DrDalia Nassar
ARC Future Fellow
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- ARC Future FellowFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
BIO
Dalia Nassar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council.
She is also the host of the podcast, The Wednesday Society.
Dalia's work sits at the intersection of the history of German philosophy and environmental philosophy and ethics.
Her monograph, Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford University Press, 2022; paperback 2026) investigates the understudied tradition of romantic empiricism, highlights its significance for the development of ecology, and argues for its relevance in addressing environmental concerns.
Her Future Fellowship project (2025-2028), Women Philosophers on Nature and the Human: Toward a New Environmental Ethic, explores the neglected history of women's contributions to the debates concerning the crucial categories of the "natural" and the "human," and aims to determine the ways in which women's historical perspectives can enrich both our understanding of the history of philosophy and contemporary debates.
With Kristin Gjesdal she has co-edited two volumes on women philosophers, Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, and The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition.
Dalia is a co-investigator on the SSHRC (Canada) grant, Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy.
Her work has been translated into Norwegian, Arabic, German and Japanese. The German edition of Romantic Empiricism - Romantischer Empirismus - can be found here.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Sydney, Philosophy, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2026 - present
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Sydney, Philosophy, Sydney, Australia6 Apr 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
- Senior LecturerUniversity of Sydney, Philosophy, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2017 - 5 Apr 2021
- LecturerUniversity of Sydney, Philosophy, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
- ARC DECRA FellowUniversity of Sydney, Philosophy, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2014
- Assistant Professor, tenure trackVillanova University, Philospohy, Villanova, PA, United States7 Aug 2007 - present
LANGUAGES
- GermanCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- FrenchCan read, speak and understand
- ArabicCan read, speak and understand
SCHOOL
- School of Humanities
AVAILABILITY
- Research supervision
AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA
- Academics can be contacted directly or via media.office@sydney.edu.au