Jennifer Bates

Graduate courses

• Seminar on Fichte
• Seminar on Schelling
• Seminar on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
• Seminar on Hegel’s Science of Logic
• Seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
• Hegel and Shakespeare on Imagination
• Kierkegaard’s Early Works
• Kierkegaard’s Later Works
• Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
• Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason
• Kant’s Critique of Judgment
• Kant’s Religion Within the Bounds of Mere Reason
• Imagination in 19th Century Continental Philosophy

Undergraduate Courses

• Philosophy and Literature: Philosophical Shakespeare
• Later Modern Philosophy
• Consciousness in 19th C. Thought
• Philosophy of the Environment
• Philosophical Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Introduction to Philosophy

Published Single-Authored Books:

• Bates, Jennifer A. Over-Measure in Kant, Hegel, and Shakespeare: Putting the Principles Into Play. London, England: Bloomsbury Press, 2025. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2010.  
• Bates, Jennifer A. Hegel's Theory of Imagination. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Published Co-Edited Book:

• Bates, Jennifer A., and Richard Wilson, eds. Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Published Book Chapters:  

Refereed

• Bates, Jennifer A. “Organic Freedom: Hegel's Four-Way Dialectic.” In The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel's Turn Between Logic and History. University of Toronto Press, January 2026.  
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Rewilding: A Hegelian Reflection.”  In Resilience in Ecology and Health, edited by Dr. Gerald Magill. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Broken at the Nodes: Ekphrastic Crisis and Speculative Moral Receptivity in Hegel's Religious Phenomenology and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece.”  In L'héritage de Hegel / Hegel's Legacy, directed by Kaveh Boveiri. Laval University Press, 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.” In Critical Reader on Shakespeare's Coriolanus for the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, edited by Liam Semler and Arden Press Editors. Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Sustaining the Trivial: Why the Liberal Arts and the Environment Need to be Sustained Together.”  In The Global Sustainability Challenge, edited by Gerald Magill and James Benedict. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
• Bates, Jennifer A. (2018). “Kiss me K: Engendering Judgment in Kant and The Taming of the Shrew.”  In The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, edited by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Absolute Knowing: Consternation and Preservation in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.”  In Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy 1st Edition Edited by Russell Ford, edited by Russell Ford. Routledge Press, 2017. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. (2017). “Hegel's Instinct of Reason and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.” In The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection.” In Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy, edited by Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Feeling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.”  In Person, Being, and History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Schmitz, edited by Robert E. Wood and Michael Baur. Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

Forthcoming Book Chapters (Under Contract):

• Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: “Encountering Objectivity: Hegel's Phenomenology of Nature.” In Encountering Objectivity II - Reality and Cognition in Classical German Philosophy and Contemporary Debates, edited by Karen Koch and Elana Tripaldi. Volume under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: “Can Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?” In The Concept of Nature in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, edited by Christian Martin and Florian Ganzinger. Volume under contract with DeGruyter/Brill, 2024.
• Bates, Jennifer A. nearly complete, due January 31, 2026: “Actualizing the Dialectic of Reason and Nature in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.” In Contradiction as Method and Metaphysics: Reviving Hegel's Dialectic, edited by Edgar Maraguat and Rafael Aragüés. Volume under contract with Routledge Press, 2025.

Published Refereed Articles:  

• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Rub of the Negative: Concrete Universality, the Sache selbst and Noumena in Cutrofello's All for Nothing.” Philosophy Today 61, no. 2 (2017): 439-450.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Absolute Knowing: Consternation and Preservation in Hegel and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 21, no. 3 (2016): 65-82.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Confusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.” Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearian Studies, no. 1 (2014): 173-201.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and the Concept of Extinction.”  Philosophy Compass 9, no. 4 (2014): 238-252.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Inverted World, Cleopatra, and the Logic of the Crocodile.” Criticism 54, no. 3 (2012): 427-443.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “An Inquiry Into The Nature of Environmentally Sound Thinking.” Environmental Ethics 25, no. 2 (2003): 183-197.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Stevens, Hegel and the Palm at the End of the Mind.” Wallace Stevens Journal 23, no. 2 (1999): 152-166.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Abstract of Ph.D. Dissertation.” Bulletin of The Hegel Society of Great Britain 18, no. 2 (1997): 75-76.

Published Invited Articles/Reviews:

• Bates, Jennifer A. Review of The Accessible Hegel, by Michael Allen Fox. Philosophy in Review XXVII, no. 1 (2007): 27-29.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Review of Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit, by Kathleen Magnus. Philosophy in Review XXII, no. 5 (2002): 341-343.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Review of Son of Spirit, by David Farrell Krell. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 28, no. 1 (1998): 40-41.
• Bates, Jennifer A.  Report on “The Idea of System of Transcendental Idealism in Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel” --An International Conference at Dartmouth College, August 27-30, 1995. Bulletin of The Hegel Society of Great Britain, 1996.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Tips for Teaching Assistants.” The Teaching Handbook. Toronto: University of Toronto Philosophy Department in-house Manual, 1995. 

Presentation of Refereed Papers:

International

• Bates, Jennifer A. “Broken at the Nodes: Ekphrastic Crisis and Speculative Moral Receptivity in Hegel's Religious Phenomenology and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece.” Paper presented at L'Heritage de Hegel / Hegel's Heritage, Montreal, Canada, Virtual, 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Broken at the Nodes: Ekphrastic Crisis and Moral Receptivity in Hegel's Religious Phenomenology and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association conference, Pittsburgh, Virtual, 2021.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Sustaining the Trivial: Why the Liberal Arts and the Environment Need to be Sustained Together.” Paper presented at the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Kierkegaard on the Anxiety of Generation.” Paper presented at the Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) conference, Canadian Congress, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Felling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.” Paper presented at the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Conference, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, 2009.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel, Falstaff and the Politics of Wit.” Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Freiburg, Germany, 2006.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Tearing the Fabric: Hegel, Antigone, Coriolanus and Kinship-State Conflict.” Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, New York, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Disorientations in Hegel and Shakespeare.” Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Winnipeg, Canada-Manitoba, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Moral Chemist of the Corpus Mysticum: Why Some Version of Kant's Practical Postulates is Necessary, Even for Hegel.” Paper presented at the Society for German Idealism Conference, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, Pasadena, California, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Imagination in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Philosophical Investigation of Tibetan Thangka Symbolism in the Light of Kantian Epistemology and Hegelian Aesthetics.” Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, Great Britain, 2003.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Patience and the Visible.” Paper presented at The Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Learned Societies Meeting, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. and Jill Gilbert. “A Body of One's Own: Self-Equivalence in Words.” Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Temporal Hypotenuse.” Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, The University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, 1998.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and the Palm at the End of the Mind.” Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Mobile, Alabama, 1997.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Early Psychology: (in) the Wake of the Dreaming Spirit.” Paper presented at the Western Canadian Philosophical Society, Winnipeg, Canada-Manitoba, 1997.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel, Imagination and the Nocturnal Pit.” Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meeting, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 1996.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Fichte and the Failed Imago.” Paper presented at the Learned Societies Meeting of the Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Calgary University, Calgary, Canada-Alberta, 1994.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “1794 or 1994? Fichte, Teleology and the Postmodern Imagination.” Paper presented at the Strategies of Critique VIII Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 1994.

Presentation of Invited Papers:  

International

• Bates, Jennifer A. “title tba, on Hegel's Aesthetics in his Frühe Schriften II.” Invited presentation at international conference Aesthetics and Forms of the Frühe Schriften II, to be held at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, November 2026.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Modality in Kant and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.” Invited presentation at Norms and Nature in Kant and Hegel, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, August 26-28, 2024.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Can Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?” Invited keynote presentation at Encountering Objectivity - Reality and Cognition between German Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Debates (sponsored by DAAD Hoschuldialog mit Südeuropa 2023-24, Freie Universität Berlin/Università degli Studi di Padova), Padua, Italy, October 2-3, 2023.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Can Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?” Invited presentation at Conceptions of Nature in Classical German Philosophy, Stuttgart, Germany, July 5-7, 2023.
• Bates, Jennifer A. A second Panel presentation on “Hegel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.” Invited presentation at Sheffield Hallam/Bangor joint research seminar, Bangor, United Kingdom, Virtual, 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Rewilding: A Hegelian Reflection.” Invited keynote presentation at Integrity of Creation: Climate Resiliency: Collaboration, Adaptation, and Action, Pittsburgh, United States of America, April 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel presentation on “Hegel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.” Invited presentation at University of Sydney's EMLAC (Early Modern Literature and Culture), Sydney, Australia, Virtual, August 2021.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentator on Jeffrey Morrisey's paper “Visibility and Subjectivity: Hegel on the Medium and Meaning of Painting.” Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.” Invited Plenary Speaker presentation at Shakespeare And/As Philosophy Conference, Royal Holladay University, London, England, September 3-4, 2018.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery.” Invited presentation at Hegel and Shakespeare Symposium, Kingston University London, Kingston, London, Great Britain, April 2017.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Discussion of Scholar/Teacher Henry Silton Harris. Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Toronto, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2016.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Presentation on Cutrofello's Book All For Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity. Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Confusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.” Invited keynote speaker presentation at Poetics Versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 2013.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and the Concept of Extinction.” Invited presentation at Heidelberg University Philosophy Speaker Series, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Speaker on “Hegel: The Sway of the Negative” by Karin de Boer. Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Rochester, New York, November 2012.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Organic or Inorganic Freedom.” Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, April 2012.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Respondent to Paper “The Cosmopolitics of Capital: Prospects for Renewal and Decline” by Tony Smith. Invited presentation at Cosmopolitics: Unity, Diversity, and Global Subjects conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and the Concept of Extinction.” Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, April 2011.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Kierkegaard and Hegel on the Movement of the Moment.” Invited presentation at Conference on Hegel's Absolute Spirit, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on "Sartre and the Specter of Bergson". Invited presentation at Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) conference, Canadian Congress, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection.” Invited Executive Symposium Paper presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montreal, Canada-Quebec, November 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Wandering Sage and the Absolute Knower: Chuang-tzu and Hegel on 'the Constant' (a textual analysis of two passages in Chuang-tzu).” Invited presentation at East-West Philosophy Round Table Discussion, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination: Conscience and Evil in Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.” Invited Philosophy Guest Speaker presentation at University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Infection in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.” Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization York University, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Henry V's Unchangeableness.” Invited presentation at University of Toronto Centre for Comparative Literature Guest Speaker, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2006.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel, Falstaff and the Politics of Wit.” Invited presentation at Wilfred Laurier University Department of Philosophy Guest Speaker, Waterloo, Canada-Ontario, 2006.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Richard II and the Alienation of the Will.” Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel on Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama.” Invited guest speaker presentation at University of Toronto Centre for Comparative Literature, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel on Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama.” Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2003.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Desire and the Symbolic.” Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, 2002.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “What is an Absolute Deed? Kant and Hegel on the Categorical Imperative.” Invited guest speaker presentation at University of Guelph Philosophy, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2002.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Dialectical Imagination.” Invited presentation at Concordia University Speaker Series, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on “The Necessity of the Dialectical Development in Hegel's Philosophy.” Invited presentation at Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meeting, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Night Time and Space of Experience; Hegel's Inwardizing Imagination.” Invited presentation at University of Guelph Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2000.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Was vernuenftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernuenftig.” Invited presentation at University of Victoria, Department of Germanic Studies Colloquia, Victoria, Canada-British Columbia, 2000.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on “Can Intentionality be Replaced? Gilles Deleuze on the Platonic Paradigm of Weaving.” Invited presentation at Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada-Saskatchewan, 1999.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Temporal Hypothenuse.” Invited guest speaker presentation at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, 1998.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on three papers on Hegel and Post-Modernism. Invited presentation at International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995.

• Bates, Jennifer A. “Philosophy and Sustainability.” Invited presentation at CTE: Introducing Sustainability in Your Courses, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2025.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Discussant's summary/questions of Dr. Frederick's Panel Presentation. Invited presentation at Integrity of Creation Conference: The Global Sustainability Challenge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Kantian Grit: Severus Snape and Shakespeare's Brutus.” Invited presentation at Examined Life @ High Noon Speaker Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2016.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Sache Selbst: The Absolute Thing.” Invited presentation at Duquesne Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2015.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's ‘Instinct of Reason’ and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: What is a Relevant Aufhebung of Nature? Of Justice?.” Invited presentation at Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR), Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2014.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination: Conscience and Evil in Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.” Invited guest speaker presentation at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2007.

• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.” Invited presentation at Invited Speaker, Speaker Series, Philosophy Department, Miami University Ohio, Oxford, United States of America, April 2019.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery.” Invited presentation at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, April 2017.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “The Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Feeling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.” Invited presentation at 'Shakespeare and the History of Philosophy' Shakespeare Symposium, Loyola University Chicago Graduate School, Chicago, Illinois, 2009.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “An Inquiry Into The Nature of Environmentally Sound Thinking.” Invited guest speaker presentation at Pace University Philosophy Department, New York, New York, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Spirit's Epilogue: Identity, Morality and Prospero's Insight.” Invited presentation at ‘Hegel and Spirit’ conference, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1999.

• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Shakespeare.” Invited presentation at Carlow University conference 'Philosophy and Shakespeare,’ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011.
• Bates, Jennifer A. “Hegel and Kierkegaard on the Anxiety of Generation.” Invited presentation at the Philosophy Department of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 2010.

General Editorship of a Major International Philosophy Journal:

• Bates, Jennifer A. Editor of major philosophy journal Idealistic Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (I took on Editorship in 2018). 2025. 
  --This journal publishes three issues a year; each issue includes four to five articles and one to two Book Reviews. I have been General Editor for 8 years (since 2018).
  • I produced a Special Issue (51.2) “Philosophical Idealism as Anti-Racism” on the Occasion of Hegel’s 250^th Anniversary 1770-2020 and the 50^th Anniversary of Idealistic Studies 1971-2021.
  • Under my Editorship since 2018, the journal has risen from 4^th Quartile to 2^nd Quartile (SCImago Media Rankings).

• Form and Matter in Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy, by Aaron Higgins-Brake.  Defended June 22, 2024.

• “The Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel’s Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness,” by Jiho Oh. Defended July 2020. Received McAnulty Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2018–19.
• “Externality in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature,” by Martin Krahn. Defended November 2018. Received Duquesne University Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award [Humanities], 2018–19.
• “Thinking Without Concepts: The Aesthetic Use of The Logical Functions in Kant’s Third Critique,” by Stephanie Adair. Defended April 2016. Co-supervised by Frau Prof. Dr. Claudia Bickmann, University of Cologne, Germany. This dissertation was nominated by the Philosophy Department for a Duquesne University Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2015–16; it received “Honorable Mention” from the Awards Committee.
• “Sadra and Hegel on the Relationship Between Essence/Existence and Subject/Object,” by Kamal Abdulkarim Shlbei. Defended May 2013.

• Interview of Bates by Heidelberg University Magazine
• 2022 IOC Plenary Speech: Rewilding: A Hegelian Reflection
• 2015: Presidential Scholarship Award
• 2013: “HAIreconnect Grant” (Heidelberg Alumni International, University of Heidelberg) grant to travel to Heidelberg, Germany and set up student/faculty exchanges between our universities
• 2013: Grant Writing Fellowship (McAnulty College Award)
• 2011: National Endowment for the Humanities, for “Hegel Logic Day” conference involving four invited panelists (three from Canada) and guest student attendees from Canada as well as my Hegel Logic graduate class from Duquesne, October 28, 2011
• 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities, for Hegel Conference, “Hegel’s Absolute Spirit: Connections Between Art, Religion and Philosophy,” March 19–21, 2010
• 2009: National Endowment for the Humanities, toward publication of my second book, Hegel and Shakespeare on Religious Imagination