My name is Abigail Whalen, and I’m a second-year philosophy PhD student at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. I received my BA in Philosophy (summa cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame in May 2019. I subsequently received my BPhil (master’s) degree at the University of Oxford in 2021. Before my return to Notre Dame this autumn, I spent eighteen months working in higher education in London.
My main research interests at present are focused in classical Islamic and Scholastic metaphysics and natural philosophy. During my PhD, I hope to explore medieval theories of individuation and prime matter and research further the reception of Averroist metaphysics in the later medieval period.
When I’m not in the library, you can find me rowing on the St. Joseph River, going for a run, or baking for my housemates or officemates.