Laurel Scotland-Stewart did her undergraduate work at Tufts and her doctoral work in philosophy at Stanford, specializing in philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and ethics. Her dissertation, “Social Invisibility as Social Breakdown: Insights from a Phenomenology of Self, World and Other,” argues for understanding social invisibility on the model of a breakdown in everyday engaged activity with others, that results in an experience of alienation not only from those others but from the world generally. A former student of the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU, she remains active in the theatre and in the practice of experimental and technical movement forms, including experimental theatre, contact improvisation, rock climbing, and yoga. In 2005 – 2006, she was a recipient of the Whiting Dissertation Fellowship.
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IHUM Fellow: Laurel Scotland-Stewart, PhD