Dr. Christopher A. P. Nelson joined South Texas College as a Philosophy Instructor in 2004, after receiving his PhD in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He was made Professor of Philosophy in 2015, and has served the College as Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy (2006-2009, 2012-2015), Assistant Dean of Humanities (2014-2019), and Associate Dean of Curriculum and Student Learning (2019). He now serves the College as the Dean for Liberal Arts.