Professor Christia Mercer receives the 2025 Stefanopoulos Philosophical Society Award
Christia Mercer will receive the 2025 Stefanopoulos Philosophical Society Award on Friday, February 7 at Marist University. For more information, please see this page.
Christia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts, and co-editor of Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, a book series devoted to making philosophy more inclusive. In 2019-20, she served as president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. She has published op-eds in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other prominent news sources on the importance of prison justice reform, access to higher education, and the need to diversify philosophy. Her work was highlighted in a CBS News report on prison education. She has published widely in the history of philosophy and has been honored with Columbia's two most prestigious teaching awards. She studied art history in New York and Rome before earning her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University.