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Alia Al-Saji is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. She works on phenomenology, French philosophy, feminist theory, and critical philosophy of race. She has published in Continental Philosophy Review, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Research in Phenomenology, and co-directs the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Edwina Barvosa is an Associate Professor of Social and Political Theory in the department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the multiplicity of the self and implicit bias as they impact democratic governance. She is the author of Wealth of Selves: Mestiza Consciousness, Multiple Identities and the Subject of Politics (2008).
Christine Battersby is Reader Emerita in Philosophy and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference (2007), The Phenomenal Woman (1998), and Gender and Genius (1989).
Talia Mae Bettcher is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at California State University, Los Angeles. Some of her articles include “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion” (Hypatia 2007) and “Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Re-thinking Trans Oppression and Resistance” (Signs 2014).
Tanella Boni is Full Professor at the University of Cocody, Ivory Coast. What started as work on the idea of life in Aristotle at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne culminated in Que vivent les femmes d’Afrique? (2008). She is also a novelist and poet, who has won numerous literary prizes.
Tina Fernandes Botts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. With doctoral degrees in both law and philosophy, she specializes in philosophy of law, philosophy of race, and feminism. She is the editor of Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience (2016).
Susan J. Brison, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth, has written Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (2002), co-written Debating the Ethics of Pornography: Sex, Violence, and Harm (forthcoming), and published numerous articles on free speech theory and on gender-based violence.
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Jacqueline Broad is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Philosophy department at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of expertise is early modern philosophy, with a particular focus on women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Adriana Cavarero is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She teaches at the University of Verona and focuses on philosophy, politics, and literature. Her books in English include Horrorism (2009), For More Than One Voice (2005), Stately Bodies (2002), Relating Narratives (2000), and In Spite of Plato (1995).
Clare Chambers is University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Sex, Culture, and Justice (2008) and, with Phil Parvin, Teach Yourself Political Philosophy (2012), as well as numerous articles. Her next book, Against Marriage, is forthcoming.
Sin Yee Chan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont. Her research interests include Confucianism, comparative philosophy, feminism and moral psychology. Her recent papers discuss the concept of desires in Mencius and why homosexuality is compatible with Confucianism.
Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy and Gender, and Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University. Her books include Rancière, Art, and Politics: Broken Perceptions (2016) and Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery (2011).
Beverley Clack is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her publications include Freud on the Couch (2013), Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored with Brian R. Clack (second edition 2008), and Sex and Death (2002). She co-edited Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings (2004).
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written books and articles on literary theory, literary history, contemporary European philosophy, feminist theory, queer theory, and Gilles Deleuze. She has just completed a book on Fragility (2017, forthcoming).
Robin S. Dillon is William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University, and a founder and long-time director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She works in normative ethics, moral psychology, feminist ethics, and Kantian ethics, and has written on self-respect, respect, arrogance, humility, and critical character theory.
Kristie Dotson, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, researches in epistemology and Black feminism. Dotson has edited a special issue of Hypatia, published numerous articles, and is writing a monograph on epistemic oppression for Oxford University Press.
Carla Fehr holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She works in philosophy of biology, feminist epistemology, and socially relevant philosophy of Science.
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Leslie P. Francis, PhD, JD, is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Utah. She served as President of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division and is former Vice President of the International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. She writes on justice, disability, and bioethics.
Elizabeth Frazer is Head of Department, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow in Politics, New College, Oxford. She is the author of books and articles on the themes of normative ideals of politics, political education, and the relationship between politics and violence in political thought and theory.
Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. Her research is in moral philosophy and social epistemology. Her publications include Epistemic Injustice (2007) and several co-edited works, including The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (2000). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Ann Garry is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at California State University, Los Angeles. Her writing ranges from feminist issues in bioethics, pornography, and philosophy of law to intersectionality, analytic feminist epistemology, and philosophical method. She co-edits the Feminist Philosophy section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Moira Gatens is Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She teaches early modern philosophy (especially Spinoza), political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Two lectures about her recent work on Spinoza and George Eliot were published as Spinoza’s Hard Path to Freedom (2011).
Trish Glazebrook is Professor of Philosophy at Washington State University. She publishes on science and technology, Heidegger, ecofeminism, international development, gender, and climate change. She currently researches women subsistence farmers’ climate change adaptations in Ghana, and oil development in Africa.
Heidi Grasswick is the George Nye and Anne Walker Boardman Professor of Mental and Moral Science in the Department of Philosophy at Middlebury College and is affiliated with the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Program. Her research spans questions of feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and the connections between the epistemic and the ethical.
Kim Q. Hall is Director of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Appalachian State University. Recent publications include her guest edited New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies, a 2015 special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
Sandra Harding is a Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA. She is the author or editor of seventeen books, including Objectivity and Diversity (2015), The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader (2011), and Sciences From Below (2008). She co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2000–2005).
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Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT. She specializes in metaphysics, epistemology, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Her book Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (2012) collects seventeen of her papers.
Patrice Haynes is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University. She publishes in continental philosophy of religion and feminist philosophy. Her first book is Immanent Transcendence: Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy (2012).
Sara Heinämaa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and Director of the “Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality” research group, University of Helsinki. Her publications include “Phenomenologies of Mortality and Generativity” in Birth, Death, and Femininity, ed. Robin May Schott (2010) and Toward A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference (2003).
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. Among her works are Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (2003) and Beyond Antigone (2010). She is currently collaborating with Elizabeth Frazer on a series of papers on the relationship between violence and politics within the history of political thought.
V. Denise James is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. She researches and writes about the politics of geography, identity, and social justice. She has published essays on the intersections of classical American pragmatism and black feminism.
Alison M. Jaggar is College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She holds a joint appointment with Philosophy and with Women and Gender Studies and is affiliated with the Department of Ethnic Studies. Jaggar is also a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Katharine Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Her main interests are social ontology, feminist philosophy, and the critical philosophy of race. Her publications include “Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman” in Ethics (2016).
Jean Keller is Professor of Philosophy at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University. She co-edited Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics (2005) and Envisioning Plurality: Feminist Perspectives on Pluralism in Ethics, Politics, and Social Theory (2013). Her writing has focused on feminist ethics, relational autonomy, mothering, and adoption.
Serene J. Khader is Jay Newman Chair at Brooklyn College and Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. She works in moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy. She is the author of Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment (2011) and is currently writing a book on transnational feminist solidarity.
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Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University/SUNY. Her publications include Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999); Cognitive Disability and the Challenge to Moral Philosophy (2010); Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (2006); The Subject of Care: Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency (2002); and Women and Moral Theory (1987).
Janet A. Kourany, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, does research in philosophy of science, science and social values, philosophy of feminism, and ignorance studies. She is working on a book, Forbidden Knowledge: The Social Construction and Management of Ignorance.
Susanne Lettow does research at the Institute for Philosophy, Free University Berlin. She specializes in feminist theory and continental philosophy, critical theory, philosophy of the life sciences, and biopolitics. She edited Reproduction, Race and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences (2014) and a special issue of Hypatia on Emancipation.
Noëlle McAfee is a Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. Her books include Democracy and the Political Unconscious (2008); Julia Kristeva (2004); and Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (2000). Her current book project is titled Democracy Otherwise: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning.
Catriona Mackenzie is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published widely on relational autonomy and other topics in moral psychology, ethics, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy.
Ishani Maitra is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her main areas of research interest are philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of law. She has published articles on silencing, the right to free speech, assertion, contextualism, and testimony.
Anna Malavisi was a development worker and program manager in NGOs in Bolivia before completing a Philosophy PhD. She has published on development ethics in The Development Bulletin (2001) and the Journal of Global Ethics (2014) and is currently writing a book, Global Development and Its Discontents.
Mimi Marinucci serves as Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University. Marinucci is the author of Feminism Is Queer (2nd ed. 2016), which explores the social and political aspects of the production of knowledge regarding sex, sexuality, and gender.
Mari Mikkola is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. She works mainly in feminist philosophy, especially feminist metaphysics and pornography. Additionally, she has research interests in social ontology and is an editor of the Journal of Social Ontology.
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Elaine P. Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times (2014) and The Vegetative Soul: From Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the Feminine (2002), and co-edited Returning to Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Unity (2007).
Monica Mookherjee is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Keele University, UK. She authored Women’s Rights as Multicultural Claims (2009) and edited Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation (2010). Her research interests span feminism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, human rights, and the politics of recognition.
Johanna Oksala is Academy of Finland Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of five monographs, including Feminist Experiences (2016) and Foucault on Freedom (2005), and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters in political philosophy and feminist theory.
Amy A. Oliver is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Associate Professor in Spanish and Latin American Studies, American University. Her areas of specialization are Spanish and Latin American philosophy, women’s studies, and philosophy of literature.
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of thirteen books, including most recently Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape (2016) and Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions (2015). Her best known work is Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (2001).
Serena Parekh is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is the Director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program. She is editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy.
Gertrude Postl is Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York. Her work focuses on feminist theories of language and the body, aesthetics, and philosophy and literature. Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume in German on Hélène Cixous.
Janice Richardson is Associate Professor of Law at Monash University, Australia. Her publications include Law and the Philosophy of Privacy (2015), The Classic Social Contractarians: Critical Perspectives from Feminist Philosophy and Law (2009), and Selves, Persons, Individuals: Philosophical Perspectives on Women and Legal Obligations (2004).
Wendy A. Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research interests include feminist bioethics, the ethics of evidence-based medicine, research ethics, vulnerability, and overdiagnosis. She is a founding member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
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Phyllis Rooney, Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University, has interests in feminist philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, and logic and argumentation theory. She publishes on rationality, gender, and cognition, feminism and argumentation, values in science, and the connections among feminist, pragmatist, and naturalized epistemology.
Falguni A. Sheth is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Her research is in the areas of continental and political philosophy, legal and critical race theory and philosophy of race, post-colonial theory, and sub-altern and gender studies.
Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. She has published books on Hegel, Irigaray, motherhood, and the aesthetics of popular music, as well as An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (2007) and many articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy.
Anita Superson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Her research is in ethics and feminism, particularly practical moral skepticism, feminist moral psychology, and sexism in the academy. She is working on a book defending the right to bodily autonomy.
Theresa W. Tobin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. She researches and teaches in theoretical and practical ethics with particular interests in moral justification, philosophical methodology, and practical ethical issues related to violence, spirituality, and gender.
Robin R. Wang is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Asian Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University, LA, and President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (2016–2018). Her publications include Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture (2012).
Sara Weaver is a philosophy doctoral student at the University of Waterloo. She works mainly in feminist and non-feminist philosophy of science. Her doctoral work is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Allison Weir is Research Professor in Social and Political Philosophy and Gender Studies in the Institute for Social Justice at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. She is the author of Identities and Freedom (2013) and Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (1996).
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Shay Welch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Spelman College. She specializes in feminist political philosophy, feminist ethics, and Native American philosophy. Her recent publications include Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Ethics Approach to Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating Choices (2015).
Alison Wylie teaches philosophy at the University of Washington and Durham University. As a philosopher of social science her primary interest is in understanding how we know what we think we know, especially in archaeology and feminist social science. Recent work includes Material Evidence (2015) and Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016).
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Buffalo. Her books include Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (2012) and An Ethics of Dissensus (2001). Her research interests include feminist political theory, modernism, feminist philosophy, ethics, and critical race theory.