Center for the Teaching of
America's Western Foundations
The Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations exists to supplement Mercer University’s excellent liberal arts program with a redoubled commitment to the foundational texts and ideas which have shaped Western Civilization and the American political order. This focus on the core texts of the Western tradition helps to revitalize a cross-centuries dialogue about citizenship, human rights, and political, economic, and religious freedom, thereby deepening the moral imagination and fostering civic and cultural literacy.
The Center’s programming includes an annual lecture series, high school teacher workshops, post-doctoral teaching fellowships, and undergraduate research fellowships. All programming is designed to enhance Mercer’s longstanding role as a distinctive home of liberal learning, a place where serious students come to live the life of the mind and emerge more thoughtful and engaged citizens.
Center Faculty:
Will R. Jordan Charlotte Thomas
Associate Professor Professor
Political Science Philosophy
Director, Great Books Program Center Co-Director
Center Co-Director
Sarah Gardner * John Hintermaier
Chair and Associate Professor Assistant Professor of History
History
Tom Huber Mark Jones
Professor of Biology Professor of Law
Gordon Johnston * Achim Kopp *
Professor of English Chair and Associate Professor
Foreign Languages
Susan Malone J.Thomas Scott *
Associate Professor of Education Professor of History
Deneen Senasi Beth Stewart
Assistant Professor of English Chair and Professor of Art
Bryan Whitfield
Assistant Professor
Christianity
* 2010-2011 Faculty Fellow
Center Undergraduate Fellows:
2010-2011
To Be Announced
2009-2010
Rachael Bishop
Jaclyn Crumbley
Brice Odom
Kristin Tyndall
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