Undergraduate Philosophy Matters Prize

2021
Luisa Laguisma
“Cartesianism, Feminism, Coloniality: Rethinking Gender Formation from Astell to Lugones”

2020
Claire Petitt
“The Dualisms in Death: How the Dominant American Way of Practicing Death and Dying Perpetuates Hierarchical, Hyperseparated Dualisms”

2019
Shane Cooney
“Excessive Desires: Drug Addiction and Spinoza’s Theory of Emotions”

2018
Megan Lyslo
“Curdling Logic in Feminist Scientific Inquiry”

2017
Azadeh Ghanizadeh
“The End of History and the Last Woman”
Zoë Wong
“Emotions and Moral Judgments: I feel, therefore I am?”

2016
Robert Stanton
“Privacy and Power: an Analysis of Policy Body Cameras”

2015
Emily Bryan
“Embodied Phenomenology – Reconstructing Sexual Violence within Rape Culture”

2014
Sierra Mills Druley
“Toward a Phenomenological Ethics for Urban Design”
Benjamin Ryo Ogawa
“Fighting The Insult of A ‘Gay Gene’
Subjectivation Through A Politics of Choosing Choice”

2013
Carl J. Windrup
“The Animal in Biopower: Examining the Mode of Power Behind the Legal Status of Animals”

2012
Daniel Trujillo
“Theory and the Practice of Critical Democracy”
Kejt Walsh
“Bodies, Power, Performativity”

Graduate Philosophy Matters Prize

2021
Annie Ring
“Fanon & Soap Advertising: Colonial Mythologies of Cleanliness?

2020
Rebekah Sinclair
“Agua-biographies: Derrida on Water, Ontopology, and Refugees”

2019
Lauren Eichler
“Ecocide Is Genocide: An Indigenous Critique of the Definition of Genocide”
Maggie Newton
“Is Prescribing White Shame Possible? A Pragmatist-Phenomenological Examination”

2018
Joshua Kerr
“Spinoza: from Art to Philosophy”

2017
Rebekah Sinclair
“Exploding Individuals: What Indigenous Ontology lends to Classical Logic and Philosophy of Biology”

2016
Anna Cook
“A Politics of Indigenous Voice: Reconciliation, Felt Knowledge, and Settler Denial”

2015
Gus Skorburg
“Implicit Bias, Epistemic Injustice, and the Epistemology of Ignorance”

2014
Larry Busk
“Sleepwalker: Arendt, Thoughtlessness, and the Question of Little Eichmanns”

2013
Amy Billingsley
“Laughing against Patriarchy: Humor, Silence, and Feminist Resistance”
Russell J. Duvernoy
“‘Concepts’ and Continuity: Onto-Epistemology in William James”

2012
Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu
“Embodied Affective Experience in Politics of Piety:
Reformulating Agency for an Inclusive Transnational Feminism”
Katherine Logan
“Foucault, the Modern Mother, and Maternal Power:
Notes Toward a Genealogy of the Mother”