Christia Mercer is Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Project Director of the new CSSD working group, Pedagogies of Dignity. She has been awarded a fellowship at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for her project “Feeling the Way to Truth: Women, Reason, and the Development of Modern Philosophy. ” She will be the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow for 2018-19.