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History
Assoc Prof/Dir, Global Sustain & Justice/Peace & Justice Lecture Series
History
Office: T4146
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Adjunct Faculty
History
C Neal Keye, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and Politics
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.A. The College of the Holy Cross
C. Neal Keye is an Associate Professor of History and Politics at the College of St. Scholastica. He is also Director of Women's and Gender Studies and Program Director of the Oreck-Alpern Grant for the Study of Religion and Culture after 9/11. Before coming to St. Scholastica in 2001, he taught at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Religious Studies and for the Program in Social Theory and Cross-Cultural Studies. Professor Keye has held a fellowship in Public Ethics at the Institute of Arts & Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is currently Chair of the "Religion, Gender, and Sexuality" section for the Midwest region of The American Academy of Religion. Professor Keye's teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary discourses on religion, culture, and history; method and theory in the study of religion; western intellectual history; modern philosophy and aesthetics; feminist theory and gender studies; and the history and politics of colonialism, imperialism and globalization, with areas of specialization in modern Europe, India, and the Middle East. He is currently working on a revision of his doctoral dissertation for publication (Messengers of the Gods? Rethinking the Interpretive Turn in the Discourse of the Human Sciences after 9/11).
Timothy Lorek, PhD
Tim Lorek (PhD, Yale University) teaches and writes about Latin American history and environmental studies at CSS. He is author of Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), winner of the Henry A. Wallace Prize for best book from the Agricultural History Society. He is co-editor of the books Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War (with Andra B. Chastain, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) and Agricultural Science as International Development: Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era (with Helen Anne Curry, Cambridge University Press, 2024). His latest projects examine water and mining between the Upper Midwest and Latin America, as well as the role of climate change on the highland páramo ecosystems of the Colombian Andes.
Since 2022, Lorek has served as Director of the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice at CSS, a long-running public lecture series that is a pillar of the Twin Ports community thanks to the dedication of the Alworth family and director emeritus Dr. Tom Morgan.
He helped create and currently directs the major/minor in Global Sustainability and Justice at CSS.
Before arriving at CSS, he taught at Brandeis University, the University of Hartford, and Yale, and he worked in educational outreach at the University of Michigan. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and he has been an Andrew W. Mellon research fellow with the Humanities Institute of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, as well as a Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile. He has worked in community agriculture in Albuquerque and has a MA from the University of New Mexico and a BA from Ohio University.
Originally from Wisconsin, Lorek can be found (usually with his kids) on the water, on the trail, and in the garden.
Courses at CSS (in order of frequency):
HIS 3214: World since 1945
HIS/GSJ 2250: Environmental History of the Americas
HIS 3007: Modern Latin American History
HONORS 2503: Beyond Narcos: Colombia from Coffee to Cocaine
GSJ/POL 4402: Water and Politics
GSJ 3001: Globalization of Food and Agriculture
HIS/GSJ 3210: Historical and Cultural Theory
HIS 2201: American Indian History
GSJ 3301: Human Rights
GSJ 1101: Intro to Global Sustainability and Justice
Randall Poole, Ph.D.
Randall A. Poole (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1996) is Professor of Intellectual History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He is chair of the Department of Global Humanities and director of the History Program and the Health Humanities Program. He also teaches in the Honors Program and in the Dignitas First-Year Program. His research areas include Russian and European intellectual history, the history of ideas, and the history of philosophical and religious thought. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (2003) and co-editor of five other volumes: A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (2010, 2013), Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (2018), The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought (2020), Evgenii Trubetskoi: Icon and Philosophy (2021), and Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia (2022). He is also the author of many articles and book chapters on Russian intellectual history, philosophy, and religion.
Dr. Poole is co-director of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. He is also a fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a fellow of the International Center for the Study of Russian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University. In 2012 he was Visiting Professor of Russian Intellectual History at the University of Toronto. He has held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New York University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and elsewhere. His CV and recent publications are available at https://rprt.northwestern.edu/people/directors/randall-a-poole.html.
Charles Taber, PhD
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director, Political Science Program
Director, Washington Semester Program
Office: T4124
*Note: please remove info about History, as I am not affiliated with that program
