Resume: Gray Cox
Work Experience:
Professor, College of the Atlantic, 1994 to present (responsibilities include teaching courses in peace studies, political economics, history, and Latin American studies; coaching students in college governance and conflict resolution; leadership of the annual three month term for fifteen students and three faculty in Mexico;
Director of Title VI Grant for College of the Atlantic Project in Mexico: "Interdisciplinary/International Human Ecology: North/South Partnerships in Language Learning and Regional Studies", 1995-1997
Director of Lilly Grant for Enhancement of the Management Program (1/4 time) Earlham College, 1992-94
Visiting Associate Professor (1/4-1/2 time), Earlham College, 1990-94, teaching in the programs in Management, Human Development and Social Relations, and Peace and Global Studies
Visiting and Adjunct Professor, College of the Atlantic, 1988 to 1993, Writing Program
Freelance consultant and workshop facilitator, focus in conflict resolution, organizational innovation, community planning, and Imaging a World Without Weapons, 1987 to present (clients have included, for example, Enfield Shaker Museum; CODEL: The Consortium on Development; International Peace Scholars Program at Notre Dame University; Earlham College; MDI Tommorrow; Friends General Conference; Pendle Hill; and New Society Publishers)
Visiting Instructor, University of Maine at Orono, 1990, Peace Studies
Visiting professor, Husson Business College, 1987, Business Ethics
Assistant professor, philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, 1978-86, courses taught included social and political philosophy, logic, philosophy of science, aesthetics, ethics, pragmatism, and theories of justice
Assistant Director of Admissions, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, 1974-76
Other positions have included free lance writer, advertizing salesman, cafe performer, security guard, waiter, campground handyman, short order cook, and biology research assistant
Education:
Vanderbilt University, PhD, philosophy, 1981, MA, philosophy, 1979
Wesleyan University, BA, College of Social Studies, 1974
Mount Desert Island Regional High School, Maine, graduate, 1970
Publications, Recordings and Presentations:
THE WAYS OF PEACE: A PHILOSOPHY OF PEACE AS ACTION, Paulist Press, 1986
THE WILL AT THE CROSSROADS: A RECONSTRUCTION OF KANT'S MORAL THEORY, University Press of America, 1984
Bearing Witness: Quaker Process and a Culture of Peace, Pendle Hill Pamphlets, Summer 1985
Streetlight and Colorado: Songs of Love and Justice , CD of 12 original songs recorded in Portland, Maine, and released through Klarity Music, 2001
Todos Somos Otros , CD of 10 original songs in Spanish, recorded in Merida, Mexico, and released through MIXAUDIO, 2001
"The New Entrepreneurial Ethic", EARLHAMITE, January, 1991
"The Light at the End of the Tunnel and the Light in Which
We May Walk," in THE CAUSES OF QUARREL, ed. Peter Caws, Beacon Hill Press, 1989
"Seeds of a New World Order" in MAHATMA GANDHI: CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND CONTEMPORARY CRISES, ed. K. D. Prithipaul, Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace, 1989
"What is Peace? A Problem, a Diagnosis, and a Proposal",
PEACE AND CHANGE, Summer 1985
"The Place of the Single Power Thesis in Kant's Theory of the Faculties", MAN AND WORLD, January 1984
"Morality at the Crossroads", IDEALISTIC STUDIES, January 1984
"Must Mental Events Have Spatial Location?", PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Summer 1982
Publication of a variety of notes, reviews, and magazine pieces including, for example, the November 1990 cover story of the EASTERN MAINE BUSINESS DIGEST profiling "Maine Shellfish Co. Inc."
Thirty five papers delivered at regional, national and international conferences on topics including: Participatory Community Research in Mexico, Sandinista political philosophy, Enrique Dussel's liberation philosophy, Gandhi, pragmatism, aesthetic attitude theories, the Holocaust, the methods of social science, Plato, capitalist ethics, pedagogical challenges of student relativism, post-modernist social theory, Michel Foucault, The Tragedy of the Commons, and The Theory of the Firm. (Ongoing research includes studies of community based participatory research in conflict resolution and democratic decision making in rural communities in Yucatan, Mexico, and Hancock County, Maine. Also systematic alternatives to neoliberal theories of the firm, the tragedy of the commons, and the management of development. )
Offices, Honors, and Other Field Experiences:
Sabbatical Study of alternative approaches to conflict, Europe, Fall 2001
Member of the Global Exchange team of International Observers for the Federal Elections in Mexico, Summer 2000
Chair for World Community Day Celebration, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1995
Summer Grant in Professional Development, Earlham College,1993, "Early Quaker Business Organizations"
Summer Grants for Spanish and Latin American Studies from Earlham College for work in Cuautla, Mexico, on Liberation in Latin America (1991) and Management Styles in Mexico (1992)
Program Chair (1989) and Board (1990), Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development (COPRED)
Board and steering committee member, MDI Tommorrow (an NGO for community planning), 1989-91
Clerk of Acadia Friends Meeting, 1989-1991
President of the Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1985
Delegate to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, 1984
Participant in 1982 NEH Summer Seminar on "The Moral Force of the Passions"
Middle Tennessee State University Alumni Foundation's Outstanding Teacher Award, 1982
Mellon Fellow in the 1981 International Summer Institute for Study of Semiotics, "Foucault", Vanderbilt University
The Dorchester Prize for best undergraduate work of fiction at Wesleyan University, 1972
All New England Cast, New England High School Drama Festival, 1969
Personal:
Born 11/20/52, divorced, three children, two grandchildren, singer/songwriter, guitarist, player of the bones, enjoy cooking and dancing, fluent in Spanish, basic competency in French, member of Acadia Friends Meeting
Address:
J. Gray Cox
9 1/2 Cleftstone Road
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
#207-288-3888 (h) 5015 (w)
gray@ecology.coa.edu