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News Regarding Undergraduates

• Congratulations to the following undergraduates on their award-winning Alyssa Weaver, "Beneficence," Herder Prize (best introductory paper) Daniel Donadio, "Kant's refutation of Empirical Idealism," Brentano Prize (best advanced paper) Ken Sasamura, "Group Belief Without Narrow Supervenience," David Hull Prize (best senior thesis)
• Congratulations to philosophy major Rachel Schwartz for being accepted to the Tikva Summer Program in Jewish Thought and Enduring Human Questions at Princeton.
• Congratulations to philosophy major Maria Brackin, who was selected as a Scholar for the Saint Andrew's Society of NY.  Maria will be attending the University of Edinburgh in Scotland next year.
• Philosophy alum Stephanie Novak (BA 2011) publishes an article in the NY Times on global health education.
• Congratulations to Philosophy Major Rafael Vizcaino for publishing a piece in The Progressive regarding the support of faculty for the Occupy movement on college campuses.
• Zach Joachim will present his paper "On Freedom and Subjugation in Foucault's Discipline and Punish" at conferences at Pacific University, Ohio State University, and the University of Chicago.
• Thomas Gilbert published his paper "Problems of Kierkegaard's Poetics" in Denison's Episteme.
• Dhrumil Mehta received an Undergraduate Research Grant for research entitled "Language and Thought."
• Thomas Gilbert won a Fulbright to Copenhagen, Denmark for his project entitled, "Kierkegaard's Social Context in Historical and Contemporary Denmark."
• Thomas Gilbert won a research grant for his project, "Kierkegaard's Early Reception in American Academia."
• Irina Kogan (2009 graduate) received a DAAD fellowship for study in Germany.
• Samuel Johnson received a WCAS Summer Research Grant for his project "Agency Attribution and Logic of Action: Intentionality, Morality, and Counterfactual Reasoning. "
• Aaron Kahn received a WCAS Summer Research Grant for his project "Kant's Table of Judgment in the Perspective of Modern Logic."
• Blake Kawabata received a WCAS Summer Research Grant for his project "Supernatural and Identity-Informant Memes' Influence on the Formation of Religious Practical Identities."
• Caroline Perry received a WCAS Summer Research Grant for her project "New Christian Ethics of Forgiveness in Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Possibilities for Survivor Empowerment."
• Benjamin Rudofsky received a WCAS Summer Research Grant for his project "What You Should Know: The Moral Oughts of Knowledge."
• Avi Emanuel won the Distinguished Senior Honors Thesis Award for 2009-10, for his thesis entitled "The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God".
• Sisi Wei had her paper Against Bonnie Steinbock: Filling in the Gaps accepted for presentation at the Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference in March 2010.
• Stephanie Novak received the Fall 2009 Undergraduate Research Grant for her project,

News Regarding Graduate Students

• Congratulations to Philosophy grad student Alison Peterman, on her tenure-track job at the University of Rochester.
• Tyler Zimmer, Seth Mayer, and Rebecca Mason commented on Charles Mills' paper "The Political Economy of Personhood" published on the web forum On the Human.
• Max Cherem accepted a tenure-track position in the Philosophy Department at Kalamazoo College.
• Jonathan Trejo-Mathys acceped a tenure-track position in the Philosophy Department at Boston College.
• Alums Amy Allen (PhD 1996) and Joseph Rouse (PhD 1977) were selected among The Graduate School's "most notable" alumni. (Allen is currently Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Darmouth College; and Rouse is currently Professor of Philosophy, Heading Professor of Moral Science, and Chair of the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University.
• Laura Papish accepted a one-year job at Johns Hopkins.
• Jonathan Trejo-Mathys won a Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2010-11 at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Frankfurt.
• Henry Southgate accepted a dual position as lecturer and Managing Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Kelby Harrison accepted a post-doctoral position at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.
• Carl Ehrett for accepted a one-year position at Furman University.
• Chike Jeffers accepted a tenure-track job at Dalhousie University.
• Melissa Yates accepted a tenure-track job at Rutgers-Camden.

News Regarding Faculty

• The Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the hiring of Professor Stephen White (UCLA).
• The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce our newest affiliated faculty member Professor Bonnie Honig, Political Science.
• Professor Peter Ludlow cited in an article from Inside Higher Ed on the value of the American Philosophical Association.
• Urizenas Sklar (aka Professor Peter Ludlow) on moral character in the Huffington Post.
• Congratulations to Professor Peter Ludlow, who has been named to an endowed chair: John Evans Professorship in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy.
• Professor Peter Ludlow mentioned in the Chronicle of Higher Education, in defense of progress in philosophy.
• Professor Sandy Goldberg is named Editor of the Philosophy section of Oxford Handbooks Online.
• Professor Peter Ludlow on the Alyona Show on Recent Trends in Hacktivism.
• Professor Sandy Goldberg's book Relying On Others featured on New Books Philosophy.
• Professor Sandy Goldberg has become Editor-in-Chief of the Philosophy section of Oxford Handbooks Online.
• Peter Ludlow spoke at the International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy) on online privacy issues and Wikileaks.
• Charles Mills' paper "The Political Economy of Personhood" was published on the web forum "On the Human."
• Jennifer Lackey became Associate Editor of Philosophical Studies.
• Rachel Zuckert received a Humboldt Fellowship for AY 2011-12.
  
• David Ebrey was selected as a Senior Fellow at the Kaplan Humanities Institute for 2011-12.
• Urzenius Sklar (aka Peter Ludlow) writing in the Huffington Post: "Reading Charlie Sheen: Finding Meaning in a Secular Age".
• Peter Ludlow's book The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics has just been published by Oxford University Press.
• Professor Peter Ludlow was interviewed for Philosopher's Zone.
• The Philosophy Department is delighted to announce that the hiring of Professor Michael Glanzberg, who specializes in Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, and Mathematical Logic.
• Professors Ken Seeskin and Charles Mills received senior endowed chairs and were honored at an Investiture Ceremony.
• Professor Ken Seeskin's book The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion and Culture has just been awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections category.
• Professor Peter Ludlow publishes again in the Huffington Post on Wikileaks.
• Professor Peter Ludlow was interviewed on the Alonya Show on Wikileaks, Operation Payback, and the philosophy of hacktivism.
• Professor Peter Ludlow wrote a piece for The Huffington Post on Wikileaks' Julian Assange's political philosophy.
• Professor Mark Sheldon wrote for Zocalo Public Square on medical technology and the probability of cheating death.
• Professor Peter Ludlow was quoted in the Vancouver Sun on the Wikileaks affair.
• Professor Peter Ludlow was featured in the New York Times.
• Professor Peter Ludlow wrote for Alternet on the 10 biggest hacktivists.
• Professor Peter Ludlow recently blogged for the Huffington Post; his e-book Our Future in Virtual Worlds is also now available.
• Professor Peter Ludlow was recently interviewed on the Alyona Show, talking about Hacktivism and the Media.
• Sandy Goldberg's book Relying on Others has been published.
• Peter Ludlow's article on WikiLeaks was published in the September 2010 issue of The Nation.
• We morn the passing of Professor David Hull, long-time faculty member in our department. Obituaries can be found at the NU Newscenter, the Chicago Tribune, and in the Chicago Sun-Times.
• Cristina Lafont was named Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor of Philosophy.
• Ken Seeskin's book Jewish History, Religion, and Culture has been published.
• Cristina Lafont was awarded a fellowship to spend the 2012-2013 academic year at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
• Mark Sheldon was selected to the 2009-2010 Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll.
• Ken Seeskin was selected to the 2009-2010 Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll.
• Baron Reed will beassuming an editorial position with the journal Skeptical Studies.
• Cristina Lafont has just been invited to hold the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam for Spring 2011.
• Mark Alznauer won a 2009 NEH  "Enduring Questions" award to develop a course under the project title, "Should Art be Moral?  The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry.
• Kyla Ebels Duggan has accepted a Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton University for the 2009-10 academic year.

General Department News

• The Philosophy Department Receives Kudos for it's newsletter.
• Professor Lizzie Fricker (Oxford) will visit our department as Kreeger-Wolf Visiting Professor, April 4-15, 2011.
• Select alumni profiles are now online.
• In June 2009 the Philosophy Department will be hosting the 2009 Episteme workshop, on the topic of the Epistemology of Disagreement (with proceeds to be published in Episteme, a journal of Social Epistemology)
• In May 2009 the Philosophy Department will host our annual Ethics workshop.