Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska

Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska is an associate professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, director of the Religious Studies Program at the university, as well as a senior research associate in the Research Center on Computing & Society. She is a member of the Polish Philosophical Society, the American Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion (co-chairman of the Group on Religion in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR, 1996 - 1999), the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, the International Hegel Society, the European Business Ethics Network, and the International Society for the Study of European Ideas.

Dr. Górniak-Kocikowska's academic degrees include an M.A. in German philology (1973) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (1981) from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland; as well as an M.A. in religious studies (1992) from Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn. She has served on the faculty of Adam Mickiewicz University; the International Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; La Salle University in Philadelphia, Penn.; the University of Rhode Island in Kingston; and Southern Connecticut State University.

Dr. Górniak-Kocikowska is currently an author and speaker in the newly emerging field of computer ethics. She is co-author of the book On Selected Problems in Contemporary Ethics (1979); and her book The History of German Mental Culture (1985) won a Minister of Higher Education Award in 1986. Dr. Górniak-Kocikowska has received grants from the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Metaphilosophy Foundation, and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.

Office: EN D217
Phone: (203) 392-6784
E-mail: gorniakk1@southernct.edu