More Trouble for Northwestern: Brennan to Cornell

Tad Brennan, a leading young scholar of ancient philosophy at Northwestern University, has accepted a full professorship in the Department of Philosophy at Cornell University for this fall--a boon to ancient philosophy at Cornell, which suffered a big setback when Terence Irwin took up the Chair in ancient philosophy at Oxford.  Meanwhile, Northwestern, which suffered multiple senior departures in the last year or so (Terry Pinkard back to Georgetown, Thomas Ricketts to Pittsburgh, Charles Travis to King's College, London, Thomas McCarthy to retirement, among others), can ill afford to lose one of their recent strong lateral recruits.