Shotwell to join Carleton University

Alexis Shotwell, author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding, has accepted a position at Carleton University.  Interestingly, her position is not in the Philosophy department.  Instead, she will join the faculty of their Department of Sociology and Anthropology.  This strikes me as a lovely gain for Sociology and Anthropology; I am trying not to think of this as a loss to philosophy, and to take my lead from Alexis’ comment, “I find it inspiring!”  Surely we should find it invigorating that an excellent philosopher can contribute notably to analyses in other disciplines.  Way to go, Carleton University!  (And our sympathies to Laurentian University.)