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The National Humanities Center recently announced that Angela Sun, assistant professor of philosophy at Washington and Lee University, is one of 31 scholars appointed to a fellowship with the center for the 2024-25 academic year.
A fellowship year at the NHC is an opportunity to make significant progress on scholarly projects, socialize and share ideas with other scholars and be reinvigorated by time spent in deep thoughts and reflection while on hiatus from the regular demands of academic life.
Sun will relocate to the NHC facility located just outside of Durham, N.C., where she will conduct research from September through May 2025. Her scholarly exploration is expected to lead to three separate articles focusing on the ethics of reporting wrongdoing. Two of these articles will address specific forms of wrong reporting: snitching and mandatory reporting. A third article will address the morality of seeking justice in a system that is itself unjust.
“I am grateful to the National Humanities Center for the opportunity to dedicate myself to this project for the full academic year,” said Sun. “I would not have received the fellowship without the support of my philosophy colleagues — especially Nathaniel Goldberg and Paul Gregory, who encouraged me throughout the application process — and my supremely awesome Ph.D. advisers Sarah Buss and Ishani Maitra, who continue to support my research pursuits wholeheartedly years after I received my degree. I’d also like to thank Matthew Loar, director of fellowships and student research at W&L, and the W&L Summer Research Scholars program, which will allow two outstanding philosophy majors, Dylan Santella ’25 and Shannon Tozier ’25, to assist me with this project for 10 weeks over the summer.”
Sun is in her second year as a member of the W&L faculty, and her research specializes in ethics, social philosophy, philosophy of action and aesthetics. She holds a bachelor of arts in philosophy from Wellesley College and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Michigan.
