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Employment

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, 2021-present
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, 2016-2021
• Sophia M. Libman NEH Professor of the Humanities, Hood College, 2013-2016
• Instructor, Department of Women’s Studies & Feminist Research, University of Western Ontario, 2013
• Instructor, Department of Philosophy, King’s University College, 2012-2013

Education

• PhD, University of Western Ontario (2013)
  • Thesis: “Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency”
• MA, Georgia State University (2008)
  • Thesis: “The Concept ‘Woman’: Feminism after the Essentialism Critique”
• BA with University Honors, Freed-Hardeman University (2006)

Areas of Specialization

• Feminist Philosophy
• Reproductive ethics
• Environmental and animal ethics

Areas of Competence

• Social and Political Philosophy
• Sexuality Studies
• 20th Century Phenomenology

Selected Publications

• (with Patrick Clipsham) “Are Animals Always Commodified in the Context of Business?” In Animals and Business Ethics. Ed. Natalie Thomas. pp. 21-41. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• (with Rita A. Gardiner) “The Judgment of Arendt.” In Judgment and Leadership. Ed. Anna B. Kayes and D. Christopher Kayes. pp. 49-59. Edward Elgar, 2021.
• (with Rita A. Gardiner) “Virus Interruptus: An Arendtian Exploration of Political World‐Building in Pandemic Times.” Gender, Work & Organization 28.S1 (2021): 151-62.
• “A Partial Defense of the Non-Commodification of Surrogacy.” Canadian Journal of Bioethics 3.3 (2020): 88-99.
• (with Rita A. Gardiner) “Refugee Resettlement, Rootlessness, and Assimilation.” Arendt Studies 3 (2019): 25-47.
• “Self-Sufficiency for Surrogacy and Responsibility for Global Structural Injustice.” In Surrogacy in Canada: Critical Perspectives in Law and Policy. Ed. Vanessa Gruben, Alana Cattapan, and Angela Cameron. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2018.
• (with Emma Ryman) “The Patient-Worker: A Model for Human Research Subjects and Gestational Surrogates.” Developing World Bioethics 18.4 (2018): 310-20.
• “Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere.” In Feminist Phenomenology Futures. Ed. Helen A. Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski. pp. 257-74. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.
• (with Rita A. Gardiner) “Family Matters: An Arendtian Critique of Organizational Structures.” Gender, Work & Organization 24.5 (2017): 506-18.
• “Cross-Border Reproductive Travel, Neocolonialism, and Canadian Policy.” IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10.1 (2017): 225-47.
• (with Patrick Clipsham) “An Anti-Commodification Defense of Veganism.” Ethics, Policy & Environment 19.3 (2016): 285-300.
• “Commercial Contract Pregnancy in India, Judgment, and Resistance to Oppression.” Hypatia 30.4 (2015): 846-61.
• “Embodied Judgment and Hannah Arendt: From Boethius and Huck Finn to Transnational Feminisms.” Phaenex 9.2 (2014): 64-87.
• “The Capabilities Approach to Justice and the Flourishing of Nonsentient Life.” Ethics & the Environment 18.1 (2013): 19-42.

Selected Presentations

• “A Vegan Ecofeminist Analysis of Infertility Treatments,” Feminist Approaches to Bioethics World Congress, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, July 18-19, 2022.
• (with Rita A. Gardiner) “Caring for the World and Caring for Community,” The Hannah Arendt Circle, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 24-26, 2022.
• “Hannah Arendt, Responsibility, and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program.” W3 Represents: A Research Symposium, University of Waterloo, February 20, 2019.
  (with Rita A. Gardiner) “Welcoming Refugees? Rootlessness, Assimilation, and In-Betweenness.” Arendt Circle, University of California (Davis), Davis, California, April 12-14, 2018.
• (with Rita A. Gardiner) “We Welcomers: Hannah Arendt, Rootlessness, and Natality.” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, October 27-29, 2017.

Selected grants and awards

• (Principle Investigator) Insight Development Grant ($49,618), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2018-2020. “From Rootlessness to Belonging: An Arendtian Critique of the Family as a Structure of Refugee Assimilation.”
• (with Charlotte Wood) Summer Science Research Institute Grant ($5900), Hood College and the Hodson Foundation, Summer 2015. “Learning the ‘F’ Word: Transformative Learning Experiences in Feminist Philosophy and Theory.”
• (with Anna Kovacsics) Summer Science Research Institute Grant ($6500), Hood College and the Hodson Foundation, Summer 2014. “Gifts between Sisters: Gift Narratives in Commercial Surrogacy.”

Recent teaching at Waterloo

graduate

• Feminist Care Theory (Winter 2021, Winter 2023)
• Hannah Arendt (Winter 2020, Winter 2022)
• Feminist Bioethics (Fall 2018)
• Puppies, Pigs, and the Polis: Feminist Relational Theory and Animal Ethics (Fall 2017)
• Philosophy & Public Policy (Fall 2016)

undergraduate

• Gender, Race, and Animality (Winter 2022)
• Research as Resistance (Winter 2018, Winter 2021)
• Philosophy of Sex and Love (Fall 2018)
• Queer Theory: One Goose at a Time (Fall 2017)
• Gender Issues (Winter 2017)
• Introduction to Women’s Studies (Fall 2016, Winter 2018, Winter 2019)

Recent teaching at Hood College

• Global Perspectives on Women, Politics, and Power (2016)
• Philosophy of Sex and Desire (2015)
• Doing and Undoing Gender (honors course 2015)
• Adventures in Queer Studies (2015)
• Introduction to Studies in Women and Gender (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Ethical Dilemmas in the Baby-Making Business (2014)
• Professional Ethics (2014, 2016)
• Philosophical Issues in Feminism (2014, 2015)

Other teaching

• Gender and Sexuality (University of Western Ontario)
• Women, Law, and Social Change (with Dr. Rodney Parker, University of Western Ontario)
• Global Business Ethics (King’s University College)
• Business Ethics (King’s University College)
• Critical Thinking (Georgia State University)

Teaching certification and training

• Seminar on Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, American Philosophical Association/American Association of Philosophy Teachers, College of St. Benedict’s/St. John’s University, Summer 2014
• Instructional Skills Workshop, Teaching Support Centre (TSC), University of Western Ontario, Summer 2013
• Western Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, TSC, University of Western Ontario, 2012

Student research supervision

• Charlotte Wood, “Gender Busting and Video Blogs in a Feminist Classroom.”
• Grant Gallagher, “Hiding Places: A Survey of Urban Contradiction and Social Struggle in Frederick, Maryland.” Spring 2015. Forthcoming in Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal.

Professional Activities

• Reviews Editor, IJFAB: International Journal for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2014-2019)
• Coordinator, Hood College NEH Colloquium Series (August 2013-July 2016)
• Professional organizations
  • American Association of Philosophy Teachers
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies
  • Feminist Approaches to Bioethics