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Ann E. Cudd Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Ann E. Cudd 

President
Portland State University

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

President, Portland State University, (August 2023-present)
Currently leads Oregon's public urban research university as its 11th president.  PSU serves 22,000 undergraduate and graduate students as a Carnegie Classified doctoral-granting high research university (R2) with eight schools and colleges, offering more than 200 degrees.

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh, (September 2018-July 2023): 
Primary responsibility for all aspects of the University of Pittsburgh’s academic mission. Duties include supporting scholarly excellence among more than 4,600 full-time faculty members and student success among the University’s nearly 35,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on all five Pitt campuses.

  • Direct supervisory role and hiring authority over three campus presidents, deans of eight Schools, the Honors College, admissions and financial aid, student affairs, global affairs; 
  • Reviews and recommends faculty tenure and promotion to Chancellor; 
  • Convenes Council of Deans, University Planning and Budget Committee, and sits on Executive Council of University Senate; 
  • Member of Executive Budget Committee (with Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Senior Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences (SVCHS), which prioritizes and recommends a $2.6B annual budget to Chancellor and Board of Trustees; 
  • Member of Capital Project Review Board (with Senior Vice Chancellor for Business and 
  • Operations, CFO, SVCHS), which prioritizes and recommends all capital projects to Chancellor and Board of Trustees; 
  • Chancellor’s liaison to the Academic Affairs and Libraries Committee of the Board of Trustees.

Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Boston University (August 2015-July 2018): As dean I led the largest college, with an annual budget of $115M, approximately 6500 majors of 16,000 total undergraduate students, all of whom take general education in the College, 1800 graduate students, in 23 departments and over 70 degree programs across four divisions, with 540 tenure-stream and 250 non-tenure track faculty, and 300+ staff members. Responsible for vision and oversight of all aspects of budgeting, hiring, tenure decisions, curriculum development, graduate recruitment, fundraising, facilities usage and management, marketing and communications.  

Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of Kansas (August 2013–July 2015): As the founding vice provost and dean, I helped to develop and oversee a new, university wide general education program (the KU Core) and student service offices, including career services, undergraduate research, first year orientation, service learning, and pre-major advising. Served as the Chancellor’s liaison to the University Innovation Alliance.

Associate Dean for Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas (July 2008–August 2013): Served as the dean’s liaison to 11 humanities departments and interdisciplinary programs. Developed first university online degree completion program.

Director of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, University of Kansas (2001-2008): Grew the program from 3 joint appointed to 7 joint and 2 fully appointed members; developed the first university graduate certificate program; and charted the development of the program to its transformation to a Ph.D. granting department.

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas (1995-2001)

FACULTY POSITIONS 

  • Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh (Sept. 2018-July 2023) 
  • Professor of Philosophy, Boston University (Aug. 2015-July 2018) 
  • University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas (2012-2015) 
  • Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas (2000-2012) 
  • Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas (2001-2008); affiliated faculty member 2009-2015 
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas (1994-2000)  
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Occidental College (1991-1993) 
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas (1988-1991; 1993-1994)

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh: 
Ph.D. Philosophy 1988
     M.A. Economics 1986 
     M.A. Philosophy 1984

Swarthmore College:
B.A. Mathematics and Philosophy (double major) with Distinction, 1982

HONORS AND AWARDS 

  • Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 
  • Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa, University of Kansas alpha chapter, inducted 2015  
  • University Distinguished Professorship, University of Kansas, awarded 2012 
  • KU Women’s Hall of Fame, inducted 2008 
  • Byron Caldwell Smith Award, (for most outstanding academic book by a Kansas resident published in two previous years), 2007 
  • KU Woman of Distinction, 2005  
  • Mortar Board Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005 
  • W. T. Kemper Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, 2001 
  • KU Center for Teaching Excellence undergraduate teaching award, 2000

MAJOR UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of Pittsburgh 

  • Chancellor’s Senior Leadership Team 
  • Senate Council 
  • Chair, Search Committee for Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Dean of School of Medicine, 2019-20 
  • Co-Chair, Re-imagining a Pitt Education (planning for instructional continuity in the COVID-19 pandemic), May-June 2020 
  • Co-leader, Institutional response to institutional racism, June 2020-2021 

Boston University 

  • Council of Deans 
  • University Council 
  • Innovate@BU Advisory Board of Deans, Chair, 2018 
  • Task Force on Enrollment Planning, 2016 

University of Kansas 

As Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies 

University Liaison, University Innovation Alliance; University Core Curriculum Committee ex officio; Steering Committee, Bay View Alliance; Higher Learning Commission 2015 Accreditation Chair of sub-committee on Teaching and Learning; Transfer Articulation Policy Committee Chair; Blackboard Steering Committee; Associate Dean’s Council. 
Search Committees: Director of Multicultural Scholars Program; Vice Provost for Diversity and Equity; Director of Center for Online and Distance Learning. 

As Associate Dean for Humanities 

University Strategic Planning Committee Executive Committee member and Co-chair Energizing the Educational Environment Workgroup; Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising; Academic Misconduct Review Board; Advisory Board, Office of Diversity and Equity; Hall Center for the Humanities Internal Review Committee; Task Force on Digital Directions in the Humanities, Steering Committee; Hall Center for the Humanities Executive Committee; Task Force on Online Courses in the College; Online Degree Completion Program development. 
Acting Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Kansas (Fall 2011) 
Search Committees: Associate Vice Provost for Recruitment and Enrollment; Director Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 

As Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Chair, University Senate Committee on Athletics; Ad Hoc Committee on Joint Appointment policies; Kemper Distinguished Teaching Award selection committee; Ad Hoc Committee on Recreation Services for Faculty and Staff; Center for Teaching Excellence Advisory Board; Executive Committee of the Graduate School; Dean’s Executive Advisory Group; Ad Hoc Committee on Differential Tuition for CLAS. 
Search Committees: Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Associate Dean.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

1. National/International Service

  • Vice Chair, ACC Provosts Network, 2020- 
  • Member, US Global Leadership Coalition, Pennsylvania Advisory Committee, 2020- 
  • Member, International Women’s Forum, elected 2019  
  • Series Co-Editor, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Series, Springer Verlag, 2016-present 
  • Executive Committee, International Society for Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), 20192023 
  • President, American Society for Legal and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL), 20182020; Executive Director, Jan. 2014-2016; Vice President/President Elect/Past President, 2017-2023 
  • Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) Commission on Information Measurement, and Analysis, Executive Committee, 2014-15 
  • American Philosophical Association (APA) Development Committee, 2015-present; APA Central Division Executive Committee (2015-2019); APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research, 2010- 2013; Chair, 2008 Central Division APA Program Committee; Eastern Division APA Advisory Committee, 2007-2010. Member, Central Division APA Program Committee, 2006-7. APA Committee on the Status of Women, 1998-2000; Member, Nominating Committee of the Central Division of the APA, 1998-99; APA Committee on Computer Use, 1991-1993. 
  • Women in Philosophy Task Force Steering Committee, 2008-2017. 
  • President, Society for Analytical Feminism, 1995-1999; Executive Committee 19911994, 2000-2002.  

2. Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Proposal reviewer, NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program, 2012. 
  • Grant Reviewer: for Social Science Research Council, Canada; Austrian Science Fund. 
  • Article Referee for Economics and Philosophy; Nous; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; APA Newsletter on Feminism; Hypatia; Ethics; European Journal of Political Research; Dialogue; Feminist Economics; Feminist Studies; Philosophy Today; Social Theory and Philosophy; Journal of Social Philosophy; Teaching Philosophy; Philosophical Papers; American Journal of Political Science; Philosophical Review; South African Journal of Philosophy. 
  • Conference Referee for American Philosophical Association Central Division, Southwest Philosophical Society, Society for Analytical Feminism, Central States Philosophical Society, Kansas Philosophical Society, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Southwest Philosophical Society. 
  • Book Manuscript Reviewer for Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Westview Press, University Press of Kansas, University of Illinois Press, Penn State University Press, Ashgate Publishing, Continuum Publishing.

3. External Promotion and Tenure Reviews

Merrimack University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Oregon State University; University at Albany, SUNY; Stony Brook University; Dartmouth College; Oakland University; Texas A&M University; University of Alabama, Huntsville; University of Western Ontario; University of Kentucky; Notre Dame University; Scripps College; University of Memphis; University of Utah; Scripps College; Binghamton University; Texas Tech University; St. Joseph’s University.  

4. External Program Reviews

University of Tennessee, Department of Philosophy, 2014, Chair; University of Nevada-Reno, Department of Philosophy, 2014, Chair; Iowa State University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2012, Chair; University of Memphis Department of Philosophy undergraduate writing assessment, 2012; University of Oklahoma Department of Philosophy undergraduate writing assessment, 2011; University of Tennessee, Department of Philosophy, 2010; Pomona College, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, 2009. 

5. Faculty Mentoring

Co-director (with Louise Antony), The Mentoring Project Workshop, 2011, 2013, 2015, UMass Amherst, (mentoring workshop for junior faculty women in Philosophy);  Mid-career faculty mentoring workshops (BU; KU); Mentoring Junior Faculty study (KU)

6. Editorships and Editorial Boards 

Journal of Social Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy Quarterly; Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on the Social Sciences, Springer, Series Editorial Board; Hypatia; Co-editor for Value Theory, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2010-2013; SAGE Encyclopedia on Philosophy and the Social Sciences Advisory Board; Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality, Springer Verlag, Series Advisory Board; Teaching Philosophy; Feminist Studies; University Press of Kansas, editorial board.

7. Professional Societies 

AAU Chief Academic Officers; ACC Provosts; Chair, ACC Academic Consortium; Colonial Arts & Sciences Deans Group; AAU Arts & Sciences Deans Group; Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Association; American Association of University Professors; Society for Women in Philosophy; Society for Analytical Feminism; American Section of the International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL); North American Society for Social Philosophy; International Association for Feminist Economics

MAJOR PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 

  • Board of Directors, Manchester-Bidwell Corporation, 2019-present
  • Board of Directors, Forbes Fund, 2021-present 
  • Board of Directors, Willow Domestic Violence Shelter, 2013-15; court advocate 2012-13 
  • Board of Directors, Peggy Bowman Second Chance Fund (member of National Network of Abortion Funds) 2004-2011 
  • Board of Directors, Hilltop Child Development Center, 1998-2006; President 2001-2.  Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on the Status of Women in Kansas, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2001-3.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 

  • Department of Education First in the World Grant (awarded to Georgia State; KU PI); $11M total, $500,000 for KU (for studies of data-enabled interventions to improve graduation rates) 
  • American Philosophical Association Diversity Grant (for the Mentoring Project); $15,000 
  • Marc Sanders Foundation Grant for the Mentoring Project; $10,000 
  • Don and Pat Morrison Foundation Award, 2013, $10,000 
  • Sabbatical Leave, University of Kansas (competitive application),1996, 2003, 2012 
  • General Research Fund Grants, University of Kansas, 1991, 95, 96, 97, 98, 2001, 03, 05, 07, total approx. $46,000 
  • Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Spring 1997, (half annual salary) 
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend, 1992, $4000 
  • Irvine Grant for the Improvement of Teaching (Occidental College), 1992, $2000 
  • New Faculty General Research Fund Grant, University of Kansas, 1989 
  • Sloan Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1987 
  • Alan Ross Anderson Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1983 
  • Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1982-88
  • Delta Gamma Scholarship, Swarthmore College

PUBLICATIONS

1. Books 

  • Merit: Meritocracy in Education, Employment, and Leadership, under contract with January 2023 submission date, Oxford University Press. 
  • Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy, co-edited and with a co-authored introduction with Mark Navin, Springer, 2018. 
  • Immigration and Citizenship: Borders, Migration, and Political Membership in a Global Age, co-edited with a co-authored introduction with Win-Chiat Lee, Springer, 2016. 
  • Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century, co-edited with Sally Scholz, Springer, 2014. 
  • Capitalism For and Against: A Feminist Debate, co-authored with Nancy Holmstrom, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 
  • Analyzing Oppression, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 
  • Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology, co-edited with Robin Andreason, New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. 
    • Second edition under contract for 2023, to be co-edited with Robin Andreason and Esa Diaz-Leon 
  • Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism, co-edited with Anita Superson, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

2. Edited Journal Issues

  • Virtual Issue Hypatia Essays on the Place of Women in Philosophy,  Special Issue of Hypatia on the topic of Analytic Feminism, 10:3(Summer 1995), coedited with Virginia Klenk.         

3. Journal Articles 

  • “Whither Humanity? Emotional Mind begs Rational Assessment,” Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, 2:2(Winter 2020). 
  • “Connected Self-Ownership and Our Obligations to Others,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 6:2(Winter 2019): pp. 154-173. 
  • “Harassment, Bias, and the Evolving Politics of Free Speech on Campus,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 50th anniversary issue, 50:4(Winter 2019): 425-446. 
  • “Is Capitalism Good for Women?” Journal of Business Ethics, 127:4(2015): 761-770. Published online May 2014, doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2185-9. 
  • “Commitment as Motivation: Sen’s Theory of Agency and the Explanation of Behavior,” Economics and Philosophy, 30(2014): 35-56. 
  • “Truly Humanitarian Intervention: Examining just causes and methods in a feminist frame,” Journal of Global Ethics, vol. 6, no.3(2013): 359–375.  Reprinted in Eric Palmer, ed. Gender Justice and Development: Vulnerability and Empowerment, Volume II. Routledge, 2015.  
  • “A Contractarian Approach to Corporate Bailouts,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, 11(2013): 283-300. 
  • “Wanting Freedom,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 43(Winter 2012): 367–385. 
  • "The Mentoring Project,” Hypatia, 27(2012): 461-468.  Republished in Virtual Issue of Hypatia Essays on the Place of Women in Philosophy, Spring 2012. 
  • “A Feminist Defense of Capitalism,” Si-Xiang 15, trans. Pinfei Lu (Taipei, Taiwan: 
    Linking Books, 2010): 1-19. Translated as: 安‧卡德，〈從女性主義立場闡明資本主義〉 
  • “Response to Varden, Scholz, and Tollefson,” Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy, topic: Analyzing Oppression, (Spring 2009). 7 typeset pgs. http://sgrp.typepad.com/sgrp/spring-2009-symposium.html. 
  • “Rape and Enforced Pregnancy as Femicide: Comment on Claudia Card’s ‘The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced Pregnancy’,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, XIV(2008):190-199. 
  • “Sporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of Capitalism,” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 34(May 2007): 52-67. 
  • “Revolution vs. Devolution in Kansas: Teaching in a Conservative Climate,” Teaching Philosophy, 30(June 2007): 173-183.  
  • “Missionary Positions,” Hypatia, 20(2005): 164-182. 
  • “How to Explain Oppression,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 35(2005), pp. 20-49. 
  • “Revising Philosophy through the Wide-Angle Lens of Feminism,” APA Newsletter on Feminism, (Spring 2003):129-132. 
  • “Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue for Scientific Practice,” Hypatia, 13(1998):4361.   
    • Reprinted in Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World, Sandra Harding and Uma Narayan, eds., Indiana University Press, 2000, pp. 299-317. 
  • “Analyzing Backlash to Progressive Social Movements,” APA Newsletter on Feminism, 1999(1):42-46. 
  • "Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to Resist,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 29(Spring, 1998): 20-36. 
  • "Is Pareto Optimality a Criterion of Justice?" Social Theory and Practice, 22 (Spring, 1996):1-34. 
  • "When Sexual Harassment is Protected Speech: Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Policy in the University," Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, 4,1 (Fall 1994): 69-81. 
  • "Oppression by Choice," Journal of Social Philosophy, 25 (June 1994): 22-44.  Reprinted in Practical Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, ed., Basil Blackwell, 1996. 
  • "Game Theory and the History of Ideas about Rationality," Economics and Philosophy, 9 (April 1993): 101-133. 
  • "Enforced Pregnancy, Rape, and the Image of Woman," Philosophical Studies, 60(1990): 47-59. 
  • "Conventional Foundationalism and the Origin of Norms," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 28,4 (Winter 1990):485-504. 
  • "Sensationalized Philosophy: A Reply to Marquis," Journal of Philosophy, 87(May 1990): 262-4.   
    • Reprinted in Moral Issues in Global Perspectives, Christine M. Koggel, Broadview Press, 1999, and in Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, Larry May and Jill Delston, eds., 2015. 
  • "Indefinitely Repeated Games," (co-authored with Neal Becker), Theory and Decision, 28(1990): 189-195. 
  • "Taking Drugs Seriously: Liberal Paternalism and the Rationality of Preferences," Public Affairs Quarterly, 4, 1(January 1990): 17-31.   
    Reprinted in Practical Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, ed., Basil Blackwell, 1996.

4. Book Chapters 

  • “’Merit’ in University Admissions,” and “The Merits and Demerits of Collective Merit: Replies to Commentaries on ‘Merit in University Admissions’” in Education, Inclusion, and Justice, edited by Joan McGregor and Mark Navin, Springer, 2022, pp.191-204 and 235-242. 
  • “Toward a post-pandemic higher education system,” co-authored with Ariel Armony, in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Education, edited by Randall Curren, Routledge, 2022, pp.302-315. 
  • “Reckoning with Past Injustice in Academia: Purpose and Principle,” in Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, Steven Cahn, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 2022, pp.89-98. 
  • “Feminist Theory,” in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Christopher Melenovsky, ed., Routledge, 2022, ch.5. 
  • “Feminism and the Libertarian Self-Ownership Thesis,” in Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, Bas van der Vossen, Jason Brennan, David Schmidtz, eds., Routledge, 2018, pp. 127-139. 
  • “Conflicting Commitments and Corporate Responsibility: Amartya Sen on Motivations to Do Good,” in Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. 401-419.  
  • “Domestic Violence as Justification for Asylum” in Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, A.E.Cudd and W.Lee, eds., Springer, 2016, pp. 217-228. 
  • “What is Equality in Higher Education?” in The Equal Society, ed. by George Hull, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, pp. 267-290.
  • “Adaptations to Oppression: Preference, Autonomy, and Resistance,” in Autonomy and Social Oppression, Marina Oshana, ed., Routledge, 2015, pp. 142-160.  
  • “Agency and Intervention: How (Not) to Fight Global Poverty,” in Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights, Diana Meyers, ed., Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 197-222. 
  • “Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century: Introduction,” with Sally Scholz, in Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century, Springer Verlag, 2014, pp. 1-12.   
  • “Human Rights and Global Equal Opportunity: Inclusion not provision,” in Human Rights: The Hard Questions, Cindy Holder and David Reidy, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 193-208.  
  • “Economic Inequality and Global Justice,” in Economic Justice: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives, Win-Chiat Lee and Helen Stacy, eds., Springer Verlag, 2012, pp. 159-173. 
  • “Resistance is (Not) Futile: Feminism’s Contribution to Political Philosophy” in Out from the Shadows, edited by Anita Superson and Sharon Crasnow, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.15-31.  
  • “When to Intervene: Atrocity, Inequality, and Oppression” in Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card, edited by Andrea Veltman and Katherine Norlock, Rowman and Littlefield, 2009: 97-114. 
  • “The Paradox of Liberal Feminism: Choice, Rationality and Oppression,” in Amy Baehr, Varieties of Feminist Liberalism, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, pp.37-61. 
  • “Sexism,” (co-authored with Leslie Jones), in Blackwell’s Guide to Applied Ethics, Ray Frey and Christopher Wellman, eds., Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp.102-117. Reprinted in Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology. 
  • “Analyzing Backlash to Progressive Social Movements,” Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism, Anita Superson and Ann Cudd, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp.3-16. 
  • “When Sexual Harassment is Protected Speech: Facing the Forces of Backlash in Academe,” Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism, Anita Superson and Ann E. Cudd, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, pp.217-243. 
  • “Rational Choice Theory and the Lessons of Feminism,” in A Mind of One’s Own, 2nd ed., Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt, eds., Westview Press, 2002, pp.398-417. “Preference, Rational Choice, and Democratic Theory,” in Blackwell’s Companion to Political Philosophy, Robert Simon, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2001, pp.106-127. 
  • “Objectivity and Ethno-Feminist Critiques of Science,” in After the Science Wars: Science and the Study of Science, Keith Ashman and Philip Baringer, eds., Routledge, 2001, pp. 80-97. 
  • “Non-Voluntary Social Groups,” Groups and Group Rights, edited by  Christine Sistare, Larry May and Leslie Francis, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001, pp. 58-70. 
  • “Psychological Explanations of Oppression,” in Introduction to Multiculturalism, edited by Cynthia Willett, Blackwell Publishers, 1998, pp. 187-215.

5. Encyclopedia articles

  • “Oppression,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Byron Kaldis, ed. 
  • “Capitalism,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Byron Kaldis, ed.,  “Oppression,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, ed., Wiley, 2014.  
  • “Sexual Harassment,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, ed.,  Wiley, 2014.  
  • “Contractarianism” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward Zalta, ed., http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/ (posted June, 2000; revised April 2007; revised August 2012).  
  • “Analytic Feminism,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, 2006.  “Marilyn Frye,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, 2006.

6. Short articles

  • “Dean’s Corner” (bi-weekly newsletter blog): https://www.bu.edu/cas/deans-corner/  
  • “A Critique of Piketty on the Normative Force of Wealth Inequality,” Crooked Timber Blog, https://crookedtimber.org/2015/12/page/2/ posted Dec. 2015, with reply by Thomas Piketty. 
  • ‘Introduction’ to Iris Marion Young, “Five Faces of Oppression” in Steven Cahn, ed., Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 2014. 
  • “Comments on Pogge’s ‘Are We Violating the Rights of the Poor?’” Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Vol. 17: Iss. 1 (2014), Article 7. 
  • “Introduction: Virtual Issue of Hypatia Essays on the Place of Women in Philosophy,” Published in Hypatia online, Spring 2012.  
  • “Comments on Charlotte Witt, The Metaphysics of Gender,” Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy, 8(Spring 2012): 1-7. Posted online at: http://sgrp.typepad.com/sgrp/spring-2012-symposium-witt-on-the-metaphysicsof-gender.html 
  • "Analytic Feminism: A Brief Introduction," Hypatia, 10(Summer 1995):1-6.

7. Book Reviews 

  • The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution, Cailin O’Connor, Oxford University Press, 2019, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, December 2019. 
  • Bottlenecks: A new theory of equal opportunity, Joseph Fishkin, Oxford University Press, 2014, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 2014. 
  • Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment, Serene Khader, Oxford University Press, 2011, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Nov. 2011. 
  • Towards a Humanist Justice, ed. by Debra Satz and Robert Reich, Oxford University Press, 2009, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Dec. 2009. 
  • Feminist Interpretations of Locke, ed. by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure, for Perspectives on Political Science, 2008. 
  • Women and Citizenship, ed. by Marilyn Friedman, Oxford, 2005, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006. 
  • A Defense of Abortion, David Boonin, Oxford 2004, Ethics, 116(July 2006): 781-785. 
  • The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, Nancy Hirschmann, Princeton, 2002, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2003. 
  • Thinking About Sexual Harassment: A Guide for the Perplexed, Margaret A. Crouch, Oxford, 2000, Philosophical Review, 112(Jan. 2003):121-123. 
  • Love’s Labor, by Eva Feder Kittay, APA Newsletter on Feminism, 00(Spring 2000): 2930. 
  • Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, by Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson, Mind, 109(April 2000):370-373.  
  • Feminist Morality by Virginia Held, The Philosophical Review, 104(1995):611-613. 
  • Toward a History of Game Theory, edited by E. Roy Weintraub, History of Economic Ideas, 2(1994): 150-153. 
  • Understanding Action: An Essay on Reasons by Frederic Schick, Ethics, April 1993. 
  • Contractarianism and Rational Choice edited by Peter Vallentyne, Canadian Philosophical Review, 12, (August 1992).  
  • Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, by Allan Gibbard, Auslegung, Summer 1991. 
  • Philosophy of Economics: On The Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry, by Subroto Roy, Journal of Economic History, 1990. 
  • Evolutionary Epistemology, by Gerard Radnitzky and W.W.  Bartley, III.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, March 1989.

8. Selected Presentations (since 2006)

  • “After the Apocalypse: The Future of Higher Education,” AMINTAPHIL Conference Presidential Lecture (via Zoom), Oct. 23, 2020. 
  • “Democracy in Higher Ed: Theorists Reflect on their Experience in Administration,” American Political Science Association Conference (via Zoom), Sept. 10, 2020. 
  • “Merit in College Admissions,” University of Michigan's Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy Workshop (via Zoom), April 17, 2020. 
  • “Whither Humanity? Emotional Mind begs Rational Assessment,” Author Meets Critics: Rami Gabriel and Stephen Asma, The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition, Central Division APA meeting, Feb. 28, 2020.  
  • “Harassment, Bias, and the Evolving Politics of Free Speech on Campus”  
    • 2019 LaGuardia Community College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, NYC, May 10, 2019. 
    • Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society conference, New Orleans, LA, March 13, 2020. 
  • “Connected Self-Ownership and Our Obligations to Others” 
    • Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 11, 2018. 
    • Liberty Fund Conference: The Problem of Self Ownership, London, UK May 2426, 2018.  
    • PPE Society Conference, New Orleans, LA March 17, 2018, keynote presentation 
  • “Towards a Feminist Libertarian Metaphysics: A Critique of the Self-Ownership Thesis” 
    • APA Central Division Symposium, with replies by Peter Vallentyne, Charlotte Witt, and Andrea Westlund, March 1, 2017. 
    • Tulane University Murphy Institute for Ethics, March 3, 2017. 
  • “Communicating the Value and Values of the Arts & Sciences,” American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 27, 2017. Panelist and organizer. 
  • “Data Science as a Liberal Art” 
    • Summit on the Liberal Arts in the Digital Age, Northeastern University, Oct. 2016. 
    • Association of Women in Mathematics seminar, University of Kansas, March 2, 2017. 
  • “Contractarianism and the Exclusion Problem” 
    • XXVIIth World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Washington, DC, July 27, 2015. 
    • Beyond Contractarianism Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 14, 2016. 
    • Binghamton University, SPEL Distinguished Lecture, March 31, 2017. 
  • “A Feminist Critique of the Libertarian Self-Ownership Thesis,” Keynote speaker, Central States Philosophical Association Annual Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Nov. 6-7, 2015. 
  • “What is Equality in Higher Education?”  
    • UNC Chapel Hill, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics colloquium, March 26, 2015. 
    • Invited Speaker, Symposium on Democracy in an Age of Inequality, Pacific APA, Vancouver, BC, April 1-5, 2015. 
  • “Is Capitalism Good for Women?” Radford University College of Business and Economics, BBT Global Capitalism Speaker, March 30, 2015. 
  • “Domestic Violence as Relational Injustice,” Plenary Speaker, UC Irvine Conference on Gender, Irvine, CA, Oct. 24-25, 2014.  
  • “Domestic Violence as a Justification of Asylum,” 2014 AMINTAPHIL Conference, Chapman University, Orange, CA, Oct. 9-11, 2014. 
  • “What is the Point of (Equality in) Higher Education?” Conference on Social Equality, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 15-17, 2014. 
  • “The Lack of Diversity in Philosophy: What needs to change?” University of Illinois, Chicago, April 21, 2014. 
  • “The Future of Business, Capital & Wealth,” Plenary presentation and discussion, International Women’s Forum World Leadership Conference, Vancouver, BC. Oct. 17, 2013 
  • “Agency, Autonomy, and Oppression: Adaptation and Resistance,” Workshop on the Duty to Resist Oppression, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Sept. 20, 2013. 
  • “Domestic Violence as Relational Injustice: Gendered relationships in oppressive social structures,” Workshop on Relational Injustice: Social and Global, Goethe University Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Bad Homburg, Germany. June 20-21, 2013. 
  • “The Contractarian Legitimacy of Intervention”  
    • Vanderbilt Political Philosophy Workshop, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Feb. 8, 2013.  
    • Keynote Speech, Conference on The Future of Contractualism, University of Rennes, France, May, 11 and 12, 2012 
  • “Justice and Freedom: A cooperative venture for mutual advantage,” University Distinguished Professor Inaugural Lecture, University of Kansas, Dec. 17, 2012. 
  • “A Contractarian Approach to Corporate Bailouts,” Symposium on "The Ethics of Bailouts and Government Support of Corporations: Public Benefit or Crony Capitalism?" Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Nov. 30, 2012. 
  • “Agency, Autonomy, and Oppression: Adaptation and Resistance” and “Is Capitalism Good for Women,” Nov. 8 and 9, 2012, University of Northern Michigan, Marquette, MI.
  • “Agency and Intervention: How (not) to fight global poverty,” plenary speaker, Conference on Poverty, Coercion, and Human Rights, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, April 13-15, 2012. 
  • “Adaptations to Oppression: Preference and Resistance”  
    • Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 27, 2012. 
    • Invited symposium, Central Division American Philosophical Association (APA) Meeting, Chicago, IL, Feb. 17, 2012. 
  • “A Feminist Defense of Capitalism,” Michigan State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, East Lansing, MI, Feb.11, 2011. 
  • “Women’s Experience in the Philosophy Profession: A Frank Discussion,” Philosophy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Feb. 11, 2011. 
  • “Commitment as Motivation: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Agency,” University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Jan. 14, 2011. 
  • “Choice, Commitment and Explanation: Amartya Sen’s Philosophy of Social Science,” workshop on Sen’s Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 1, 2010. 
  • “Analytical Feminism: The Founding Issue(s),” Feminist Legacies, Feminist Futures Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 23, 2009. 
  • “A Feminist Defense of Capitalism”  
    • Pacific APA invited paper, March 31, 2010, San Francisco, CA. (Cynthia Stark and Nicole Hassoun, commentators) 
    • Institute for Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, September 24, 2009. 
  • “Truly Humanitarian Intervention” XXIVth World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Beijing, China, September 18, 2009. 
  • “Feminist Contributions to Political Philosophy,” Political Science Department, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, September 22, 2009. 
  • “Resistance is (Not) Futile: Feminism’s Contribution to Political Philosophy, invited symposium, Central APA, Chicago, IL Feb. 18, 2010. 
  • “Wanting Freedom” 
    • University of Illinois Philosophy Dept. colloquium, Urbana, IL, Sept. 24, 2010 
    • McGill University Philosophy Dept. colloquium, Montreal, Canada, Feb. 6, 2010 
    • Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 11, 2008  
    • Florida State University, Society for Women and Philosophy Keynote Address, Tallahassee, FL, Feb. 22, 2008  
    • Texas Tech University Humanities Lecture, April 12, 2007.  
  • “Truly Humanitarian Intervention”  
    • University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Oct. 8, 2010 
    • Texas Tech University Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, Lubbock, TX, April 13, 2007.  
  • “Social Connection, Political Responsibility, and Humanitarian Intervention: Thoughts on some recent work by Iris Marion Young,” APA Pacific Division annual meeting, memorial session for Iris Marion Young.  San Francisco, CA, April 7, 2007. 
  • Author meets Critics sessions on Analyzing Oppression 
    • APA Pacific Division annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 6, 2007 
    • Keynote for Joint meeting of Eastern Society for Women in Philosophy and Society for Analytical Feminism meeting,Tampa, FL, Dec.1, 2006. 
  • “Feminism and the Fetishes of Capitalism and Tradition,” 2006 Eastern Division APA, Washington, DC, invited symposium, Dec. 2006. 
  • “Revolution vs. Devolution in Kansas: Teaching in a Conservative Climate”  
    • 2006 APA Central Division meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2006 
    • National Women’s Studies Assoc. Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, June 2006.

TEACHING

1. Courses Taught

Introduction to Philosophy – Honors and Large class formats; Introduction to Ethics; Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy – Honors and Large class formats; What’s for Sale? Markets, Freedom, and Corruption – freshman seminar; Introduction to Symbolic Logic; Conceptions of Human Nature; Justice and Economic Systems;  Feminism and Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Business Ethics; Rational Choice Theory; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Social Science; Political Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Economics; British Empiricism; Civil Rights and Women's Movements in 19th and 20th C. America; Philosophy of Economics; 20th C. Epistemology; Conceptions of Rationality; Intermediate Logic; Feminist Theory, Law, and Philosophy Topics in Theory of Knowledge: Common Knowledge; Graduate Tutorial: Conceptions of Rationality; Foundational and Anti-foundational Epistemology; Personal Identity; Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation; Topics in Social and Political Philosophy: The Value of Markets; Humanitarian Aid and Intervention; Just War; Feminism and Equality.  Topics in the History of Philosophy: John Stuart Mill’s Practical Philosophy Topics in the Philosophy of Social Science: Social Science/Social Philosophy

2. Philosophy Ph.D. Students -- primary advisor

  • Joseph Frigault, (2020, Boston University), “Fair Play as an Approach to Black Reparations,” currently visiting professor at Claremont McKenna College. 
  • Kurt Blankschaen (2019, Boston University) “Identities and Social Ontology,” Assistant Professor tenure track, Daemon College, New York. 
  • Seena Eftekhari (2018, University of Kansas) “Constructivism and the Liberal Dilemma,” postdoctoral fellow at Georgia State University; currently adjunct at Tufts University. 
  • Russell Waltz (2013, University of Kansas) “Hybrid Accounts: Uncovering the Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of the Distortion of Information via News Presentation”; Assistant Professor (tenure-track) Miami Dade College (first placement); currently Assistant Professor, Galen College of Nursing. 
  • Matt Waldschlagel (2011, University of Kansas) “Apology, Forgiveness, and Revenge”; Assistant Professor (tenure track), Anna Maria College, Worcester, MA. 
  • Anne Morgan (2009) “An Ethic of Freedom,” Assistant Professor, Longview Community College (first placement) 
  • Pelle Danabo (2008) “From Africa of States to United Africa: Towards Africana Democracy,” Associate Professor, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 
  • Roksana Alavi (2008) “Race and Oppression: Philosophical Issues”, Associate Professor, College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma. 
  • Tamela Ice (2007) “'Rethinking the Paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Sexual Politics:  From Woman's Alienation, Psychological Oppression and Bad Faith to Liberty”, Associate Professor with tenure, Kansas City Kansas Community College 
  • Pinfei Lu (2006) “Citizens and Gender Justice: Toward Equality in a Pluralistic Democracy,” Adjunct Assistant Professor, National Tsin Hua University, Taiwan. 
  • Stephen Ferguson (2004) “Racial Contract Theory: A Critical Introduction,” Associate Professor with tenure, North Carolina State University. 
  • Xiufen Lu (2000) “A Critical Examination of the Marxist Theory of Alienation,” Associate Professor with tenure, Wichita State University. 
  • John H. McClendon, III (1999) “Consciencism: The Philosophy of Nkrumaism,” Professor with tenure, Michigan State University 
  • Ted Zenzinger (1994) “'Rational Conflict and Rational Agreement,” Associate Professor with tenure, Regis University, Denver, CO.