Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard  (born Agnes Gellen; January 6, 1976) is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She is also noted for her popular writings and work on public philosophy.

Life and education
Callard was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her mother was a hematologist and oncologist in the 1980s, specializing in the treatment of AIDS at the time. Her father started as a carpet salesman and retired as a steel exporter. Callard was raised in Budapest until the age of 6. She and her parents later moved to Rome before settling in the New York metropolitan area.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, followed by a Master of Arts in Classics and a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Awards
With L. A. Paul, Callard received the 2020 Lebowitz Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association and Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.

Public writing and speaking
Callard has published in the Boston Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times,   and has written a column on public philosophy for The Point magazine. Podcasts that have hosted her include the EconTalk, the Elucidations Podcast, and The Ezra Klein Show.

In 2017 she created the Night Owls public debate series in Hyde Park, Chicago, featuring guests such as Tyler Cowen, Chris Blattman, Ezra Klein, Hollis Robbins; and in November 2018 participated in one with her ex-husband and colleague Ben Callard, on the philosophy of divorce.

She hosts the podcast Minds Almost Meeting together with economist Robin Hanson.

Books

 * On Anger was selected as one of The New Yorker's "Best Books We Read in 2020."