Kenneth Shockley

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
111 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Tel : 716-645-0145
Fax : 716-645-6139
Email : kes25 at buffalo.edu


 

 

Ken received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy; his M.A. in Philosophy from SUNY, University at Buffalo; and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. At Washington University he was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

While an undergraduate he spent a year as a philosophy exchange student at the University of Warwick in the UK. Later, while writing his dissertation, he spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in the Philosophy and Social and Political Theory Programs of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. After finishing his PhD, Ken spent a year teaching in the Philosophy Department of Barnard College, Columbia University.

Prior to his graduate work in St. Louis, Ken served with the Peace Corps in Malawi where he taught mathematics and physical science at Bandawe Secondary School and lectured philosophy at Chancellor College. During his stint with the Peace Corps he also served as logistician for volunteer training programs and in various other administrative capacities. He enjoys travel and hiking (being as fond of densely wooded low-lying areas and tropical regions as the alpine areas more normally traversed by members and graduates of the National Outdoor Leadership School, of which Ken is a big fan and with which he has been affiliated), and is an avid martial artist (having been a practitioner of Kenpo Karate since the 1980s). Ken and his wife, Jennifer Enge-Shockley, proudly hail from the great state of Wisconsin. Their son, Brady, is a proud Buffalonian. But he likes Wisconsin, too.

 

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