The Lehrman Junior Visiting Fellowship
9-18-07: Fabrice Béland and Matthew Rose begin residence at the Witherspoon Institute as the Earhart Lehrman Junior Visiting Fellows. David Thunder begins his residence at the Institute as the Bradley Lehrman Junior Visiting Fellow. Béland, Rose, and Thunder will spend the academic year 2007-2008 doing research at the Witherspoon Institute.
The Witherspoon Institute is pleased to announce the official beginning of residency for the 2007-2008 Lewis Lehrman Junior Visiting Fellows. Fabrice Béland and Matthew Rose have been designated the Earhart Lehrman Junior Visiting Fellows and David Thunder has been designated the Bradley Lehrman Junior Visiting Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute. These three promising young scholars will spend the 2007-2008 academic year conducting research as resident scholars of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. Their biographies are listed below.
Fabrice Paradis Béland is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Studies and Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS). He intends to finish his Ph.D. during his time at the Witherspoon Institute. He has received a Diplome d’études approfondies in Political studies with high honors from the EHESS (2003), an M.A. in Philosophy (U. of Ottawa, 2002), and a B.A. in Philosophy (Laval U., Québec). He has published eight articles or book reviews. Mr. Béland is a Canadian citizen from Québec. This year, he proposes first to complete his doctoral thesis, entitled “Gerhard Kruger and Kant’s Natural Theology” and to examine Kruger’s return to Platonic philosophy and natural law theory as a way of overcoming the problems of modern philosophy exemplified in Heidegger.
Matthew Rose is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School in the field of religious ethics. His dissertation is on “The Humanism of Karl Barth.” He received his M.A. in theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and his A.B. in religion (minor in political science and philosophy) from Wabash college in 1999. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Wabash, with numerous other academic and athletic distinctions. During his time at the Witherspoon Institute, Mr. Rose proposes to bring his dissertation to book manuscript form and to begin a long-term research project.
David Thunder just completed a one-year post as Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University, prior to which position he completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Notre Dame. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in French and Philosophy from University College, Dublin. Dr. Thunder is a citizen of Ireland. He is the author of several scholarly articles, three articles in progress, and one book manuscript. For his time at the Witherspoon Institute, he proposes to develop some of the central ideas of his dissertation into a book, wherein he will argue that the pursuit of a unified ethical life is compatible with the core normative commitments of liberal democracy.
September 18, 2007