11 Facts About Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard is an American philosopher and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Agnes Callard is noted for her popular writings and work on public philosophy.

Agnes Callard's mother, Judit Gellen, was a hematologist and oncologist in the 1980s, specializing in the treatment of AIDS; she worked as a prison doctor at Riker's Island.

Agnes Callard's father studied law in Hungary but became a carpet salesman in the US and retired as a steel exporter.

Agnes Callard earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, majoring in Fundamentals.

Agnes Callard subsequently earned a Master of Arts degree in classics from the University of California, Berkeley, leaving that doctoral program without a dissertation, then studied philosophy at Princeton University before returning to Berkeley and completing her PhD in philosophy.

Agnes Callard has been a faculty member at the University of Chicago since 2008, becoming an associate professor of philosophy in 2017.

Paul, Agnes Callard received the 2020 Lebowitz Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association and Phi Beta Kappa.

Agnes Callard has published in the Boston Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and has written a column on public philosophy for The Point magazine.

In 2011, Agnes Callard divorced her husband, fellow University of Chicago professor Ben Agnes Callard, who she had married in 2003.

Agnes Callard began a relationship with Arnold Brooks, who was a graduate student at the time.