Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, professor of philosophy at Stockton College, has died.
The next memorial discover was offered by Peter Amato (Drexel College).
Anne Fairchild Pomeroy (1958-2023)
It’s with profound disappointment that I share the information of the passing of Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, Professor of Philosophy at Stockton College.
A legendary trainer and mentor at Stockton, Anne developed and taught programs that expanded the breadth of her program and her college students’ horizons dramatically, together with Important Social Idea, Modernity and its Critics, Course of Philosophy, African American Philosophy, Feminist Theories, Philosophy of the Different, Energy and Society, Existentialism and Movie, amongst others. She created and co-taught a extremely profitable course on Marxism and Economics with a colleague from the Economics program.
Anne’s scholarship was centered on social justice, and she or he produced scores of articles, convention displays and the acclaimed e book, Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism, over the course of an extended and profitable educational profession.
Anne was additionally an achieved classical flute participant, and carried out on a number of devices and sang with the Stockton College Band for twenty years.
She served as Stockton Federation of Lecturers Union President from 2012-2017, guiding the native by way of a few of its most difficult instances and sophisticated negotiations. She stated the Union was not a company, however “a means of being on the planet that we’ve got chosen with one another.”
After I met Anne within the early 1990’s she had simply arrived at Fordham from Columbia, in the hunt for philosophy and philosophers who weren’t simply decoding the world. The neighborhood of students and activists she gathered round her offered what she had been looking for in an educational profession and in her life. For Anne, the hunt to be a part of and assist create such a neighborhood as an educator, thinker, and activist was the work of her life, a life nicely lived and with nice success.
However within the background for many of her stellar work Anne was combating a battle with breast most cancers, its results, and the consequences of its therapy. She defeated breast most cancers, however not lengthy after developed the endometrial most cancers that will be deadly.
Within the days since her demise there was an amazing outpouring of admiration and disappointment from college students, colleagues, buddies, union workers and rank-and-file, band-members, and others who knew Anne sharing tales and expressing their love for her and feeling of loss. In her analysis, her music, her activism, and her life, Anne at all times sought to construct others up by way of connection and compassion. She will likely be remembered for her kindness, her intelligence, and her passionate advocacy for justice. In lieu of flowers or playing cards, please think about donating to your native SPCA, shelter, or farm animal sanctuary.
Stockton College will maintain a remembrance and celebration of Anne’s life on Monday, March 20 on campus that may also be seen through Zoom. Please contact me if you want additional particulars: [email protected].
An obituary for Professor Pomeroy has been printed in The Argo.
