Center for Dewey Studies Essay Award

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Last Updated: Mar 26, 2025, 05:24 PM

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Gift of Award

This essay award is made possible by the generous contribution of Professor Cho-Yee To, one of the first graduate student assistants on the project that became the Center for Dewey Studies.

2024-2025 Awardees

The Center for Dewey Studies is pleased to announce the winners of the first Center for Dewey Studies Essay Award, who have applied to work on research projects related to John Dewey’s life, work, and legacy:

  • Harrison Jackson, “Anthropocentrism and Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics”
  • Danica Jenck, “Eurocentrism in Dewey's Naturalistic Critique of Supernaturalism”
  • Peter Kojo Kontoh, “Dewey and Nkrumah on Education”
  • Andrii Leonov, “The epistemological side of Dewey’s naturalistic metaphysics: sense and signification”
  • Jessica Soester , “Reconstructive Democracy: Political Tension and the Restoration of (Dynamic) Equilibrium”
  • Michael Timm, “Dewey and Merleau-Ponty: Naturalism, Scientism, and Experience”

Recipients will be encouraged to do research at the Center for Dewey Studies and the Morris Library Special Collections Research Center and will have the option to participate in weekly research group meetings in the Center for Dewey Studies.

Call for Applications

Deadline has passed.