Professor Gerald Postema

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Professor Gerald Postema

  • born 1948. Chicago
  • 1967-1970. BA, Calvin College, Grand Rapids
  • 1970-74. MA, PhD Cornell University, Ithaca
  • 1973-74. Recognised Student University College, & Tutor in Jurisprudence Queen’s College, Oxford
  • 1975-80. Assistant Professor in Law, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  • 1980-present. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • 1980-88. Associate Professor in Philosophy
  • 1988-97. Professor of Philosophy
  • 1989-96. Chairman, Department of Philosophy
  • 1997-present. Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • 2002-present. Professor of Law
  • 1982. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan
  • 1993. Visiting Professor, Yale University

Fellowships, honours & lectures

  • Boutwood Lecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2014
  • Arthur L. Goodhart Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Science, Cambridge University [2007-08, postponed due to family ill-health; renewed for 2013-14]
  • George J. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Art and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2012
  • Honorary Professor, Zhengzhou University Law School, May 12, 2012
  • Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Athens, Fall, 2009
  • Visiting Fellow, Law Department, European University Institute, Spring 2009
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2005-06
  • John Medlin Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, 2005-6
  • W. N. Reynolds Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005-6
  • Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
  • Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy, Spring, 2001
  • Keith -Massey Fellow, Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH, Fall, 2000
  • Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social
  • Sciences, (Dutch) Royal Academy of Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, September 1996- June 1997
  • Visiting Research Fellow, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July-September 1995
  • Wittgenstein Lecturer, University of Bayreuth, Germany, June 1995
  • James Steintrager Lecturer on Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy, Wake Forest University, September 1992
  • Alf Ross Lecturer, Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark, November 1990
  • University Distinguished Lecturer, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, July 10-13, 1990
  • McGill University Legal Theory Distinguished Visitor, March 12-16, 1990 and Beatty Memorial Lecturer, McGill University, March 15, 1990
  • American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Fellowship, 1986-7
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1986-7
  • Kenan Research Leave, UNC-CH, 1986-7
  • University Research Award, UNC-CH, 1984-5
  • Mellon Fellow, Aspen Institute, l984
  • American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, July, 1979
  • American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of Ph.D., Fall, 1978
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer, 1978