The Center for Dewey Studies Essay Award award funds research on John Dewey’s life, work, and legacy. Recipients do research at the Center for Dewey Studies and the Morris Library Special Collections Research Center and participate in regular research group meetings in the Center for Dewey Studies throughout the year.
As part of the award, recipients submit an essay draft based on their research. The recipients work together, with guidance of Dewey Center staff, to prepare a collection of their drafts by the end of the Spring term after receiving their award.
Submissions from 2025
Frontmatter: Working Papers Volume 1, Matthew J. Brown
Dewey And Nkrumah on Education: A Comparative Study of Their Philosophies and Impact on Ghana’s Development, Peter Kojo Kontoh
Dewey and Merleau-Ponty: Science, Experience, and Nature, Michael Timm
The Epistemological Dimension of Dewey’s Emergentist Metaphysics: Sense and Signification, Andrii Leonov
The (Dis)Continuity of Meaning in John Dewey’s Experience and Nature, Harrison S. Jackson
The Supernatural Shadow of the Philosophic Fallacy: A Critical Examination of John Dew-ey’s Experience and Nature, Danica Jenck
The Growing of Freedom, and the Participatory Methodology of Gardening: An Account of John Dewey’s Conception of “Freedom”, Jessica Clare Soester