Dr. Richard England
Dean, Pine Honors College & Professor of Philosophy
Phone: 217-581-2017
Email: rengland@eiu.edu
My EIU Story
Selected Leadership Roles (off campus)
President, Honors Council of the Illinois Region 2018-19
Vice-president, Honors Council of the Illinois Region 2017-18
Member, Diversity Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) 2016-19
Member, Research Committee, NCHC 2011-14
Member, Science & Mathematics Committee, NCHC 2010-13, 2016-19
Co-chair & Conference organizer: Evolution and Religion, Clemson University SC 2009
President, Northeast Regional Honors Council 2005-6
Vice-President, and Annual Conference Organizer, Northeast Regional Honors Council 2004-5
Selected Leadership Roles (On campus - EIU)
Chair, Living-Learning Community Working Group
Team Member, Academic Visioning Workgroup, Vitalization Project (2016-17)
Decanal Representative, Committee on University Planning & Budget
Chair, Undergraduate Research Task Force
Decanal Representative, Making Excellence Inclusive Committee
Decanal Representative, Faculty Development Committee (2014-18)
AAC&U Campus Representative and Liaison
Education & Training
1997 Ph. D., History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto.
1992 M.A. in the History of Science & Technology,University of Toronto
1990 B.Sc., Majors in Zoology & the History of Science, Minor in English
Trinity College, University of Toronto
Conference Presentations
2018 North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL "Causation & the Cosmos: James Martineau & F. D. Maurice on Naturalism"
2015 National Collegiate Honors Conference, Denver CO “General Education, Assessment, and the Honors Curriculum”
2014 Invited Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honorary Society), Eastern Illinois U. “Missionary & Darwinian: John Thomas Gulick & Historical Contingencies”
2012 Invited Speaker, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, IA “Sustainability across the Curriculum: Building skills in Core Classes”
2010 “Role-Playing the End of the World: Game Theory, the Tragedy of the Commons, & Sustainability in the Honors Classroom,” NCHC, Kansas City MO
Community
(Selected Local Presentations)
2018 "The Metaphysical Society: Exemplars in a Polarized Age" Inaugural Final Friday Series Faculty Research Presentation, EIU
2017 “How to teach in Honors? Tips on Seminars across the disciplines?” Faculty Development Presentation, EIU
2016 “Mentoring Research, Scaffolding for Student Excellence?” Faculty Development Presentation, EIU
2015 Invited Speaker, University of Illinois Orthodox Christian Fellowship:“Science, Religion and Orthodoxy”
2011 “The Idea of a University in an Age of Assessment,” Fulton Faculty Colloquium, Salisbury University, MD
Publications
2017 “Censoring Huxley and Wilberforce: A new source for the meeting that the Athenaeum ‘wisely softened down.’” Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 17 (December)
2015 The Papers of the Metaphysical Society (1869-1880). Ed. with Catherine Marshall and Bernard Lightman, 3 vols. (London: Oxford University Press)
2012 “Recovering Controversy: Teaching Controversy in the Honors Science Classroom.” in The Other Culture: Science and Mathematics Education in Honors, eds. E. Buckner & K. Garbutt (Lincoln: NCHC), 73-83.
2011 Science, Religion and Natural Theology. Ed. with Jude Nixon (Salem State University) (London: Pickering & Chatto). Part of a series on Victorian Science & Literature.
2011 “The Helmholtz Maneuver, or The Idea of (Honors in) a University.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) 12.2, 59-63.
2010 “Honors Programs in Four-year Institutions in the Northeast: A Preliminary Survey toward a National Inventory of Honors.” Journal of NCHC 11.2, 71-82.
Professional Affiliations
National Collegiate Honors Council
The History of Science Society
