Please join me in congratulating Professor Wendy O’Brien-Ewara from the Department of Liberal Studies in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, on the successful completion of her doctorate at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Philosophy. Wendy’s thesis, titled,

Simone de Beauvoir and The Problem of The Other's Consciousness: Risk, Responsibility and Recognition

was supervised by Dr. Richard Holmes, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy where he began teaching in 1968. Other members of her committee included Dr. Shannon Dea and Dr. Patricia Marino and her external examiners were Dr. Margaret Simons, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Illinois where she also served as Chair for the Department of Philosophy, and John H Smith with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Waterloo.

Paula Gouveia
Dean, Liberal Arts and Sciences