With over twenty years of college-level teaching experience, including tutoring, lecturing, course prep and assessment, BJ has been consistently highly recommended by students and supervisors alike. She has been noted for innovation as well as exemplary interaction with students and consistent effort towards encouraging student success in the classroom and beyond. Her current work focuses on applied social epistemology, including deception and meaning manipulation, analyzing social and individual belief formation and their impact on ethics and politics. Relevant papers include discussions on moral psychology and its role in political debates over human rights. Recent work is focused primarily on the need for and character of intellectual honesty in public, private, and academic discourse.Specializations PHILOSOPHY: philosophy of language, deception analysis (theory of deceptive and other subversive communication acts), history of analytic philosophy, and metaphysics; with competencies in ethics, logics, Ancient Greek thought, Early Modern thought, German Idealism, and epistemologyOTHER: Strengths coaching, respectful dialogue and negotiation, spirituality and hermeneutics, short fiction, lyric and structured verse, Christian theologies, human rights and religious thought, composition, English for nonnative speakers, critical thinking across the humanities, world religions, Great Works curricula, photography and photojournalism.STRENGTHS: Context | Intellection | Learner | Responsibility | Input