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Curriculum Vitae
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Professional Experience:
 
Education:
 
Short-Term Appointments:
  • 1998 (July-August): Fellow, "The International School of Theory in the Humanities," Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain [attending Prof Giuseppe Mazzotta's seminar on Neoplatonism, Politics, Science, and Utopias]


Fellowships, Grants and Distinctions:

  • 2013 (Spring): Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University

  • 2012 (Fall): Distinguished Guest Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Notre Dame University

  • 2012-2013: Residential Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut [declined]

  • 2012 (Summer): Research Scholarship, The Woddrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

  • 2009-2010: The Solmsen Fellowship (offered by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin - Madison)

  • 2010: Grant to participate in the seminar Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy (offered by The Institute for the History of Philosophy, Emory University), June 2010 [declined]
  • 2009: Named Outstanding Professor at the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, Texas Tech University’s Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, April 17, 2009  
  • 2008-2009: The Clark Library Short-Term Fellowship (offered by The Clark Library & The Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California at Los Angeles)
  • 2008-2009: The Newberry Short-Term Fellowship for Individual Research,  The Newberry Library, Chicago

  • 2007: Big XII Faculty Fellowship (offered by the Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University, to be used at the University of Texas Austin)
  • 2006-2007: Support for the Arts and Humanities New Faculty Grant (offered by the Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University)
  • 2004-2006: Post-Doctoral Fellowship (offered by the Havighurst Center, Miami University) 
  • 2003-2004: Knight Post-Doctoral Fellowship (offered by the Knight Institute, Cornell University)
  • 2003 (August): Travel Fellowship (offered by "The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies" for participating in The Eleventh Quadrennial ISECS Congress on the Enlightenment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

  • 2000-2003: Durham University Research Studentship (offered by the University of Durham)
  • 2000-2003: Overseas Research Scheme Award (offered by the “Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom”)
  • 2000-2003: Open Society Institute Supplementary Grant (offered by the Open Society Institute)
  • 2002 (September): Graduate Bursary (offered by the "Society for European Philosophy" for participating in the The Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland)

  • 2002 (September): Graduate Bursary (offered by "The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies" for participating in The 5th Conference of the North Western Section of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University)

  • 2002 (July): Fellowship (offered by the Central European University, for participating in the CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary)
  • 2002 (May), Congress Travel Award, offered by the Medieval Institute (Western Michigan University) for participating in The 37-th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, USA.
  • 2002: The Congress Award – offered by the Medieval Institute (Western Michigan University) at The 37-th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, USA 
  • 2000-2001: OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship, St. Cross College, Oxford University (offered by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Oxford University & Open Society Foundation) (declined)
  • 1999: The Nemira Publishing House Prize for the Best Essay 
  • 1998: Grant for attending The International School of Theory in the Humanities, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (offered by the Open Society Foundation & the Romanian Ministry of Education)
  •  1996: The Humanitas Publishing House Prize for Junior Journalists
 
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