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Professor Martha Brandt Bolton passed away on October 27, 2024. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and did her undergraduate work at Ohio Wesleyan University. After briefly studying at Tulane, she earned her Ph.D.

at the University of Michigan. She spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and began her long career at Rutgers University in 1971, retiring only last year. When Martha arrived, Rutgers was divided into several residential colleges, each with its own philosophy department.

Martha was at Livingston College, along with Howard McGary, Martin Bunzl, and Peter Klein.

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Brian McLaughlin joined the Livingston department in 1980. Martha was chair at Livingston, and participated in the creation of a unified Rutgers philosophy department in 1982. She was preceded in death by her husband, Professor Robert Bolton, who also joined Rutgers in 1971, and passed away in June of this year.

Martha’s work in the history of early modern philosophy