Richard Parks , J.D., Ph.D.
Holmes Hall, E-35
919 E. Shaw Lane
East Lansing, MI 48825
United States
LBC Courses Taught
Biography
My focus, as an academic specialist, is to create a classroom environment that increases critical thinking skills in my students. To that end, I teach courses that emphasize logic, analysis, and forming well-reasoned conclusions. Learning how to garner facts, assess evidence, and form arguments is key to success in any profession: whether art or science. Although personal philosophy is important, the development of critical thinking helps us recognize a breadth of opinions with a focus on self-awareness, eliminating bias, and mindful problem solving.
Education
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota School of Medicine
• J.D., Tulane University School of Law
• Certificat, Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris
• B.A., New York University
Honors and Awards
• Cogut Center for the Humanities Fellow, Brown University
• American Institute of Maghrib Studies long-term Grant
• Fulbright full-grant to Tunisia
• Critical Language Enhancement Award (Arabic), U.S. Dept. of State
• Social Science Research Council IDRF
• Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship (Arabic), U.S. Dept. of State
• United State Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, 2009 and 2010.
Publications
• Medical Imperialism in French North Africa (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2017).
• “Divide et Impera: Public Health and Urban Reform in Interwar Tunis,” Journal of North African Studies, vol. 17, no. 3 (2012), 533-46.
• "The Jewish Quarters of Interwar Paris and Tunis: Destruction, Creation, and French Urban Design," Jewish Social Studies 17:1 (Fall 2011): 67-87.
• “Doe v. Mutual of Omaha: Insurance Policy Discrimination against People with AIDS” Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality 10:277 (2000).
• “A Right to Die: International Perspectives” Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 8: 447 (2000).