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Undergraduate institution: University of Chicago

Intellectual interests: Artistic and literary modernism; Social
theory, particularly of art and/in modernity; Film; Philosophical film
and literary criticism

University of Montana, Oxford University, New York University

Scott Bear Don't Walk studies the confluence of Western culture and
Native American cultures. He is particularly interested in how Western
philosophy and ideology influence how Europe and America perceive
Native American cultures, particularly his own tribes: the Crow,
Flathead and Chippewa-Cree. Towards this end, he works on
anthropological texts written about the Crow Tribe by various
anthropologists and historians.

He is particularly interested in the idea of the the studied, studying the studiers.

Undergraduate Institution:  Harvard

Interests:  Ancient & modern political philosophy. Concentration on the moral and psychological foundations of early modern philosophy and classical liberalism. I am working on a critical study of the origins and development of the modern concept of power, especially as a principle of political psychology. Further research interest in the theory and practice of political economy.

Dissertation:  Hobbes's Psychology & the Conception of Desire for Power

Dissertation Committee:  Nathan Tarcov (Chair), Robert Pippin, Pierre Manent (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

B.A. Bates College

Dissertation: "Reciprocation, Relationship, and Arousal"--in which I try to puzzle out the relationship between intrinsic and intrumental value in love.

Intellectual interests include the history of ethics (especially in relation to love), contemporary practical philosophy, philosophy and literature, Greek and German Philosophy, New England Transcendentalism, and human ecology. 

Is interested in intellectual history, political philosophy, hermeneutics, aesthetics & criticism, and most enjoys reading / thinking about literary philosophy (Zhuangzi, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein) and philosophical literature (Melville, Dostoyevsky, Lu Xun, Kafka).

Joint Ph.D. Program in Social Thought and Classics

Education:

BA 2004, Literae Humaniores (classical philology, philosophy, ancient history), University of Oxford

Interests:

Greek and Roman historiography (especially Thucydides and Tacitus); Greek tragedy and the theory of its interpretation; literature and thought in the era of Goethe; German philosophy from Nietzsche to Heidegger; history of classical scholarship (especially its relation to the poet Stefan George and continental philosophy from the first half of the twentieth century).

Whitman College, BA Religion

Interests: Philosophy of Religion, Moral Perfectionism, American Romanticism, Postwar Jewish Thought (especially Phenomenology of Relation), Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Modern Poetry, and the Aestheticization of Ethics.

Previous education: B.A. in Philosophy and History, UC Berkeley

Interests: American literary naturalism and realism; American and
European literary modernism; Pragmatism; the influence of science on
literature; literary philosophy and philosophical literature

Dissertation topic: The influence of evolutionary theory on late-19th-c. American novels.

Dissertation committee: Robert Pippin, Bill Brown, Lisa Ruddick, Maud Ellmann

Interests: German modernist literature; narratology; the relationship of literature to ethics and politics; philosophical uses of narrative

Dissertation: Towards a Literary Ethics: Narrative and the Representation of Subjectivity in the Work of Robert Musil

Committee: David Wellbery, Robert Pippin, Susanne Lüdemann

Undergraduate institution: University of Toronto, Major in Classics, minor in South Asian Studies and Political Theory

Intellectual interests: History of political philosophy, Islamic thought, languages and politics, self-understanding (at least we should all try).

Dissertation: Alfarabi and the Question of the Islamic Ummah. This project involves investigating Alfarabi’s redefinition of this key Islamic concept, and showing how it brings out the tension between Islam’s universal Ummah of believers and the particularity of the several ethnic Ummahs (Arabs, Persians, Turks etc.) that compose it. I will also examine efforts by contemporary Muslim to resolve this same tension.

Dissertation Committee: Nathan Tarcov, Ralph Lerner, James T. Robinson.

Interests: the literature and ethics of empathy, the moral psychology of leadership, and the work of Adam Smith. 

Dissertation Committee:  Thomas Pavel, Adam Zagajewski, J. M. Coetzee, and William Mills Todd III 

Rollert has been published in The Business and Society Review, The Yale Law Journal Online, and The Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities (forthcoming). In addition to his academic work, he frequently writes on business, law, and politics for a variety of popular publications. His writing has been featured in Slate, Salon, The Harvard Business Review Online, Politico, The Point, and The Huffington Post.  His work has also been profiled in The Washington Post, National Review Online (Bench Memos), NPR, SCOTUSblog, and, in Canada, the National Post. 

A graduate of Harvard College, Rollert earned his JD from Yale Law School. Since 2005, he has taught courses in business ethics and leadership to business professionals at Harvard. He is also an Assistant Adjunct Professor of the Behavioral Sciences at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Undergrad: St. John’s College  (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Intellectual interests: ancient Greek literature and philosophy, Shakespeare, folktales, British novels, crime fiction

Dissertation title: King Lear and its Folktale Analogues 

Committee: Wendy Doniger,  David Bevington,  Marina Warner

Undergraduate institution: University of Dallas (located in Irving, TX), BA in English and mathematics

Intellectual interests: literature and philosophy, 19th-20th century English and American poetry, modernism and the epic, mimesis and catharsis 

Undergraduate: Duke University

Interests: 18th and 19th-century German literature and philosophy, religion and secularism in modernity

Brown University B.A. 

University of Chicago M.A. in the Humanities

Interests: theories of freedom, immanence, social and political theory, phenomenology, cultural criticism, comparative religious ethics.  

Undergraduate institution: Louisiana Scholars' College '03.

I am interested in Social Theory, Process Philosophy, History of Social Thought, Philosophy and Popular Culture.

My dissertation is on the implications of Whitehead's process philosophy for social theory, particularly the theory of action. It is being supervised by Hans Joas, Michael Halewood (Essex), and Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois).

Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago, BA in Classics

Intellectual Interests: Political rhetoric in fiction; fiction and individual moral development; literature and philosophy in Ancient Greece and in early modern Europe, Pindar.