Lloyd International Honors College

Dr. Frances Bottenberg

Assistant Dean,
Global Honors

Philosophy

f_botten@uncg.edu
(336) 334-9772

Dr. Frances Bottenberg is Assistant Dean in Lloyd International Honors College, where she oversees Honors College admissions and scholarships, mentors scholarship recipients, manages Honors Colloquium, and teaches Honors courses. Dr. Bottenberg earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. Prior to joining the Honors College leadership ensemble she held teaching positions at UNC Greensboro and at Elon University and served as Assessment Coordinator in UNCG’s Office of Assessment, Accreditation and Academic Program Planning. A recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Bottenberg has designed and taught over a dozen courses in topics as wide-ranging as education, art, aging, theories of consciousness, sustainability, logic and critical thinking, ethical theory and political philosophy. Her research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the nature and meaning of intelligence and its bearing on concepts such as personhood and sentience, most recently in reference to living with dementia. She also publishes in the scholarship of teaching and learning and is especially interested in learner-centered classrooms that authentically connect curricular objectives with students’ personal and professional development. Dr. Bottenberg was born and raised in Montreal, Canada by German-American parents and is trilingual (English, German, French). An enthusiastic global traveller, she has spent time in 18 countries (and counting!).