Christia Mercer
| Christia Mercer | |
|---|---|
| Residence | New York, New York, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Early Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College (B.A.); Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
Christia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University.[1][2][3]
Career
Mercer works primarily in early modern philosophy and is the author of Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development (CUP, 2001),[4] which offers a new interpretation of Leibniz's philosophical development.[5][6][7][8]
Since 2004, Mercer has been the North American Editor for Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.[9] She is also the editor of a new series of books, entitled Oxford Philosophical Concepts.[10] Each of the volumes traces the historical development of central philosophical concepts and includes interdisciplinary "reflections." There are presently twenty-five volumes underway. These include Space, Memory, Consciousness, Self-Knowledge, Efficient Causation, Sympathy, Evil, and the Soul.
From 2010-2012 and 2013-2014, Mercer was the Chair for the Core Curriculum course, Literature Humanities, an interdisciplinary course on the masterpieces of Western literature and philosophy taken by all first-year undergraduates at Columbia College.[11] She was the Director for the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia from 2000-2001.
In 2012, Mercer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[12][13][14][15] She won the 2008 Columbia College Great Teacher Award[16] and the 2012 Mark van Doren Award, which annually recognizes a professor for her "commitment to undergraduate instruction, as well as for humanity, devotion to truth and inspiring leadership."[17] She gave the Ernst Cassirer Lectures at the University of Hamburg in 2005.
Mercer received her PhD from Princeton University in 1989 after studying art history at Brooklyn College. In between, she studied Latin with Reginald Foster at the Gregorian University in Rome in 1980, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the Leibniz Archives in the University of Münster in 1984.
She has also written articles on plagiarism,[18] Literature Humanities,[19] and the importance of "being queer"[20] for the Columbia Daily Spectator undergraduate newspaper. She appears in Pat Blute’s Hardcore as a naughty professor, a comic comment on Literature Humanities and the Core Curriculum at Columbia.[21]
Recent Awards and Positions
- Resident Fellow, American Academy, Rome, Italy, Spring, 2013.
- Sovereign/Columbia Affiliated Fellowship, America Academy, Rome, Italy, 2010-11.
- Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, 2009–present.
- Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, Columbia College, 2008.
- Gustave M. Berne Professorship in the Core Curriculum at Columbia College, 2003-2009.
- North American Editor, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2002–present.
- Guest Professor, Centre Alexandre Koyré, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, December 2003, November 5, December 7.
- Ernst Cassirer Lectures, Ernst Cassirer Guest Professorship, Philosophy Faculty, University of Hamburg, Spring 2006.
Books
- Oxford Philosophical Concepts, General Editor
- Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Mechanism (co-edited with Eileen O´Neill), Oxford University Press, 2005.[3]
- Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2001; paperback edition, 2006.
Recent Articles
- "Leibniz's De-partitioning of the Soul," for Partitioning the Soul in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, eds. Dominik Perler and Klaus Corcilius, OUP, 2012.
- "Metaphysics of Suffering: Anne Conway's Philosophy," for Feminist History in Philosophy, eds. Eileen O’Neill and Marcy Lascano, Springer, forthcoming.
- "Knowledge and Suffering in Early Modern Philosophy: G.W. Leibniz and Anne Conway," for Emotional Minds, ed. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, De Gruyter, 2012.
- "Platonism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy: The Case of Leibniz and Conway," for Neoplatonic Natural Philosophy, eds. Christoph Horn and James Wilberding, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 103–26.
- "The Platonism at the Core of Leibniz's Metaphysics: God and Knowledge," Platonism and the Origins of Modernity: The Platonic Tradition and the Rise of Modern Philosophy, ed. S. Hutton, Ashgate Press, 2008.
References
- ↑ "Columbia Faculty Page". Columbia University. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Mercer, Christia. "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics". Oxford University Press Catalog. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Mercer, Christia (2001). Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origin and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521403014.
- ↑ Hawthorne, John (28 March 2003). "Active or Passive?". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Look, Brandon. "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ McDonough, Jeffrey. "Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Youpa, Andrew. "Leibniz's Ethics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ "Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie". De Gruyter. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ "Oxford Philosophical Concepts". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ "Faculty Profile: Christia Mercer". Columbia University. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Leiter, Brian. "Three philosophers win Guggenheim Fellowships". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Typepad.com. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Budd, Jeremy (16 April 2012). "10 professors win Guggenheim Fellowships". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ "Christia Mercer's Guggenheim page". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ "Eight Columbia Profs Win Guggenheim Fellowships". Bwog. Bwog. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Toure, Madina (24 October 2008). "Profs Honored With Teaching Awards". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ "Mercer, Lurie Receive Van Doren, Trilling Awards". Columbia College Today. Summer 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Mercer, Christia (31 March 2011). "Cheating and Dante's Hell". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Mercer, Christia (9 September 2010). "Lit Hum and the Examined Life". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Mercer, Christia (10 February 2008). "21st Century Feminism or the Need to "Be Queer"". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ Blute, Pat. "Hard Core: A Columbia Odyssey". Bwog. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
External links
- Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, Faculty Webpage
- Christia Mercer's home page
- Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
- Literature Humanities in the Core Curriculum of Columbia College
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia
- Christia Mercer's articles for the Columbia Spectator