Congratulations to Carolyn Garland, who successfully defended her dissertation Exploring the Metaphysics of Grief, in April 2021. Dr. Garland received her doctoral hood at the end of May.

Congratulations to Rowan Bell, who was selected to receive a competitive summer dissertation fellowship from the Graduate School.

Congratulations to Huzeyfe Demirtas, Jan Swiderski, and Joshua Tignor, who all received the 2021 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Graduate School. Read more below the fold.

Congratulations to Lorenza D’Angelo, who won the 2021 Mary Hatch Marshall Award for the best essay written by a graduate student in the humanities at Syracuse University. Read more below the fold.

The prize memorializes William Wasserstrom, a noted professor of English at Syracuse University.

Congratulations to Christopher Bousquet, whose paper “Words That Harm: Defending the Dignity Approach to Hate Speech Regulation” was just accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.

Congratulations to Yiwen Gu, who was awarded the department's Peterfreund Prize this year.  This prize is awarded annually to an undergraduate student on basis of outstanding performance in one or more philosophy courses and letters of support from our faculty.

Congratulations to Rowan Bell, who was selected to receive the Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work. Rowan will provide a very brief presentation at the Dean’s award event, which will take place on April 9th between 2:30-4:30pm. Details to follow about how to attend. You can read an abstract of Rowan’s presentation below the fold.