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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 15 --Judaism: History and Beliefs

  Nichole Torbitzky and Don Heidenreich

  Episode 15

  Dr. Nichole Torbitzky discusses the history and beliefs of Judaism.

  Dr. Torbitzky is a professor of philosophy and religion at Lindenwood University. She received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, CA and her Master of Divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. She taught critical thinking at the University of LaVerne before joining the faculty at Lindenwood University in the Philosophy and Religion program in 2014. She teaches courses including World Religions, Islam and the West, Religions of India, Women, Religion, and Violence, and African American Religions. Torbitzky’s research investigates Whiteheadian notions of subjective form as connected to Christ and the internal relations subjective form has on the ordering of eternal objects in the primordial nature of God. She currently contributes to the Process and Faith Lectionary Commentary, looking at the Lectionary texts from a Process theological perspective.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 14- Shakespeare, Part 2

  Don Heidenreich, Kathi Vosevich, and Ana Schnellmann

  Guests: Dr. Ana Schnellmann and Dr. Kathi Vosevich continue their discussion (from episode 7) on the value of understanding Shakespeare and the connection to the modern world.

  Dr. Ana Schnellmann has been teaching at Lindenwood University since 1995. She holds a BA in English from the College of St. Benedict, a MA in English from Ohio University, a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from Ohio University, a PhD in English from St. Louis University, and a MA in Art History from Lindenwood University. Dr. Schnellmann has taught in a plethora of settings ranging from prisons to honors classrooms, from community colleges to Lindenwood. In each setting, Dr. Schnellmann uses her experience, passion for teaching, and expertise to guide students to find their voices and unique styles. A self-proclaimed Shakespeare fanatic, Dr. Schnellmann loves reading, reading about, teaching, and talking about all things Shakespeare.

  Dr. Kathi Vosevich is Founding Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in English, specializing in Shakespeare, with distinction from the University of Denver and her M.A. in English with distinction from St. Louis University, where she also earned her Honors B.A. in English, graduating summa cum laude. She has more than 10 years of senior administration experience and 15 years of teaching experience, as well as over 150 academic and corporate publications, including a monograph on Joseph Heller, a chapter on the Tudor queens, and an award-winning edited textbook. She was also selected to be editor of the Aletheia (one of the nation’s few peer-reviewed journals for undergraduate scholarship) after a nationwide search, and she serves on the executive board of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society. In addition, she has more than 10 years of corporate experience with such companies as Microsoft, Sprint, and Intel.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 13- Art History- What is art and who are we missing?

  Don Heidenreich and James Hutson

  Dr. Hutson is an art historian specializing in early modern Italian art of the Renaissance and Baroque, immersive realities, digital humanities, and gamification of education. He received his BA in Art from the University of Tulsa, MA in Art History from Southern Methodist University, and his PhD in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also received his MA in Leadership from Lindenwood University and is completing his MA in Game Design. He now serves as Department Head of Art History and Visual Culture for the College of Arts and Humanities. His scholarship focuses on the exchange between art, theory and the nature of beauty from 1400-1700 in books and articles, as well as the integration of immersive realities and gamification of education. He belongs to several professional organizations and presents regularly at the College Art Association, Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Society, International Game Developers Association, and Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH).

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 12- Carnegie: A Man and His Money and Image

  Don Heidenreich and Jeffrey Smith

  Guest: Dr. Jeff Smith of the Lindenwood University History Program. Dr. Smith discusses Andrew Carnegie.

  Dr. Jeffrey Smith is Senior Professor of History and author of The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America. He is a cultural historian who writes and speaks about cemeteries and historical deathways, and is a contributor to the Washington Post and the History News Network.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 11- The Value of Art History

  Don Heidenreich and James Hutson

  Dr. Hutson is an art historian specializing in early modern Italian art of the Renaissance and Baroque, immersive realities, digital humanities, and gamification of education. He received his BA in Art from the University of Tulsa, MA in Art History from Southern Methodist University, and his PhD in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also received his MA in Leadership from Lindenwood University and is completing his MA in Game Design. He now serves as Department Head of Art History and Visual Culture for the College of Arts and Humanities. His scholarship focuses on the exchange between art, theory and the nature of beauty from 1400-1700 in books and articles, as well as the integration of immersive realities and gamification of education. He belongs to several professional organizations and presents regularly at the College Art Association, Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Society, International Game Developers Association, and Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH).

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 10- The Philosophy of the Renaissance and Reformation and its significance

  Donald E. Heidenreich and David Brown

  Dr. David Brown discusses the Reformation and English Enlightenment Philosophy.

  Dr. Brown came to Lindenwood in 2000. He shortly thereafter created the B.A. in Philosophy and the Philosophy Department, which he chaired until 2018 when the department was combined with Religion. He has taught philosophy for over 25 years. His primary teaching goal is to give students the tools and information they need to make good decisions and have a good life. Dr. Brown won the Emerson Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 and the 2008 Lindy Award for Best Faculty Show for his World of Faith program broadcast on LUTV.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 9 – US Foreign Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Future

  Don Heidenreich, Marcus Smith, Dale Walton Ph.D., and Brian Arendt

  Dr. Marcus Smith, Dr. Dale Walton and Dr. Brian Arendt discuss US Foreign Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Future.

  “Dr. Marcus” Smith (BA Anderson University, MA University of Cincinnati, Ph.D. Purdue University) is a historian of Modern Middle Eastern and Global history. Born and raised in Ohio, a deployment to Iraq in 2005 with the U.S. Army sparked an interest in the history and cultures of the region which led to subsequent travels in Israel-Palestine and Jordan. Research topics focus on social, political, and cultural relations of minority communities including case studies of Muslim Americans living in Columbus, Ohio 1980s-Present, and the Jewish community in Baghdad, Iraq 1951-Present. His love of history stems from a curiosity about the factors that make for peace or violence in our modern world and is closely linked with social engagement and community service projects.

  Dr. Brian Arendt is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and International Relations at Lindenwood University. He has earned a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in 1993, and also holds a Master’s degree from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Bachelor’s degree from UM-St. Louis. He has taught courses in South Korea, interned at the World Trade Center in St. Louis, and served as an adjunct instructor with Lindenwood, St. Louis University, Washington University, and Concordia University. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including World History, modern Chinese history, traditional Chinese history, the history of Asia, and international politics. He has presented papers on aspects of Chinese history to the Midwest Association of Asian Studies and the Missouri Conference on History. In 2013 he published an article in Lindenwood University’s Confluence journal entitled, “China and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.” He is currently working on a project in modern international relations.

  Dr. C. Dale Walton is associate professor of International Relations at Lindenwood, as well as a senior research fellow with the John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise. Prior to coming to Lindenwood, he taught at the University of Reading (UK) and Missouri State University. Dr. Walton has published three monographs: Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War, and the American Role in the World (2012); Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (2007); and The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam (2002). He also is one of the co-authors of Understanding Modern Strategy, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His academic interests include strategic theory and history, great power politics, and the future of US domestic governance and foreign policy.

  
  

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 8 --Afghanistan

  Don Heidenreich, Marcus Smith, Brian Arendt, and Dale Walton Ph.D.

  Episode 8

  Guests, Dr. Marcus Smith, Dr. Dale Walton and Dr. Brian Arendt, discuss Afghanistan: what happened and what comes next.

  “Dr. Marcus” Smith (BA Anderson University, MA University of Cincinnati, Ph.D. Purdue University) is a historian of Modern Middle Eastern and Global history. Born and raised in Ohio, a deployment to Iraq in 2005 with the U.S. Army sparked an interest in the history and cultures of the region which led to subsequent travels in Israel-Palestine and Jordan. Research topics focus on social, political, and cultural relations of minority communities including case studies of Muslim Americans living in Columbus, Ohio 1980s-Present, and the Jewish community in Baghdad, Iraq 1951-Present. His love of history stems from a curiosity about the factors that make for peace or violence in our modern world and is closely linked with social engagement and community service projects.

  Dr. Brian Arendt is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and International Relations at Lindenwood University. He has earned a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in 1993, and also holds a Master’s degree from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Bachelor’s degree from UM-St. Louis. He has taught courses in South Korea, interned at the World Trade Center in St. Louis, and served as an adjunct instructor with Lindenwood, St. Louis University, Washington University, and Concordia University. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including World History, modern Chinese history, traditional Chinese history, the history of Asia, and international politics. He has presented papers on aspects of Chinese history to the Midwest Association of Asian Studies and the Missouri Conference on History. In 2013 he published an article in Lindenwood University’s Confluence journal entitled, “China and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.” He is currently working on a project in modern international relations.

  Dr. C. Dale Walton is associate professor of International Relations at Lindenwood, as well as a senior research fellow with the John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise. Prior to coming to Lindenwood, he taught at the University of Reading (UK) and Missouri State University. Dr. Walton has published three monographs: Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War, and the American Role in the World (2012); Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (2007); and The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam (2002). He also is one of the co-authors of Understanding Modern Strategy, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His academic interests include strategic theory and history, great power politics, and the future of US domestic governance and foreign policy.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 7 --Shakespeare

  Don Heidenreich, Kathi Vosevich, and Ana Schnellmann

  Episode 7

  Guests: Dr. Ana Schnellmann and Dr. Kathi Vosevich discuss the value of understanding Shakespeare and the connection to the modern world.

  Dr. Ana Schnellmann has been teaching at Lindenwood University since 1995. She holds a BA in English from the College of St. Benedict, a MA in English from Ohio University, a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from Ohio University, a PhD in English from St. Louis University, and a MA in Art History from Lindenwood University. Dr. Schnellmann has taught in a plethora of settings ranging from prisons to honors classrooms, from community colleges to Lindenwood. In each setting, Dr. Schnellmann uses her experience, passion for teaching, and expertise to guide students to find their voices and unique styles. A self-proclaimed Shakespeare fanatic, Dr. Schnellmann loves reading, reading about, teaching, and talking about all things Shakespeare.

  Dr. Kathi Vosevich is Founding Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in English, specializing in Shakespeare, with distinction from the University of Denver and her M.A. in English with distinction from St. Louis University, where she also earned her Honors B.A. in English, graduating summa cum laude. She has more than 10 years of senior administration experience and 15 years of teaching experience, as well as over 150 academic and corporate publications, including a monograph on Joseph Heller, a chapter on the Tudor queens, and an award-winning edited textbook. She was also selected to be editor of the Aletheia (one of the nation’s few peer-reviewed journals for undergraduate scholarship) after a nationwide search, and she serves on the executive board of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society. In addition, she has more than 10 years of corporate experience with such companies as Microsoft, Sprint, and Intel.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 6 --Bilingualism and Translation

  DONALD E. Heidenreich, Justine Pas, Maite Núñez-Betelu Ph.D., and Shenika Harris

  Episode 6

  Guests: Dr. Shenika Harris, Dr. Maite Núñez-Betel and Dr. Justine Pas discuss the value and importance of Bilingualism and Translation in understanding the world.

  Dr. Shenika Harris has been at Lindenwood since 2014, and she primarily teaches courses about Spanish language, Spanish culture, and bilingualism/multilingualism. She has a BA in Psychology and a BA in Spanish from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a MA in Spanish from St. Louis University, and a PhD in Second Language Acquisition with a minor in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She enjoys teaching others to communicate in Spanish, helping them explore the diverse cultures of the world, and helping them understand what it means to be a bilingual/multilingual individual.

  Dr. Maite Núñez-Betelu earned an M.A. In Comparative Literature from West Virginia University and a Ph. D. in Romance Languages from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a Professor of Spanish and teaches courses in Spanish language, culture, history, and literature. She specializes in contemporary Basque women writers, but her research interests include Basque and Hispanic culture as well as contemporary women writers of Spain and Latin America. Other areas of interest are children's literature and crime fiction.

  Dr. Justine Pas earned a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include American ethnic literature, literature of the Holocaust, and translation studies. She has been published in domestic and international scholarly journals as well as in scholarly volumes dedicated to translation theory and practice. She has also earned awards for teaching, including the 2014-2015 President’s Scholar-Teacher Award at Lindenwood University. Her most recent publications include "The Politics of Relay Translation and Language Hierarchies: The Case of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris" and the "Foreword" to a memoir about surviving the Holocaust by Hava Ben-Zvi titled We Who Lived: Two Teenagers in World War II Poland.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 5 --Islam

  Don Heidenreich and Nichole Torbitzky

  Episode 5

  Dr. Nichole Torbitzky discusses the history and beliefs of Islam.

  Dr. Torbitzky is a professor of philosophy and religion at Lindenwood University. She received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, CA and her Master of Divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. She taught critical thinking at the University of LaVerne before joining the faculty at Lindenwood University in the Philosophy and Religion program in 2014. She teaches courses including World Religions, Islam and the West, Religions of India, Women, Religion, and Violence, and African American Religions. Torbitzky’s research investigates Whiteheadian notions of subjective form as connected to Christ and the internal relations subjective form has on the ordering of eternal objects in the primordial nature of God. She currently contributes to the Process and Faith Lectionary Commentary, looking at the Lectionary texts from a Process theological perspective.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 4 --United States and China

  Don Heidenreich, Brian Arendt, and Dale Walton Ph.D.

  Episode 4

  Guests, Dr. Dale Walton and Dr. Brian Arendt, discuss the challenges facing US and Chinese relations in the coming years.

  Dr. Brian Arendt is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and International Relations at Lindenwood University. He has earned a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in 1993, and also holds a Master’s degree from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Bachelor’s degree from UM-St. Louis. He has taught courses in South Korea, interned at the World Trade Center in St. Louis, and served as an adjunct instructor with Lindenwood, St. Louis University, Washington University, and Concordia University. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including World History, modern Chinese history, traditional Chinese history, the history of Asia, and international politics. He has presented papers on aspects of Chinese history to the Midwest Association of Asian Studies and the Missouri Conference on History. In 2013 he published an article in Lindenwood University’s Confluence journal entitled, “China and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.” He is currently working on a project in modern international relations.

  Dr. C. Dale Walton is associate professor of International Relations at Lindenwood, as well as a senior research fellow with the John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise. Prior to coming to Lindenwood, he taught at the University of Reading (UK) and Missouri State University. Dr. Walton has published three monographs: Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War, and the American Role in the World (2012); Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (2007); and The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam (2002). He also is one of the co-authors of Understanding Modern Strategy, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His academic interests include strategic theory and history, great power politics, and the future of US domestic governance and foreign policy.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 3 --Philosophy

  Don Heidenreich and David Brown

  Episode 3

  Guest, Dr. David Brown, discusses the value of classical philosophy for the modern world.

  Dr. Brown came to Lindenwood in 2000. He shortly thereafter created the B.A. in Philosophy and the Philosophy Department, which he chaired until 2018 when the department was combined with Religion. He has taught philosophy for over 25 years. His primary teaching goal is to give students the tools and information they need to make good decisions and have a good life. Dr. Brown won the Emerson Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 and the 2008 Lindy Award for Best Faculty Show for his World of Faith program broadcast on LUTV.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 2 -- Foreign Policy

  DONALD E. Heidenreich, Brian Arendt, and Dale Walton

  Episode 2

  Guests, Dr. Dale Walton and Dr. Brian Arendt, discuss the challenges that face United States foreign policy in the coming years.

  Dr. Brian Arendt is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and International Relations at Lindenwood University. He has earned a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University in 1993, and also holds a Master’s degree from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Bachelor’s degree from UM-St. Louis. He has taught courses in South Korea, interned at the World Trade Center in St. Louis, and served as an adjunct instructor with Lindenwood, St. Louis University, Washington University, and Concordia University. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including World History, modern Chinese history, traditional Chinese history, the history of Asia, and international politics. He has presented papers on aspects of Chinese history to the Midwest Association of Asian Studies and the Missouri Conference on History. In 2013 he published an article in Lindenwood University’s Confluence journal entitled, “China and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.” He is currently working on a project in modern international relations.

  Dr. C. Dale Walton is associate professor of International Relations at Lindenwood, as well as a senior research fellow with the John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise. Prior to coming to Lindenwood, he taught at the University of Reading (UK) and Missouri State University. Dr. Walton has published three monographs: Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War, and the American Role in the World (2012); Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (2007); and The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam (2002). He also is one of the co-authors of Understanding Modern Strategy, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His academic interests include strategic theory and history, great power politics, and the future of US domestic governance and foreign policy.

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  Thinking Aloud, Episode 1 --Historical Memory

  Don Heidenreich and Jeff Smith

  Episode 1

  Guest: Dr. Jeff Smith of the Lindenwood University History Program. Dr. Smith discusses historical memory of the American civil war and its impacts.

  Dr. Jeffrey Smith is Senior Professor of History and author of The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America. He is a cultural historian who writes and speaks about cemeteries and historical deathways, and is a contributor to the Washington Post and the History News Network.