Dr. Margret Grebowicz has been named the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities/Professor of Philosophy at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Grebowicz is the first faculty member to hold the title on a permanent basis. Previous visiting scholars from other universities were named Weiner Professor on a semester-long basis.

“I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Grebowicz to our faculty and look forward to the fresh ideas she will bring to enhance pedagogy and advance public scholarship in the humanities on our campus,” says Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, vice provost and dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Missouri S&T. “This is the first time we have had a faculty member serve in this role as a full-time professor, and I cannot think of anyone better than Margret to set an example and make this position really impactful for our students.”

Grebowicz’s research focuses on environmental imagination, gender and sexuality, wilderness and public lands, animal studies, and French philosophy since 1968. Her most recent research is about the relationship between environmental and social loss. Her recent essays have appeared in the Philosophical Salon, the New Yorker, Sierra Magazine, the New Republic, and the Atlantic. Her most recent books are Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans, Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World, and Whale Song, and she has authored numerous articles in journals such as Philosophy Today, Hypatia, and Peace Studies, among others.

Before joining Missouri S&T, Grebowicz held faculty positions at the University of Silesia in Poland, the University of Houston-Downtown, Goucher College in Baltimore and the School of Advanced Studies at University of Tyumen in Russia. She has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship in Poland and a Leverhulme Trust fellowship in the United Kingdom.

Grebowicz earned a bachelor’s degree in German literature and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Emory University. She served on the executive committee of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and serves on multiple editorial boards. She is the founding editor of the Practices series for Duke University Press.

Missouri S&T’s Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professorship in Humanities, established by an estate gift to the university in 1999, is rotated among the arts, languages and philosophy department, the English and technical communication department, and the history and political science department.

Weiner graduated from Missouri S&T when it was known as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. He also studied at the University of Hawaii and at Washington University in St. Louis. He retired from Westinghouse Electric Corp.

About Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) is a STEM-focused research university of over 7,000 students located in Rolla, Missouri. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T offers over 100 degrees in 40 areas of study and is among the nation’s top public universities for salary impact, according to the Wall Street Journal. For more information about Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.