dedicated to the works of Augustine, 2003-2010); University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Vermont; Cornell University
“UVM's Fisk Organ and the Physics of Sound” (2002); Physics of Music (Prof. Malcolm Sanders), University of Vermont
Service
National Middle School Ethics Bowl Committee (2020-)
PLATO Education Committee (2019-)
Rollins College Curriculum Committee (Holt School Representative, 2019-)
PLATO Conference Committee (Committee Member & Campus Host, 2019)
Holt School Curriculum Revision & Implementation (Committee Member, 2018-)
Search Committee for Library Director (Committee Member, 2017)
Search Committee for Assistant Director of Fraternity & Sorority Life (Committee Member, 2017)
Rollins Powerlifting Club (Faculty Adviser, 2016- )
Rollins College Retention Committee (Member, 2016-)
Rollins College Philosophy & Religion Club (Faculty Adviser, 2014-17)
Rollins College Canterbury Club (Faculty Advisor & Organist, 2013-15)
Cornell Classics Graduate Student Colloquium (Planning Committee Chair, 2009)
Cornell Classics Department (Graduate Representative, 2008-2009)
Episcopal Church at Cornell (Chaplain Search Committee Member, 2008-2009)
Villanova University, “Patristics, Medieval, Renaissance Conference” (Panel Organizer, 2007)
University of Vermont Lane Series (Executive Board Member, 2000-2002)
Engagement Efforts (working with Rollins’ Evening Program, 2016-present)
Organizing courses for STARS Senior Enrichment Program
Taskforce for revising Undergraduate Curriculum
Organizing Professional Development for Adjunct Faculty
Course Design Workshops
Fall and Spring Adjunct Faculty Retreats
120+ Teaching Videos keyed to different points in term
Organize social / cultural events for off-campus students
Languages: English, Latin, Greek, German, French