Curriculum Vitae

Jane Monica Drexler

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Salt Lake Community College
Humanities, Language and Culture Department
4600 South Redwood Road 355 E. Downington Ave
Salt Lake City, UT 84123 Salt Lake City, UT 84115
(801) 957-4438 (541) 760-9782 (cell)
jane.drexler@slcc.edu jane.averybr230@gmail.com

EDUCATION
2004 Ph.D.-Philosophy State University of New York-Binghamton
Politics Improper: Democratic Feminist Political Theory,
Hannah Arendt, and the Political Importance of the
Inappropriate
Dr. Bat-Ami Bar On, Dissertation Chair
Concentrations: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
2000 MA-Philosophy State University of New York-Binghamton
History and Major Subfields of Philosophy
Bat-Ami Bar On, Ph.D., Committee Director
1995 BA-Philosophy Colorado University-Colorado Springs
History of Philosophy/
Post-structural and Postmodern Philosophy
Dorothea Olkowski, Ph.D., Advisor
1992 BA-Communication Colorado University-Colorado Springs
Media Studies/Television and Film Production

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
2007- pres Associate Professor of Philosophy, Salt Lake Community College,
Department of Humanities. 4600 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, UT 84123
(2011 – present)

Awards/Honors
Selected as Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 2020

Participant, National Endowment of Humanities (2018)

Summer Institute on Reviving Philosophy as a Way of Life
Wesleyan University, July 2018

Sabbatical (2016-2017)
Major Projects of Sabbatical
 The Role and Value of Philosophy in General Education
 Philosophy as a Bridge between Humanities and Sciences
 An Integrative Approach to Program Development
 SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award (2016)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Salt Lake Community College,

Department of Humanities, 4600 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake
City, UT 84123. (2007 – 2011)

Awards/Honors/Grants
National Exemplary Course Award, Blackboard (2010)
For online course design, Introduction to Environmental Ethics

Keynote/Award Recipient, Leni Sassower Lecture Award (2008)

“Distorted Appearance and Non-Arrogant Perception: A Critique of
Feminist Theories of Inclusion and Recognition,”
Colorado University-Colorado Springs

Utah Education Network Grant Recipient (2008)

Environmental Ethics Course Development

2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University

Department of Philosophy, 6000 Frank Ave NW, Canton, OH, 44720

Awards/Honors/Grants
Kent State Research Fellowship Award (2005)
For research resulting in Hypatia publication. (2007)

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Professional Organizations
2019 – 2021 Member, Mellon Philosophy as a Way of Life Network. Selected, with funding,
Feb 2019.

2019 – pres Member-At-Large, Executive Board of the American Association of

Philosophy Teachers. Elected October 2018.

2018 – pres Editorial Advisory Board, the Journal Teaching Philosophy. Selected
September 2018
 Serve as advisor on special issues, Review manuscript submissions, other
responsibilities as needed.

2015-pres Chair (and past member), the Program Committee for the
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Conference.
 Coordinate all aspects of conference planning, including speaker selection,
submission calls, review, and invitations, program building, and so forth.

Salt Lake Community College

2017- pres Professional Development and Pedagogy Coordinator
 School of Humanities and Social Sciences, SLCC (2018-present)
Division of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences, SLCC (2017-18)
 Facilitate faculty workshops on assignment design, professional goals-setting,
portfolio building, online course design; mentor junior faculty on connecting
teaching, service and professional development.

2014 – 2016 General Education Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
representative. Salt Lake Community College.
 Facilitated forums for general education reform; Evaluated, discussed,
developed numerous proposals for Gen Ed reform; Revised general education
handbook as member of Handbook Task Force; Mentored faculty during
general education curricular process; Reviewed general education courses
and program.

2012 – 2014 President, Faculty Senate. Salt Lake Community College.

 worked with a team of Faculty Senate Leaders to set Senate agenda, identify
and pursue strategic responses, envision principles and directions for our
future; and presided over Faculty Senate meetings; Major projects include:
Restructuring Academic Rank, strengthening faculty governance
infrastructure (increased role of VP, summer faculty leader positions, strategic
planning retreats, strategic task-force creation, hiring policy and intellectual
property policy negotiations, Distinguished service award creation), and
more.

2007– 2012 Vice-President (2010 – 2012), and Humanities Department Senator

(2007 – 2010), Faculty Senate, Salt Lake Community College.
 Member, Faculty Senate Leadership, SLCC, Aug 2009-2012; Chair, Academic
Calendar Committee, Faculty Senate, SLCC, 2009-2010; Member, Professional
Growth and Faculty Evaluations Senate Committee, 2007-2009

PUBLICATIONS

2018 “This is Teaching,” Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on

Teaching. Bradner, Mills, et. al. (eds). (NY: Hackett Publishing, 2018)

2015 “Philosophy for General Education: Teaching Environmental Ethics for

Non-Majors” Teaching Philosophy. 38(3), Sept. 2015

2007 “Politics Improper: Feminist Political Theories of Inclusion,

Hannah Arendt, and the Political Importance of Oppositional
Performance,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Winter 2007.

2004 “Disruption and Democracy: Challenges to Consensus and

Communication,” (with Michael Hames-Garcia), The Good Society, Vol. 13,
No. 2, 2004.

2001 “Response to William McBride’s ‘Habermas and the Marxian

 Tradition,’” Perspectives on Habermas. Hahn, Lewis Edwin (ed.), (Chicago:
Open Court Press, 2001)

2000 “Carnival: Novel, Wor(l)ds, and Practicing Resistance,”

Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy.
Olkowski, Dorothea (ed.) (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000)

General-Audience Journals

Philosophy and CrossFit Project:

2014 “The Greek and The Games: Epictetus, Stoicism and CrossFit,” CrossFit
Journal (Mar 2014). “

2013 “CrossFit: A Sisyphean Endeavor,” CrossFit Journal, (Mar 2013).

2013 “Aristotle in a Box: CrossFit as Eudaimonia.” CrossFit Journal, (Feb 2013).

SELECTED ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Forthcoming “Student Apologies: Teaching Plato’s Apology through a Way of Life Approach,”
American Philosophical Association (APA) Conference - Central Division,
Teaching Hub; Denver, CO, February 2019.

2018 “Public Philosophy in Reasoning & Argumentation Courses,” Public Philosophy

Network Conference, Boulder, CO, Feb 2018

2017 “Aldo Leopold and an Ethics of Sustainability,” Intermountain Sustainability

Summit, Weber State University, Ogden Utah, March.

2015 “Nasty Girls: Gender, Sexuality and CrossFit,” 36th Annual

Southwest Popular and American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM,
February.

2010 “Hannah Arendt and Ayn Rand on the Heroic Individual,” Plenary Speaker at
the 2010 SLCC Philosophy Conference: Two Different 20th Century Philosophical
Responses to Totalitarian Ideology. November.

2005 “Storytelling as Intervention: Feminist Political Theory, Hannah Arendt,

and Reconceiving a Politics of Recognition,” Radical Philosophy Association:
Reclaiming Democracy: Visions and Practices from the Radical Left. Omaha, NE.
November.

2005 “Politics Improper: Feminist Ethico-Political Theories of Political Inclusion,

Hannah Arendt and the Political Importance of Oppositional Performance,”
Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Pacific Meeting, Chico, CA, September.
2005 “Hannah Arendt, and the Power of Performativity,” Midatlantic Women’s
Studies Association (MAWSA), Rockville, MD, April.

SELECTED ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP/GENERAL EDUCATION PRESENTATIONS

2018 “My Top Five: Award-Winning Philosophy Teachers Share Their Lists” (with
Alexandra Bradner, Andrew Mills, Steven Cahn, et al). American Association of
Philosophy Teachers 2018 Conference-Workshop, North Carolina A&T State
University, Greensboro, NC, July 2018.

2016 Panel Member, discussion on designing curricula for General Education and
for majors. What is an Educated Person Conference, Utah System of Higher
Education, Midway, UT, October.

2016 “The Value of Philosophy at SLCC,” 2016 Teaching Excellence Award

Presentation to the SLCC Board of Trustees, June.

2016 “What Philosophy Contributes to General Education,” SLCC Open Teach

Series. SLCC Faculty Development Center, April.

2015 “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher,” SLCC New Faculty

Orientation, August.

2013 “Inclusion, Success, and SLCC’s Completion Priorities for AY 2013-14,”

SLCC Convocation, (August). Variations also presented to SLCC Board of Trustees
(November), to SLCC Academic Planning Retreat participants in (July).

2013 “Campus Diversity and Inclusion: From Institutional Cruelty to

Institutional Kindness,” with Richard Diaz and Jude Higgins, SLCC Professional
Development Day, March.

2012 “Three Strategic Priorities for SLCC’s Completion Initiative,” with Lisa
Bickmore, SLCC Convocation, August.

2011 “A Conversation with David Oshinsky,” (on McCarthyism and The

Crucible), Grand Theatre, Salt Lake Community College, November.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Philosophy Teachers
American Philosophical Association
Society for Women in Philosophy
Public Philosophy Network

Revised: February 2019