Professor Dustin Named 2004 Holy Cross Distinguished Teacher of the Year

"I am honored and grateful, to my colleagues as well as my students, for this recognition," said Dustin.

"It was a love of teaching that first drew me to Holy Cross and its vision of what a liberal arts education can and ought to be. This love has been strengthened over the course of my time here. I have become a better teacher, thanks to many inspiring students and supportive colleagues. Holy Cross has an extraordinarily talented faculty. We acknowledge these talents in different ways. Of these, the award for Distinguished Teaching is especially meaningful to me. I can only hope that I continue to earn it."

A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1991, and chair of the philosophy department since 2000, Dustin earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University, where he completed a dissertation on "Ethics and the Possibility of Objectivity."

Interested in ancient philosophy, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of art and architecture, he teaches several introductory and intermediate philosophy courses, as well as advanced seminars on Plato, Aristotle and Heidegger.

Dustin has published and lectured widely on a variety of topics, including objectivity in ethics and aesthetics, the role of emotions in Aristotle's ethical thought, poetry and education in Plato, freedom and reason in architectural modernism, and classical architecture and tragedy. He is the co-author, with Holy Cross visual arts professor Joanna Ziegler, of the forthcoming, Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing (St. Martin’s Press, fall 2004).

The Distinguished Teaching Award was established to recognize the dedicated faculty members at the College and carries with it a $1,000 honorarium.