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Professional, Academic "About Me"

This is my profile on academia.edu. A lot of scholars and academics write theirs very differently. I wrote mine like this so upcoming students would know they are not alone.

-Jennifer



My name is Jennifer Lee Lawson. I was a teen mom. I began my academic career at a community college, Daytona Beach Community College, then transferred to Stetson University (04). I went there because it was the highest ranking school I could commute to. I studied philosophy and psychology.  I tried my best and began carrying a philosophy encyclopedia with me so I could look up terms to this new language. I also studied psychology there.


For some reason I had a dream of going to grad school. I took a year off after undergrad and thought, read books and got ready.

I attended UNF for grad school. I'm glad they gave me a chance. I decided I'd try to make A's. I did make A's. I didn’t care about grades as an undergraduate. I only cared about learning course content. I still cared about course content—and way more than basic course content—in grad school.

While at UNF, I co-edited an academic blog, The Florida Student Philosophy Blog That's how I really got opened up to the wide world of philosophy.  Thank you, Dr. Rico Vitz and fellow bloggers!

At UNF, they were kind enough to allow me to teach Intro to Philosophy. I really wanted to do it and loved it. I thought and read deeply and broadly on a variety of topics I taught.

I was also an RA for the book Reading Bernard Williams (Ed. Daniel Callcut). I don't know if I did well. It was really my first time with academic publications, but I was called a “superb research assistant” in the acknowledgments.

Later, I was the infamous "Reviewer Two"  for several years for an international journal on logic, metaphysics, and language. I edited Saul Kripke, among other great philosophers.

I had some health issues. I had to take time off before finally graduating with my MA (2023).



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