Professor George Rudebusch – College of Arts and Letters 

George Rudebusch is a Professor of Philosophy in College of Arts and Letters. Professor Rudebusch earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Carroll University in Wisconsin, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin Madison. His research aims at understand human excellence and well-being through the study of ancient philosophy. Before coming to Northern Arizona University in 1988, he taught at the University of Hawaii Manoa. In addition to more than fifty journal publications, his books include Socrates, Pleasure and Value (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Socrates (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). With Jörg Hardy he published an anthology, Foundations of Ancient Ethics/Grundlagen der Antiken Ethic (Vandenhoek, 2014). His awards from NAU include College of Arts and Letters Teacher of the Year (2018), the Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Scholarship (2017), and the Liberal Studies Faculty Excellence Award (2014). The American Philosophical Association awarded him a Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship in 2012) to deliver two lectures on Confucian and Socratic Reflection on Compassion. He was lead plaintiff in Rudebusch v. Hughes, 436 F.Supp.2d 1058 (D.Ariz. 2006), which awarded 40 university faculty $1.6 million for Title VII violations in a pay action by President Eugene Hughes in 1993.

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