CCEC Summer Program 2022

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Pictured above (starting on the top left): Jo Van Cauter (Utrecht University), Enrique Chavez-Arvizo (CUNY), Daniel Schneider (University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse), Adam Harmer (University of California, Riverside), Manon Andre De St Amant (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Bas Tonissen (University of California, San Diego), Evan Thomas (Ohio State University and Otterbein University), Getty Lustila (Northeastern University), Daniel Collette (Marquette University), Taro Okamura (University of Alberta), Yi Deng (University of North Georgia), Garrett Gannon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Jaleel Fotovat-Ahmadi (Boston University), Marie Jayasekera (California State University, Long Beach); (starting on the bottom left): Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Evangelian Collings (University of Pittsburgh), Kylie Shahar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Jessica Gordon-Roth (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Natalia Strok (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Iziah Topete (Penn State University). For a complete list of participants, please see below.

The Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) hosted its inaugural Summer Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities July 31-August 6, 2022.

Participants took part in a week-long collaborative workshop, in which they learned about figures in an expanded canon of early modern philosophy (such as Anton Wilhelm Amo, Margaret Cavendish, and Anne Conway) and cutting-edge research on them; discussed inclusive, student-centered, and equitable pedagogy; and collaboratively crafted their own early modern course syllabi.

2022 CCEC Summer Program
Guest Experts

  • Julia Jorati

    Julia Jorati is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her main research area is the History of Early Modern Philosophy and At present, she is particularly interested in two things: (a) philosophical arguments concerning slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries, and (b) the notion of moral necessity in late medieval and early modern moral psychology. She’s currently writing a book about philosophical arguments concerning slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries.

  • Nancy Kendrick

    Nancy Kendrick is Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). Her main area of research is in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, with a focus on Descartes, Berkeley, Astell, Wollstonecraft, and metaphilosophical issues tied to canon expansion. She’s currently writing a book with Jessica Gordon-Roth titled Unheeded: Epistemic Harms Against Women, Then and Now.

  • Huaping Lu-Adler

    Huaping Lu-Adler is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Her areas of specialization are Kant's philosophy and History of Western Philosophy, but she is also interested in History and Philosophy of Science, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, and Social Epistemology. She recently completed a book titled Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere (forthcoming, OUP).

  • Jason Swartwood

    Jason Swartwood is an Instructor of Philosophy at Saint Paul College. His area of specialization is ethics and he’s especially interested in exploring empirically-informed accounts of practical wisdom and practical reasoning. He’s also very interested in pedagogical questions, especially regarding how philosophy courses can help students develop skill at practical and theoretical reasoning. He recently published the textbook Doing Practical Ethics with Ian Stoner (OUP, 2021).

  • Ian Stoner

    Ian Stoner is an instructor of Philosophy at Saint Paul College. His teaching focuses on the acquisition of philosophical skills, especially critical reading skills. He’s most interested in virtue theory, methods in practical ethics, and questions at the intersection of philosophy of disability and theories of well-being. He recently published the textbook Doing Practical Ethics with Jason Swartwood (OUP, 2021).

  • Tamara Fakhoury

    Tamara Fakhoury is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research in feminist philosophy focuses on the ethics and moral psychology of resisting oppression. She is particularly interested in the normative reasons victims have for (and against) resisting their oppression, what resistance entails for victims who are differently situated, and how conditions of oppression shape what it means to live a good and meaningful life.

  • Eddie O'Byrn

    Eddie O’Byrn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously Eddie was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carleton College. His research and teaching focus on Black American philosophy as well as existential philosophy in relation to topics such as identity (e.g. selfhood, race, gender, disability), agency, freedom, domination, leadership, and ethics. His classroom offers a vibrant and engaging space for discourse, affirmation, and community.

  • Angela Carter

    Angela Carter is one of the founding members of the Critical Disability Studies Collective at the University of Minnesota. Broadly speaking, Angela’s academic interests include critical trauma studies, queer and crip theory, critical disability studies, and feminist epistemology. She is also a self-described pedagogy nerd. Angela is currently the Access and Inclusion Pedagogy Specialist with Minnesota Transform - a Mellon funded grant initiative engaging anti-colonial and racial justice work through the public humanities.

  • Daniel Collette

    Daniel Collette is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University researching early modern philosophy. He specializes in the philosophies of Blaise and Jacqueline Pascal, exploring how Pascalian metaphysics relates to their ethics and epistemology; he has an additional interest in Mary Shepherd's philosophy. As a teacher, he aims to make philosophy more inclusive in part by giving a platform for recovered philosophical voices in his classroom as well as exploring pedagogical applications of virtual reality.