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Full name |
David N. Shiner |
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Alternative names |
Dave Shiner |
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Presence at Shimer |
1976– |
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Presence on Earth |
1951– [1] |
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BA |
Temple University 1973 |
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Ph.D. |
Pacific Western University 1983 |
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Role(s) |
Mount Carroll-Chicago period faculty |
David Shiner is a member of the senior faculty of Shimer College, where he joined the staff in 1976 and the faculty in 1977. He holds the unusual distinction of having taught every one of the 16 courses in the school's core curriculum; he was the first member of the faculty to ever achieve this, in 1998.
Shiner has also served several stints as the Dean of the College (1987-1991, 1996-2001, 2007-2011), and as head of the Oxford study abroad program.
Shimer connections[]
- brother of alum and trustee Daniel Shiner
Profiled[]
- on shimer.edu
- by Waukegan Public Library
- on Amazon
- on Goodreads
- on Openlibrary
- on Librarything
- on ChessDB
Biography[]
Brief description[]
This brief description is released under the CC0 copyright waiver.
David Shiner is Professor of Humanities and the History of Ideas at Shimer College in Chicago, where he has taught since 1979. He is also a student of baseball history and member of the Society for American Baseball Research; his works include Baseball's Greatest Players: The Saga Continues (2001). Shiner has the unusual distinction of having taught every course in Shimer College's Great Books core curriculum, and has served several terms as Dean of the College and as director of Shimer's Oxford program. (from Shimer College Wiki)
Works[]
- Epistemology in the Work of Gregory Bateson (1983, Ph.D. dissertation)
- Baseball's Greatest Players: The Saga Continues (2001)
Writings about Shimer[]
- Meeting of the Minds (n.d.)
- Helping Hands (2005)
- State of Academic Affairs Address (2010)
Dean David Shiner's 2010 Commencement Address Pt. 1.m4v
Speech by David Shiner at 2010 Shimer College commencement (part 1)
Dean David Shiner's 2010 Commencement Address Pt. 2.m4v
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- ↑ Contemporary Authors, Thomson Gale, 2002.