Sofía Stutz '23

Sofía Rebeca Stutz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. She is majoring in Philosophy and is particularly interested in ethics. She is a Kaplan Humanities Scholar (2019-20), a Brady Scholar in Ethics and Civic Life (2020-23), a recipient of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Second-Year German (2021), and a winner of the Samuel Weber Prize for Best Paper in the Northwestern Paris Program “Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought” (2021). During her Posner fellowship (2020), she researched Kantian ethics, publishing her final paper, “Kantian Forgiveness: A Shared End,” in the Mudd Journal of Ethics. As a participant in the Summer Research Opportunity Program the following year (2021), she explored both moral and political Kantian philosophy, writing “Ostensibly Competing Kantian Duties and the Limits of Violent Self-defense,” now forthcoming in NYU’s NEO Journal. During the summer of 2022, Sofía worked on her Senior thesis through a Weinberg Baker Grant. She is currently in the process of finishing her paper (comparing, roughly, Kant and Murdoch’s moral priorities and conceptions of virtue), and looks forward to presenting her work at the PhilFest, her department’s thesis showcase. Outside of class, she enjoys Latin social dancing in Chicago, dancing as a member of Dale Duro Latin Dance Company, making music under her rap alias “Audax the Damsel,” and participating in NU’s Lutheran Campus Ministry as a member and student minister. After graduating from Northwestern, she plans to pursue a graduate degree in Philosophy.