Biography

Julia E Annas is a/an Professor, Philosophy in the Philosophy department at University Of Arizona

University of Arizona - Philosophy

B.A. (Hons.), First Class, University of Oxford, 1968. A.M. Harvard University, 1970;
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972
Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007.
Lecturer in Philosophy, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 1970-71.
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 1971-1986.
Lecturer in Philosophy, Christ Church, Oxford, 1979-1986. Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, 1986-1991.
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1991-1992.
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, 1992-Regents
Professor, University of Arizona, 1995-

Senior Fellow, The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. 1993-1998. Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1992)
Getty Scholar, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994-5.
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 1996
Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching.
University of Arizona Graduate Council 1999/2000 Award for mentoring graduate students. Research Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences Researach Institute, University of Arizona, Fall 2000.
Honorary Fellow, St. Hugh’s College, 2001.
President, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2004-5 (vice-president 2003-4).

Dr. Annas teaches classes on ancient philosophy, virtue ethics, and has written books over a wide range of ancient philosophy, from Plato to the Hellenistic period. Annas graduated from Oxford University in 1968 with a B.A., and from Harvard University with an A.M. (1970) and a PhD (1972).[3] She was a Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh's College, Oxford for fifteen years, before joining the faculty at Arizona in 1986, where she has taught since, apart for one year as a professor at Columbia University. She concentrates on the study of ancient Greek philosophy, including Ethics, Psychology and Epistemology. Her current research interests are in Platonic ethics. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.[4] She is the founder and former editor of the annual journal, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. She is married to the Hume scholar, David Owen, also a professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona.