Our graduate students are actively engaged both within the academy and beyond. Keep up with news of their activities and achievements, and get to know their perspectives on various philosophical issues in this News & Blog feed. To request a news announcement or submit a blog post proposal, current students and alumni should contact the graduate adviser (philgpa@uw.edu).
Graduate Student News & Blog
We made it to the summer! I hope that you are able to enjoy a somewhat slower pace in the coming months, with time to reflect and revel in the lengthy days of summer.
We are proud to announce, that third year graduate student Kai Milanovich was awarded the 2025 Nancy Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award, which recognizes creative achievements of an emerging scholar doing work in feminist theory, for their paper "Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis." The paper was recently accepted for publication in
The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW.
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Huge congratulations to graduate student Erica Bigelow, who won a 2025 Philosophy in Media fellowship from the Marc Sanders Foundation for a summer workshop on podcasting!
UW Philosophy PhD candidate Aaron Barker will spend the 2024-2025 academic year as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany. Aaron, whose dissertation project focuses on Schopenhauer’s moral psychology, will be working with Dr. Matthias Koßler, director of the Schopenhauer-Gessellschaft in Mainz.
What a year it’s been. The campus was filled with political activity, including encampments protesting the war in Gaza and a graduate student ASE strike.
Philosopher Arthur Obst, a UW doctoral student, thinks that wild places can thrive — if we adjust our definition of wilderness and embrace the idea of letting go. Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News
Arthur Obst was interviewed on the Common Caws for Sustainability podcast about his dissertation work on wildness and ecological humility, as part of their series on environmental ethics.
Linds Whittaker's open-access project tracking philosophy graduate programs has been featured in The Daily Nous.