UPDATED 2012

As I noted several months back, one of our outstanding PhD students, Neil Sinhababu, had won a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in the 2005-06 competition.  It turns out that only one other philosophy student won support this past year:  Japa Pallikkathayil, a PhD student at Harvard University.

Having won a Newcombe myself many years ago, and received around that time a list of past winners, I knew that in most years four or five philosophy PhD students had received awards, and sometimes many more.  (Note that Newcombes are restricted to students whose dissertations are related to "ethical and religious values"; winners come from a variety of fields besides Philosophy, including History, Religion, English, sometimes Anthropology, sometimes Sociology.)  From the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, which administers the Newcombes, I got a complete list of philosophy winners since the awards began in 1981.  The complete list reveals that this is not the first year in which there have been relatively few philosophy winners.  It is also an impressive list, with the vast majority of recipients not only securing academic positions, but a majority doing so in research universities and leading liberal arts colleges, and many emerging as now well-known figures in moral, political, and legal philosophy.  I print, below, the names of all winners of Newcombes who, at the time, were PhD students in philosophy.  The winner's name is followed by the year of the award, the name of the graduate school in parentheses, and then the current institutional affiliation (if not in philosophy, that is noted in parentheses).  Where no institutional affiliation is listed for a winner, this is because I could not find any current information.  In the case of more recent winners, it is more likely that the philosopher is still in graduate school than that he or she is no longer in academia.  Please e-mail me corrections.

Joan C. Callahan '81 (Maryland):  University of Kentucky

Margaret H. Carter '81 (Wisconsin):  out of philosophy

Carlton D. Fisher '81 (Notre Dame):  Houghton College

Timothy P. Jackson '81 (Yale):  Emory University (Theology)

James C. Klagge '81 (UCLA):  Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Richard L. Lippke '81 (Wisconsin):  James Madison University

Ping-cheung Lo '81 (SUNY-Buffalo):  Hong Kong Baptist College

Thomas W. Pogge '81 (Harvard):  Yale University

Andrews Reath '81 (Harvard):  University of California, Riverside

Peter Rudzitis '81 (Penn): 

Nancy Sherman '81 (Harvard):  Georgetown University

Christine T. Sistare '81 (Emory):  Muhlenberg College

J. David Velleman '81 (Princeton):  New York University

Jacob Adler '82 (Harvard):  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Ernest Alleva '82 (Columbia):  Hampshire College

Robert W. Hoag '82 (Virginia):  Berea College

Charles S. Layman '82 (UCLA):  Seattle Pacific University

Laura Melim-Midwood '82 (Rice):  out of academia

Jennifer  E. Whiting '82 (Cornell):  University of Toronto

Keith J. Cooper '83 (Wisconsin):  Pacific Lutheran University

Randall R. Curren '83 (Pittsburgh):  University of Rochester

Michael O. Hardimon '83 (Chicago):  University of California, San Diego

Carla Anderson Johnson '83 (Minnesota):  St. Cloud State University

Joan L. McGregor '83 (Arizona):  Arizona State University

Walter E. Schaller '83 (Wisconsin):  Texas Tech University

Daniel P. Brudney '84 (Harvard):  University of Chicago

John P. Christman '84 (Illinois/Chicago):  Pennsylvania State University

David R. Cummiskey '84 (Michigan):  Bates College

Maureen Fennessey '84 (Boston College):

Matthew T. Kapstein '84 (Brown):  University of Chicago (Divinity)

Scott MacDonald '84 (Cornell):  Cornell University

Alison G. McIntyre '84 (Princeton):  Wellesley College

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord '84 (Pittsburgh):  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

David C. Wilson '84 (UCLA):  University of California, Los Angeles (Adjunct)

John C. Coker '85 (Illinois/Urbana):  University of South Alabama

Robin S. Dillon '85 (Pittsburgh):  Lehigh University

David M. Estlund '85 (Wisconsin):  Brown University

Jody S. Kraus '85 (Arizona):  Columbia University (Law)

Thomas J. Loughran '85 (Notre Dame): 

Elizabeth S. Anderson '86 (Harvard):  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Debra A. DeBruin '86 (Pittsburgh):  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Center for Bioethics)

Stewart C. Goetz '86 (Notre Dame):  Ursinus College

Holly G. Thomas '86 (UCLA):

David M. Anderson '87 (Michigan):  George Washington University (Adjunct, Graduate School of Political Management)

Samuel W. Fleischacker '87 (Yale):  University of Illinois, Chicago

Vanessa P. Rumble '87 (Emory):  Boston College

Marya S. Schechtman '87 (Harvard):  University of Illinois, Chicago

William A. Wright '87 (North Carolina):  out of philosophy

Richard H. Dees '88 (Michigan):  University of Rochester

Steven A. Hetcher '88 (Illinois/Chicago):  Vanderbilt University (Law)

Don Loeb '88 (Michigan):  University of Vermont

Allen D. Rosen '88 (Cornell):  out of philosophy

Robert W. Shaver '88 (Pittsburgh):  University of Manitoba

Steven G. Daniel '89 (Cornell):

Eric Gampel '89 (Michigan):  California State University, Chico

Margaret G. Holland '89 (SUNY-Buffalo):  University of Northern Iowa

Sheridan L. Hough '89 (Berkeley):  College of Charleston

Ulf S. Nilsson '89 (Chicago): 

Natalie H. Vania '89 (Maryland): University of Illinois, Springfield (Adjunct)

Ann E. Bumpus '90 (MIT):  Dartmouth College

Matthew F. Hanser '90 (UCLA):  University of California, Santa Barbara

Hud Hudson '90 (Rochester):  Western Washington University

Daniel Jacobson '90 (Michigan):  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Colin M. Macleod '90 (Cornell):  University of Victoria (Canada)

Sigrun Svavavrsdottir '90 (Michigan):  Ohio State University

Edward S. Hinchman '91 (Michigan):  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Gopal R. Sreenivasan '91 (Berkeley):  Duke University

Karen F. Jones '92 (Cornell):  University of Melbourne

Erin I. Kelly '92 (Harvard):  Tufts University

Brian Leiter '92 (Michigan):  University of Chicago (Law)

Xiarong Li '92 (Stanford):  University of Maryland, College Park (Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy)

Natalie Stoljar '92 (Princeton):  McGill University

Paul M. Cohen '93 (Columbia):

Samuel J. Kerstein '93 (Columbia):  University of Maryland, College Park

Sarah M. Marchand-Wikler '93 (Wisconsin):

Carol W. Voeller '93 (UCLA):  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Michael B. Gill '94 (North Carolinan):  University of Arizona

Sarah W. Holtman '94 (North Carolina):  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Sigurur Kristinsson '94 (Cornell):

Christopher L. Kutz '94 (Berkeley):  University of California, Berkeley (Law)

Christopher J. Sturr '94 (Cornell):

Jeanine M. Grenberg '95 (Emory):  St. Olaf College

Timothy J. Hinton '95 (MIT):  North Carolina State University

Agnieszka Jaworska '95 (Harvard):  University of California, Riverside

David A. Ciepley '96 (Chicago):

Nadeem Hussain '96 (Michigan):  Stanford University

Eric L. Kaplan '96 (Harvard):

Martin J. Tracey '96 (Notre Dame):  Benedictine University

Alice M. Crary '97 (Pittsburgh):  New School University

Evgenia V. Cherkasova '98 (Penn State):  Suffolk University

Maureen C. Kelley '98 (Rice):  University of Alabama, Birmingham

Kirk Sanders '98 (Texas):  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mary C. Coleman '99 (Harvard):  Bard College

Pamela D. Hieronymi '99 (Harvard):  University of California, Los Angeles

Ronald J. Mallon '99 (Rutgers):  Washington University, St. Louis

Michelle N. Mason '99 (Chicago):  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

J. Benjamin Egglesteon, Jr. '00 (Pittsburgh):  University of Kansas

Autumn M. Fiester '00 (Penn):  University of Pennsylvania (Center for Bioethics)

Katie M. McShane '00 (Michigan):  Colorado State University

Andrea C. Westlund '00 (Michigan):  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Thomas Luke Bartscherer '01 (Chicago):

Ido Geiger '01 (Yale):  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb '01 (Notre Dame):  Houghton College

David A. Merli '01 (Ohio State):  Franklin & Marshall College

Matthew L. Evans '02 (Texas):  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Natalie Nenadic '02 (Yale):

Hanoch Sheinman '02 (Princeton):  Ben-Gurion University

Mary Sigler '02 (Arizona State):  Arizona State University (Law)

Christian L. Coons '03 (UC Davis):  Bowling Green State University

Jonathan F. Garthoff '03 (UCLA):  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Robin B. Kar '03 (Michigan):  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (law)

Suzanne Obdrzalek '03 (Berkeley):   Claremont-McKenna College

Ernesto Garcia '04 (Columbia):  University of Massachussetts, Amherst

John Manoussakis '04 (Boston College):

Martin O'Neill '04 (Harvard):  University of York

Matthew Chrisman '05 (North Carolina):  University of Edinburgh.

Remy M. Debes '05 (Michigan):  University of Memphis

Peter Graham '05 (NYU):  University of Massachussetts, Amherst

Coleen Macnamara '05 (Georgetown):  University of California, Riverside

Japa Pallikkathayil '06 (Harvard):  University of Pittsburgh

Neil Sinhababu '06 (Texas):  National University of Singapore 

Andrew Blom '08 (Illinois/Chicago):  Central Michigan University

David Dick '08 (Michigan):  University of Calgary

Lauren Fleming '08 (Georgetown):  deceased

Daniel Groll '08 (Chicago):  Carleton College

James Hebbeler '08 (Notre Dame):  St. Joseph's University

Jacob Klein '08 (Cornell):  Colgate University

Daniel Koltonski '08 (Cornell):  State University of New York, Binghamton (visiting)

Kelby Mason '08 (Rutgers):  still in graduate school

Epifanio Sonny Elizondo '09 (UCLA):  Postdoc, Yale University

Stanislaus Husi '09 (Rice):  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Christiana Olfert '09 (Columbia):  Tufts University

Christopher Raymond '09 (Texas):  still in graduate school

Karim Sadek '09 (Georgetown):  still in graduate school

Uygar Abaci '10 (Penn):  University of British Columbia (visiting)

Adam Cureton '10 (North Carolina):  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Jeffrey Helmreich '10 (UCLA):  Postdoc, Harvard Law School

Kenneth Walden '10 (MIT):  Dartmouth College

Marcus Hedahl '11 (Georgetown):  still in graduates chool

Caroline Lundquist '11 (Oregon):  still in graduate school

Stephen White '11 (UCLA):  Northwestern University