Congratulations to Clare Batty and Eric Sanday, who have been promoted to Associate Professor.
- more...We congratulate several Philosophy Department PhD graduates who were hired this spring into faculty positions: Joan Braune, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Mount Mary College, Milwaukee; Josh Horn, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin/Stevens Point; and Tyler Klaskow, Visiting Assistant Professor (three-year appointment) at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
- more...Several Philosophy Department faculty and graduate students have been awarded fellowships for the 2013-14 academic year. Among the faculty, Natalie Nenadicreceived a research fellowship from the American Association of University Women to work on her book, "Sexual Abuse and Pornography Today: A Heideggerian Analysis." Graduate student fellowships include Ollie Wiitala, Dissertation Year Fellowship; Rob Guerin, UK-Heidelberg Exchange Scholarship and a research grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD); and Margot Wielgus, Allocated Fellowship (Fall 2013).
- more...A number of students received awards from the Philosophy Department in 2012-13. Undergraduate awards included Jeri McIntosh, Senior Achievement Award; Amy Logsdon, Matchette Award; and Kendra Sanders, Kuiper-DeBoer Award. Graduate student awards included Josh Horn, Graduate Student Essay Prize, and Clint Jones, Philosophy Department Teaching Award. Josh Horn also won a College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding T.A. Award.
- more...The Philosophy Graduate Student Association hosted its sixteenth annual conference in the W.T.Y. Young Library on April 6 2013. The conference was entitled "Philosophy and Community" and featured six graduate student talks along with a keynote address by Prof. Julian Young of Wake Forest University on "Nietzsche: The Long View."
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