Martina Ferrari receives M. C. Dillon Memorial Lecture Award
Martina Ferrari, second-year doctoral student in Philosophy, has been awarded the 2015 M. C. Dillon Memorial Lecture Prize by the International Merleau-Ponty Circle for her essay, “The Immemorial Time of Gender: Merleau-Ponty’s Polymorphic Matrix of Original Past.” The Dillon Prize is an honor and monetary award of $500 for the best graduate student submission to the Circle’s annual conference. Award-winning essays are published in Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.
Martina specializes in feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and critical race theory. She is interested in questions about the body as it is marked by gender and race, and as the locus of oppression. She earned her Master’s in Philosophy and Social Policy at American University, where she taught philosophy for a year.
Martina is the second graduate student from the University of Oregon to win the Dillon Prize since it was established in 2006. Emma Jones (PhD, 2011) was awarded the Dillon Prize in 2008 for her essay “On the Life that is ‘Never Simply Mine.’”