Elizabeth Brake, currently professor of philosophy at Rice University, and Sophia Dandelet, currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, have accepted offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin also made two other hires this season.

Professor Brake works in ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy, and has written on topics such as love, sex, marriage, amatonormativity, procreative ethics, and environmental justice. You can learn more about her work here and here.

She takes up her position as full professor of philosophy at Wisconsin in fall 2025.

Professor Dandelet works in epistemology and ethics, and has written on topics such as epistemic rationality, truth, doxastic wrongs, and epistemic coercion. You can learn more about her work here and here.

She will be associate professor of philosophy at Wisconsin beginning in spring 2026.

Clockwise from top left: Elizabeth Brake, Sophia Dandelet, Sam Roberts, Alex Kerr

Wisconsin’s Philosophy Department also picked up two hires at the assistant professor level: Sam Roberts, currently assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Konstanz, who works in logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of math (starting at UW this fall), and Alex Kerr, a recent postdoc at Princeton University who works on sense perception and philosophy of emotion (starting in spring 2026).