<p><strong>Dr.&nbsp;James W. Thomasson&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>E-mail:</strong>&nbsp;woodside1@gvtel.com&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Work phone:</strong>&nbsp;.[218] 637-6600; Fax line: [218] 637-6602.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Office Location:</strong>&nbsp;.The Woodside Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 14709 Maple Inn Road SE, Mentor, MN&nbsp;56736-9433</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Woodside Center is housed at The Inn at Maple Crossing: innatmaplecrossing.com&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Office hours:</strong>&nbsp; I can be reached most days from 9 AM to 6 PM CST.&nbsp; (However, since I live here as well, I can usually be reached in the evenings.)&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Notes:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>I received my B. A. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., with Distinction in my major program in Religion.&nbsp; My M.A. and Ph. D. were obtained from Yale University, with a concentration in Systematic Theology and minor concentration in Philosophical Theology.&nbsp; For 28 years I was a member of the Theology Department at Georgetown University, having gone there straight from graduate school as their first Protestant theologian. For most of those years I taught theology, interdisciplinary studies, and graduate Liberal Studies. Team teaching and interdisciplinary curriculum development were a significant part of my "teaching" experience.&nbsp; Along the way I have had an active publication and presentation schedule.&nbsp; Among other writings, I have two published volumes of poetry, one forthcoming, and am working on a two-volume interdisciplinary book (centered around education), entitled Manifesto for American Renewal.</p>
<p>In 1995 I walked away from my Georgetown position to found an interdisciplinary study center in upper NW Minnesota--part of a broader project that involved a 3-1/2 year restoration of a seasonal hotel on Maple Lake, Mentor, MN, which now houses all of the interests my wife and I have pursued over the years: a 16-room bed-and-breakfast inn, dining room, Recollections (the highlight of my wife's 35-year career in American arts and handcrafts), and The Woodside Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. If anyone needs another answer to that easily posed question--"What can you do with a Ph. D. in &lsquo;such and such&rsquo;?"--here's is a website that will trace <em>our</em> lunacy: innatmaplecrossing.com. Shortly after the inn opened I took a position at the University of Minnesota's Crookston campus, teaching Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Humanities through the Arts, and Readings in American Life (they let me "play" a little!) After seven years as a "term" employee I spent three years convening regional and national conferences, primarily in Bioethics and Environmental Ethics, with one foray into oral histories and social change: "What Will We Tell Our Grandchildren?" Lastly, my most recent venture was a two-year endowed position as Professor of Applied Ethics and Sims Chair in Ethics at the University of Charleston, in Charleston, WV, Fall terms online and Springs terms in residence.</p>