Faculty

Nicole Whalen

Harper-Schmidt Fellow

Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Social Science Core: Power, Identity and Resistance

Nicole Whalen - Harper Fellow

Nicole Whalen is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from The Graduate Center, City University of New York in September 2020. Her primary research lies at the intersection of political philosophy, economics, and the history of philosophy. She also has interests in feminist philosophy and environmental philosophy.

Publications

"Adam Smith and Richard Price on a Free Society of Equals," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).

“Kant’s Commercial Republicanism,” Rethinking Kant: Volume 6, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming).

Courses

Power, Identity, and Resistance I-III (2020-Current)

Economic Justice and the Environment (Winter 2023)