Anita L. Allen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anita L. Allen
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Mar 24, 1953(1953-03-24)
Age	71
Birthplace	Port Townsend
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington
Horoscope	Pisces

Anita L. Allen Biography

Anita L. Allen is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on March 24, 1953 in Port Townsend, Washington, United States. Anita LaFrance Allen (aka Allen-Castellitto) (born on March 24, 1953) is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She also serves as Vice Provost for Faculty. She was an associate professor in the department of bioethics that was previously part of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine as well as a co-collaborating faculty member of Africana Studies, and an affiliated faculty member of the sexuality, gender, and Women’s Studies program. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2018-19. In 2010, President Barack Obama named Allen to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Allen is an Hastings Center Fellow.

The year was 1985. Allen was married to Paul Vincent Castellitto who was an attorney who was a lawyer from Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, New York, who was a specialist on white collar law as well as later becoming an instructor at a university specialized in ethics. The couple had two children.

Allen is one of several successful black professionals whose experiences and perspectives have been profiled in books including Laurel Holliday’s Children of the Dream (2000), Ellis Cose’s The Rage of a Privileged Class (1994), George Yancy’s African American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998,) and Elwood Watson: Outsiders Within (2008). She was featured in Carlin Romano’s 2007 article, “A Challenge for Philosophy.” Of her, he writes, “Penn’s Anita Allen is at the top of her field, but she has serious concerns about its lack of openness and diversity.”

In 2006, Allen became an elder of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.

Allen is a member of both the Pennsylvania as well as New York bars. She was a law clerk for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City in 1984 and 1985.

Anita L. Allen Net Worth

Anita L. Allen is one of the richest Philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anita L. Allen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Allen has graduated as an honors student of Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, in 1970 within three years. Allen has an B.A. at New College of Florida, where she was on the Board of trustees, she also was a member. Allen has delivered twice the commencement speech in New College. While at New College, Allen spent an entire year at the universities of Italy as well as Germany. Under the guidance under the guidance of Prof. Bryan Norton, she completed an undergraduate thesis on the philosophy of the logical positive Rudolf Carnap. She was a student of American Philosophy under Professor Gresham Riley.

The couple’s marriage in 1982 to musician Michael Kelly Williams of Detroit, Michigan ended in divorce. Allen served as the inspiration for Williams Woodcut, Afternoon of an Georgia Faun. A first edition of the woodcut was made at the printmaking studio by Robert Blackburn and now is stored in the prints collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Allen was professor and associate dean for research and scholarship at Georgetown University Law Center from 1987 to 1998, and an assistant professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University from 1978 to 1981. She was the first African American woman to serve on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1985 to 1987. She has been a visiting faculty member at Tel Aviv University, Waseda University Law School in Tokyo, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hofstra Law School, University of Arizona College of Law, Princeton University, Yale Law School, Villanova University School of Law, and Harvard Law School.

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Anita Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Anita L. Allen celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.