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Great Ideas

Faculty

Seemee Ali
  • Assistant Professor of Great Ideas and English
Lentz Hall 315
·(262) 551-6328
Seemee Ali joined the Carthage faculty in 2008 from Loyola College (Md.), where she had been a visiting assistant professor teaching courses in literature. She is a 1989 graduate of ...
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Temple Burling
  • Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Biology, and Great Ideas
Straz Center B6-F
·(262) 551-5963
Temple Burling is a biophysicist interested in computational problems in macromolecular crystallography, the structure of proteins, the physics of biological systems, and the history of science.Professor Burling came to Carthage ...
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Maria Carrig
  • Associate Professor of English, Theatre, and Great Ideas
Lentz Hall 311
·(262) 551-5389
Maria Carrig's teaching and research focus on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, as well as the religion and magic beliefs of the early modern period. She earned her B.A. in English ...
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Charlotte Chell
  • Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Great Ideas
Straz Center 213
·(262) 551-5729
Charlotte J. Chell teaches courses in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments, as well as in the Great Ideas program. Her specialty is mathematical logic, which provides a theoretical basis ...
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D. Ben DeSmidt
  • Director of the Western Heritage Program
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Classics
Lentz Hall 215
·(262) 551-5954
Professor DeSmidt's interests in classics center on the Latin language and literature, and more broadly on the influence of ancient legal thought on the origins of the novel. He earned ...
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Richard Heitman
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas, Classics and Philosophy
Lentz Hall 314
·(262) 551-5783
Richard Heitman came to Carthage in 2003 from the University of Chicago, where he was an instructor at Graham School of General Studies. Prior to that appointment, he served as ...
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John Isham
  • Assistant Professor of Great Ideas and Modern Languages
Lentz Hall 209
·(262) 551-2304
John Isham came to Carthage in 2007 from Columbia University, where he was a Core Lecturer in Literature Humanities. A native of Ohio, he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and ...
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Paul Kirkland
  • Assistant Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science
Lentz Hall 211
·(262) 551-2303
Paul Kirkland specializes in the study of political philosophy. He earned a B.A. in politics from Ursinus College in 1994, a master's in political science from Fordham University in 1997, ...
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Christopher Lynch
  • Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Division
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science
Lentz Hall 417B
·(262) 552-5530
Christopher Lynch earned his B.A. from St. John's College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. He held a Bradley Postdoctoral Fellowship ...
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Daniel Magurshak
  • Chair of the Philosophy Department
  • Professor of Philosophy and Great Ideas
Lentz Hall 320
·(262) 551-5827
Daniel Magurshak has taught at Carthage for more than 25 years, and is the founding director of the Heritage Studies Program. He specializes in European continental philosophy and has a ...
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Joseph McAlhany
  • Director, Great Ideas Program
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Classics
Lentz Hall 241
·(262) 551-2302
Joseph McAlhany holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University, where he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by Graduate Students. ...
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Michael McShane
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Philosophy
Lentz Hall 307
·(262) 551-6331
Michael McShane, with Professor Seemee Ali, is co-founder and co-director of the Hannibal Lecture Series, a Carthage series providing some 12 lectures annually, formal discussions primarily focused on Heritage texts. ...
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Thomas Powers
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science
Lentz Hall 242
·(262) 551-6332
Tom Powers teaches Constitutional Law and Religion and Politics at Carthage. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Great Ideas Program. His work related to ...
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Brian Schwartz
  • Assistant Professor of Physics and Great Ideas
Straz Center B6-B
·(262) 551-6042
Professor Schwartz's expertise is in nuclear and atomic physics. He uses lasers to study the spin and polarization of atoms and nuclei. He has performed research on nuclear and atomic ...
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Paul Ulrich
  • Director of the Honors Program
  • Associate Professor of Great Ideas, Political Science and Philosophy
Lentz Hall 306
·(262) 551-2112
Paul Ulrich came to Carthage in 2004, after serving as an adjunct professor of political science at George Washington University since 2001. Prior to that appointment, he was an instructor ...
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Academics at Carthage

Prospective Students

Hannibal Lectures

Popular lecture series draws professors and students deeper into Western Heritage texts. Read more.

Carthage In-Depth

Carthage Symposium

Art Meets Biology. Students photograph biodiversity in Tucson, Ariz.


J-Term

Unearthing the Past. Students travel to Israel to excavate Roman temples of Omrit.

Student Voices

"The classes in Great Ideas took me one step further into a more abstract realm that made it difficult to get mental satisfaction out of courses with solid answers and subject matter."

— Elizabeth Wagner, '12, Villa Park, Ill.

Hear what students have to say about studying great ideas at Carthage.