Chelsea C. Harry
Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, U.S.A
Chelsea C. Harry is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University specializing in the history of philosophy, particularly Aristotle and ancient Greek philosophy as well as 19th century German philosophy. She is the author of Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics iv 10-14: On the Nature of Time (Springer 2015) and the co-editor of Brill’s Companion to The Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought with Justin Habash (Brill 2021) and Exploring the Contributions of Women in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Literature, Throughout Time with George N. Vlahakis (Springer 2023). She has published articles in various journals, books, and conference proceedings, including Journal of Ancient Philosophy, Hellenic Research Foundation, Idealistic Studies, Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. She has a particular interest in the role philosophy can play in improving contemporary educational challenges. In the height of the pandemic, Harry founded Philosophy @Cross, which later became Philosophy in the Schools New Haven, leading philosophy discussions with urban high-school students on Zoom. In 2022, Harry was awarded a grant by the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy to grow the program in-person. For the past several years, she has led philosophical discussions in urban public high-schools and with community youth groups. In 2016, she was one of six international early-career women scholars working on ancient philosophy to be chosen for a working group at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. In 2018, she won the Connecticut State Universities system-wide research award and in 2023, she was a finalist for the American Philosophical Association’s Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching. Her book entitled, Why Aristotle Matters Today, is under contract with Bloomsbury Press. In addition to being a Co-PI on a 2025-2026 NEH-HFRI Collaborative Research Grant, Aristotelian 'Paideia' and Global Educational Challenges: Revisiting the Past to Plan for Sustainable Education in the 21st-Century, she was a 2025 Ancient Philosophy Fellow at the Center for Canon Expansion and Change at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and co-director of the 2026 Summer Program in Ancient Philosophy.