Published: October 20, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We are delighted to announce that Jovy Chan has been selected as the winner of the 2025 David Savan Dissertation Prize for her thesis titled “Managing the Human Herd in a Digital World,” supervised by Joseph Heath. The selection committee described Jovy’s work as a “highly original dissertation [that] offers … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy congratulates its three most recent PhDs: In September, John R. Miller successfully defended his dissertation titled “Wahkootowin Ethics: A Métis Approach to the Ethics of Kinship,” supervised by Andrew Franklin-Hall. Miller currently holds the position of lecturer at the University of Victoria. David Rattray and Kristen Beard … Read More
Published: June 25, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
We are delighted to announce six faculty promotions in the department, all of which will take effect on July 1, 2025. Sara Aronowitz (St. George) and Tarek Dika (St. George) have both been promoted to associate professor with tenure, while Alex Koo (St. George) earned a promotion to associate professor … Read More
Published: June 17, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Two Philosophy undergraduate students, Petrina von Nieuwstadt and Kira Jensen, each received a 2025-2026 Undergraduate Fellowship at the Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI), allowing them to advance work on projects under the JHI’s Dystopia & Trust theme for the coming year. The JHI offers six such fellowships per year. Petrina von … Read More
Published: June 3, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
At the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) Annual Congress on June 2, 2025, three of our graduate students—Cameron Yetman, Alex Drusda, and Josh Brecka—were formally recognized as winners of CPA 2025 academic prizes, recognizing excellence in philosophical scholarship across multiple categories. Yetman and Drusda both received a CPA Student Essay Prize, … Read More
Published: May 24, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate
Alex Koo, an assistant professor in the Teaching Stream, has won the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Outstanding Teaching Award–Early Career. The award recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, with a focus on classroom instruction, course design, and curriculum development. “The quality of our undergraduate and graduate teaching is … Read More
Published: May 7, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
At the Department of Philosophy’s annual Spring Party, Faisal Bhabha, Josh Brecka, Alex Drusda, Zoe Leslie, Yi-Cheng Lin, Sooyoung Moon, and Jules Sheldon each received a Graduate Student Service Award. The annual prize celebrates initiatives undertaken by graduate students to support and improve the community. “The functioning and climate of our … Read More
Published: April 4, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Faculty of Law, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, his alma mater. Wits awards honorary doctorates recognizing individuals who have made lasting contributions to their respective fields, advancing knowledge, research and … Read More
Published: March 28, 2025
Posted In: Alumni, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Alice Chao-Wei Huang, who earned her PhD from the department in 2024 and is now a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Embedded Ethics Program, received the John Leyerle-CIFAR Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. The selection committee, composed of graduate appointed professors at the University of Toronto, awarded her the prize for her … Read More
Published: March 26, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George
Kristen Beard, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, and Brendan de Kenessey, an assistant professor, have been awarded 2025 Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellowships. The Foundation’s Philosophy in Media Initiative aims to increase the presence of philosophy in print, audio, and video media by training philosophers to write … Read More
Published: March 19, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Toronto, has received the prestigious Killam Prize for social sciences. The Killam Prize recognizes researchers at Canadian universities who have achieved international scholarly eminence in one of five fields: health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences or … Read More
Published: February 24, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
The UTM Research Awards Committee has chosen Nilanjan Das as this year’s winner of the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities. The committee recognized Das’s contributions to the fields of epistemology and Sanskrit philosophy. Gurpreet Rattan, the Chair of Philosophy at UTM, says of Das’s success, “Professor Nilanjan Das is … Read More
