Postdoctoral Fellowship

Fellows spend the majority of their time on independent research. They generally teach two courses per year in their host department, at least one of which will be directly related to the mission of the Political Economy Project. The courses are taught in separate terms, and range from introductory to advanced levels. Fellows hold an appointment as a lecturer in their host department and as a postdoctoral fellow in PEP, and are in-residence for the Fall, Winter, and Spring terms.

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I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Economy Project and Lecturer in Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth I was Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and core faculty in the PPE Program.  

My research primarily concerns issues in social and political philosophy surrounding relationships between the normative and causal properties of institutions. Not coincidentally, I have a strong historical interest in the Scottish Enlightenment. Sometimes I also think about idealization and modeling in the philosophy of science. 

Before I came  to Carolina, I finished my PhD in the department of philosophy at Brown University in 2020. Before that, I received my MA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and my BA at THE Ohio State University. When I'm not doing philosophy, I enjoy watching sports and walking up hills.

Here's a copy of my CV; My email address is kirun dot sankaran at dartmouth dot edu.

FACULTY PROFILE

Sean.F.Monahan@dartmouth.edu

Silsby, Room 109

HB 6108

Government

Job Market Title

The Radical "Right to Work"

Abstract

While all rights have contested meanings, few have been the subject of disagreement quite as extreme as the right to work has, historically. Yet much recent literature overlooks this complexity, simply taking the right to work to mean a job guarantee. To better understand the idea's tensions and potential, I turn toward the historical uses of the term among socialists and radical workers across the Atlantic world in the early nineteenth century. Contrary to today's usage, none of these groups took the right to work to mean the provision of wage labor. In fact, the phrase essentially expressed visions of the abolition of wage labor and the creation of new forms of working and living seen as far more conducive to freedom and happiness. Recovering these alternative meanings offers us the chance to deepen and reanimate contemporary thinking about work.

FACULTY PROFILE

Jorah Dannenberg, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy

2024

Ian Cruise, Sarah Scaife Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy

2021-24

Lucas Pinheiro, Postdoctoral Fellow in Government

2021-22

Jacob McNulty, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy

2021-22

Cory Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics

2020-21

Daniel Putnam, Sarah Scaife Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy

• 2019-20
• 2018-19

Trevor Latimer, Postdoctoral Fellow in Government

• 2018-19
• 2017-18
• 2016-17

Ira Lindsay, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy

• 2015-16
• 2014-15