I am so devastated to learn of Susan's untimely death nearly a year ago. We were close friends in Kansas City, where we both taught at the University of Missouri. Susan was a bright light -- keenly intelligent, insightful, always open to new experiences, great fun to spend time with, vibrant, a wonderful and supportive teacher, highly respected, and widely liked and admired. She was lovely in so many respects. When she left in December 2002, there was a void in in the university and community that could never be refilled. I know she loved living in Philly. I am very grateful to have known her and been her friend for eight years, but so utterly sad that she is gone and that I did not know of her illness. She was special.
0
I was the President of the Graduate Philosophy Club at Wisconsin-Madison in the Spring of 1975. The annual picnic, which I organized, was held in a public park. I made sure to invite Gerald MacCallum, a professor whose wife had died fairly recently. Susan and he had a long conversation that day, one each seemed to enjoy immensely. My sense was that this special interaction set in motion a chain of events which led to their marriage. Susan was indispensable to Gerry as he finished the Philosophy of Law volume (Prentice Hall?) before he passed away.
0
I was very fortunate to spend a lot of time with Susan in graduate school at Wisconsin-Madison. We laughed so much, shared idea about our writing, played tennis, watched W.C.Fields movies. We relaxed around one another, a crucial antidote to the pressures of a PhD program. It was a pleasure to know her …
Robert Good - Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Rider University
0
2023, Mississippi State University, MS, USA
ASA-sponsored conference: Making Space for Lucy
— with
David Davies
0
2022, Portland, OR, USA
ASA Annual Meeting
— with
Susan with Larry Shiner
0
2019, Phoenix, AZ, USA
ASA Annual Meeting
— with
Susan with Past-President Stephen Davies
0
2022, Portland, Oregon
ASA Annual Meeting
— with
Susan with Kathleen Higgins and Cynthia Freeland (three ASA past presidents)
1
2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA
ASA Eastern Meeting 2024
— with
Susan with Alessandro Giovannelli and Sonia Sedivy
1
Alice her cat and I were pals- Susan rescued her at 5. I took care of the cat. On my lap as I cared for when Susan was away
I found out today she passed( Alice long gone- hopefully together now) and itt is such sad news
1
I only just heard about Susan's passing, but I want to honor her memory as a colleague and friend. She was one of the first people I met when interviewing for an art history position at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1988. She came up right after my presentation, with questions and observations, and I soon learned, as many others have, that this lively interest and engagement with ideas was fundamental to her. In addition to her own scholarly pursuits, Susan was an incredibly generous colleague, always willing to be a sounding board and to recognize and advance the work of others. Susan became a great friend as well, and while we were sorry to lose her, we knew that the move to Philadelphia would give her the opportunity to flourish on another level altogether. Mary and I are grateful for the friendship we shared with Susan, and I count myself quite fortunate to have had her as an example and as a colleague.
1
2017, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA, USA
Susan met a beautiful cat named Lily in a nice boutique in the French Quarter
1
2013, Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Susan photographing stray cats
2
2019, Philosophy Department Temple University
I think this was one of the last defenses Susan did for a Temple graduate student (Katie Brennan)
3
Susan's passing is an enormous loss for the aesthetics community and for the Temple philosophy department, where she taught for many years. She will be sorely missed. On behalf of the Temple philosophy department I would like to extend my condolences to Susan's family and friends. Sincerely, Espen Hammer
3
2022, Boone Tavern Hotel, South Main Street, Berea, KY, USA
Always elegant and stylish
— with
Paula Roberts
and Margaret Lonzetta
0
I was so sorry to hear of Susan’s passing. She was a role model to many women (and men) in aesthetics and she lived a rich, full life of travel, the arts and intellectual friends. I am glad to have known her and gotten the benefit of (in grad school at Temple) of her critical eye on my writing.
3
1
Share with others
