Graduate Student, Philosophy
Ph.D. Student
Thesis Title: Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Aesthetics
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Joanne Waugh
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Dustin Garlitz is Founding Publisher and Editor of JazzTalent.com, PhilosophyofMusic.org, PhilosophyofCulture.org & Article Editor of the London School of Economics based journal Critical Contemporary Culture.
Garlitz is an alumnus of The New School in New York City's Downtown Manhattan, where he earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts with an interdisciplinary concentration in Social Inquiry and a focus on Economics from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. He dual enrolled in the B.F.A. program in Jazz Performance at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and completed graduate courses in Economics at The New School for Social Research and graduate courses in Public Policy at The New School for Public Engagement's Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. He also performed in a band with electronic musicians and digital sound designers from Parsons The New School for Design. During his senior year of college, he completed a study abroad program in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University in the U.K. His principal mentor at The New School was economist Dr. Alice Rivlin, who served as President Bill Clinton's Budget Director and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. His Senior Thesis in Economics was directed by Dr. Rivlin, and was titled "Reasons the Federal Reserve Should Care about the Rest of the World". Garlitz graduated from The New School in 2003 and moved to the University of South Florida in 2005, where he completed an interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Arts degree in Social and Political Thought in 2007. The University of South Florida's Master of Liberal Arts degree is offered by its Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, however, the degree's concentration in Social and Political Thought is sponsored by the Center for Social and Political Thought at the Department of Philosophy. In addition to taking graduate courses at the Departments of Philosophy and Humanities and Cultural Studies, he also completed graduate courses at the Departments of Sociology and Communication. His Master's Thesis was directed by Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy and Center for Social and Political Thought Director Dr. Stephen Turner, with Professor of Philosophy Dr. Ofelia Schutte and Musicologist Dr. Maria Cizmic from the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies serving on his graduate committee as second and third readers. The title of his Master's Thesis was "Philosophy of New Jazz: Reconstructing Adorno". Dustin Garlitz is currently a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of South Florida, phasing into writing a Doctoral Dissertation on Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Aesthetics under the direction of the Philosophy Department's AFGLC Professor of Greek Culture, Dr. Joanne Waugh.
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