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A.G. Rud

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education Office: BRNG 5142
Office Phone: (765) 494-7310
Email: rud@purdue.edu

Specialization: Cultural foundations of education, with particular emphasis on the moral dimensions of teacher education, P-12 educational leadership, and higher education.


I came to Purdue in 1994 as associate dean, and served in that role until 2001.  From 2001 - 2002, I was interim head of my department.  I got my A.B. in religion with honors from Dartmouth College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University.  I am currently writing a book on Albert Schweitzer's legacy for educational thought and practice.  My recent work includes research with Alan M. Beck of Purdue’s Center for the Human-Animal Bond on the moral and cognitive aspects of human-animal interaction in schools; a book chapter on the moral dimensions of engineering education, co-authored with an engineering professor for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; an essay on serving as an interim department head in the Chronicle of Higher Education; and Moo2, a blog on higher education.   regularly makes presentations at major professional conferences and am the author of a number of articles and reviews.  I edit Education and Culture, the peer-reviewed international journal of the John Dewey Society; serve on the editorial boards of several other academic journals; and was chair of the editorial board of Purdue University Press.  I was senior editor and contributor to A Place for Teacher Renewal:  Challenging the Intellect, Creating Educational Reform (foreword by Maxine Greene of Teachers College, Columbia University, who compared the volume to Thoreau's Walden), published by Teachers College Press in 1992.  I  joined my dear friend Jim Garrison as co-editor and contributor to a volume of essays entitled The Educational Conversation:  Closing the Gap (foreword by Nel Noddings of Stanford University), published by the State University of New York Press in 1995.