Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Ph.D. (Medieval Studies: Philosophy), University of Toronto, 1999
M.S.L. (Medieval Studies: Theology), Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto (magna cum laude), 1993
M.A. (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto, 1989
B.A. (History), University of South Carolina (magna cum laude and with Honors from South Carolina Honors College), 1988
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, 2017
Dean, St. Thomas More College (STM), 2006-2016
Associate Member, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, 2005-2008
Director, Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies program, University of Saskatchewan, 2005-2006
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, St. Thomas More College, 2004-
Department Head, Department of Philosophy, St. Thomas More College, 2002-2005
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, 2002
Awarded tenure, Department of Philosophy, St. Thomas More College, 2000
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, St. Thomas More College, 1996-2004
Instructor (term appointment), Department of Philosophy, St. Thomas More College, 1995-1996
Instructor, Philosophy Programme, St. Philip’s Seminary (Toronto), 1991-1995
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1990-1993
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Carl N. Still and Gertrude Rompré, eds. Turning to the World: Social Justice and the Common Good since Vatican II. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Forthcoming.
P. S. Eardley and C. N. Still. Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum Guides for the Perplexed series. London and New York: Continuum, 2010.
J. R. Ginther and C. N. Still, eds. Essays in Medieval Philosophy and Theology in Memory of Walter H. Principe, CSB: Fortresses and Launching Pads. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005.
J. Hackett, W. Murnion, and C. N. Still, eds. Being and Thought in Aquinas. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2004. Page 2 of 8
Book Chapters and Research Articles
C. N. Still, “Conscience”, in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2018. Published online at https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_560-1.
C. N. Still and D. Dahl, “Evil and Moral Failure in De Malo”, in Aquinas’s Disputed Questions on Evil, ed. M. V. Dougherty. Cambridge Critical Guides series. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 146-63.
C. N. Still, “Aquinas on Self-Knowledge and the Individuation of Thought”, International Philosophical Quarterly 54:3 (2014) 253-64.
C. N. Still, “Pico’s Quest for all Knowledge”, in Pico della Mirandola: New Essays, ed. M. V. Dougherty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 179-201.
C. N. Still, “Thomas Aquinas on the Assent of Faith”, in Essays in Memory of Walter H. Principe, CSB: Fortresses and Launching Pads, ed. J. R. Ginther and C. N. Still. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005. 121-33.
J. R. Ginther and C. N. Still, “Introduction”, in Essays in Memory of Walter H. Principe, CSB: Fortresses and Launching Pads, ed. J. R. Ginther and C. N. Still. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005. 1-7.
C. N. Still, “The Search for the Real Aquinas”, Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 40 (2005) 67-74.
K. Corrigan and C. N. Still, “The Problem of Aquinas’s Notion of Reditio Completa in Relation to its Sources”, in Being and Thought in Aquinas, ed. J. Hackett, W. Murnion, and C. N. Still. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2004. 1-15.
C. N. Still, “Do We Know All after Death? Thomas Aquinas on the Disembodied Soul’s Knowledge”, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 75 (2001) 107-19.
C. N. Still, “‘Gifted Knowledge’: An Exception to Thomistic Epistemology?”, The Thomist 63 (1999) 173-90.
Book Reviews
Review of Gyula Klima, ed., Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Fordham, 2015), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 54:2 (2016) 337-38.
Review of Therese Scarpelli Cory, Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge (Cambridge, 2014), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 53:2 (2015) 329-30.
Review of John C. Haughey, ed., In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life (Georgetown, 2011), in Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice 16:1 (2012) 222-25.
Review of Marilyn McCord Adams, Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist (Oxford, 2010), in Philosophy in Review 31/6 (2011) 391-93 (published online at http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/9338/2746) Page 3 of 8
Review of A. N. Williams, The Divine Sense: The Intellect in Patristic Theology (Cambridge, 2007), in Journal of the History of Philosophy 47:1 (2009) 135-36.
Review of Jack Zupko, John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master (Notre Dame, 2003), in Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie 42:4 (Fall 2003) 832-34.
Review of Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa theologiae Ia 75-89 (Cambridge, 2002), in The Medieval Review 03.03.08 (published online at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/5416)
Review of John Leslie, Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology (Oxford, 2001), in The Review of Metaphysics 57 (2003) 892-93.
Review of Paul Helm, Faith and Understanding (Eerdmans, 1997), in The Thomist 64 (2000) 143-46.
Review of Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Mind (Routledge, 1993), in The Canadian Catholic Review 15 (1997) 27.
ACADEMIC AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“The Rationality of Faith: Aquinas and Bonaventure”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2017
“Searching for Thomas amid Thomisms Past and Present”, The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference, University of St. Andrews, June 27, 2013
“Transition and Tradition at STM”, St. Thomas More College, January 12, 2011
“Aquinas on the Justification of Faith”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 10, 2007
“Aquinas on the Justification of Faith”, Philosophical Association of Religiously Affiliated Colleges, St. Thomas More College, March 24, 2007
“Conscience and Self-Reflection in Aquinas”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 4, 2006
“Scholastic Journeys to God”, Panel discussion on Christian perspectives on experience and knowledge of God, St. Thomas More College, October 12, 2005
“Species and Representation in Aquinas and Scotus”, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 14, 2004
“Aquinas: Representationalist or Realist?”, Philosophy Department Seminar, University of Saskatchewan, March 24, 2004
“Aquinas on Faith and Cognition”, The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy, Emory University, February 26, 2004 [invited]
“Is Thomas Aquinas’s Theory of Self-Knowledge Fatally Flawed?”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 8, 2003 [commentary by Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University]
“Bishop Tempier vs. Brother Thomas: the Condemnation of a Saint”, Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Colloquium, January 9, 2003
“De veritate 1.9 as a Key to Aquinas’s Theory of Self-Knowledge”, Mid-West Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Marquette University, April 4, 2002
“Do We Know All after Death? Thomas Aquinas on the Disembodied Soul’s Knowledge”, Page 4 of 8
American Catholic Philosophical Association, Albany, NY, November 9, 2001 [commentary by R. E. Houser, University of St. Thomas, Houston]
Commentary on Klaas Kraay, “Mental Content, Memory, and the ‘Inclusion Theory of Self-Knowledge’”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Saskatchewan, October 16, 1999
“Self-Knowledge and the Disembodied Soul: A Problem from Aquinas”, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 13, 1998
“Anthony Kenny vs. Aquinas on Self-Knowledge”, Philosophy Department Faculty Seminar, University of Saskatchewan, November 1995
“Disputing the Question on Self-Knowledge: Thomas Aquinas and the Unresolved ‘Quaestio’ of Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 480”, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 12, 1995
“Gifted Knowledge: An Exception to Thomistic Epistemology?”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1994
HONOURS and GRANTS
Awards to Scholarly Publications Program ($8,000), Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018
Publications Fund Grant ($5,000), St. Thomas More College, 2017
Connections Grants ($14,439), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2013
Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada ($10,210), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2011
Conference Fund Grant ($1,000), University of Saskatchewan, 2010
Publications Fund Grant ($2,000), University of Saskatchewan, 2004
Faculty Seed Grant ($1,000), St. Thomas More College, 2004
Sabbatical Research Grant, St. Thomas More College, 2001-2002
Faculty Travel Grant ($800), St. Thomas More College, 1998
International Medieval Congress Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1995
Open Doctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1989-1991, 1992-1994
Open Master’s Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1988-1989
Graduate Bursary, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988-1989
Phi Beta Kappa, University of South Carolina, 1988
Carolina Scholars Award (full tuition scholarship), University of South Carolina, 1984-1988
TEACHING
Philosophy Courses
PHIL 110 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 120 Knowledge, Mind, and Existence: Introductory Topics in Philosophical Problems Page 5 of 8
PHIL 202 Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 203 Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 204 Philosophy of Religion: The Christian Philosophical Tradition
PHIL 208: Ancient Philosophy: The Presocratics to Plato
PHIL 209 Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle to Plotinus
PHIL 210 Medieval Philosophy I
PHIL 211 Medieval Philosophy II
PHIL 212 Mediaeval Intellectuals: Thought and Learning in the Middle Ages
PHIL 226 Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 240 Aristotelian Logic
PHIL 294 Philosophy of Human Nature
PHIL 296 The Nature of Material Reality
PHIL 411 Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
PHIL 412 Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas I
PHIL 413 Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas II
PHIL 898 Seminar in Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 898 Seminar in Thomistic Ethics
Interdisciplinary Courses
CTST 200: Introduction to Catholicism, 2012-2013 (invited lecturer)
INTS 112: The Western Tradition, 2010-2011 (invited lecturer)
INTS 203: Cultivating Humanity, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2015-2016 (invited lecturer)
Great Books Seminar, Emmanuel and St. Chad, Winter term, 2011-2012 (invited lecturer)
ENG 402/CMRS 401: Dante and Aquinas (co-taught with Sarah Powrie, STM Department of English)
PHIL 212: Medieval Intellectuals (co-taught with Alan Reese, STM Department of History)
ENG 110/PHIL 110 (co-taught with Michael Cichon, STM Department of English)
ENG 110/PHIL 110: Foundation Year Program (co-taught with Elena Glazov-Corrigan, STM Department of English)
GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS AND THESIS COMMITTEES
Stephen Bagwell, M.A. (Philosophy), “An Examination of “Life” in Aristotle
Concerning the Distinction Between βίος (Bios) and ζωή (Zoe)”. Defended February 21, 2018. (Advisory committee member)
Shane Hickey, M.A. (Philosophy), “Painfully Good: The Moral Dimension of Pain in Aquinas”. Discontinued. (Supervisor)
Tony Nijssen, M.A. (Philosophy), “Persons”. Discontinued. (Advisory committee member)
Jeremy Skrzypek, M.A. (Philosophy), “A Hylomorphic Account of Personal Identity”. Page 6 of 8
Defended June 28, 2011. (Supervisor)
Eric Thorne, M.A. (Philosophy), “Contra Hick: Epistemology of Faith and Belief”. Defended March 10, 2010. (Supervisor)
Charles Robertson, M.A. (History), “Augustinian Themes in Lumen Gentium, 8”. Defended October 3, 2008. (Advisory committee member)
Jordan Olver, M.A. (History), “Love and the Sexual Sphere: A Study of the Relationship between Love and Sexuality in Karol Wojtyla's Love and Responsibility”. Defended August 30, 2006. (Advisory committee member)
Gladys Neufeld, M.A. (Philosophy), “Becoming Divine: Authentic Human Being.” Defended August 22, 2003. (Supervisor)
Steven McGuire, M.A. (Political Studies), “Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin on the ‘Just Man Problem’ in Plato's Republic”. Defended August 14, 2003. (External examiner)
Alison Goldenberg, M.A. (History), “Felicano Ninguarda and the Observance of Monastic Celibacy in Sixteenth Century Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola”. Defended April 25, 2000. (External examiner)
Celene Sidloski, M.A. (English), “Poetics of the Blank: A Propaedeutic to the Study of Emily Dickinson's Platonism”. Defended September 21, 1999. (External examiner)
DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, and UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
Committees since the Dean position (2016- )
Partnership Coordinating Committee, Arts and Science and STM, 2017-
Graduate Program Review Committee, Arts and Science Philosophy Department, 2017-2018
STM Philosophy Curriculum Renewal Committee, 2017-
STM Tenure and Promotions Committee, 2017-2018
Committees associated with the Dean position (2006-2016)
Working group for Centre for Faith, Reason and Justice, Chair, 2014-2016
Ad Hoc Committee for Review of STM Standards for Tenure and Promotion, 2014-2015
Dialogue and Diversity conference organizing committee, Chair, 2014-2015
STM Library Committee, 2014-2016
STM Enrolment Management Committee, Chair, 2013-2016 (Chair 2015-2016)
Ad Hoc Committee for STM Faculty Council Bylaws, 2013-2016
STM Associate Dean search committee, Chair, 2012
Turning to the World conference organizing committee, Co-chair, 2012-2013
Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work Committee, University Council, 2011-2012
Catholic Studies conference organizing committee, Chair, 2010-2011
Associate Dean review committee, Chair, 2010
Arts and Science Bylaws Committee, 2009-2010
STM Academic Planning Team, Chair, 2009-2010
STM Strategic Plan Steering Committee, 2009-2010, 2014-2015 Page 7 of 8
Ad Hoc Committee on Review of Faculty Duties, Chair, 2009-2010
STM Catholic Studies Working Group, Chair, 2008-2010
Senior Leadership Forum, University of Saskatchewan
Deans’ Council, University of Saskatchewan
University Council, University of Saskatchewan
Coordinating Committee, Arts and Science and STM, Chair (alternate years)
STM Faculty Council Executive/Appointments/Nominations Committee, Chair
STM Academic Planning Committee, Chair
STM Administrative Committee
STM Board of Governors, Resource person
STM Budget Committee
STM Consultation Committee
STM Keenan Lecture Committee, Chair
STM Occupational Health and Safety Committee
STM Negotiations Committee
STM Research Committee
STM Tenure and Promotions Committee
Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage Advisory Committee
Committees prior to appointment as Dean (1996-2006)
STM Research Committee, 2004-2007
Coordinator, CMRS activities at STM, 2004-2005
Grievance Committee, Union representative, 2004-2005
Member of the College of Graduate Studies and Research, 2003-present
Philosophy Search Committee, Chair, 2003-2004, 2004-2005
STM Planning Committee, 2002-2006
STM Board of Governors, Faculty member, 2000-2001, 2002-2003
Instructional Development Committee, University Council, 1999-2001
University Council, STM Representative, 1999-2001
STM Faculty Council, Secretary, 1997-1999, 2000-2001
STM Teaching Committee, Chair, 1996-2000
STM Nominations Committee, 1996-1997
STM and Arts and Science Philosophy Departments Steering Committee, 1996-1997
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Administrative
Governance for CEOs and Senior Executives, sponsored by Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Saskatoon, SK, March 13-14, 2014
Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education, Boston College, Boston, MA, July 11-14, 2011
Rome Seminar on U. S. Catholic Education in a Global Context, Rome, Italy, June 20-25, 2010
Senior University Administrators Course, sponsored by Centre for Higher Education Page 8 of 8
Research and Development (CHERD), Banff, AB, June 19-26, 2009
Co-organizer of Western Deans of Arts and Science Fall Meeting, Saskatoon, SK, 2008
Executive Seminar, The Buckley School of Public Speaking, Camden, SC, December 5-7, 2007
Collegium: Conference on Faith and Intellectual Life, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, June 1996
Academic
Referee for book proposal, Canadian Scholars/Women's Press, 2017
External reviewer for tenure case, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, 2015
Reviewer for Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice
Peer assessor for SSHRC Connections Grants, 2013
Editorial board, Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2009-
Manuscript referee for The Thomist, 2008, 2012
Reviewer for SSHRC Standard Research Grant applications, 2006, 2011
Referee for book proposal, Catholic University of America Press, 2006
Manuscript referee for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2003
Manuscript referee for Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review, 2002
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Catholic Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association
Canadian Philosophical Association
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Updated April 2018