Martina Ferrari has been awarded the Graduate Student Essay Prize by the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (annual conference scheduled to be held 29-31 October 2015 at Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec) for her paper “The Immemorial Time of Gender: Merleau-Ponty’s Polymorphic Matrix of Original Past” which will be published in the Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy.

Martina was also awarded the President’s Prize from the Southwestern Philosophical Society (77th annual meeting scheduled to be held 6-8 November 2015 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee) for her paper “Transgressive Freedom: On Beauvoir’s Hegelian Philosophy of Action” which will be published in the January issue of the Southwest Philosophy Review. The President’s Prize is a cash prize of $150, awarded to the best graduate student or junior faculty paper.