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Professor Emeritus Thomas Pavel Awarded Honorary Degree

July 9, 2023
Professor Emeritus Thomas Pavel was awarded the Grand Prix de la Francophonie (2023) by the Académie Française. 

Professor Robert Pippin Awarded Honorary Degree

June 26, 2023
Professor Robert Pippin was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Potsdam.

Professor Hans Joas Awarded Honorary Degree

June 28, 2023
Congratulations to Professor Hans Joas, who was awarded an honorary degree from Pázmányi Péter University in Budapest.

Matthew Zipf Awarded Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law and Philosophy

May 12, 2023
Matthew Zipf has been awarded the Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law and Philosophy from the UChicago Law School.  This prize gives a student $5,000 to develop a proposal into a paper of publishable quality.  Matthew’s winning proposal is titled “Derision & Stare Decisis: Contempt in the Construction of Judicial Authority."

Rachel Wong Receipient of 2023-24 Fulbright

May 10, 2023
Rachel Wong has received a 2023-24 Fulbright Open Study/Research Grant and will be a visiting student in the Institut für Germanisk at the University of Leipzig.

Professor David Wellbery Wins UChicago's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship

April 5, 2023
Prof. David Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of Germanic Studies, Social Thought, and in the College, has received the highly coveted award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship, Spring 2023.

Emma Lunbeck, Recipient of a Social Sciences Research Council Graduate Fellowship

March 25, 2023
Emma Lunbeck has won a Social Sciences Research Council Graduate Fellowship.

Congratulations to Eliza S. Little

March 28, 2023

Former Social Thought student Eliza S. Little, '20, has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Congratulation Eliza!! 

Congratulations to Michael L. Thomas

March 28, 2023

Former Social Thought student Michael L. Thomas, '15, has just begun a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in the Critical Cultural Theory and Media Studies section. Congratulation Michael!! 

Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire Awarded a Gadamer Grant

March 28, 2023

Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire has just been awarded a Gadamer Grant from the Hans-Georg Gadamer Gesellschaft to work on a project called “Ethics without Metaphysics?  Gadamer’s Aristotle between Appropriation and Critique.”  March 2023