Doctoral Student Bonnie Sheehey has been awarded the 2016 William James Society Young Scholar Prize. Bonnie’s essay “Temporality and Tragedy in William James’s Philosophy of Hope” engages published and manuscript writings by William James to “unsettle the cooperative alliance between hope and progress” that has been too easily assumed by generations of pragmatism scholars.

This is the second year in a row this prize has been awarded to a UO graduate student (Doctoral Candidate Russell Duvernoy was awarded the 2015 William James Society Young Scholar Prize for his paper “‘Concepts’ and Continuity: Onto-Epistemology in William James”).