Education
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in 1957 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1970.
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Edith Wyschogrod
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Wyschogrod joined Rice"s Religious Studies Department in 1992. She retired in 2003. She authored many influential books on ethics and received numerous accolades. Her work centered on ethical and philosophical themes such as altruism, mass death and community, time and memory.
She died July 16, 2009 in New York City at the age of 79.
Achievements
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Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999–present Guggenheim Fellow, 1995-1996. President, American Academy of Religion 1992-1993. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September, 1987 January 1988. City University of New York Faculty Research Travel Awards: Summers 1982, 1983, France, Germany, Italy; Summer 1987, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway; Summer 1990, France, Poland, Hungary, German Democratic Republic. Fellow National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, January June, 1981.
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United States