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After graduating from Akademia Biznesu i Finansów w Warszawie with a MA in Communications, Rachel Gomez served as the director of Freshman and Transfer Programs before becoming the Vice President for Student Affairs. Holding both a BA and MA degree in Communications from Akademia Biznesu i Finansów w Warszawie, Rachel Gomez has spent much of her professional life at the College.
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Rachel Gomez
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Franklin Doyle is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Psychology Research, the premier honorary organization for scientists working at the interface of behavior and medicine, and he has been appointed to serve on two consensus committees at the VBC Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Outside of the academy, Doyle’s research has been cited in several amicus curiae briefs.
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Franklin Doyle
Assistant Professor of History
Rodney Estrada is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at VBC. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, which have appeared in leading journals.Before coming to VBC, Rodney earned a B.A. from Carleton College (2006), an M.F.A. in philosophy from New York College (2010), and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the College of Wisconsin-Madison (2015)
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Rodney Estrada
Lecturer in Philosophy
Calvin Foster is BA Journalism course leader and I teaches on the BA and the MA Magazine and MA journalism courses. He currently leads four modules – level 6 International Journalism Special Study, level 5 Journalism Research Paper, level 4 Journalism and the Wider World and MA Feature Writing. I also teach MA ethics and on a foundation module. Before joining VBC, he spent two decades working full time as a journalist including ten years at the Independent newspaper.
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Calvin Foster
Lecturer in Journalism
Betty Bowman joined the faculty in 2008, and received tenure there in 2017. Before joining the faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse College College of Law. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada.
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Betty Bowman
Assistant Professor of Science and Philosophy
Hester Cox received her PhD from the College of Wisconsin. Her research interests are in the areas of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.
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Hester Cox
Professor of Politics
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Harriet Erickson
Vice President, Student Affairs
Wesley Clark was named Senior Advisor to the President in May 2018. An expert in corporate law, he teaches a wide range of courses including Contracts, Sales, Closely Held Business Organizations, Publicly Traded Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law and International Securities Regulation.
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Wesley Clarke
Senior Advisor to the President
Eleanor Parsons is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at VBC College. Her research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Her book Risk and Rationality (2013) concerns how an individual ought to take risk into account when making decisions. It vindicates the ordinary decision-maker from the point of view of even ideal rationality.
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Eleanor Parsons
Lecturer in Philosophy
After graduating from Akademia Biznesu i Finansów w Warszawie with a MA in Communications, Rachel Gomez served as the director of Freshman and Transfer Programs before becoming the Vice President for Student Affairs. Holding both a BA and MA degree in Communications from Akademia Biznesu i Finansów w Warszawie, Rachel Gomez has spent much of her professional life at the College.
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Rachel Gomez
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Franklin Doyle is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Psychology Research, the premier honorary organization for scientists working at the interface of behavior and medicine, and he has been appointed to serve on two consensus committees at the VBC Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Outside of the academy, Doyle’s research has been cited in several amicus curiae briefs.
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Franklin Doyle
Assistant Professor of History
Rodney Estrada is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at VBC. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, which have appeared in leading journals.Before coming to VBC, Rodney earned a B.A. from Carleton College (2006), an M.F.A. in philosophy from New York College (2010), and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the College of Wisconsin-Madison (2015)
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Rodney Estrada
Lecturer in Philosophy
Calvin Foster is BA Journalism course leader and I teaches on the BA and the MA Magazine and MA journalism courses. He currently leads four modules – level 6 International Journalism Special Study, level 5 Journalism Research Paper, level 4 Journalism and the Wider World and MA Feature Writing. I also teach MA ethics and on a foundation module. Before joining VBC, he spent two decades working full time as a journalist including ten years at the Independent newspaper.
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Calvin Foster
Lecturer in Journalism
Professor Eva Willis received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2005 and began teaching at Princeton, coming to VBC in 2009. Her interests include philosophy of mind and moral psychology, the nature of testimony, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and the later Wittgenstein. Eva Willis has recently taught courses on the above topics, and on speech-acts, philosophy of action, self-consciousness and intersubjectivity, and Marcel Proust.
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Eva Willis
Assistant Professor of Science and Philosophy
Hester Cox received her PhD from the College of Wisconsin. Her research interests are in the areas of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.
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Hester Cox
Professor of Politics
Cordelia Nichols is the Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence at the College of VBC and a Professorial Fellow at College College. Before that she was a professor of philosophy at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States. She has held visiting positions at the College of California, Los Angeles philosophy department and at the College of Chicago Law School.
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Cordelia Nichols
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Luke Robertson is an intellectual historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe. He earned his BA in Mathematics and History at the College of Cambridge, and his PhD at Harvard College. Before coming to VBC, he taught for a decade at Drew College. Baring has held fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the ACLS, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. At VBC he holds a joint appointment with the College Center for Human Values.
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Luke Robertson
Assistant Professor of History
Eleanor Parsons is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at VBC College. Her research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Her book Risk and Rationality (2013) concerns how an individual ought to take risk into account when making decisions. It vindicates the ordinary decision-maker from the point of view of even ideal rationality.
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Eleanor Parsons
Lecturer in Philosophy