10+ Years Experience Teaching History, Philosophy, and Writing (PhD)

Douglas S.

I am a former Hunter College (CUNY) and Fordham University professor who has taught 1,500 students and provided hundreds of individualized tutoring sessions in the form of office hours over the past 10 years. I received my PhD in philosophy from Fordham University, and took graduate philosophy and religion classes at NYU, Columbia, and Barnard. For my MA, I studied ancient languages and researched Greek Philosophy's influence on early Christianity at the Columbia-affiliated Union Theological Seminary.

I have published in, and peer reviewed for, top journals in Ancient Philosophy, Classics, and Theology, and I have presented at professional-level international conferences at (e.g.) Oxford University and NYU.

I have a deep command of classic texts by Plato and Aristotle because I’ve both read them for classes and taught them dozens of times, *and* because I read them in the original Greek and keep up with the secondary literature. Since I have taught college Ethics numerous times, I am also intimately acquainted with Deontological (Kantian) and Utilitarian ethics.

I graduated undergrad with a 4.0 GPA and rejected a full ride to law school for the Fordham Philosophy Ph.D, where I spent two years tutoring in Fordham’s writing center, one year as a TA, and then, from 2015 onwards, have taught 2-8 college philosophy classes per year as a sole instructor in various roles at Fordham University and Hunter College. I’ve taught separate classes on Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Metaphysics, Ethics, and an interdisciplinary course on AI, Sci-Fi, Virtual Reality, and Ethics.

Students like me because I'm respectful and skilled at "translating" complex ideas into memes and cultural motifs that students understand. My own hobbies include a lot of science fiction, comics, and video games, so I’m especially good at explaining complicated material with examples from those.