Associate Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow has been appointed to the position of Associate Dean of the Faculty for a three-year term beginning on July 1.
In announcing the appointment, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris said, "Kirk is one of Hamilton's finest teacher-scholars. His clarity and rigor in the classroom and attentiveness outside of it are enthusiastically noted by students and were recognized in the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002. Equally important for this position," Paris said, "he is well respected by colleagues across the faculty and has served as faculty secretary, chair of the Appeals Board, and has been active in Group Q and in advising the Rainbow Alliance. I am confident that he will serve this office, and in turn the faculty, very well."
Pillow earned his doctoral degree from Northwestern University in 1995 and has taught at Hamilton since 1996. In 2002 he received the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award, awarded each year to a Hamilton faculty member "who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to teaching."
Pillow teaches courses on aesthetics, modern philosophy, and Kant. His areas of specialization also include Hegel and hermeneutics, and his interests focus on contemporary debates about the aesthetic dimension of human understanding and interpretation. He is the author of Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), as well as articles on Kant's views on metaphor and Hegel's theory of imagination which have appeared in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the Owl of Minerva.
