Jennifer Mensch

Jennifer Mensch is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a School representative on the Academic Senate. Other leadership and governance roles Jennifer has held include Director of Academic Program for the School’s Masters of Research Course (2016-2018), Deputy Convenor of the MA in Continental Philosophy (2016-2020), Associate Dean, Higher Degree Research Students (2018-2019), and Acting Deputy Dean (third quarter, 2019).

Jennifer is an internationally recognized Kant specialist with a focus on the history and philosophy of the life sciences in the 18th century. In addition to nearly forty published articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and review essays, Jennifer is the editor of two forthcoming volumes and the author of a monograph on Kant’s theory of cognition. She is currently sole PI on an ARC DP Grant (2019-2023) focused on the role played by philosophers in the development of German anthropology.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from George Mason University, a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Memphis, and a Doctorate in Philosophy from Emory University. As a graduate student Jennifer studied at the University of Munich and at Marburg University in Germany for two years while completing her dissertation. Before her move to Western Sydney University in 2015, she spent ten years at the Pennsylvania State University where she taught Philosophy and the History of Science and Medicine.