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Shivani Radhakrishnan

Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies, Vassar College

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship awarded in 2017 to pursue a PhD in Philosophy at Columbia University.

Shivani Radhakrishnan is the child of immigrants from India.

About Shivani Radhakrishnan

Shivani Radhakrishnan is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies at Vassar College. She’s also a writer, with essays and criticism in n+1, the Washington Post, The Baffler, The Believer, Paris Review Daily, BOMB, The Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, frieze and many others. She’s at work on a debut essay collection about copies, doubles, and mimicry tentatively titled Original Copy. She was a former Fulbright to Vladivostok, Russia.

She was raised in New York by Indian immigrant parents, and holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia, a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford and a BA from Princeton University. 

Education

  • MPhil, University of Oxford
  • PhD in Philosophy, Columbia University
  • BA in Philosophy, Princeton University

Professional Fields

Work History

  • Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies, Vassar College
  • Bolin Fellow, Williams College

Milestones and Recognition

  • Fulbright ETA, Russia (2013-14)

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