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INSTITUTE STAFFDr. Kenneth Ketner Director
Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Charles Sanders Peirce Interdisciplinary Professor Dr. Ketner's education includes MA (Philosophy) Oklahoma State University, MA (Folklore and Mythology) University of California at Los Angeles, and PhD (Philosophy) University of California at Santa Barbara. He has produced a number of reference works and essays on Peirce, including Reasoning and the Logic of Things (Harvard University Press, 1992), an edition of Peirce's 1898 Cambridge Conferences Lectures. A collection of his correspondence with Walker Percy was published by the University Press of Mississippi (1995) as A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy. With the aid of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, he wrote the first volume of his life of Peirce, published in 1998 by Vanderbilt University Press as His Glassy Essence: An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce. He is a Fellow (past president) of the Peirce Society. He was instrumental in organizing the 1976 (Amsterdam) and 1989 (Harvard) international Peirce congresses. He can be reached at kenneth.ketner@ttu.edu. Dr. Clyde Hendrick Associate Director
Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Psychology Dr. Hendrick obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1967. During his career, he has written or edited twelve books, and has served as a co-editor with Susan S. Hendrick for seventeen volumes in the Sage Series on Close Relationships. He has also published over 150 journal articles and reviews. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami from 1977 to 1984, and assumed the role of Dean of the Graduate School at Texas Tech University in 1984. He served in that post until 1995, when he returned to regular faculty duties. In addition to his research interests in psychology, he has a strong interest in philosophy, especially the writings of Charles Peirce, which he sees as highly relevant to psychology and the social sciences. He can be reached at clyde.hendrick@ttu.edu. Scott Cunningham Assistant Director for Operations
Scott is the Assistant Director for Operations. He has been with the Institute since 1999. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Educational Psychology at Texas Tech. His research interests are in the areas of Phenomenology, Educational Philosophy, and Inquiry And Learning Theory. Scott may be reached at scott.cunningham@ttu.edu Emily Keys Student Assistant
"I am a senior biochemistry student at Tech and am working toward a career in medicine as a practicing physician. As an undergraduate, my independent study and research emphasis is on the mitochondrial enzymes ATP synthase and succinate dehydrogenase." Angela Krauss Student Assistant
"I have just finished my fifth year at Texas Tech University and now have both a degree in Human Development and Family Studies and a Nursing degree. I plan to move somewhere closer to my hometown of San Antonio to begin my nursing career." Zac Morris Student Assistant
"I am a junior at Texas Tech University, majoring in Public Relations. I am a singer-songwriter from New Home, Texas. I enjoy music and socializing, and my future plans are to attend law school at NYU and to eventually open my own firm." Sarah Robertson Student Assistant
"My name is Sarah Robertson and I am a junior at Tech. I am from Flower Mound, Texas. This summer, I am beginning my studies as a nursing student at the Tech School of Nursing. I'm involved in the music service sorority Tau Beta Sigma and the Goin' Band from Raiderland." Kenny Ketner Webmaster
Kenny has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and has over five years experience working as a programmer. He is the sole proprietor of Tower 13 Digital Solutions. Zachary Ballenger Former Student Assistant
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