Dr. Ronald E. Santoni celebrates a career in academia that spanned more than 50 years.
GRANVILLE, OH, July 22, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Ronald E. Santoni, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Santoni celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Ronald E. Santoni celebrates a career in academia that spanned more than 50 years. A faculty member at Denison University from 1964 to 2002, he is the Maria Theresa Barney professor and chair emeritus of philosophy and former department chairman. He also taught at Wabash College during the early 1960s, was a visiting scholar and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge in England, a visiting fellow and life member at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a research fellow, visiting fellow and visiting scholar on a number of occasions at Yale University. Dr. Santoni continues to serve as a non-residential fellow at Berkeley College, Yale University.
A prolific author, Dr. Santoni has authored and co-authored 170 articles, commentaries and reviews in various American and international scholarly journals and other professional publications. Many of his writings have notably focused on his studies of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Dr. Santoni authored two books on Sartre, the first titled 'Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in the Early Sartre', and the second, 'Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent', in 2002. He has been a contributing author, editor, co-editor and contributing editor to almost 20 other books. Additionally, Dr. Santoni was active on the editorial board of the Journal of Peace and Justice Studies. A frequent speaker at national and international conferences in his area of expertise, Dr. Santoni has also presented numerous papers and commentaries at various professional meetings both nationally and internationally, including the University of Paris, Sorbonne.
A social and political activist most of his life, Dr. Santoni is passionately opposed to war, racism, oppression and related issues. He has been a non-residential partner of the Open Door Community, a non profit organization in Atlanta, now in Baltimore. As a non-residential partner, he has sought to help the homeless, the hungry, the imprisoned, and the oppressed.
Dr. Santoni received a bachelor's degree at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1952. He completed his master's degree in philosophy on a fellowship from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1956, he was awarded a Royal Society Canadian Government Overseas Fellowship to do doctoral work at University of Paris (Sorbonne). Dr. Santoni completed a PhD in philosophy at Boston University in 1961. He received a Church Society of College Work post-doctoral fellowship to Yale University to work on the relationship between philosophy and religion. This study, influenced in part by Professor William Christian of Yale, led to the publication of an early book entitled Religious Language and the Problem of Religious Knowledge.
Dr. Santoni is an elected Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, and a member of the International Philosophers for Peace, the North American Sartre Society, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was active on the national board of directors of Promoting Enduring Peace, a member of the International Council for the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, and a member of Amnesty International, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and the Equal Justice Initiative, among others. Additionally, he is a member of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace as both a founding member since 1980 and president from 1996 to 1997.
Honored by the North American Sartre Society at a conference entitled "Diverse Lineages of Existentialism" in 2014, Dr. Santoni was also recognized at the Freedom and Action Conference in 2002, at which he was honored for his devotion to both scholarship and progressive social-political activism. He was also awarded the Crossed Keys Faculty of the Year Award at Denison for the 1986-1987 academic year; a Mellon Award as a distinguished faculty member in 1972; and three coveted Robert C. Good fellowships for the continuation of his scholarship in the 90's and early 2000.
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