{"id":464,"date":"2021-11-05T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/?post_type=uwsp_faculty&#038;p=11244"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:09:15","slug":"chris-diehm","status":"publish","type":"uwsp_directory","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/profile\/chris-diehm\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Diehm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BIO<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Christian Diehm began teaching at UW-Stevens Point in 2005 and has served as coordinator of the Environmental Ethics program since 2006. After completing his degree in 2001, he taught full-time at Villanova University for three years, and during that time he also held a position as Visiting Scholar at Pace University\u2019s Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies in New York, New York. Diehm&#8217;s research interests include deep ecology, animal ethics, environmental ethics and the ethics of wildlife conservation. On campus, he serves on the Animal Care and Use Committee. When not doing academic work, Diehm enjoys kayaking, canoeing, hiking, wildlife watching and, whenever he can get to an ocean, surfing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UWSP Department of Philosophy was the first college department ever to offer a course in Environmental Ethics and remains one of the few offering an undergraduate major (and a certificate program) in this subject area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TEACHING HONORS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ul><br><li>UW-Stevens Point Excellence in Teaching Award (2013)<\/li><br><li>Visiting Scholar, Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies, Pace University, New York, NY Fall 2002\u00a0<\/li><br><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PUBLICATIONS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Edelglass, W., Hatley, J., and Diehm, C. (2012). Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dupress.duq.edu\/products\/philosophy51-paper\">https:\/\/www.dupress.duq.edu\/products\/philosophy51-paper<\/a>Diehm, C. (2013). \u201cWolves, Wisconsin, and Aldo Leopold,\u201d <em>Minding Nature<\/em> 6, no. 2, 44-48.<\/p><br><div>Diehm, C. (2012). \u201cUnnaturally Cruel: Rolston on Animals, Ethics, and the Factory Farm,\u201d Expositions 6, no. 1, 29-40.<\/div><br><div>Diehm, C. (2012). \u201cBiophilia and Biodiversity: Environmental Ethics in the Work of Stephen Kellert,\u201d Environmental Ethics 34, no. 1, 51-66.<\/div><br><div>Diehm, C. (2012). \u201cFinding a Niche for Species in Nature Ethics,\u201d Ethics and the Environment 17, no. 12, 71-86.<\/div><br>Diehm, C. (2011). \u00a0\u201cEcotage, Ecodefense, and Deep Ecology,\u201d The Trumpeter 27, no. 2, 61-80.<br><div>\u00a0Diehm, C. (2009). \u201cPredators and Prey: On Hunting and Human Identity,\u201d in Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America, ed. Dennis Cutchins and Eric Eliason (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pp. 3-24.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>International Society for Environmental Ethics (2005 &#8211; present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FUN FACT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When he was growing up, he wanted to be a professional skateboarder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Chris Diehm teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the UW-Stevens Point and is coordinator of the Environmental Ethics program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"phone":"715-346-2334","email":"cdiehm@uwsp.edu","office":"CCC 488C","title":"","building":"","room":"","website":"","bio":"","image":"","pronouns":"","first_name":"Christian ","last_name":"Diehm","position-type":["Faculty"],"education":[{"degree":"Ph.D. - Philosophy","school":"Villanova University","year":""},{"degree":"M.S. - Philosophy","school":"Villanova University","year":""},{"degree":"B.A. - Philosophy","school":"Salisbury University","year":""}],"courses":[{"number":"","name":"Environmental Ethics "},{"number":"","name":" Introduction to Philosophy "},{"number":"","name":"Animal Ethics "},{"number":"","name":"Advanced Environmental Ethics "}],"titles":[{"title":"Professor"},{"title":" Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies "},{"title":"Environmental Ethics Program Coordinator  "},{"title":"Environmental Studies Program Co-Coordinator"}]},"department":[3,60,56],"class_list":["post-464","uwsp_directory","type-uwsp_directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-cols","department-phil","department-shgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uwsp_directory"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}