2026
Mario Edmundo Chávez Tortolero is a full-time Associate Professor C at the College of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a Level 1 member of the National Researchers System (SNI) of the SECIHT. In 2022, he received the National University Distinction Award for Young Academics. His publications include the book Sobre una posible influencia del Quijote en el pensamiento de Hume (On a Possible Influence of Don Quixote on Hume's Thought, 2020); the article “Una hipótesis sobre la hipótesis en Hume: el papel de la intuición” (“A Hypothesis on Hypothesis in Hume: The Role of Intuition”, 2022); and the book chapter “Aspectos literarios de la filosofía de Hume” (“Literary Aspects of Hume's Philosophy”, 2021).
2022
Mark G. Spencer is Professor of History at Brock University. Among his books on Humean topics are David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (2005), David Hume: Historical Thinker, Historical Writer (2013), and Hume’s Reception in Early America: Expanded Edition (2017). He was also editor-in-chief of The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment (2015) and author, most recently, of John Beale Bordley’s “Necessaries”: An American Enlightenment Pamphlet in its Historical Contexts (2020). While working in Rare Books and Special Collections, he pursued research related to Hume as historian. Foremost of these projects is the multi-volume edition of Hume’s History of England that he and colleagues have contracted with Oxford University Press to prepare for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume.
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2019
Srdjan Cvjeticanin is a PhD student at the University of Michigan, in the department of Comparative Literature. His primary research is in British and American romantic-era literature and contemporary continental philosophy. The tentative title of his dissertation is Freedom to Fate, and Back to Freedom: Political Lessons from British and American Romantic-era Literature. At Rare Books and Special Collections, Srdjan was studying a number of related subjects, including the work of David Hume, with a specific focus on how it would respond to the French Revolution, and how it may have influenced the conceptualizations and responses of British romantic-era writers to the French Revolution and modernity more generally.
You can read Srdjan's grant report.
2018
Emily Kelahan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan University. Her primary research subject is the work of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. While at Rare Books and Special Collections, Prof. Kelahan was studying Hume’s views on the rationality of belief in miracles and how these views bear on interpreting Hume as a virtue epistemologist, or one who believes intellectual virtues and vices play an important explanatory role in accounting for belief-formation.
You can read Prof. Kelahan's grant report.