The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that former PhD student Addison Ellis has accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo. This news follows the recent placement of three other PhDs last year.
Ellis received his PhD in 2019. His dissertation title was "Kant's Theory of Absolute Spontaneity." He was previously working at The American University in Cairo as a non tenure-track assistant professor. He has also worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and as a lecturer at the University of Illinois. His research is focused on Kant and post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially Heidegger). Within these areas, Ellis places particular emphasis on the study of self-consciousness and what Kant calls its ‘spontaneity.’ He is interested in how these themes figure not only in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, but also in his practical and religious thought and, more broadly, how these Kantian ideas are taken up, transformed, or rejected by the post-Kantian tradition.