Peter T. Manicas
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY
Formerly Director, Interdisciplinary Studies
Professor of Sociology
University of Hawai’i at Mănoa

500 University Avenue,  Apt. 2404
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96826
manicas@hawaii.edu

Born in Binghamton, New York in 1934,  Peter Manicas was reared in Batavia, New York and received his BA from Syracuse University in 1955.  After service in the USAF, he received his MA and PhD from the University of Buffalo, 1963. He was on the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University and C.W. Post College until moving to Queens College where he took an early retirement and began, in 1988, what became a new career at the University of Hawai’i. Prior to that, he had served on the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and was a Visiting Senior Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford.

He has taught courses in philosophy, American Studies, political science and sociology and served on dissertation committees in history, economics, education and psychology in addition to the foregoing areas. This experience propelled his research interests in the history and philosophy of the social sciences, American pragmatism, Marxism, and political and social theory.

Peter has won several teaching awards and has served or is now serving on a number of scholarly journals, including European Journal of Social and Political Thought,  Information, Management and Information Technologies, Theoretical Psychology, and Social Process in Hawai'i. He is currently Associate editor of the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior.

Married since 1960 to Kenoe Kauanoe of Laie, Hawai’i, the Manicas’s have two children, Tautasi and Theodore.

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