Curriculum Vitae

(A complete academic CV may be downloaded here)

Employment

• William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (2021-present)

• Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research, University of California, Berkeley (2013-2021)

• Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (from July 2014)

• Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (July 1999-June 2014)

• Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (July 1996-September 2000)

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania (July 1995-June 1996)

• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania (July 1988-June 1995)

• Instructor in Philosophy, Wesleyan University (July 1987-June 1988)

• Research Associate, Georgetown University (August 1979-August 1980)

 Visiting Positions

• Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (summer 2010)

• Erskine Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (spring 2005)

• Visiting Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (summer 2003)

• Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (2000)

• Visiting Professor, Universität Bielefeld (1994-1995)

 Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 2021)

• Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2019-20)

• Einstein Visiting Fellow, Berlin (2016-20; interviews in this role here and here)

• Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2010-11)

• Humboldt Research Award (“Forschungspreis”) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2004-2005); Wiedereinladung/Follow-up Invitation (2010)

• Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley (spring 2001; 2010-11; 2016-17)

• Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow (1990-91)

• Summer Research Grants from the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation (1989; 1992; 1993)

• Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (at Princeton)

• Overall Distinction on Oxford B.Phil. (thesis and exams)

• Carroll A. Wilson Fellowship (for study at Oxford)

• Phi Beta Kappa at Williams (junior year)

Education

• Princeton University: Ph.D., Philosophy (1988)

• University of Oxford: B.Phil., Philosophy (1983)

• Williams College: B.A., History of Ideas, summa cum laude (1979)