Phi Society (First-Year Student Honor Society); Phi Beta Pi; Sigma Delta Pi (National Spanish honorary) - President; Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honorary) - Vice-President; Mortar Board (Community Service Honorary); Harold Titus Award in Social / Political Philosophy; Fellow in the Department of Philosophy; Research papers presented at Mid-South Philosophy Conference; Young Scholar Summer - Presented at ILASSA Spanish Conference at University of Texas in February; Paper presented at Mid-South Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis; Spanish Videopoem project presented at conference in Cincinnati; Spanish-language essay submitted for publication in Cuadernos de Literatura at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia; Department of Philosophy - Writing Assistant; New Beginnings Domestic Violence Shelter - Volunteer; The Bullsheet - Managing Editor; Episteme, undergraduate philosophy journal - Editor-in-Chief; Mind of Your Own - contributing editor; WDUB-FM - Two weekly shows; Philosophy Coffee Committee - Co-Chair; Newman Club - President.

Supporting comments: "From the beginning, this young philosophy major seemed intelligent and knowledgeable beyond his years; Jim is a terrific student, 'one of the three or four best philosophy majors we've had in the 17 years I have been teaching at Denison'; the department chose him (as only a sophomore) for the annual Harold Titus Award offered to the best student in social and political philosophy; this year alone he read papers at the Mid-South Association Philosophy Conference in Memphis and for a conference at the University of Texas in Austin; he's a real mover and shaker, and his presence will be missed once he graduates; Jim is the kind of student that every faculty member wants to have in class -- thoughtful, well-read, articulate, an excellent writer and always willing to push a point until he understands the significance of the argument; outside of class, he made a tremendous contribution serving as Managing Editor of the Bullsheet; the Bullsheet, under Jim's leadership, has become a much better and more interesting, incisive and humorous publication"