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Past Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows

2006-08

Sherine Hamdy
 PhD, New York University
Research Interest: Sherine's dissertation, “Our Bodies Belong to God: Islam, Medical Sciences and Ethical Reasoning in Egyptian Life,” addressed questions of science, medicine, bioethics, and Islam. An Egyptian-American who grew up in various parts of the world, Sherine is fluent in Modern Standard Arabic, and Qur'anic and classic Arabic, as well as English, French and Spanish. Among her publications is Blinding Ignorance: Medical science, diseased eyes, and religious practice in Egypt, which appeared in Arab Studies Journal in 2005. 

In Fall 2008 Sherine will continue with the Anthropology Department at Brown, this time as an Assistant Professor.

Michael Rohlf
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interest: Michael is a specialist in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, with additional interests in ethics, aesthetics, and the history of modern philosophy, especially German Idealism. His dissertation, "Kant on the Unity of Reason" analyzed Kant’s conception of reason and what is at stake in Kant’s claim that theoretical and practical reason are ultimately manifestations of one and the same cognitive faculty operating on a common principle. Currently he is working on some problems in Kant’s theoretical philosophy in the Critique of Pure Reason, the relationship between Kant’s moral philosophy and contemporary contractualism, and an English translation of Salomon Maimon’s Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (1790).

Michael has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Catholic University in Washington, DC.