meet the center staff...

	Program Director has worked at the Center since 1983. As Program Director, he facilitates Center seminars and conferences, and consults with visiting scholars and graduate students. As librarian, he compiled nearly 200 thematic bibliographies of process books and articles. John also teaches Ethics and Introduction to Philosophy.
	Managing Director has been working at the Center since January 2000. He is an Adjunct Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology. Prior to joining the staff at the Center, John taught philosophy at several community colleges, including ten years at San Diego City College. John completed his Ph.D. at Claremont School of Theology in process thought and religious education in 1993. He also holds degrees from Illinois College (A.B., Mathematics and Religion-Philosophy), Union Theological Seminary, NY (M.Div., Philosophy of Religion-Psychology of Religion), and the University of Nebraska (M.A., Philosophy-Psychology).
	Latin America Project / Library Assistant Ruelas is a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University's School of Religion studying Philosophy of Religion and Theology. He received his BA from CSU, Sacramento where he also earned a Master of Science in educational and counseling psychology. He earned a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary and an MA in Philosophy from CSU, Los Angeles. His interests include the relationship between science and religion, constructive theologies, divine action and evolution, God-World relationship, Teilhard de Chardin, and religious experience and pragmatism. As a library assistant at CPS he edits bibliographies and abstracts and assists in the Latin American Project.
	Whitehead Research Project is a Ph.D. student at Claremont Graduate University in the Philosophy of Religion and Theology program. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Christian Theological Seminary and did his undergraduate work in German and religion at Wabash College. He is interested in Jewish-Christian relations, process philosophy and theology, post-structuralist thought, and subjectivity and multiplicity.
	China Project Co-Director , former Vice-Chair and Professor of the Philosophy Department at Beijing Normal University, China. She completed doctoral studies at Beijing Normal University, specializing in Chinese traditional aesthetics and aesthetical education. She is the author of six books, and a co-author of six books. Her book, Contemporary Interpretation of Chinese Traditional Aesthetic, was granted the "Excellence Award in Philosophy and Social Science" in China in 1998. As Co-Director of the China Project, Meijun is primarily responsible for Cultural Communication, a newspaper of the China Project. She is also responsible for the Chinese visiting scholar program and works on publicity and web development.
	Library Director is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Philosophy/Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He did his undergraduate work at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS in Geography and Philosophy, where he studied Philosophy under noted Hartshorne expert, Donald Wayne Viney. Steve completed an M.A. in Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University in May 2007. Steve holds a general interest in traditional approaches to process thought broadly understood – both East and West – as well as interests that include aesthetics, philosophy of place, feminism and gender theory, the postmodern condition, philosophical approaches to psychiatry, and critical theory.
	Information Technology Specialist is a Ph.D. student at Claremont Graduate University's School of Religion studying in the Philosophy of Religion and Theology program. His responsibilities at CPS include most anything related to information technology--e.g. computers, websites, digitization of library materials, etc. Most broadly construed, his academic interests are located in the spaces of convergence and divergence between metaphysics, theology, philosophy, and science. As such, his research areas include ontology, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, process-relational thought, and open and relational theologies. He received a Master's Degree in Theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2005, and a Bachelor's Degree in Near Eastern Studies in 2001.
	Korea Project / Library Assistant is a Ph. D. candidate at Claremont Graduate University, studying Hebrew Bible. She is originally from Korea and received her B.A in Christian Studies from Ewha Women's University. She received an M.Div. from San Francisco Theological Seminary, as well as an M.A.B.L from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Hye Kyung is currently working on the Korea Project and is a library assistant at CPS. She is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
	Communications Director / Editor Wm. Andrew Schwartz is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy of Religion and Theology and M.A. student in Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. He received his B.A. in Religion and a BA in Missions from Northwest Nazarene University (where he studied with Thomas Jay Oord), and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Nazarene Theological Seminary. Andrew’s primary academic interests include Process Thought, Epistemology, Truth, Religious Pluralism, Wesleyan Theology, and Comparative Philosophy of Religion. He is currently the editor of Process Perspectives and works on publicity and web development for CPS.
	China Project Director , former member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, received his Masters Degree in Western Philosophy from Peking University, China, his Ph.D in Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University, USA, and is a leading figure in constructive postmodern movement in China. He has published numerous books and articles and helped establish more than 10 research institutes in China. He is director of CPS China Project where his major responsibility is to charge the communication between the Western Process community and Chinese community by organizing international conferences, arranging lectures, translating process books, and Chinese visiting scholar program.