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Dr. Jeffrey A. Davis
Associate Professor of History

Dr. Jeffrey Davis is an associate professor of history at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Pennsylvania History, Early National History, and the Civil War. He has been at Bloomsburg University since 1997. Dr. Davis received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Eastern Washington University and his Ph.D. from Washington State University.  Dr. Davis has written articles and delivered papers on various aspects of Early American and Pennsylvania history. He recently published a text book on Pennsylvania history titled The Pennsylvania Journey and is currently writing a book on politics in Pennsylvania during the Early Nation Period. He is also the Associate Editor of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.


Dr. Scott Lowe
Professor of Philosophy

Dr. Scott Lowe has taught in the Philosophy Dept. at Bloomsburg University since 1987.  His main areas of teaching and research are ethics and social and political philosophy.  He teaches lower level classes such as Ethics, Medical Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, as well as the upper level Philosophy of Law and Contemporary Political Philosophy courses.  He has published articles on obligations of fairness and just war theory, and is co-editor, with Steve Hales, of Delight in Thinking, an introductory anthology.



Dr. Harry C. “Neil” Strine IV
Assistant Professor of Political Science

Dr. Strine is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of Forensics (Speech and Debate Team) at Bloomsburg University.  Dr. Strine serves as the advisor to the Political Science Student Association and as the co-advisor to two other campus organizations.  Dr. Strine is a 1993 graduate of Bloomsburg University and received his Master’s Degree from Ohio University in 1994 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2004.  Dr. Strine has been a professor at Bloomsburg University since January, 2003 and teaches U.S. Government, Constitutional Law, Political Violence, and the Judicial Process.  His research interests include congressional committee hearings and judicial politics.



Dr. Claire Lawrence
Associate Professor of English

Dr. Claire Lawrence has published fiction in Tri-Quarterly, descant, Terra Nova, The New England Writers Anthology and The Best of Writers at Work, poetry in The Connecticut Review, Western Humanities Review, Ekphrasis and Gulf Coast, personal essays in So To Speak, Puerto del Sol and Art Lies, and literary criticism in ISLE and a study of Edward Abbey’s work titled Coyote in the Maze. She also has an article on the iconography of the wilderness in Nature and its Discontents.  Her fiction has been anthologized in Terrain and The New Earth Reader.   

She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in fiction at the University of Houston. She has received a New England Writers Award and a Writer’s Digest Award for short-short fiction, an AWP Intro Journals Award for non-fiction, and a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant.

Lawrence is an associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.  Her teaching interests include fiction, non-fiction, and environmental literature.  She loves to bike, ski, grow her own vegetables, hang out with her family and hug trees.


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