Ryan Jenkins | Curriculum Vitae

Email: Ryan [dot] R [dot] Jenkins [at] Colorado [dot] edu

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Currently: Doctoral student, Philosophy
    Certificates in Progress: Developing Areas Research and Teaching; Graduate Teaching Program

Florida State University

  • 2008 B.A. Philosophy with honors, Summa cum laude, GPA: 4.0
    Minor in Communication

    GRE: 800 Quantitative, 690 Verbal

Undergraduate Thesis

  • "You've Earned It!: Searching for a defensible basis for desert in wages"
    Committee: David McNaughton (director), Victoria Costa, Patrick Mason
    Defended: Fall, 2008

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Member, North American Society of Social Philosophy (NASSP)
    Joined May, 2010
  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Fall 2008

Areas of Prior Study

  • Consequentialism (especially rule-consequentialism), desert and social justice, blame and punishment, just war theory, Heidegger, pre-Socratics, Aristotle

Assistanceships

  • Spring 2010: Teacher's Assistance Intro to Phil (Dan Kaufman)
    50% appointment, leading two sections with 50 total students
  • Fall 2009: Teacher's Assistance Intro to Phil (Bradley Monton)
    50% appointment, leading two sections with 50 total students

Presentations

  • "You've Earned It!: Is George Sher's Account of Desert in Wages Defensible?"
    27th International Social Philosophy Conference, North American Society of Social Philosophers, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July, 2010.
  • "The Paradox of Indiscriminate Warfare: The Battle of Fallujah and the Charge of Genocide"
    1st Annual Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied Research (IGAAR) Conference, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April, 2010.
  • "My father and his father and his father: Generational codes in Hooker's Rule-Consequentialism"
    7th Annual Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2010.
  • "Casting the First Stone: Blame and Hypocrisy"
    13th Annual University of Oklahoma Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, April, 2008.
  • "The Experience Machine: Pickup Sticks and Poetry"
    As I Imagine: Fantasy, Identity, Politics (2007 Annual English Graduate Organization Conference), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, October 2007.

    11th Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, April 2007.
  • Comments on "Reconcilable Differences: Interplay Between Religion, Ethics and Law" by Adam Adler, Georgia State University
    11th Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove, OR, April 2007.

Other Acceptances

Papers accepted to conferences but not presented because of travel expenses, scheduling conflicts, etc.
  • "You've Earned It!: Is George Sher's Account of Desert in Wages Defensible?"
    Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 2010.
  • "How is Guilt Non-Contingently Good?"
    2008 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, State University of New York, Oneonta, NY, April, 2008.

    2008 Undergraduate Ethics Symposium, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN, April, 2008.
  • "The Experience Machine: Pickup Sticks and Poetry"
    35th Value Inquiry Conference, The College of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, April 2007.

Honors and Awards

  • Awarded the Marion Jewell Hay award, presented by Phi Beta Kappa to one graduating senior who has conducted outstanding research
  • Selected to be featured on Florida State University's website as a "Student Star"
  • Fall 2007: Travel stipend, Florida State University Foundation
  • Spring 2007: Travel stipend, Florida State University Foundation
  • National AP Scholar, the Collegeboard's highest distinction among Advanced Placement (AP) students, having achieved seven scores of 5 and one score of 4 on AP tests

Graduate Activities

  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee — meeting to influence undergraduate requirements for majors; mentoring undergraduate students interested in graduate school in philosophy
  • Coaching undergraduate Ethics Bowl team

Undergraduate Activities

  • Two seasons competing in the National Ethics Bowl competition, placing 9th and 7th out of 20 competitors in the Southeast Regional, besting the University of Florida, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical, the University of South Florida, and others
  • Presentation to the cast and crew of Twilight of the Golds production at Florida State University: responsible for compiling dramaturgy on philosophical background and application of topics such as eugenics and Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Instrumental in the creation of the Undergraduate Philosophical Association at Florida State University, the products of which include a journal, web log, professor panels, graduate colloquia and undergraduate symposia, etc.; served as secretary/treasurer for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters

Other Activities

  • One semester volunteering for the Innocence Project of Florida, working to get convictions overturned with DNA evidence: discussing litigation strategy, answering inmate mail, heading up new media efforts such as video production, blogging, website renovations, etc.
  • Logged 40+ hours as volunteer tutor during high school in the subject of algebra


Last updated Friday, May 14, 2010