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Past Member

Lynne Huffer

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Philosophy, Environmental Studies
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While at IAS, Lynne Huffer will work on her book-length project, "The Ethics of Extinction." Her book builds on traditions of interdisciplinary experimentation in philosophy, poetry, and the visual arts to reconfigure ethics as a question whose stakes are the existence of species.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of Michigan
Ph.D.
1989
University of Michigan
M.A.
1985
Ohio University
B.A.
1984

Honors

2001-2002
NEH/Sarofim Distinguished Teaching Professor, Rice University
2017
Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching, Emory University
2016
George P. Cuttino Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Emory University
2011
MLA Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship in English
2005
George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rice University
2004
George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, Rice University
1992-93
Camargo Foundation Fellowship
1991
A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University

Appointments

Emory University
2012–2022
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Emory University
2005–2012
Professor
Rice University
1998–2005
Professor
Yale University
1995–1998
Associate Professor
Yale University
1989–1995
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
1985–1988
Graduate Instructor