RONALD
R. SUNDSTROM - During the spring semester I was on leave due to the professional
development award I was granted as part of my hiring contract. During this time
I worked on my book, and gave chapters from the book to audiences at various
departments. I delivered papers for a colloquium at Washington University, in
St. Louis, for the committee on social theory and analysis, and a philosophy
colloquium at Emory University in November. In total, I have completed three
chapters thus far, and plan to complete another by the end of the semester. This
is in addition to two other chapters that were previously written. In addition,
I completed my chapter for the anthology I am editing, Dark Fictions. I
also submitted two other essays to a journal and anthology.
In February I delivered papers for philosophy colloquia
at Vanderbilt, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of
Minnesota. My talk at the University of Minnesota concluded a two week visit
there as a visiting scholar for their Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of
Science. I was also a visiting scholar during mid-March at Washington University
in St. Louis in the philosophy department and committee for social thought and
analysis. In May, I and a graduate student whom I worked with, Donna Marcano,
gave a talk at the University of Oregon in Eugene for their philosophy
department’s collaborative works conference. These trips have contributed to
my scholarship through the feedback of my colleagues, and have helped cement my
role as an active scholar in my sub-area. Moreover, the time and academic
resources that were provided to me by my visits to the University of Minnesota
and Washington University have accelerated the progress on my manuscript