Celebrating philosopher Philip L. Quinn, the Quinn fellowship was created in 2011 to provide support for young female philosophers in the early stages of their scholarly careers. Quinn, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, authored more than 100 scholarly articles and reviews, including Divine Commands and Moral Requirements and The Philosophical Challenges of Religious Diversity, and was deeply committed to improving gender diversity in the field of philosophy.
The Quinn fellowship was endowed by the Estate of Philip L. Quinn to honor Quinn’s role on the final selection committee of the National Humanities Center in 1984 and subsequently as a preliminary reviewer of applications for many years. He was one of the dedicated scholars whose judgment insured the quality of the Center’s Fellows, and though he himself never came to the Center as a Fellow, he valued it as a crucial American institution for the nurture and improvement of scholarship in the liberal arts.
| 2011–2012 | Susanne Sreedhar | Boston University | Gender and Contract in Early Modern Philosophy |
| 2012–2013 | Keren Z. Gorodeisky | Auburn University | A Matter of Form |
| 2013–2014 | Anna Christina Ribeiro | Texas Tech University | Poetry: Philosophical Thoughts on an Ancient Practice |
| 2014–2015 | Elizabeth Schechter | Washington University in St. Louis | The Other Side: “Split” Brains and Our Selves |
| 2015–2016 | Sara J. Bernstein | Duke University | What Might Have Been: Causation and Possibility |
| 2016–2017 | Erin Beeghly | University of Utah | Seeing Difference: The Ethics and Epistemology of Stereotyping |
| 2017–2018 | Thérèse Cory | University of Notre Dame | Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Intellect: Being and Being-About |
| 2018–2019 | Audrey Anton | Western Kentucky University | Aristotle’s Vice |
| 2019–2020 | Mary Krizan | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse | Aristotle’s Material Elements |
| 2020–2021 | Georgia Mouroutsou | King’s University College at Western University Canada | Plato’s Twofold Dialectic of Pleasure: Critical Dialogue with Hedonists and Critical Analysis of Pleasure |
| 2021–2022 | Krista K. Thomason | Swarthmore College | Worms in the Garden: Bad Feelings in a Good Life |
| 2022–2023 | Kristi A. Olson | Bowdoin College | Violinists, Spelunkers, and Trolleys: How Philosophers Think about Abortion |
| 2023–2024 | Katherine Davies | The University of Texas at Dallas | Care as Custody: A Critical Feminist Phenomenology of the US Foster Care System |
| 2024–2025 | Angela Sun | Washington and Lee University | The Ethics of Reporting Wrongdoing |