Department of Philosophy Department: (610) 526-5332 Thomas Hall, Bryn Mawr College Department Fax: (610) 526-5332 101 No. Merion Avenue Email: [email protected] Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor (tenured), Bryn Mawr College, Department of Philosophy, Fall 2015-present Associate Professor (without tenure), Franklin & Marshall College, Department of Philosophy, Spring 2015
Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, 2005-2013
Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, Fall 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, Winter 2014
EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 2005
M.A., Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 2001 B.A., summa cum laude, Philosophy, University of Minnesota, August 1999
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Ethics, Moral Psychology AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Aesthetics FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
• Chamberlain Fellowship, Columbia University, 2009
• Graduate Student Travel Award, American Philosophical Association, 2005
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation and National Research Council of the National Academies, 2004-2005
• Royster Society of Fellows, the Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999-2004
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (Cont.)
• Scholars for Tomorrow Fellowship: Aesthetics in Society, the Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2002
• Kenan Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2002
• Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
• Participant, Summer Institute in Philosophy for Minority Students 1998, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
BOOK
Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt (New York: Oxford University Press, April 2013)
• Reviewed in:
o Choice, October 2013
o Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 2013 o Metapsychology Online Reviews, November 2013 o Hypatia Reviews Online, October 2014
o APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Fall 2014
• Subject of “Author Meets Critics” panel at Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 2015
PAPERS
1. “Grizzly Man, Sentimentality, and our Relationships with Other Animals” in Understanding Love Through Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, eds. Christopher Grau and Susan Wolf (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) pp. 15-36
2. “The Standing to Blame: A Critique” in Blame: Its Nature and Norms, eds. Neal A. Tognazzini and Justin Coates (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) pp. 263-281 3. “Forgiveness, Inspiration and the Powers of Reparation,” American Philosophical
Quarterly, 49, 3, 2012, pp. 205-221
4. “Globalist Attitudes and the Fittingness Objection,” Philosophical Quarterly, 61, 244, 2011, pp. 449-472
5. “Anger, Virtue, and Oppression,” in Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, ed. Lisa Tessman (Dordrecht; New York: Springer, 2009) pp. 165-183
6. “Forgiving Someone for Who They Are (and Not Just What They’ve Done),” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 77, 3, 2008, pp. 625-658
7. “A Woman’s Scorn: Toward a Feminist Defense of Contempt as a Moral Emotion,” Hypatia, 20, 4, 2005, pp. 80-93
BOOK REVIEWS
1. “Review: Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (on-line), Summer 2008
2. “Review: Burdened Virtue: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (on-line), Summer 2006
WORK IN PROGRESS
1. “Forgiving the Dead” (undergoing revise and resubmit) 2. “Respecting Photographic Subjects”
3. “Photographs and Moral Convictions” 4. “The Ethics of Deaccessioning” 5. “Virtues and Resistance”
INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Affective Injustice,” Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 2015
“Hypocrisy and Blame,” Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 2014
“Forgiving the Dead” (Job Talks)
• Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 2014 • Department of Philosophy, Jesus College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 2014 • Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, February 2014
“Forgiving the Dead” Department of Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA, December, 2013 “Snark: A Moderate Defense” Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 2013
“Forgiving the Dead,” Department of Philosophy, Queens University, Kingston, ON, March 2013 “What’s So Special About Resentment? Hard Feelings and Disvalue Pluralism,” Morality and Emotions Group, Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values, Columbus, OH, April 2012
INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (CONT.)
“On The Standing to Blame,” Ethics and Epistemology Working Group, Fordham University, New York, NY, October 2011
“Wrongdoing and Repair: On The Standing to Blame,” Department of Philosophy, Union College, Schenectady, NY, October 2011
“Forgiveness, Inspiration, and the Powers of Reparation,” Ethics Reading Group, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 2011
“Respecting Aesthetic Subjects,” Workshop on Respect for Persons, Emerald Isle, NC, May 2010 “The Ethics of Moral Criticism,” Colloquium in Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, April 2010
“Globalist Attitudes and the Fittingness Objection,” University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 2009
“Privacy, Respect, and Artistic Subjects,” North American Society for Social Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA, July 2009
“Racial Vices,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Committee on Black Philosophers, Virtue Ethics and Racism, Chicago, IL, February 2009
“Forgiveness, Condonation, and Making Amends,” Mid-Atlantic Reading Group on Ethics, New York, NY, September 2008
“Globalist Attitudes and Special Relations,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, April 2008
“Anger, Oppression, and Virtue,” Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy, New York, NY, November 2007
“Anger, Resistance, and the Possibility of Degeneration: Virtue Ethics and the Negative Emotions,” Minnesota International Conference in Ethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, July 2007
“Fording the Great Divide: on the Possibilities and Limitations of Human-Animal Friendship,” Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Interdisciplinary Working Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2007
INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (CONT.)
“How to Argue About Moral Emotions,” Society for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Toronto, ON, May 2006
“Beyond Scorn: On Overcoming our Contempt for Persons,” Conference in Honor of Tom Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 2005
“Rethinking Repentance as a Reason to Forgive,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, April 2005 (Winner of graduate student travel stipend) “In Praise of Contempt,” (Job Talks)
• Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, ON, February 2005
• Department of Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, February 2005 • Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY January 2005 • Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 2005 • Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004 “Can Liberals Justly and Effectively Inflict Shaming Punishments?” 21st International Social Philosophy Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, July 2004
“Contempt as a Response to Sexist Oppression and Oppressors,” Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, June 2004 (Winner of award for best graduate student paper)
“Disvaluing our Relationships with Others,” Special Conference on Values: Values, Rational Choice and the Will, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, March 2004 TEACHING EXPERIENCE
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE Lower-Division Undergraduate Course Moral Philosophy
Upper-Division Undergraduate Course Seminar: Responsibility
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Lower-Division Undergraduate Course Honors Introduction to Philosophy
Upper-Division Undergraduate/Graduate Course Topics in Ethics: Responsibility
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (CONT.) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Lower-Division Undergraduate Courses Contemporary Civilization I (4 times) Contemporary Civilization II (6 times) Contemporary Moral Problems (5 times) Introduction to the Philosophy of Art Upper-Division Undergraduate Courses Ethics
Topics in Ethics: Sex and Reproduction Topics in Ethics: Love and Friendship Seminar: Emotions and Value
Seminar: Wrongdoing, Responsibility, and Repair Seminar: The Emotions
Seminar: Ethics, Emotions, and Character Quodlibetal Studies
Responsibility and Moral Luck Emotions and Aesthetics
Feminist Accounts of Autonomy Graduate Seminars
(Contested) Modes of Moral Understanding Relationships and Partiality
Emotions and Value
Blame and Forgiveness Negative Moral Psychology Dissertation Committees:
• Robbie Kubala, Justifying Partiality, external reader, in progress
• Jonathan Rick, From Partial Passions to Moral Sentiments: Taking up Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator Perspective, reader, defended 8/18/09
• Katherine Rickus, The Anatomies of Affect, reader, defended 8/17/12
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Lower-Division Undergraduate Courses (Full Responsibility) Philosophy of Art
Feminism
Social Ethics and Political Thought Introduction to Philosophy
SERVICE
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
Philosophy and Race Speakers Series Committee, 2010-2011 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010
Undergraduate Senior Thesis Committee, 2009-2010 Colloquium Committee, 2009-2010
Graduate Admissions Committee, 2008
Political Search Hiring Committee, 2006-2007 Fellowship Officer, 2005-2008
Faculty Liaison, Ethics Reading Group, 2005-2007 Open Search Interview Committee, 2005-2006 Columbia University
Speaker (“In Defense of Negative Emotions”), Café Humanities, 2010 Shenton Prize Committee, Office of the Core, 2010
Shenton Prize Committee, Office of the Core, 2007
Contemporary Civilization Steering Committee, 2006-2007 Profession
Chair, “Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, Identity, and Memory” Eastern APA, 2009
Referee, in some instances several times, for American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Hypatia, Journal of Applied
Philosophy, Mind, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Social Theory and Practice, Continuum Press, Oxford University Press
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Invited Participant, Mid-Atlantic Research Group in Ethics, 2007-2010 Invited Participant, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, October 2007
Invited Participant, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Interdisciplinary Working Group, 2006-2007 Invited Faculty Mentor, Rutgers’ Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy, 2006
