07-06-21 Rothrock Fellows

L-R: Elisabeth Ellis, Hilaire Kallendorf, Stephanie Payne, Theodore George

Stephanie C Payne
Associate Professor, Psychology

Stephanie Payne received her PhD in industrial/organizational psychology (2000) from George Mason University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M University, Dr. Payne held a variety of research training positions including the U. S. Army Research Institute and the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division. She has authored a number of articles with her students that have been published in top journals in her field of industrial/organizational psychology and her research has been presented at top conferences such as the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Dr. Payne’s research has been supported by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government and the U. S. Army Research Institute. Recent courses include undergraduate experimental psychology, personnel psychology, and at the graduate level, organizational psychology.

Hilaire Kallendorf
Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies

Hilaire Kallendorf holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA and an ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow. She was recently awarded a Howard Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship from Brown University and, in 2006, the $50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities. Her research and teaching deal with many aspects of religious experience, especially as belief relates to literature and culture. She is the author of two books, Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Conscience on Stage: The Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2007) (in press). Dr. Kallendorf has also published over a dozen scholarly articles on such topics as self-exorcism, piety and pornography, ghosts, Taíno religious ceremonies, and Christian humanism in the Renaissance. She has taught courses in Spanish literature at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Elisabeth Haller Ellis
Associate Professor, Political Science

Elisabeth Haller Ellis received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. She joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 2000 as an assistant professor. She specializes in the history of political thought and contemporary normative political theory. Dr. Ellis’ book, Kant's Politics (Yale 2005), is co-winner of the 2006 Best First Book Prize from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. A second book Provisionality and Politics, will be published by Yale University Press. Her work has been supported by grants from Texas A&M University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst. This year she is a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has taught courses in environmental political theory and theories of democracy in recent years.

Theodore D. George
Associate Professor, Philosophy

Dr. Theodore D. George earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Villanova University in 2000, and joined the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University in the Fall of 2001. Dr. George specializes in post-Kantian continental European philosophy, with emphasis on continental receptions of German Idealism and Romanticism. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), as well as a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and translations. Dr. George has studied as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. George has also been a recipient of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Faculty Release Fellowship. His recently taught courses include 19th century philosophy and continental philosophy.