Want to know what some of your honors faculty members are doing now? Read all about them:

Mary Cayton (pictured left)
Fond memory : My two first-year seminars on “American Spirituality.”  I loved getting to know the students and following them over the course of their years here.

What I’m doing now : Currently I’m chairing the Department of History and teaching History and American Studies.  I’m looking forward to a trip to Portugal this summer.

Rick Momeyer

Fond memory : The seminar on Reinventing Honors with 18 Honors students in the fall of 1999 was a distinct highlight. The students did extraordinary work in philosophy of (higher) education, and extensive empirical research on what was happening in other honors programs at peer institutions. Their good work went a very long way towards shaping the strong program we have today.

What I’m doing now : I ask myself that, probably too frequently, as it is something of an occupational/philosophical hazard. In Honors I have much enjoyed teaching a seminar on "What is the Best Life?" in which students engage film, literature and philosophy to sort out the strengths and limitations of four distinctly different approaches on how to live: hedonistic, aesthetic, spiritual and ethical. Otherwise, I will be on leave for the entire 2008-09 academic year, writing a book with the working title "Valuing Life and Choosing Death." In the fall I shall do this as a Visiting Scholar in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University, and in the Spring, as a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at St. Andrews University in Scotland. After that, I'll have to ask the question still again, but at the very least I will teach full time, and write part time, for another year as a faculty member at Miami.