Sally Haslanger is the Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at MIT. She pursues broad philosophical interests, beginning her philosophical career specializing in analytic metaphysics and epistemology, and in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle). Over time she has developed interests in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Dr. Haslanger has published on the problem of persistence through change, pragmatic paradox, and Aristotle’s hylomorphic theory of substance.
Gina Schouten, a professor at Harvard, primarily studies issues of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.
Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge, identity, and power. She specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault.
Jeta Mulaj, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializes in feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, critical theory, Marxism, and decolonial thought.
Ellie Anderson, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, specializes in continental European philosophy, with an emphasis on twentieth-century French philosophy and feminist theory. She also co-hosts the philosophy podcast Overthink.
Robin Zheng, a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has research interests ranging across ethics, moral psychology, feminist, social, and political philosophy. She focuses especially on issues of moral responsibility, structural injustice, and social change, with emphasis on issues of gender, race, and social inequality.
Join us for a practice placement job talk by Nicole Yokum.
Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay’s (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.
Allauren Forbes’s (McMaster) research lies at the intersection of feminist philosophy and early modern philosophy.
Get a taste of the latest undergraduate research in philosophy at the 2022 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Helen Fielding, a professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at Western University.
Get a taste of the latest undergraduate research in philosophy at the 2021 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Talia Mae Bettcher, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles.
Andrea Novakovic is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, especially Hegel, with further interests in critical theory and feminist philosophy.
