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Philosophy Faculty and Staff
Faculty of Humanities
Philosophy Faculty and Staff
Michael Berman – Associate Professor (B.A. University of Binghamton, Ph.D. University at Buffalo) specializes in Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna, as well as Comparative Philosophy
Office: Room 266 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3317
E-mail: mberman@brocku.ca
Richard S. G. Brown - Associate Professor (B.A. Brock; M.A., Ph.D. McMaster) works mainly on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard as well as Indian Philosophy
Office: Room 284 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3737
E-mail: rbrown@brocku.ca
Wing-Cheuk Chan - Professor (M.A. Hong Kong; Ph.D. Ottawa) specializes in Husserl and Heidegger as well as in Chinese Philosophy and Yogacara Buddhism
Office: Room 270 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3716
E-mail: wchan@brocku.ca
Athena Colman – Assistant Professor (B.A. Windsor, M.A. Brock, Ph.D. University of Memphis) specializes in 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy (in particular Irigaray, Kristeva, and Merleau-Ponty) as well as Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Theory.
Office: Room 282 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3323
E-mail: acolman@brocku.ca
Christine Daigle - Professor (B.A. Concordia, M.A. Université de Montréal, Doctoral studies Universitaet
Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence (2010-2013)
Office: Room 264 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3316
E-mail: cdaigle@brocku.ca
R.S. Dalvi - Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa) specializes in Indian Philosophy and Contemporary French philosophy and also does research in Greek Philosophy and Analytic Metaphysics.
Office: Room 280 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3547
E-mail: rdalvi@brocku.ca
Rajiv Kaushik - Associate Professor (Hons BA Toronto, MPhil Louvain, Ph.D. Essex) specializes in 20th Century French and German Phenomenology (especially Husserl, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur and Marion) as well as Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and Advaita Vedanta.
Office: Room 275 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 5311
E-mail: rkaushik@brocku.ca
Brian Lightbody- Associate Professor (B.A. McMaster (Hist), Hons. B.A. Brock, M.A. Brock, Ph.D Dominican University College) specializes in 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy (especially Philosophical Geneaology, Foucault and Nietzsche) and Epistemology
Office: Room 278 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Telephone: (905) 688-5550 extension 5313
Email: blightbody@brocku.ca
Murray L. Miles - Professor (B.A. Toronto; Dr. Phil. Freiburg) specializes in the areas of Modern Philosophy and Continental thought with emphasis on Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and Heidegger
Office: TBA
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3315
E-mail: mmiles@brocku.ca
R. Raj Singh - Professor (B.A., M.A., Punjab ; M.A. Brock ; Ph.D. Ottawa) specializes in the area of Heidegger, Hermeneutics, as well as in the philosophies of Vedanta and Buddhism
Office: Room 276 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 5311
Email: rsingh@brocku.ca
Irene Cherrington - Administrative Assistant
Office: Room 263 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3315
E-mail: icherrington@brocku.ca
Liz Kaethler - Academic Advisor, Faculty of Humanities
Office: MC A 311
Phone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 5101
E-mail: liz.kaethler@brocku.ca
www.brocku.ca/humanities/advising
Professors Emeriti
David L. Goicoechea, Ph.D. (Loyola, Chicago)
John R.A. Mayer, Ph.D. (Emory)



