Rocky Mountain Division Announces 2023 Travel Grants and Essay Prizes

The ASA Rocky Mountain Division is pleased to announce the winners of Travel Grants and Graduate Essay Awards. Funding for the Travel grants has been provided by the Irene H. Chayes Travel Fund and the Center for Philosophical Studies at Lamar University, directed by Arthur Stewart. The funding for the Graduate Essay Awards also has been provided by the Center for Philosophical Studies.

Travel Grants of $150 each have been awarded to:

• Ashley Atkins, Western Michigan University
• Wendy Bustamante, Texas A & M Universitt
• Logan Canada-Johnson, University of Southern California
• Kaeleigh Damico, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Juan Carlos Gonzalez, University of California San Diego
• Mojca Kuplen, Alfred University
• Gil Morejon, Independent Scholar
• Sukhvinder Shahi & Karan Dhingra, CUNY Graduate Center
• Spencer Ivy, University of Utah 

CPS Essay Prize Awards of $200 each have been awarded to:

• Chenya Bu, University of Texas, Austin, for “Reviving Musical Platonism”
• Kaeleigh Damico, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for “Beautiful Disaster? Ugly Nature and Natural Disasters” 
• Juan Carlos Gonzalez, University of California, San Diego, for “Kant, Vasconcelos, and the role of Aesthetics in Early 20th-Century Mexican Politics”
• Emma Heflin, University of Utah, for “Descending the Ladder: The Platonic Aesthetics of Simone Weil”
• Spencer Ivy, University of Utah, for “Expertise Isn’t Flying” It’s Falling with Style: The Diagnostic Function of Style for Skill”
• Sukhvinder Shahi & Karan Dhingra, CUNY Graduate Center, for “Bites and Scratches: The Paradox of Tragedy and Rasa”

The awards will be presented at the business meeting and luncheon on Saturday, July 8, 2023, at the Drury Plaza, Santa Fe, NM. For more information on the meeting and on-line registration:

https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1173363