Curriculum Vitae

(A complete academic CV may be downloaded here)

Employment

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

  • Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (from July 1999)

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

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

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

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

  • 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)