Tarik Wareh, assistant professor of Classics, and Lisa Warenski, assistant professor of Philosophy, have been named John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professors, a fellowship that supports new and promising faculty members.
Wareh came to Union in 2005. He earned a Ph.D. in classics from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation on “Practical Philosophical Politics in Plato and Isocrates.” He has held teaching positions at St. Olaf College, Dartmouth and Indiana University.
Warenski came to Union in 2004. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her teaching and research interests focus on epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of science. She is working on several projects in the epistemology of logic.
The College has recognized more than 30 MacArthur Assistant Professors since 1982, after receiving a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.