Name: Michael Llewellyn Humphreys
Position Title: Associate Professor of Ethics
Office Location: Online, CBE Leadership Program
Office Phone: 904-522-4917
Email: Humphreysm@cookman.edu
List of degrees:
B. S., Physical Science, United States Coast Guard Academy;
M. Div., Drew University, Madison, NJ;
M.Phil., Drew University, Madison, NJ;
Ph.D., Drew University, Madison, NJ
2023 BCU Outstanding Faculty Service and Engagement Award.
Ethical assessment of land use practices regarding the intersection of differing cultural and biological considerations relatice to the removal of exotic plants which also have cultural significance.
I have completed over 4000 hours of resident volunteer service for the Florida Park Service/Department of Environmental Protection since 2019, at Anastasia State Park, Ravine Gardens State Park, Fort Mose State Park, DeLeon Springs State Park and Washington oaks Gardens State Park.
(Graduate level)
(Undergraduate level)
My research interests include restorative justice and environmental sustainability.
January 4, 2021: “A Cloud of Witnesses: A Hermeneutical Integration of Student Insights Over Time in Multiple Courses.” BCU Spring Faculty Institute, 2021.
November, 2020: “Environmental Justice and the preservation of our Springs,” Save Our Springs and Rivers Academy, a grant funded initiative of Volusia County and the Environmental Protection Agency. This was conducted via Zoom.
October, 2020: “An Introduction to Environmental Ethics.” Belmont Charter High School 9th grade classes, Belmont Charter High School, Philadelphia, PA via Zoom.
August, 2020: “Leadership, Conscience and Risk.” BCU Fall Faculty Institute, 2020.
September, 2019: “An Introduction to Environmental Ethics,” The New Smyrna Beach Garden Club - Environmental School for Florida Federation of Garden Clubs members. Women’s Garden Club, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
August, 2019: “Enhanced Online Discussions: Strategies for Faculty-Student Interaction Using Canvas.” BCU Fall Faculty Institute, Fall, 2019.
April, 2019: “Implementing the Unimaginable: An Exploration of Effective Strategies for Environmental Change.” Save Our Springs and Rivers Academy, a grant funded initiative of Volusia County and the Environmental Protection Agency. Lyonia Environmental Center, 2150 Eustace Avenue, Deltona, Florida.
November, 2013: Service Learning Activities at Bethune-Cookman. Florida Campus Compact, Service Learning colloquia and workshops, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. This included formal training in service learning techniques and administration.
December, 2012: The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Public Health and Environmental Justice, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL. Presented a paper titled, “Doing Justice: The Role of Ethics in Integrated Ecosystem Management and the Development and Implementation of Combined Ecological/Societal Systems Modeling.” (Conference was third in a series of three conferences sponsored by University of North Texas, University of Texas El Paso, and Bethune-Cookman University.
October, 2011: Philosophy Born of Struggle, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Presented “The Struggle to Know Our Place: doing justice to humans and non-human others.”
June, 2011: Pedagogy for Ecological Responsibility, United Methodist Church General Board for Higher Education and Ministry, Santa Fe, NM. Selected as Bethune-Cookman University’s representative for this national collaborative policy and planning effort.
January, 2010: 2010 IABR (Business) Conference and the 2010 ITLC Conference, Clute Institute, Orlando Florida Jan. 2010. Co-presenter, “A Study of Transfer of Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes after Graduation from MS in Transformative Leadership Program.”
February, 2008: Leadership Enhancement Program, University of Central Florida. Presenter, “Inspired by Charles Curran’s Relationality-Responsibility Model for Ethics, an Ethics of Transformative Leadership.”
October, 2005: Fifth Transdisciplinary Theological Conference, Drew University, Madison, NJ. Presented a paper titled “Elaborating non-human agency.”
May, 2005: Second Annual Teaching with New Technology Institute, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ. Presented a paper titled "A Socratic Approach to On-Line Learning: meeting students where they are socially and academically."
February, 2005: 14th Annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, San Antonio, Texas. Presented a paper titled "Let's call it a 'clear water initiative,' Problems and Possibilities for a New Paradigm, A “Partnership Ethics” for (Non)human Nature.”
Humphreys. M.L. (2023) “The Timucua, Traditional Environmental Knowledge, and the Possibility of Restorative Justice in the Halifax River Urban Watershed.” Florida Geographer. Vol 54, 132-138.
Humphreys. M.L. (2020) “Investigating the Potential Adoption of Restorative Justice by Communities in Halifax River Watershed.” In Cho, Reiter, Jacoby. (eds) The Halifax River Urban Watershed: A Holistic Approach to Sustainability. Bethune-Cookman University. BCU, DB, FL
Hill, G., Kolmes, S., Humphreys, M. et al. (2019) “Using decision support tools in multi-stakeholder environmental planning: Lessons from sub-basin planning in the Columbia River Basin.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Heidelberg: Springer-US
Kolmes, S.A., Humphreys, M.L., Kolmes, S.K. (2018) “Ethical Analysis in Revealing Complexity: The Proposed Pebble Mine in the Watershed of Bristol Bay, Alaska,” in Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: Linking Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.
Smardon, R.C., Reiter, M.A., Humphreys, M.L. (2018) “Course Design: Examples of Graduate Courses” in Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: Linking Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.
Barresi, P.A., Focht, W.J., Reiter, M.A., Smardon, R.C., Humphreys, M.L., Reiter, K.D. & Kolmes, S.A. (2015) Revealing Complexity in Educating for Sustainability: An Update on the Work of the Roundtable on Environment and Sustainability in. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Sustainability Thinking in Science and Engineering Curricula. Heidelberg, DE: Springer International Publishing
Humphreys, M.L., Reiter, M.A. & Matlock, G. (2014) Doing Justice: The Role of Ethics in Integrated Ecosystem Management and the Implementation of the Integrated Assessment and Ecosystem Management Protocol. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. Olney, Bucks, UK: Inderscience Publishers.
Numbering over 200 to date since 2007, some include, as an illustrative sample: