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Faculty member Elisabeth Paquette was recently interviewed by Alyha Bardi on the Below the Radar podcast about some of her transformative moments as a continental philosopher, her experience joining the Black Lives Matter Charlotte Protests in 2016, and her recent book Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou. You can listen to the podcast or read the […]

Dr. Mark Sanders was interviewed by Manny Faces on the Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy’s podcast, “Hip-Hop Can Save America!” The interview covers Dr. Sanders’ academic work at the intersection of Hip-Hop and philosophy. The episode, and more information about the podcast series, is available here: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org/hip-hop-x-philosophy-dr-mark-sanders/.

Dr. Robin James was recently interviewed by Caitlin Woolsey of The Clark Institute for Art’s podcast, “In the Foreground, Conversations on Art and Writing.” The interview covers Dr. James’ work in general, and her most recent book, The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics (Duke University Press, 2019), in particular. The episode, and more […]

Many congratulations to Camilla Cannon, a 2019 graduate from our Ethics and Applied Philosophy M.A. Program, for their recent publication of “Non-binary Gender Identity and Algorithmic-psychometric Marketing Legibility” in the top media and communication studies journal, Feminist Media Studies. Camilla wrote the original version of this paper as their MA capstone project for our program’s […]

Philosophy faculty members Elisabeth Paquette and Trevor Pearce had their books featured on the New Books Network podcast in Fall 2020. Paquette was interviewed about her book Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou on October 20; Pearce was interviewed about his book Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy on December 15.

A $580,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant recently has been awarded to Dr. Lisa Rasmussen to research whether institutional policies and infrastructure can promote ethical practices regarding authorship and improve perceptions of research culture and climate across different STEM disciplines. Positive perceptions of culture and climate are correlated with a lower likelihood of engaging in […]

Dr. Lisa Rasmussen recently was awarded her third National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, to fund a project on “Assessing Ethical Challenges in Conducting Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” For this project, the research team will investigate ethical issues in unregulated research performed outside of traditional laboratory settings, with the aim of identifying key […]

Dr. Gordon Hull is co-PI on a recently awarded NSF grant related to public policy and technology. Much of the public policy U.S. citizens encounter every day regarding their health, welfare, education, jobs, and security are state and local level policies, with little coordination of or sharing of information on their societal impacts. Dr. Hull […]

The philosophy department hosted the Queen City Philosophy conference on August 26, 2019. It featured papers from undergraduate, graduate, and post-bac students on topics ranging from ethics, political philosophy, and phenomenology to philosophy of religion, epistemology, and language/signification. Ethan Butt, University of Virginia, won the Best Paper Prize for his paper on “Is Agency Possible […]