Rate My Professor Anik Waldow

Waldow has advanced through academic ranks at the University of Sydney, from Lecturer to Professor, and previously served as a Research Fellow in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry. She held an Associate Investigator position in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2013-2017), received a Leverhulme Trust research grant (2014-2016) for the interdisciplinary project 'Sympathy and its Reflections in History,' and secured ARC Discovery grants including DP1094247 and DP170102670 for investigations into the experimental self and embodied experience. In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 2023, she won the Australasian Association of Philosophy's Annette Baier Prize. Her major publications include the monograph Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (2020), Triggers of Thought: Impressions within Hume's Theory of Mind (2010), and the edited collection Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought (2013). Recent contributions feature 'The art of thinking as an intersubjective practice: Eloquence, affect, and sympathy' (2024, European Journal of Philosophy) and 'Rethinking the Human Animal with Condillac and Herder' (2023). With over 50 publications and citations exceeding 238, Waldow influences scholarship on embodied cognition, empathy, and human abilities in early modern contexts, while delivering lectures on these themes.