The following appeared in Volume 98, Number 2 (Spring, 1999) of the APA Newsletters

Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy


Notes On Contributors

Catherine Villanueva Gardner recently joined the philosophy department at the University of Michigan-Flint. Her research interests include feminist ethics, the history of women philosophers, and ecofeminism. She has published in Hypatia.

Jennifer Hansen is a doctoral candidate at SUNY at Stony Brook currently finishing a dissertation on Melancholia, Gender and Philosophical Method. She is also the executive editor of Studies in Practical Philosophy.

Kenneth Einar Himma is finishing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Washington. He has published a number of articles in philosophy of law and applied ethics and is the author, most recently, of "Judicial Discretion and the Concept of Law," forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.

Catherine Hundleby is a doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She has published and presented papers on feminist epistemology.

Jean Keller teaches moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, and medical ethics at the College of St. Benedict in Central Minnesota.

Wendy Lee-Lampshire is currently an associate professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University. Her areas of specializaion include feminist philosophy, philosophy of mind and language (especially later Wittgenstein), and ecological philosophy. Her current work includes an exploration of the contexts within which we might ascribe particular sorts of intentions to agents in light of specific conceptions of sexual identity. She is the current Executive Secretary of the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy.

Norah Martin is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Portland. She is co-editor (with Peter Ludlow) of Externalism and Self-Knowledge (CSLI Publications) and (with Mary Rawlinson) of two special issues of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, one on reproductive technology and one on feminist bioethics (forthcoming). She also has an essay forthcoming in William T. Irwin, ed., Philosophical Reflections on Seinfeld (Open Court Publishing).

Mary Anne McClure teaches courses on ethics and the law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice does research in the feminist critique of science as well as an ethic of care. Her most recent publication was on parallels between chaos theory and a feminist concept of nature.

Viki Soady holds a Ph.D. in Classical Languages and is Director of Women’s Studies at Valdosta State University. Her most recent publications include articles on feminist pedagogy and two long entries in Significant Contemporary Feminists, ed. Jennifer Scanlon (Greenwood Press, 1999).

Shannon Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Penn State University. She teaches and researches in the intersections of feminist theory, American pragmatism, and Continental philosophy, and currently is working on a manuscript tentatively entitled Transactional Bodies: Feminism, Pragmatism, and Corporeal Existence.

Nancy Tuana is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and co-editor of Hypatia with Laurie Shrage.

Kayley Vernallis is an assistant professor at California State University at Los Angeles. She is interested in gender issues spanning such topics as sexual orientation, moral psychology, and art history.

Julie Ward is Associate Professor of philosophy at Loyola University, where she specializes in ancient philosophy and feminism. Her anthology, Feminism and Ancient Philosophy (Routledge, 1996), contains essays by leading scholars on the intersection of these two disciplines. Her other interests are in feminist thinkers such as Beauvoir.

Helen Wishart is a graduate student in English at Valdosta State University and research associate of Viki Soady. Together, they have co-authored several papers and have written reviews for such publications as Off Our Backs.


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