Feliks Gross Award Assistant Professor of Philosophy Matthew Lindauer was awarded the Feliks Gross Award, which is given for outstanding research by CUNY assistant professors. Lindauer’s main areas of research are moral and political philosophy, moral psychology, and experimental philosophy. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at The Australian National University and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 2015. Matthew Lindauer He has published several journal articles and books, including “Righting Domestic Wrongs with Refugee Policy,” for Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy (Bloomsbury Publishing). Henry Wasser Award Assistant Professor of Psychology Ana Gantman was awarded the Henry Wasser Award, which is given for outstanding research by CUNY assistant professors. Ana Gantman After receiving her Ph.D. from New York University in 2016, Gantman completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University jointly in the Psychology Department and the School for Public Policy and International Affairs. Her research program investigates moral psychology as it pertains to social issues and public policy and affects behavior, cognition, and perception. Gantman’s most recent journal articles include “Preventing Sexual Violence: A Behavioral Problem Without a Behaviorally Informed Solution” (Psychological Science in the Public Interest) and “Is feminized labor antithetical to profitable labor?” (Psychology of Women Quarterly). Jerome Krase/Sandi Cooper Awards Associate professors Yoon-Joo Lee and Dena Shottenkirk have been selected as recipients of the inaugural Jerome Krase/Sandi Cooper Awards for Outstanding Research for Associate Professors in CUNY for 2025. Named in honor of distinguished CUNY scholars and longtime CUNY Academy board members Jerome Krase and Sandi Cooper, the awards recognize exceptional research contributions by associate professors across the university system. Yoon-Joo Lee Lee, of the Department of Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education, is a leader in inclusive education and disability studies. She mentors master’s students in the graduate program in Early Childhood Special Education and is widely respected for her commitment to amplifying marginalized voices. Her recent book, Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way, explores the lived experiences of Korean and Korean American women with visible disabilities. The book was recently featured at a special event hosted by Brooklyn College’s Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities. Dena Shottenkirk Shottenkirk, Department of Philosophy, specializes in aesthetics and epistemology. She is also a practicing artist and founder of talkPOPc, a public philosophy and art nonprofit. Her work bridges theory and practice, including her book Cover Up the Dirty Parts!—a critique of 1980s censorship and a philosophical examination of the role of art in society. Her academic contributions also include the co-edited volume Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics and the monograph Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman (Springer). Her monograph, Art as Cognition: How Gist Reframes the Aesthetic Experience as Conversation, is forthcoming in 2025 (Springer). She is currently on a fellowship at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany at the PAIR Institute. Awardees will present their research in a panel during the 2025 academic year, where the awards will be formally conferred. Each honoree will also receive a stipend.
