Steven M. Emmanuel

Steven serves as a professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Virginia Wesleyan University, where he served as Dean of the Susan S. Goode School of Arts and Humanities from 2020 to 2024. He attended Boston University as an undergraduate and earned his doctoral degree from Brown University. He is a recipient of the SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award and the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace and Justice Award. In addition to numerous articles in respected journals of philosophy and religion, he has published 13 books in his areas of specialization. In 2008, he produced and directed an award-winning feature-length documentary film, Making Peace with Viet Nam, which examined the ongoing health and environmental problems caused by the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.