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About Marilyn Fischer

Dr. Fischer specializes in political philosophy and American pragmatism. She served as director of the Core Program, an integrated, interdisciplinary program through which students can fulfill most of their general education requirements. She is affiliated with the Society for Advancement of American Philosophy, the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and the Society for Women in Philosophy. Her research focuses on the philosophy of Jane Addams.

Positions

2015 - Present Professor Emerita, University of Dayton ‐ Department of Philosophy
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2006 - 2015 Professor, University of Dayton ‐ Department of Philosophy
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1998 - 2004 Associate Professor, University of Dayton ‐ Department of Philosophy
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1982 - 1998 Assistant Professor, University of Dayton ‐ Department of Philosophy
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1978 - 1981 Assistant Professor, Denison University
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1977 - 1978 Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
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Research Interests

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Honors and Awards

  • 2016 Herbert W. Schneider Award, awarded for career-long achievement and distinguished contributions to the understanding of American Philosophy
  • 2015 Jane Addams Prize of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy for the paper “A Pluralistic Universe in Twenty Years”
  • 2014 research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write "Weaving Addams’s Cosmopolitan Pluralism"
  • 2014 Joseph L. Blau Prize from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy for the paper “Addams on Cultural Pluralism, European Immigrants, and African Americans”
  • 2013 Joseph L. Blau Prize from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy for “Reading Addams’s ‘Democracy and Social Ethics’ as a Social Gospel, Evolutionary Idealist Text”
  • 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Participant, “American Immigration Revisited,” Washington, D.C.
  • 2005 Wye Fellow, Aspen Institute Wye Faculty Seminar
  • 2005 Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2004 University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching
  • 2001 John Grenzebach Research Award for Research in Philanthropy, awarded by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, for “Ethical Decision Making in Fund Raising”
  • 2001 Staley/Robeson/Ryan/St. Lawrence Research in Philanthropy Prize from the Association for Fundraising Professionals for “Ethical Decision Making in Fund Raising”

Education

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1978 PhD, Boston University
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1975 MA, Boston University
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1971 BA, Wheaton College
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Contact Information

Phone: 937-229-2809

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