Perry Zurn Provost Associate Professor Philosophy and Religion
- Additional Positions at 51³Ô¹Ï
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy
- Affiliate Faculty, Honors Program
- Faculty Fellow, Complex Problems
- Degrees
- Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University
MA, Philosophy, Miami University - Languages Spoken
- English, French, Latin
- Bio
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Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at 51³Ô¹Ï, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, the Honors Program, and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center. He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and feminist theory, and collaborates in psychology and network neuroscience. In addition to co-editing four books, he is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and How We Make Each Other (2025), as well as the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (2022).Â
Zurn is the author or coauthor of 90+ additional publications in philosophy, political theory, and network science, and has given 200+ talks at local, national, and international venues. His theoretical essays have appeared in venues such as Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and Theory & Event. And his scientific collaborations have appeared in venues such as Nature Human Behavior and Nature Neuroscience. Zurn’s work has been featured in 50+ podcast, radio, and television shows, as well as in mainstream news outlets such as The Guardian. And his work has been generously funded by the American Philosophical Association, the Center for Curiosity, the Hypatia Diversity Fund, the Lee Somers Fund, and the Mellon Foundation. Zurn’s previous appointments include Fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities, Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, SSNAP Fellow at Duke University, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Curiosity in the School of Social Policy and Practice.
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