Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and
Women’s
Studies at Syracuse University. She received her Ph.D. at Brown
University
in 1987. She works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology,
feminist
theory, and philosophy of race. Her books include Feminist
Epistemologies,
co-edited with Elizabeth Potter (Routledge, 1993); Real Knowing:
New Versions
of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell, 1996); Epistemology:
The Big Questions (Blackwell: 1998); Thinking From the
Underside of
History (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) co-edited with Eduardo
Mendieta;
Identities (Blackwell 2003) co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta; Singing
in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy (Rowman and
Littlefield),
and is currently co-editing with Eva Kittay The Blackwell
Guide
to Feminist Philosophy. Visible Identities: Race, Gender and
the Self
is forthcoming with Oxford Press. She is also editing the first
series
of coursebooks in feminist philosophy with Routledge, with several
already
under contract. She has written over forty articles on topics
concerning
Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of knowledge, and gender and
race
identity.
She has also been very active in the profession, including: as
Co-Director
of SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
1996-1999;
member, American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on the
Status
of Women (1995-1998); Chair, APA Committee on Hispanics (1998-2000);
member,
Eastern division APA Executive Committee; and currently she is on the
Nominating
Committee of the APA.
She received an ACLS Fellowship for 1990-1991 and a fellowship
from
the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University for
1994-1995.
In 1995 she was awarded a Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professorship
to
recognize outstanding teaching at Syracuse University. She has been a
visiting
professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, Florida Atlantic University,
Brown
University, and SUNY Stony Brook.
Karen Barad is Professor of Women's Studies
and Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College. She also teaches in the
program in Critical Social Thought. Her Ph.D.
is in theoretical particle physics. Her research in physics and
philosophy has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the
Ford Foundation, the
Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and
the National Endowment for the Humanities. She held the Blanche, Edith,
and Irving
Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies at Rutgers University for
two years. Barad was a national board member for the Association of
American Colleges and Universities (NSF-sponsored) "Women and
Scientific Literacy: Building Two-Way Streets" Project. She is the
author of numerous articles on physics, feminist
philosophy, philosophy of science, cultural studies of science, and
feminist theory, and has recently completed a book entitled Meeting
the
Universe
Halfway (forthcoming with Duke University Press).
Diane Benjamin holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University
of Wisconsin. Diane taught the course under discussion in her paper for
the conference
("Women in science and engineering: An experimental approach in an
undergraduate course") during her tenure at the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville.
Now, Diane is an Associate Professor at Edgewood College in Madison
Wisconsin where she currently serves as chair of the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science and is living happily ever after!
Tony Chemero has a B.A. in Philosophy from Tufts University
and a double major Ph.D. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science from
Indiana
University. He does
philosophical research on epistemological and ontological issues
related to embodied cognitive science, and empirical research in
artificial neural
networks, robotics, and ecological psychology. Currently, Tony is
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Scientific and
Philosophical Studies
of Mind Program at Franklin and Marshall College. He spent the
2003-4 academic year as Visiting Research Scientist at the Center for
the Ecological Study of
Perception and Action at the University of Connecticut. He is no
longer sure if he is a philosopher or a scientist.
Sharyn Clough is an assistant professor of philosophy at Oregon
State University. She is convinced the world would be a better place if
everyone was an externalist about language and a holist about facts and
values. She's still a little fuzzy about what she means by
"facts." At a recent disco party she danced with relish to one of
her favourites - Cheryl Lynn's 1979 hit "Got To Be Real" -
ontology is everywhere! Her book Beyond Epistemology was
published last year (Rowman and Littlefield) and will be the subject of
a panel at the FEMMSS conference.
Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy
at York University in Toronto. As well as numerous articles and
chapters in
books, and four co-edited books, she has published Epistemic
responsibility (1987), What can she know? (1991), and Rhetorical
spaces (1995).
She is General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist
Theories (2000), Editor of Feminist Interpretations of
Hans-Georg Gadamer (2003),
and with Kathryn Hamer has translated Michèle LeDoeuff's Le
Sexe du savoir as The Sex of Knowing (2003). Her next book,
Ecological Thinking,
will be published by Oxford University Press in 2005.
Angela B. Ginorio is associate professor in Women Studies, and
adjunct associate professor in the Departments of Psychology and
American
Ethnic Studies. She specializes in feminist science studies with a
focus on women of
color,
access issues in education for Latina/os and rural populations, and
violence
against women. She developed and directs the Rural Girls in
Science
Program.
She is the author of Latinas in Schools: Si, se Puede!, Warming
the Climate for Women in Academic Science, and co-editor of The
Equity
Equation: Fostering the Advancement of Women in the Sciences,
Mathematics,
and Engineering.
Sandra Harding teaches in the Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies and in Women's Studies at UCLA. She also
co-edits Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Her most recent books are The
Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader, an edited collection (Routledge:
2003); Science and Other Cultures: Issues in the Philosophy of
Science and Technology,
edited with Robert Figueroa (Routledge: 2003); and the 20th anniversary
edition of Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
(Kluwer: 2003), originally edited with the late Merrill Hintikka. Science
and
Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives will be
published by University of Illinois Press in 2005.
Nancy C. M. Hartsock is the author of Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist
Historical Materialism and The Feminist Standpoint Revisited.
She is Professor of Political science at the University of
Washington. She has been interested in issueds of feminist
epistemology and metaphyscis for over twenty years. .
Catherine Hundleby is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Windsor (Canada). In 2001 she
completed
her Ph.D. in
Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario with a thesis on
feminist epistemologies. Her thesis research and published papers
("Women &
Politics" and "Social Epistemology") all concern feminist standpoint
theory and naturalist epistemology.
Anne Jaap Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy and Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, where she is
Associate Director of
the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science and Past
President of the Faculty Senate. Recent work of hers includes
"Mental Representations:
What Philosophy Leaves Out and Neuroscience Puts In," in Philosophical
Psychology, 2003, and "The Psychology Of Philosophy: Interpreting
Locke And
Hume," in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy,
ed by Witt and Alanen (2004). Her conference talk builds on material
from "Is the Brain a Memory Box?" which is forthcoming in Phenomenology
and the Cognitive Sciences, in a special issue on John
Bickle¹s Philosophy and Neuroscience.
Nancy McHugh is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and
Director of Women's Studies at Wittenberg University. She serves
on the board of Project Woman, an organization that works to end
domestic violence, rape and assault through shelter, counseling and
education. She is also on the board of Grrrlz to
Womyn, and helps run the program. Grrlz to Womyn is a program for girls
in need of life skills mentoring. They recently were awarded an AAUW
grant as
well as a Knowledge Works grant. Nancy's recent publications
include "Telling Her Own Truth: June Jordan, Standard English and
the Epistemology of Ignorance" in Still Seeking an Attitude;
"It's
In the Meat: Ruth Ozeki and the Fictionalizing of Scientific
Knowledge"
in Science and Science Fiction; and
Feminist Philosophies A-Z.
Jack Nelson is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and
Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of
Washington, Tacoma. He is a co-author of The Logic Book
and co-author (with Lynn Hankinson Nelson) of On Quine,
"No Rush to Judgment: In Defense of Feminist Epistemology," and
"Feminist Values and Cognitive Virtues".
The author of "The Last Dogma of Empiricism?" in Feminism, Science,
and the Philosophy of Science, he may be the first or only person
to
thank "the moose of Maine" for inspiration as he worked on the article.
Lynn Hankinson Nelson is professor of Philosophy and adjunct
professor of Women's Studies at the University of Washington. She
recently co-edited a double issue of Hypatia devoted to
feminist science studies (with Alison Wylie) and edited a special issue
of Synthese on Feminism and Science. She is co-editor, with
Jack Nelson, of Feminist Interpretations of W.V. Quine and Feminism,
Science, and the Philosophy of Science. She and Jack are
co-authors of On Quine (2001) and her earlier publications
include Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism (1990).
In addition to an interest in Quine (she's sure there still aren't
enough Quineans!), she and Jack share sailing on Commencement Bay, a
daughter Rebecca and son-in-law Gabe, and SAM, the wonder dog, a golden
retriever.
Elizabeth Potter, Alice Andrews Quigley Professor of Women’s
Studies at Mills College, is the author of Gender and Boyle’s Law
of Gases, Feminist Philosophy of Science (forthcoming from
Routledge) and co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies. She is
also the author of articles on topics in feminist epistemology and in
feminist philosophy of science.
Phyllis Rooney is an associate professor of Philosophy at
Oakland University in Michigan. She has published many papers in
feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, and she has specific
research interests in feminist critiques of reason. She is
currently completing an introductory text in feminism and epistemology.
Deboleena Roy is an Assistant Professor
at San Diego State University. She completed her Ph.D. in
reproductive neuroendocrinology in 2001 and is currently the resident
feminist scientist in the Women's Studies Department at SDSU. Her
paper "Feminist Theory in Science: Working Toward a Practical
Transformation" was recently published in the Winter 2004 Hypatia special issue on Feminist
Science Studies. In her spare time, Deboleena likes to listen to
bjork, imagines a life as a performance artist, and creates feminist
biomythographic bedtime stories for her two young children.
Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at
the University of Minnesota. Her work is on the epistemological
implications of the social constructions of gender, race,
sexuality, and class. A collection of her essays, Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge,
Authority, and Privilege, was published in 1993; and she is
preparing the next volume, tentatively entitled Shifting Ground: Margins, Diasporas, and
the Reading of Wittgenstein.
Her current project, on which she will be speaking at the conference,
grows out of her work as an Associate Dean in the Graduate School
and as co-founder of GRASS Routes (GRASS=Grass Roots Activism,
Sciences, and Scholarship), an initiative to support community-based
research. Using the notions of trustworthiness and sustainability, she
has been working with scientists and others to articulate a vision for
public research universities that takes diversity as the primary
resource for retheorizing the connection between democracy and
expertise.
Nancy Tuana is the Dupont/ Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy
and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and Director
of the Rock Ethics Institute. Her research and teaching
specialties include feminist philosophy and feminist theory, with
expertise in the areas of feminist philosophies of science and feminist
epistemologies, feminist philosophy of history, and philosophy and
sexuality. Her publications include Engendering Rationalities
(SUNY
Press); Feminism and Science (Indiana University Press); The
Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of
Woman’s Nature (Indiana University Press), Revealing Male Bodies
(Indiana University Press), Feminist Interpretations of Plato
(Penn State
Press) and Women and the History of Philosophy (Paragon
House).
She is series editor of the Penn State Press series Re-Reading the
Canon,
and co-editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia’s entries on feminist
philosophy.
Anne Waters, J.D., Ph.D., is of Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw,
Cherokee, and Jewish descent. She holds four graduate degrees,
and is a philosopher, poet, and lawyer, having published in several
philosophy and American Indian journals and anthologies. Waters
is associate editor of the Value
Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for Editions Rodopi, an international press,
editor of the new VIBS Indigenous Philosophies of the Americas
special
series (IPA), editor of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Newsletter
of American Indian Philosophy, editor of American Indian
Thought: Philosophical Essays (Blackwell Oct 2004), Co-editor
of
American Philosophies: An Anthology (Oct 2003), co-guest
Editor
of a special issue of Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy:
Indigenous Women in the Americas (2003), and is working on a
new
book to be titled Crossing Borders to Return: American Indian Women
in
Academe.
Waters originated and is current President of the American Indian
Philosophy Association; as well, she is founder and past chair of the
APA Committee on American Indians in Philosophy. Some of her past
activities have included being awarded a National Science Foundation
grant, participating as a Liberty Fund Scholar at Vanderbilt
University, being a Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Scholar
at Haverford University, a Rockefeller Visiting Summer Scholar at the
University of Arizona, an NEH Summer Institute Scholar in at the
University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, and a Constitutional Task Force
Member of the National Women Studies Association. A recipient of
a Helen Steiner Memorial American Indian Scholarship, Law School
Minority Graduate Scholarship, Pergamon Press and National Women
Studies Association First Recipient of the Ruth Bleir Dissertation
Scholarship, a CIC Black/Ethnic Minorities Doctoral Fellowship, a
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Institute Fellowship, and a Washington University Graduate
Fellowship,
Anne lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition to
her
writing, Anne has been traveling and speaking at several Universities
across
the United States, in Canada, and Australia.
Barbara Whitten is Professor of Physics at Colorado College, and
also teaches in the Women’s Studies and Environmental Science
Programs. Her research in physics is in theoretical atomic and
molecular physics; she has worked on problems in x-ray lasers and
Rydberg atoms. In Women’s Studies her interests are generally in
the area of gender and science; she is primarily interested in
questions about what feminist physics, and a feminist physics community
might be. She is the mother of two children, both in
college. Penelope is majoring in journalism and political
science, and Jake is a psychology major.
Alison Wylie is a philosopher of science with longstanding
interests in feminist analyses of the role of values in science, ideals
of objectivity, and
evidential reasoning. She focuses on the social and historical
sciences, especially archaeology, and has recently published Thinking
from Things: Essays
in the Philosophy of Archaeology (University of California Press
2002). Her feminist essays appear in collections such as Science
and Other Cultures (2003)
and Science, Technology, Medicine: The Difference Feminism Has Made
(2001), Primate Encounters (2000), Changing Methods:
Feminists Transforming Practice (1995), and Women and Reason
(1992). As an editor she has contributed to Ethics Issues in
Archaeology (1995/2000), Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate
for Women Faculty (1995) and of Equity Issues for Women in
Archaeology (1994).