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�ᰮ�Թ� Professor of Philosophy David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., has been appointed as a Tage Danielsson guest professor by Linköping University in Sweden for the 2026-2027 academic year.

The professorship is intended “for renowned researchers from Sweden or abroad who are active in the humanities, social sciences, and aspects of the educational sciences with a humanities focus,” according to the university. It also supports authors, educators, journalists, writers, and artists.

Those appointed to the prestigious professorship are expected to uphold values such as humanism and social commitment that were embodied by the Swedish artist Tage Danielsson, a prominent author, actor, poet, and film director who was from Linköping. 

Smith, the 2023-24 Ludcke Chair of Arts and Sciences at UNE, will conduct scholarly, intellectual, artistic, or pedagogic work in Linköping University’s Department of Culture and Society. 

“It is a tremendous honor to have been selected by colleagues at Linköping University, which is consistently rated as one of the top universities in the world,” Smith remarked. “I am looking forward to having the time to think and write, to work with graduate students from all over Europe, and to be part of a vibrant and well-resourced department of philosophy.”

An interdisciplinary scholar whose work has been cited by philosophers, historians, psychologists, legal scholars, anthropologists, and international media, Smith received the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution from the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the American Philosophical Association (APA) in 2024. He also was a guest at the G20 economic summit in 2012.

He has published 10 books, including “Less Than Human: Why We Demean, enslave, and Exterminate Others,” which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for nonfiction. His most recent book, “Making Monsters” The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization,” was a finalist for the 2023 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Interdisciplinary Philosophy and was awarded the 2023 Joseph B. Gittler Award from the APA. 

“David Livingstone Smith's appointment as the Tage Danielsson Guest Professor at Linköping University is a testament to the international reach of his scholarship,” said Wesley Renfro, Ph.D., UNE dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “Dr. Livingstone Smith's selection is an excellent distinction for him and UNE. It is yet another affirmation of our commitment to world-class, socially engaged intellectual work.”