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Jennifer Mensch was just awarded two research grants to support her scholarship in the history of philosophy: a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and a Kristeller-Popkin Fellowship from the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Congratulations to Jennifer for these two awards!
Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, has been named the Society of Women in Philosophy’s 2008 Distinguished Woman Philosopher.
Begun in 1984, this annual award honors a woman philosopher whose contributions to the support of women in philosophy and to philosophy itself are outstanding and merit special recognition. A panel and reception celebrating Professor Tuana’s accomplishments will be organized for the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in
Congratulations to Nancy for this excellent honor!
Professor Robert Bernasconi will join the philosophy faculty at Penn State in Fall 2009 as Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy. Professor Bernasconi’s primary research and teaching interests lie in critical philosophy of race, particularly in relation to the history of philosophy, and Continental philosophy, especially figures such as Sartre, Levinas, and Heidegger. He is the author of How to Read Sartre (W.W. Norton, 2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (Humanities Press, 1993), and The Question of Language in Heidegger’s History of Being (Humanities Press, 1985).
Professor Kathryn Gines will join the philosophy faculty at Penn State in Fall 2008. In 2008-09 she will be a Philosophy and Africana Research Center Post-doctorate Fellow and beginning fall 2009 she will be an Assistant Professor in Philosophy. Professor Gines’s primary research and teaching interests lie in Continental philosophy, Africana Philosophy, and Philosophy of Race and Gender, and she focuses on figures such as Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Fanon, and Anna Julia Cooper.
For more information on Professor Gines, click here.
Professor Gines has published articles on race thinking in Arendt’s work, questions of assimilation, and sex and sexuality in contemporary hip-hop, and she currently is working on two monographs entitled Rethinking France: Racism, Colonialism, and Violence and Hannah Arendt and the "Negro Question."
In 2007, Professor Gines organized the first annual Collegium of Black Women Philosophers. Last year, the Collegium received excellent press coverage here in the Philadelphia Inquirer and here in the Chronicle of Higher Education during its inaugural conference in the spring of 2007. The next meeting of the Collegium will be held at Penn State University in spring 2009.
The Lyceum asked Professor Gines to comment on how she feels about joining the department. Here is what she said:
I am delighted to be joining the Philosophy Department at Penn State University. I appreciate this department’s commitment to the history of philosophy and the fact that it offers a curriculum designed to promote discourse across philosophical traditions and international borders. Furthermore, I look forward to participating in and contributing to a program that is committed to an inclusive model for doing philosophy.
We are very excited to welcome Kathryn to the department.
Len Lawlor will join the Philosophy Department at Penn State in Fall 2008 as Edwin Erle Sparks Professor. Professor Lawlor received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988. His primary research and teaching interest is contemporary Continental philosophy, including Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, Husserl, and Nietzsche. He is the author of several books: The Implications of Immanence: towards a New Concept of Life (The Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2006); Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology (Indiana, 2002); Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Indiana, 2003); The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics (Continuum Books, 2003); and Imagination and Chance: The Difference Between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida (SUNY Press, 1992). He is one of the co-editors of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty. He has translated Merleau-Ponty and Hyppolite into English. He has written dozens of articles on Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Gadamer.
When asked how he felt about his move to Penn State, Len responded:
It is a great honor for me to be able to participate in the Ph.D. Program which has produced philosophers like Iris Marion Young, Cindy Willett, and Todd May. I look forward to teaching my first seminar next Fall. My first course at Penn State will concern the problem of crisis in philosophy. The primary texts we shall examine are Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences, Merleau-Ponty's The Adventures of the Dialectic, and Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy. I am excited to be able to help the Philosophy Department at Penn State continue its successful tradition.
We are all very excited to welcome Len to the program.
Over the past few months three of our senior faculty have received recognition from the University for their excellent work.
This past fall, Dennis Schmidt and Vincent Colapietro were named Liberal Arts Research Professors of Philosophy. This research chair recognizes a faculty member’s outstanding scholarship and international reputation in his or her field. Professor Colapietro’s research focuses on American philosophy, semiotics, and the work of Charles Sanders Peirce. Professor Schmidt’s research concentrates on post-Kantian continental philosophy, ancient philosophy, aesthetics, and literary criticism.
More recently, Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Rock Ethics Institute in the College of the Liberal Arts, was awarded the 2008 Penn State President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. This award is given to a full-time member of the faculty who has exhibited extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching, research or creative accomplishments, and service.
Congratulations to Dennis, Vincent and Nancy.
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