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Robert McKim

Curriculum Vitae

Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity

Current Research Interests

Current Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

B.A. Trinity College Dublin, 1975

M.A. University of Calgary, 1977

Ph.D. Yale University, 1982

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Instructor, (part-time), University of New Haven, 1978-81

Instructor, (part-time), Yale Divinity School, Fall 1981

Instructor, Wesleyan University, Fall 1981

Instructor, University of Calgary, Spring 1982

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982-83

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, University of Illinois at

Urbana- Champaign, 1983-1989

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, Campus Honors Faculty,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-2002.

Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, Campus Honors Faculty, University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-

Visiting Professor of Philosophy and of Environmental Studies, North South University,

Dhaka, Bangladesh, Summers of 1994,1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001.

Director, Program for the Study of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

2005-8

Head, Department of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-10

AREAS OF INTEREST

Philosophy of Religion

Applied Ethics (esp. environmental ethics)

History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Berkeley)

COURSES TAUGHT

Philosophy of Religion (all levels from introductory undergraduate to graduate seminars)

Religious Diversity

Contemporary Religious Thought

Religious Ethics

War and Ethics

War, Religion and Society

Religion and Ecology

Religion, Ethics and the Environment

Religion and Science

Religion and Philosophy

Religion, Science, and Society (team-taught)

Science, Ethics and Sustainability (team-taught)

Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes to Kant)

Berkeley (graduate seminar)

Locke and Berkeley (upper level undergraduate and graduate seminar)

Moral Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Environmental Ethics

Development Ethics (team-taught)

Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy of Human Nature

Numerous theses supervised. (Ph.D. dissertations, M.A. theses, and Senior essays.)

CURRENT DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND THEIR PROJECTS

John Evers (Philosophy) Berkeley

Michael Scoville (Philosophy) Environmental Ethics and Development Ethics

Jeff Thibert (Educational Policy Studies) Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Philosophy of Islamic

Education and the Facilitation of Autonomy

Additional doctoral committees:

Joe Diminick (Philosophy) The Application of Just War criteria to American Military Rules

of Engagement

Nathan Raybeck (Educational Policy Studies) Pedagogical Implications of Biblical

Interpretation

Sara Shrader (Educational Policy Studies) "Reasons for Religion: A Philosophical Analysis

of the Inclusion of Religion in Public Schools"

HONORS AND AWARDS

Visiting Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1982.

NEH

College of Liberal Arts "Study in a Second Discipline" Award in support of work in the

history of 17th and 18th Century science, University of Illinois, Spring 1998.

Templeton Foundation Course Development Award, 1997. For preparing an undergraduate

course on historical and contemporary aspects of the relation between religion and

science. I also received an additional Templeton Foundation/CTNS grant to bring speakers

to the University of Illinois during the Fall of 1998.

Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, Research Board, University of Illinois, Spring 1998.

Educator Prize from The Humanist Magazine, in connection with the national 2005 Humanist

Essay Contest. June, 2005.

Resident Associate at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, 2006-07.

Courses voted as "excellent" by students at the University of Illinois on numerous

occasions, most recently Spring, 2008 for Religious Studies 562/Philosophy 521, a graduate

seminar; also Spring, 2009 for Religious Studies 424/Philosophy 424.

PUBLICATIONS

Robert McKim Christianity and Religious Pluralism in Theology for Today, Volume 1

(Dublin: The Priory Institute, 2007) (prepared for BA distance learning programme,

accredited University of Wales, Lampeter), 53-106.

Robert McKim A Path to (and beyond) Tolerance in Religious Tolerance through Humility:

Thinking with Philip Quinn co-edited by David Basinger and James Kraft (Ashgate, 2008), 75-

84.

Robert McKim On Religious Ambiguity Religious Studies Volume 44, Number 4, 373-392,

December 2008.

Robert McKim Responding to Religious Diversity: Some Possible Directions for the

Interfaith Youth Core Journal of College and Character, 11(1), Art. 9. DOI: 10.2202/1940-

1639.1012 February, 2010. Available at: http://journals.naspa.org/jcc/vol11/iss1/9

Robert McKim Cooking with Philip Quinn forthcoming in International Journal for

Philosophy of Religion. Available at:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/a5g8366l4mvx6r10/

Robert McKim "Environment and Ecology in Religions" forthcoming in International

Encyclopedia of Ethics Hugh LaFollette, Editor-in-Chief (Wiley-Blackwell), 2011.

Robert McKim Pluralism and Evil for new book on the problem of evil from Acumen Press,

edited by Jerome Gellman

Reviews

Conference, University College Dublin, July 1999.

Resolving Religious Conflicts Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security,

University of Illinois, March, 2000

Development Ethics and Environmental Ethics Women and Gender in Global Perspectives

Conference on Rights and Risks in the 21st Century, University of Illinois, October, 2000.

Also presented to the University of Illinois Environmental Ethics Discussion Group,

February, 2001.

The Varieties of Agnostic Faith Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois,

March, 2001.

The Value of Nature Ecological Restoration Roundtable, College of ACES, University of

Illinois, February, 2003.

The War in Iraq and the Role of the Churches The Wednesday Forum, University of

Illinois, September, 2003.

A Philosophical Approach to Religion in a Globalizing Age Newman Institute, Ballina,

Ireland. December, 2004.

Approaches to Other Religions that Promote Peacemaking Plowshares Peace Academy,

Manchester College/Goshen College/Earlham College Consortium, June 2005.

Varieties of Religious Inclusivism Educational Policy Studies and Program for the Study

of Religion, University of Illinois, April, 2008.

Environmental Problems and Moral Depth at the STEWARDship ( Sustaining the Earth with

Allied Religious Denominations ) Workshop, Urbana, IL, June, 2008.

Varieties of Salvific Inclusivism at the American Academy of Religion (Midwest), April

2009.

Sustainability: Alternative Visions and Goals at the Campus Series on the Scholarship

of Sustainability, U of Illinois, Feb., 2010.

Sustainability: Nonhuman Life at the Campus Series on the Scholarship of

Sustainability, U of Illinois, April, 2010.

On Comparing Religions Keynote address at the International Summer Institute on

Teaching World Religions, Urbana, IL, June, 2010.

On Some Varieties of Salvific Inclusivism Keynote address at International Conference

on Religion and Spirituality in Society, University Center, Chicago, February, 2011

REFEREEING and MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS

Member, Executive Committee, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International

Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois, 1990-1998 and 2003 - 2005. Member of the Search

Committee for a new Director of ACDIS, Spring, 2005.

Mentor, Minority Mentoring Program, University of Illinois, 1991-1993.

Chair, interdisciplinary discussion group on animal welfare, Program for the Study of

Cultural Values and Ethics, University of Illinois, 1990-91.

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, interdisciplinary discussion group on ethics and the

environment, Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, University of Illinois,

1991-94. Regular participant from 1994 present.

Co-Organizer (with Jeff McMahan) of conference on the morality of nationalism. Program

for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, 1994. Funding from the John D. and Catherine

T. MacArthur Foundation, The United States Institute of Peace, the Midwest Consortium for

International Security Studies, the University of Illinois, the Carnegie Council, and the

Council for European Studies at Columbia University.

Co-organizer, 1993-6, (with Gary Comstock, Iowa State University) of the Bioethics

Institute at the University of Illinois, a series of seminars in environmental ethics for

scientists. Funding from the USDA, NSF, and the Colleges of Agriculture, Liberal Arts and

Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois.

Member, University of Illinois Task Force on Environmental Education, Undergraduate

Education Sub-Committee, 1993-4.

Member, Advisory Committee, Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics,

University of Illinois, 1994-6.

Participant in "Faculty Friend" program in Student Residence Halls, 1994-6.

Fall, 2000 Member, University of Illinois (joint-campus) Committee to Advise the State

Government of Illinois on Human Cloning, 2000-2001. Committee organized by Therese

McGuire, IGP/UI and Tom Ulen, Law/UIUC. Work produced: Report to the Illinois State

Assembly on Scientific, Ethical, Religious and Legal aspects of Human Cloning. Co-authored

with Don Chambers, Ellen Deason, Therese McGuire, Tim Murphy and Tom Ulen. (Institute of

Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 2001) 49pp.

Faculty Affiliate, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at the University of

Illinois, 2000-2006.

Faculty Coordinator, University of Illinois Study Abroad Program in Bangladesh (Summers

of 1998, 2000, 2001).

With Professor Walter Feinberg (Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois)

I have assisted with the design, creation, and coordination of a new doctoral program in

Educational Policy Studies and Religious Studies, 2002-

Numerous committees (including Placement, Search Committees, Director of Undergraduate

Studies, Advising) in both of my units at the University of Illinois, committees at the

College level, and University-wide committees.

Various talks to community groups, churches, and the media, in Illinois, in other parts

of the U.S., and in other countries. (This includes contributions to debate in Iran about

religion and pluralism through regular invited contributions to the Iranian Student News

Agency during 2003-04. http://www.isna.ir/ )

Member of the Board of Governors of the University Y, Urbana, Illinois, 2000-2005. In

2002 I received the J. Fredrick Miller Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service from the

University of Illinois YMCA

Member, Environmental Council, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005 2008.

Co-Chair (with Professor Michelle Wander, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)

Campus Forum Task Force on Sustainability, Office of Sustainability, 2009- .

Editorial board, Brill series on philosophy of religion and world religions. 2009- Chief

editor: Jerome Gellman.

Advisor for the John Templeton Foundation Intellectual Humility Initiative. March, 2010.

NEH Panelist, Spring 2011 (for 2011-12).

ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS

Department of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3080 Foreign

Languages Building, 707 South Mathews, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. 217-***-****

Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, l05 Gregory Hall,

810 S. Wright St., Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. 217-***-**** or 217-***-****

e-mail: ******@********.***

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