Project Vox
From 2022-2024, I was the Research Lead and Coordinator for Project Vox, a digital humanities organization based at Duke that seeks to recover the lost voices of early modern women philosophers and provide students and teachers with free resources to learn about them. Since then, our mission has expanded to include philosophers with different profiles. To learn more about the project, click here, and check out the Philosopher pages here.
I secured a £1000 Public Engagement Award from the British Society for History of Philosophy to support Vox’s work on inclusivity in digital knowledge structures.
Check out our most recent entry on the French-German political thinker Germaine de Staël. Prior to that, we published a collaborative entry with teams in Brazil and Canada, on the Brazilian feminist philosopher Nísia de Floresta which is now live here. Many thanks to Nastassja Pugliese at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and her students and colleagues.
Left: Engraved portrait of Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta (link to Vox entry)
Right: Painting of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein. Read a short introduction to Staël here, by Kristin Gjesdal, or the full Vox entry.
(Images Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Public philosophy
My first foray into public outreach was a talk at the Carolina Meadows Retirement Community in Chapel Hill, NC. In December 2023, I spoke to a group about “Teleology in Physics, from Aristotle to Maupertuis and Euler.” Many thanks to my gracious audience, and to my friend Aurora Yu for inviting me! I look forward to future occasions. (Slides from that talk.)
Philosophy friends
My Duke colleagues and mentors are doing loads of great work in philosophy of science, HPS, early modern philosophy, and other fields. Even better, they are practically all invested to some degree or another in expanding and diversifying the philosophical canon. My committee members and mentors: Katherine Brading, Andrew Janiak, Jennifer Jhun, and Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard), and Marius Stan (Boston College). And my longtime classmate and fellow Euler- and Du Chatelet- fan Qiu Lin, now at Simon Fraser.