Fort Worth, TX February 19, 2013
Jack Hill, professor of Religion in AddRan College of Liberal Arts, has been granted a 2013-2014 Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professorship (Distinguished Chair) at Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland. In addition to researching and writing a book on the relevance of Adam Ferguson’s moral philosophy for teaching ethics today, he will be presenting guest lectures on ethics and his research at the University of Aberdeen and other universities in the U.K.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Hill has an M.T.S. from Harvard University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University, with a concentration in Philosophical and Theological Ethics, and a collateral discipline in Sociology of Religion. Before arriving at TCU, he taught ethics and phenomenology of religion at the Pacific Theological College in Fiji and was Visiting Professor of Ethics at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa.