News and Current Projects

Upcoming lectures and addresses:

Institute for Advanced Study, University of Durham (UK): I was a Visiting Fellow at IAS in the Fall term 2012, where I joined a diverse group of scholars working on topics related to the annual theme of “Time.

American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division: I served as President of the Pacific Division in 2011-2012, and gave the Presidential Address at the Spring meetings in Seattle (6 April 2012). A podcast is available, and the text of the lecture will appear in the November 2012 issue of the APA Proceedings.

Biological Futures in a Globalized World: A research network and a cluster of curriculum development projects hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities (University of Washington), in partnership and funded by the Center for Biological Futures at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute (2011-2013). In 2011-2012 we undertook an inventory of UW-based teaching resources in research ethics for the non-medical sciences and initiated the first of several pilot courses in Fall 2012. We have convened two Summer Research Consortia (2011, 2012) and a workshop on Synthetic Biology pdf (November 2012), and we have established an ongoing colloquium and speaker series.

Seneca Village Archaeological Project/National Science Foundation (New York, NY): consultant on research ethics for the field research and training project directed by Nan A. Rothschild (Barnard/Columbia) and Diana Wall (CUNY). In the summer of 2011 Rothschild and Wall got permission to begin test excavation and convened a field school. An exciting long-in-the-works season!.

Recent Publications

• Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures, Hypatia 25th Anniversary Special Issue, co-edited with Lori Gruen, Hypatia, 25.4 (2010). 25th Anniversary Issue
  
• A More Social Epistemology: Decision Vectors, Epistemic Fairness, and Consensus in Solomon’s Social Empiricism, special issue of Perspectives on Science 16.3 (2008). Project Muse 
• Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions co-edited with Harold Kincaid and John Dupre, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. OUP website 
• Doing Archaeology as a Feminist, co-edited with Margaret W. Conkey, special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 14.3 (2007). SpringerLink 
• Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender Discrimination, co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen and Gisela Fosado, New Feminist Solutions, Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2007. Conference website / Report PDF
• When Difference Makes a Difference: Epistemic Diversity and Dissent: special issue of Episteme: Journal of Social Epistemology 3.1-2 (2006). Episteme website 
• Thinking From Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology, University of California Press, Berkeley CA, 2002. UCPress website

• “Interdisciplinary Practice: Archaeology and Philosophy”: in Archaeology in the Making: Conversations Through a Discipline, edited by William Rathje, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Witmore, Routledge, 2012, pp. 93-121.
• “’Do Not Do Unto Others…’: Cultural Misrecognition and the Harms of Appropriation in an Open Source World,” co-authored with George Nicholas: in Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology, edited by Geoffrey Scarre and Robin Coningham, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 195-221.
  
• “The Feminism Question in Science: What Does it Mean to ‘Do Social Science as a Feminist’?”, Handbook of Feminist Research, Second Edition, edited by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Sage, 2012, pp. 544-556. (First edition, 2007.)
  
• “Critical Distance: Stabilizing Evidential Claims in Archaeology," in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining, and Mimi Vasilaki, British Academy Publications, Oxford University Press (2011).
• "Standpoint (still) Matters: Research on Women, Work, and the Academy,” in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi Grasswick, Springer, 2011, pp. 157-179.
• “The Appropriation of Archaeological Finds,” co-authored with George Nicholas, in The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation edited by James O. Young and Conrad G. Brunk, Blackwell, 2011, pp. 11-54.
• Feminist Perspectives on Science”: co-authored with Elizabeth Potter and Wenda Bauchspies, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010.  Available online: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-science/
•  “Hypatia: A Journal of Her Own,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter, Feminism and Philosophy 9.2 (Fall 2010): 20-24.
• “Archaeological Facts in Transit: The ‘Eminent Mounds’ of Central North America”, in How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge, edited by Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 301-322.
• "Social Constructionist Arguments in Harding's Science and Social Inequality,” Hypatia 23.4 (2008): 201-211.
  
• “What’s Feminist about Gender Archaeology?” Que(e)rying Archaeology: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary Archaeology Association, 2009, pp. 282-289.
• “Agnotology in/of Archaeology,” Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger; Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 183-205.
  
• “Philosophy in/of Archaeology,” in The Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, edited by Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord; volume 14, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Elsevier Science, 2007, pp. 517-549. 
• “Socially Naturalized Norms of Epistemic Rationality: Aggregation and Deliberation,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 44 Supplement (2006): 43-48.
• "The Promise and Perils of an Ethic of Stewardship," Beyond Ethics: Anthropological Moralities on the Boundaries of the Public and the Professional, edited by Lynn Meskell and Peter Pells, Berg Press, London, 2005, pp. 47-68.
  
• “Why Standpoint Matters,” in Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, edited by Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 26-48.