About
John Cantú is an Academic Advisor in the Honors Program. His work in the program entails assisting students define their educational and future occupational goals as well as help assist them in designing plans to meet them within the College’s liberal arts framework with appropriate academic and health support resources.
John is a graduate with Honors from the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied Government with a minor in the History of Art. He has a further degree in Philosophy from the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana with work towards certification in that Liberal Arts College’s Center in Critical Thinking and Interpretive Theory. His academic interests range from philosophy and art history to film studies and political theory. He’s had jobs ranging from management in the Loews Theater Corporation to multiple appointments as an art critic and film critic in a number of scholarly and popular periodicals. He’s currently a visual arts critic for the Ann Arbor District Library’s “Pulp” on-line arts blog.
John enjoys hiking (for example, traveling to the Northwest region to see the recent solar eclipse 100 percent “totality”) as well as visiting art museums and art galleries. He’s an adoptive follower of the British Premier League Arsenal soccer team; a lifelong fan of the National Football League Dallas Cowboys (as a birthright from the city of Dallas, Texas); as well as an avid follower of all Wolverine Sports. Go Blue!
