ALISON WYLIE
Department of Philosophy - University of Washington

RESEARCH
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PUBLICATIONS,
PRESENTATIONS, &
CURRENT PROJECTS

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PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, & CURRENT PROJECTS

Publications

For a full list of publications by area see:
          Philosophy of Science
          Philosophy of Archaeology
          Research Ethics
          Feminist Philosophy of Science and Feminist Archaeology
          Equity Issues

Current projects

  • “Feminist Perspectives on Science”: co-authored with Elizabeth Potter and Wenda Bauchspies, accepted with revisions, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • “Critical Distance: Stabilizing Evidential Claims in Archaeology”: invited contribution, under revision for Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining, and Mimi Vasilaki (British Academy Publications).
  • Archaeological Facts in Transit”: contribution to How Well do ‘Facts’ Travel?, edited by Peter Howlett and Mary Morgan, accepted with revisions.
  • “Standpoint (still) Matters: Research on Women, Work, and the Academy”: under revision for Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi Grasswick (Kluwer Academic Publishing).
  • “Legacies of Collaboration: Transformative Criticism in Archaeology,” 2008 AAA/AD Distinguished Lecture (Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association), under revision for American Anthropologist.
  • Standpoint Matters, In Feminist Philosophy of Science, manuscript in preparation.
  • Lectures in preparation (Winter-Spring 2009):
             President’s Lecture, University of British Columbia (February 5, 2009).
             Columbia History of Science Society, 2009 Keynote address, Friday Harbor (March 6, 2009).
             Sawyier Lecture, Illinois Institute of Technology (April 17, 2009).
             Drake Lecture, Canadia History and Philosophy of Science Society (May 28, 2009).

    For current conference organizing see Conferences & Workshops.


    Recent Presentations

  • 2008 Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture: “Legacies of Collaboration: Transformative Criticism in Archaeology,” Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association (San Francisco, November 2008); Anthropology Department, University of Oregon (January 2009).
  • Re-examining Archaeological Ethics: plenary panel, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics (Indiana University, October 2008).
  • Evidence, Enquiry, and Facts: plenary address, “Critical Distance: Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology,” British Academy conference (London, December 2007).
  • “Standpoint Matters: What’s Feminist about Gender Archaeology?”: Department of Archaeology, Reading University (December 2007); contribution to “Demystifying Social Construction,” invited symposium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco, April 2007); Department of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College (March 2007).
  • “Standpoint Matters: Women, Work, and the Academy”: keynote panel presentation, FEMMSS conference (ASU, February 2007); keynote address for the Central States Philosophical Association (October 2006); Northwest Philosophy of Science meeting (UBC, May 2006); Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Stanford Program for History and Philosophy of Science (May 2006).
  • Cultures of Contact: Archaeology, Ethics, and Globalization: “Epistemic Pluralism and Epistemic Justice,” conference keynote address, Center for Archaeological Research, Stanford University (Stanford, February 2006).
  • “Philosophy From the Ground Up: Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology”: Department of Philosophy and the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Workshop, University of Chicago (May 2006); University of Arizona IGERT Seminar on Archaeological Science (April 2006); Stanford Center for Archaeological Research (January 2006); “Making Society, Knowing Society,” UC- San Diego (June 2005).
  • “Archaeological Stewardship in a Collaborative Framework”: Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona (March 2006).
  • Videos

  • Women, Work, and the Academy: video of keynote panel discussion with Nancy Hopkins, Claude Steele, and Virginia Valian (Barnard Center for Research on Women). On-line video
  • The Chilly Climate in Universities and Colleges, a video produced by Western's Caucus on Women's Issues and UWO Equity Department (with support from the Ontario Women's Directory and Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities). WCWI Catalog
  • Interviews

  • Personal Histories in Archaeological Method and Theory: "Early Gendered and Post-processual Approaches" (Conkey, Moore, Tringham, and Wylie); Pamela Smith, Cambridge Personal Histories Project (October 2007). On-line video / Podcast
  • Telling Stories, Constructing Narratives: Gender Equity and Archaeology: Uzma Z. Rizvi, Greenfield Intercultural Center (2007).
  • Kathryn Denning: Words of Wisdom: "From the Ground Up: An Interview with Alison Wylie" Assemblage 5 (April 2000). Interview.

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