The commitment to understand psychopathology and offer proposals to enhance human flourishing that inspires my research also motivates my work as a teacher. I am honored to be recognized in a number of Teaching Awards:
2018- 2019 Honoree of “Professor of the Game” Recognition, University of Texas at San Antonio
Each year UTSA Student athletes nominate professors that they feel have left a positive mark on their lives. Honored professors are recognized as “Professor of the Game” at a UTSA team game.
2015-2016 Honoree of the most inspirational faculty member recognition by one of the Daemen College Top Five Student Athletes with the highest GPAs.
Each year five student athletes with the highest GPA’s at Daemen College are invited to a luncheon to celebrate their excellent academic records. Each student invites a faculty member who was inspirational for his or her success. The President and top Academic Affairs leadership congratulate the students and the faculty instrumental in their success.
2014-2015 Honoree of the most inspirational faculty member recognition by two of the Daemen College Top Ten Freshman students.
Each year the ten students with the highest GPA’s in their first year at Daemen are invited to a luncheon to celebrate their excellent academic records. Each student invites a faculty member who was inspirational for his or her success. The President and top Academic Affairs leadership congratulate the students and the faculty instrumental in their success.
2013-2014 Honoree of the most inspirational faculty member recognition by two of the Daemen College Top Ten Freshman students.
Each year the ten students with the highest GPA’s in their first year at Daemen are invited to a luncheon to celebrate their excellent academic records. Each student invites a faculty member who was inspirational for his or her success. The President and top Academic Affairs leadership congratulate the students and the faculty instrumental in their success.
As a professor who is committed to research, I regularly involve my students in my research. I try to collaborate with at least one student on a research project every semester. Some of this work has been supported with Teaching Grants:
2014-2018 TheStudent-Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Think Tank Grant, Daemen College, USA ($3000 per annum)
The Student-Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Think TankGrant at Daemen College supports a select number of faculty members to conduct theoretical and applied research with students.
In my work with students I encourage them develop their strengths as researchers by mentoring them to develop their writing and even publish research papers.
One of my current students, Elise Williams, is working on a paper, entitled, “What is a Good Patient: Insights from Philosophy of Medicine.” She will be presenting this paper at the upcoming National Consortium for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Conference in 2019.
One of my undergraduate students, Gabby Sinnott, wrote a paper, entitled Euthanasia: A Form of Newgenics? under my mentorship and presented her work at the National Consortium for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Conference in 2018. The work has been published in the NCUR proceedings.
A former undergraduate student, Ashley Cheff (currently at Arizona State University, studying law), turned three papers she wrote under my mentorship into oral presentations which were accepted to the National Consortium for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) conferences in 2015 and 2016 –a highly competitive conference that showcases undergraduate research. These papers, entitled “Ethical Implications of Inconclusive Scientific Research on Schizophrenia”, “Mental Illness and Danger: The Negative Implications of this Automatic Association” and “Involuntary Civil Commitment Laws: The Role of Danger” have been published in the NCUR proceedings.
I also co-author with my students. An example of this work is a co-authored review of the book, Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers, by philosopher Nancy Sherman, which is published in January 2016 in Metapsychology Online Reviews.
I taught internationally at various scholarly communities hosting an ethnically diverse populations. Let me highlight my Teaching Experience:
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
2018-2019 MHU 4813 Seminar in Medical Humanities (Spring)
2018-2019 PHI 2123 Contemporary Moral Issues (Spring)
2018-2019 MHU 4813 Seminar in Medical Humanities (Fall)
2018-2019 PHI 5273 Social and Political Philosophy (Fall)
Assistant Professor, Daemen College, USA
2013-2018 PHI 102 Medicine, Culture, and the Self: Introduction to Medical Humanities
2013-2018 PHI 329 Magic and Science: Principles of Scientific Reasoning
2013-2018 PHI 321 Medical Ethics
2013-2016 NUR 614 Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice (Graduate course)
2013-2018 PHI 247 Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry
2013-2018 PHI 110 Philosophical Thinking
2013-2014 PHI 457 Religious and Scientific Views of the World
2013-2014 PHI 232 Ambiguity of Human Experience
Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
2012 Critical Thinking
Instructor, York University, Canada
2008 Mind, Brain, and Self
2007 Philosophy of Psychology
Teaching Assistant, York University, Canada
2010 Social and Political Philosophy (Maloney)
2009 Applied Ethics (King)
2008 Locke, Berkeley, and Hume (Empiricism) (Jopling)
2007 Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (Rationalism) (Jopling)
2007 Human Nature (King)
2007 Social and Political Philosophy (Kompridis)
2007 Introduction to Philosophy (Maclachlan)
2006 Social Introduction to Philosophy (Veltman)
2005 Existentialism (Hattiangadi)
2004 Meaning of Life (Jackman)
Teaching Assistant, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2003 Political Philosophy (Crossley)
2002 Ethics (O’Hagan)
Teaching Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
2001- 2002 Economic History and Civilization 1-2 (Yildirim)