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C. Mason and Madeline Myers Award
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Nurit Matuk Blaustein and Dashiell Shulman have been selected as recipients of the C. Mason and Madeline Myers Graduate Philosophy Award for 2023.
Origin of the C. Mason and Madeline Myers Award
The C. Mason and Madeline Myers Graduate Philosophy Award is given by the departmental Graduate Committee to a graduate student in philosophy whose overall academic achievements and contributions to the professional life of the department have been the most outstanding. The award is funded by an endowment established by family and friends to honor and memorialize Professor C. Mason Myers. Dr. Myers chaired the department and taught at Northern Illinois University for 27 years until his death on December 3, 1986.
Myers Award Winners
| 2023 | Nurit Matuk Blaustein Dashiell Shulman |
| 2022 | Conner Fastenau |
| 2021 | Meredith Sheeks |
| 2020 | Devin Lane |
| 2019 | John Hill |
| 2018 | Brianna Campbell |
| 2018 | Christopher Copan |
| 2017 | David Clark |
| 2017 | Caley Howland |
| 2016 | Timothy Buchanan |
| 2015 | Drew Johnson |
| 2015 | Wes Siscoe |
| 2014 | Griffin Klemick |
| 2013 | Tanya Kostochka |
| 2012 | Renee Jorgensen |
| 2011 | Timothy Kakos |
| 2011 | Hope Sample |
| 2010 | Matthew Babb |
| 2009 | Amy Seymour |
| 2008 | Jeffrey Snapper |
| 2008 | Craig Warmke |
| 2007 | Sharon Mason |
| 2006 | Adam Pringle |
| 2005 | Jamin Asay |
| 2005 | Peter Nichols |
| 2004 | Vinod Lakshmipathy |
| 2003 | Matthew Konieczka |
| 2002 | Mark Anderson |
| 2000 | Michael Mulvey |
| 1997 | Todd Kukla |
| 1996 | John O’Connor |
| 1995 | Ryan Streeter |
| 1994 | Michael Shaffer |
| 1993 | David Billings |
| 1992 | Christopher Conn |
