Gretchen Reydams-Schils is professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame , and holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology. She is a specialist in Plato and the traditions of Platonism and Stoicism.
11-406: Schils is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gretchen Reydams-Schils (born 1965), American philosopher Jozef Schils (1931–2007), Belgian cyclist Mathias Schils (born 1993), Belgian footballer [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Schils . If an internal link intending to refer to
22-639: A BA (magna cum laude) at the Catholic University of Leuven where she majored in Classics , with her Senior Thesis on “Plato’s ‘Myth of Er’ in the Republic”; an MA at the University of Cincinnati ; and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley . Her Classics/Ancient Philosophy dissertation was on “Stoic and Platonist Readings of Plato's Timaeus”. She acted as Research Fellow in
33-579: A Fulbright Fellowship , Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, and a EURIAS Senior Fellowship. She published a letter in the Catholic magazine Commonweal marking her discontent at a change to the Nicene Creed , during the tenure of Pope Benedict XVI , in which the phrase “born of the Virgin Mary” was changed to “incarnate of”. In the article she argued that
44-476: A sabbatical. She was Directrice d’Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris, France, for four seminars on Calcidius, in May–June 2004. She edited a 2003 edited volume , Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon which explored the influence of Plato 's Timaeus and attempted to account for its cultural and philosophic status. In her 2005 book The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection , she studied
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66-489: Is the foundation's current president. Her predecessors have included Earl Lewis , Don Randel , William G. Bowen , John Edward Sawyer and Nathan Pusey . In 2004, the foundation was awarded the National Medal of Arts . Mellon's research group has investigated doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries, charitable nonprofits, scholarly communications, and other issues to ensure that
77-696: Is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. These foundations had been set up separately by Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon , the children of Andrew Mellon. The foundation is housed in New York City in the expanded former offices of the Bollingen Foundation , another educational philanthropy once supported by Paul Mellon. Poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander
88-949: The Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven . She teaches at the University of Notre Dame , where she also runs the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy, She has been a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, and also held positions as visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux, France, in 2013; at Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry, France, in 2005; at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, in 2002; and at Spiritan Missionary Philosophy Seminary, Arusha, Tanzania, in Spring 1998 during
99-601: The change identified "a deep strand of repulsion at the female body in the Christian tradition". She is married to professor Luc Reydams with three children. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , commonly known as the Mellon Foundation , is a New York City -based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania. It
110-721: The foundation's grants would be well-informed and more effective. Some of the recent publications of this effect include Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education , Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values , JSTOR: A History , The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values , and The Shape of the River . Mellon's endowment fluctuates in the range of $ 5 to $ 6 billion, and its annual grant-making amounts to about $ 300 million. According to Alexander, Mellon supports
121-631: The philosophical basis that underpins the way Roman Stoics integrated philosophy into the social practice of living, friendship, political community, parenting and marriage. In a review, Margaret Graver describes it as looking "beyond the Stoics' ethical absolutism to emphasise, instead, their engagement with other human beings". She has written over 20 philosophy book reviews for learned journals including The Journal of Roman Studies , The Journal of Hellenic Studies , and Classical Philology. She has also won over 20 academic awards and honours, including
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