Juan De Pascuale

Born in Argentina and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Juan De Pascuale has been on the Kenyon faculty since 1984. Prior to arriving at Kenyon he taught for three years at Brown University and for four years at the University of Notre Dame. In 1994 he was honored with the Trustee Award for Distinguished Teaching; in 1995 he was recognized by the American Philosophical Association for Excellence in Teaching of Philosophy; in 2000 he received the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award; and in 2008 he received the Alpha Delta Phi Great Teacher Award. In 2001 he was chosen by that year's senior class to deliver the Baccalaureate Address, which he titled, "The Wonder of it All."

De Pascuale's scholarly and teaching interests are broad, embracing existentialism and phenomenology, philosophy of art, philosophy of religion, Zen Buddhist philosophy and Roman and Hellenistic philosophy. For many years his scholarly attention has been focused on the work of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger with an eye on using the work of these thinkers to re-envision philosophy as a way of life rather than as a detached academic discipline.

De Pascuale has served on the Committee on Hispanics in Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association, as Chair of the Philosophy Review Panel for the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program and was a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Louvain. He served the College as chair of the philosophy department for fourteen years and as advisor to A.D.E.L.A.N.T.E, Kenyon's Hispanic student organization which he founded in 1986 with a group of students. He currently serves the greater community as a member of the Board of Trustees of Knox Community Hospital. He is married to Carola Sanz, a sociologist specializing on the impact of development in Latin American. They have four children, Sebastian, Anthony, Sophia (Kenyon class of 2017) and Veronica.