Professor, Georgetown University
Georgetown University
For Dr. William Joseph Buckley, scholarship, teaching and social advocacy intersect in a very practical manner. His teaching experience includes early teaching in urban St. Louis, teaching about ethnic conflicts in Northern Ireland and Kosovo and, most recently, about end of life decision-making and global health. His applied research and multi-language, interdisciplinary publications demonstrate how moral practices nourish character (called ethics), appeal to audience convictions (rhetoric), that are embodied performances (called post-structuralist poetics) which mobilize communal actions (in politics). This work has been generously supported (Daniels, Fulbright), not least of all by an understanding spouse and daughter. His publications and work in Northern Ireland during its civil conflict led to works about Kosovo and consultation with a United Nations Special Commission. His recent work about end of life decision-making bridges international and bi-coastal debates about end of life decision-making. His newest work examines mental health as vital to global health, as well as how Ebola is enabling STEM sciences and medical anthropology to rescue the humanity of global health. His publications include "Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions" and, with Karen Feldt, "Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Death and Dying," as well as dozens of peer reviewed scholarly and popular publications. Buckley currently teaches in the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University.