Karen Detlefsen named Penn vice provost for education Karen Detlefsen, professor of philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, with a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education.
Karen Detlefsen has been named vice provost for education at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1. The announcement was made today by Provost Wendell Pritchett and Deputy Provost Beth Winkelstein.
Detlefsen is a professor of philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, with a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education. She is chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences, founding director of Penn’s Project for Philosophy for the Young and an affiliated faculty member of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women. She is a leading global scholar of early modern philosophy who has taught at Penn since 2001 and has particular interests in women in the history of philosophy, the h