Philosophy Ph.D student Jaime Ahlberg (Philosophy, MA'07) has been awarded a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation entitled "Ideal and Nonideal Theory in the Realm of the Political".
The Spencer Foundation is the largest U.S.-based funder of educational research and Ahlberg was one of just 20 awardees in a competition with over 600 applicants.
Ahlberg's dissertation explores the significance of theorising about ideal justice for deciding what principles ought to guide agents acting in the non-ideal, at-best imperfectly just, world, with a specific focus on issues concerning the just distribution of educational opportunities.