Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Ting-An Lin, who’s co-authored paper (with Linus Ta-Lun Huang), “AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things” has just won a Best Paper Award at AIES (the AAAI/ACM conference on AI, Ethics, and Society), a top interdisciplinary conference on AI ethics. The extended abstract can be read here.
Awards
Kristin Waters (Ph.D. ’81): Frantz Fanon Award
Please join us in congratulating alumna Kristin Waters (Ph.D. ’81), who is one of the recipients of the 2025 Frantz Fanon Award for her book Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought. The Frantz Fanon Prize is awarded annually in recognition of up to three works in or of special interest to Caribbean thought.
Katie Peters: Awarded 2024 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Fellowship
Congratulations to student Katie Peters for being awarded the 2024 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellowship!
Lewis Gordon: UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Congratulations to Professor and Department Head, Lewis Gordon, for receiving the honor of being named one UConn’s Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors!
Alexandra Stamson: Winner of the 2023 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Fellowship
Congratulations to Alexandra Stamson for winning the 2023 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellowship!
Tracy Llanera: Awarded Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera for being awarded a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship! Professor Llanera will write a new book titled The Misfits of Extremism. Her book aims to place non-traditional extremist agents of Islamic fundamentalism and white supremacy at the front and center of philosophical and political debates. The work will offer a […]
Heather Muraviov: Awarded Residential Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame
Congratulations to Heather Muraviov for being awarded a residential fellowship at The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame to study the nature and value of intellectual humility in contexts of oppression. Check out more information on the award here.
Heather Battaly: Templeton/Applied Research on Intellectual Humility
Congratulations to Professor Heather Battaly, one of the Principal Investigators on a $6.6 Million grant that supports Applied Research on Intellectual Humility, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Stress, Trauma, and Resilience at Georgia State University. The request for proposals can be found below. The deadline for letters of intent is […]
Tracy Llanera: CLAS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera, who has been awarded a CLAS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant to support her work titled “Resilience: A Workshop for Women Doing Philosophy.”
Professor Len Krimmerman Honored by Alumni
Philosophy Professor Emeritus Leonard I. Krimerman was celebrated on Saturday, August 6th, by alumnae/i from the Inner College project he mentored back in the late 1960s. The alumnae/i spoke of how his mentorship transformed their lives and contributed to the citizenship work they continue to do in their communities.