PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Simona Vucu earned her PhD through the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 2017 with a dissertation entitled “Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus on Self-Agency and Self-Motion: An Inquiry into the Medieval Metaphysics of Causal Powers.” She published “The Beginnings of the Research University in the United States of America and the Role of Administration” [in Romanian] in Filosofia în Universitatea Contemporanîă (Timişoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2017): 221–244. As a Mellon Fellow Dr Vucu will research the topic “The judges before the philosophers: medieval philosophical discussions of judicial activities.”