Faculty

The Rare Maps of Guajarat

Mar. 28, 2022—Meet Samira Sheikh, a 2021-2022 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “Environments.” I was a graduate student at Oxford, writing a dissertation on politics in fifteenth-century Gujarat, in western India, when I received an intriguing stack of photocopies through the Pigeon Post, the university’s internal mail. A prominent historian...

Surviving in the Environment

Feb. 7, 2022—Meet Karen Ng, a 2021-2022 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “Environments.” What does the phrase “Environments” mean to you? In my research, I explore how concepts of life and organic nature played a central role in nineteenth-century German philosophy, especially in their theories of mind, agency, and community....