John Isham

• Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Modern Languages

Professor John Isham came to Carthage in 2007 from Columbia University, where he was a Core Lecturer in Literature Humanities. A native of Ohio, he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and History of Mathematics from St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., in 1989. After graduating he began learning Russian and became fluent in the language, then earned a Master's in International Affairs from Columbia in 1994. He earned an M.A. in Russian Language from Middlebury College in 1996; then earned an M.A., a Master's of Philosophy, and a Ph.D. in Russian Literature, all from Columbia. He also taught courses in Russian and the Humanities at Columbia from 1997 to 2003, and at Drew University in Madison, N.J. from 2003 to 2005.

 

Education

• Ph.D., M.A., M.Phil. — Russian Literature, Columbia University
• M.A. — Russian Language, Middlebury College
• Master of International Affairs — Columbia University
• B.A. — Philosophy and History of Mathematics, St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.)

 

• Courses
• Great Ideas Program
• Modern Languages Department