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Asha Leena Bhandary - Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Profile

Department of Philosophy
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
(631) 632-7570
Email: asha.bhandary@stonybrook.edu

Faculty Appointments

  • 2026-Present Professor Philosophy, Department, Stony Brook University

Vice Chair for Care Ethics Research, FPPM Department

  • 2025-2026 Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Iowa
  • 2019-2025 Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Iowa
  • 2024-2026 Affiliated Faculty, Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies Department, University of Iowa
  • 2022-2024 Associate Professor, Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies Department, University of Iowa
  • 2012-2019 Assistant Professor,  Philosophy Department, University of Iowa
  • 2011-2012 Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Wesleyan University

 

Education

  • 2011 Ph.D.  Philosophy, University of Connecticut
  • 2004 M.A. Philosophy, Stanford University
  • 2003 B.A. Comparative Literature, with Honors in the Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford University

Areas of Research

Care Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, Value Theory

Publications

Books

Monographs

  • Bhandary, Asha Leena, Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World (Oxford University Press, 2026).

Symposium on Being at Home commissioned by the Asian Journal of Philosophy, with commentators Talia Bettcher, Youjin Kong, Emily S. Lee, Ronald Sundstrom, and Andrea Westlund (in progress).

Critical Review commissioned from Ishani Maitra by the journal Analysis.

  • Bhandary, Asha, Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture, (New York: Routledge, 2020).

             Reviews of this work:

Hänselmann, Eva. (2024). “Kulturelle Stereotype tragen zum Gender Care Gap bei. Wie gelangen wir zu einer Care-Praxis, die allen offensteht? Exegese von Asha Bhandarys Freedom to Care und Anregungen für das deutsche Bildungssystem,” ZDfm – Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1-2024, S. 77-82. 

Watson, Lori. (2023). Hypatia, 38(1), p. e9, 104. 

Laden, Anthony. (2022). Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2): 520-522.

Glantzi, Evina A. (2022). “Autonomy Skills in Liberal Dependency Care: On Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care”, Ethics, Politics & Society, Vol. 5(1): 125-137.

  • Symposium on Freedom to Care in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie 2023 62(2) with French translation of abstract: 

McKittrick-Sweitzer, L. (2023). “Introduction to Symposium on Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care”, Dialogue, 62(2), pp. 203–217.

Wolf, C. (2023). “Liberal Dependency Care Versus Subject-Centered Liberal Justice”, Dialogue, 62(2), pp. 219–230. 

Edenberg, E. (2023). “Dependency Care in a Politically Liberal Society”, Dialogue, 62(2), pp. 231–245.

Varden, H. (2023). “Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care — A Kantian Care Engagement’, Dialogue, 62(2), pp. 247–260.

  • Symposium on Freedom to Care in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: 

Mullin, Amy. (2021). Editor’s introduction: “Justice, autonomy and care: symposium on Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture.”  

Westlund, Andrea C. (2021). “Education for autonomy, and for care: a comment on Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care”. 

Gawel. Kelly. (2021). “Conditions of radical care: a response to Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care”. 

Engster, Daniel. (2021). “Just add care and stir? The limits of mainstream liberal theory for taking on dependency care”. 

Edited Volumes

  • Bhandary, Asha and Amy R. Baehr, eds. Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, (New York: Routledge, 2021). Coedited and commissioned new essays, with a substantive introduction.

Reviews of this work: 

Gary, M. (2024). Journal of Moral Philosophy, 21(3-4), 480-483. 

Chadha-Sridhar, Ira. (2023). International Feminist Journal of Politics, 26(1), 197–199. 

McKittrick-Sweitzer, Lavender. (2023). The Philosophical Quarterly, 73(3), 871–875. 

McLaren, Margaret A. (2022).  APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Spring 2022: 21 (2), 42-44.

 

Digital Humanities Website

Surviving “the Indifferents”. 2021. Created by Asha Bhandary, Laura Brown, Tim Sommers, and Jamie Ritzo with support from the University of Iowa’s Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio. The video game illustrates the social necessity of caregiving and prompts users to think about who cares for them and for whom they provide care. 

 

Refereed journal articles and book chapters

  1. Bhandary, A. 2026. “Rawls, Care, and Justice.” In the Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of John Rawls, eds. Christie Hartley, Blain Neufeld, and Lori Watson, (New York: Oxford University Press). 
  2. Bhandary, A. 2026. “Unsettling Social Expectations About Who Should Care: The “Surviving ‘the Indifferents’ Video Game”, In Quick Hits: Creativity in the Classroom, eds. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Michael Marrone, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
  3. Bhandary, A. 2025. “Freedom to Care, for Women of Colour”. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics, ed. Matilda Carter (London: Bloomsbury Press).
  4. Bhandary, A. 2023. A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 62(2).
  5. Bhandary A. L. 2022. Caring for Whom? Racial Practices of Care and Liberal Constructivism. Philosophies 7(4): 78. 
  6. Bhandary, A. 2021. The theory of liberal dependency care: a reply to my critics. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25:6, 843-857. 
  7. Bhandary, A. 2021. Precis: Freedom to Care.  Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25:6, 816-819.
  8. Bhandary, A. 2021. “’Being at Home’, White Racism, and Minority Health”, in Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, eds. E. Victor and L. Guidry-Grimes, Springer Publishing: 217-234. 
  9. Bhandary, A. and Amy R. Baehr. 2021. “Introduction”, in Caring for Liberalism, eds. Bhandary and Baehr, New York: Routledge.
  10. Bhandary, A.  2021. “Interpersonal reciprocity: An Antiracist Feminist Virtue for Liberal Care Arrangements,” in Caring for Liberalism, eds. Baehr and Bhandary, New York: Routledge.
  11. Bhandary, A. 2018. “Dependency Care before Pizza: A Reply to Narveson,” Journal of Philosophy Research 43: 153-158. DOI: 10.5840/jpr201882126.
  12. Bhandary, A. 2018. “Arranged Marriage: Could it Contribute to Justice?” The Journal of Political Philosophy 26 (2): 193–215.
  13. Bhandary, A. 2017. “The Arrow of Care Map: Abstract Care in Ideal Theory,” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 3 (4), Article 5.
  14. Graber, A., A. Bhandary, M. Rizzo and S. Carter. 2017. “The Case for Enrolling High-Cost Patients in an ACO,” Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum 29 (4): 359-365.
  15. Bhandary, A. 2016. “Liberal Dependency Care,” Journal of Philosophical Research 41: 43-68. 
  16. Bhandary, A. 2016. “A Millian Concept of Care,” Social Theory and Practice 42 (1): 155-182.
  17. Graber, A., A. Bhandary and M. Rizzo. 2015. “Ethical practice under accountable care.” Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, June 2016, 28 (2): 115-128.
  18. Bhandary, A. 2010. “Dependency in Justice: Can Rawlsian Liberalism Accommodate Kittay’s Dependency Critique?” Hypatia 25(1): 140-156.

Essay Reviews

  1. Bhandary, A. 2023. On the Diverse Priorities of Autonomous Women: Comments on Gina Schouten’s Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 107:264 - 270.
  2. Bhandary, A. 2021. Why Liberalism Needs Autonomy: Achieving a Mainstream Society without Intergroup Caregiving Exploitation. Ethics, Politics & Society, 4 (1): 230 – 241.

 

Book Reviews

  1. Bhandary, A. 2020. Book Review, Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice. Ed. Serena Olsaretti, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, Hypatia Reviews Online.
  2. Bhandary, A. 2013. Book Review, Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment. By Khader, Serene J. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Hypatia 28(2) 390-393.

 

Work in progress

  1. Bhandary, Asha Leena. “Intersectional liberalism: how belonging secures care, and care is required for freedom,” Rizareio Foundation Lecture to become a short book translated into Greek.
  2. Bhandary, Asha Leena, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, and Lina-Maria Murillo. Grounding Reproductive Justice (Agenda Press – recently acquired by Edinburg University Press).  (Co-authored book under contract)
  3. Greer, Michael and Asha L. Bhandary, “Respectful care”, in The Sage Encyclopedia of Reproductive Justice (1,000 word commissioned entry).
  4. Bhandary, Asha L. Commissioned. “Asian American Deference and Care.” In the Oxford Handbook on Asian American Philosophy, eds. David Kim, Ronald Sundstrom, and Maya Von Ziegesar (New York: Oxford University Press). 

 

Public philosophy

  1. A book reading at Prairie Lights bookstore for Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World, August 17, 2026.
  2. Keynote speaker for women:hood III event, Public Space One, October 18, 2025.
  3. Womanhood, Interview with Charity Nebbe on Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa, October 27, 2023. 
  4. A Crisis of Care: Iowa’s Childcare Crisis, Nov. 16, 2022, Obermann Center for Advanced Study and Iowa City Public Library, a conversation with Jennifer Banta. 
  5. Live from Prairie Lights, internationally known reading series, reading from Freedom to Care, in conversation with Lina-Maria Murillo December 8, 2021. 7 pm via Zoom.
  6. Freedom to Care. Sidekick Coffee and Books Reading, book signing, and conversation; September 26, 2021.
  7. Keynote lecture for Women:hood opening night, 1st edition, curated by Satomi Kawai, June 5, 2021.

 

Select Lectures and Conference Presentations

Keynote and Distinguished Lectures

  1. “Intersectional liberalism: how belonging secures care, and care is required for freedom,” Distinguished Lecture, Rizareio Foundation and University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy, June 22, 2026.
  2. “Care and hierarchy,” Distinguished Visiting Speaker, NEH Summer Institute “Philosophical Perspectives on Giving, Receiving, and Conceiving Care” July 15, 2022. Portland, Oregon.
    Selected as a leading mid-career scholar of care theory
  3. “Legitimate needs and racialized expectations.” Disability and political theory panel headlining speaker. MANCEPT Workshop on Disability and Political Theory, Sept. 10, 2020 (Zoom due to Covid-19).
  4. “Racialized practices of care and liberal constructivism.” Lecture Series in Social Rights and Relationship Goods, Rice University, March 9, 2022.
  5. “The arrow of care map.” Inaugural Robinson Grover Keynote Alumni Lecture. University of Connecticut Department of Philosophy, April 21, 2017.
  6. “The arrow of care and arranged marriage.” Keynote Lecture for 2014-2015 University Theme Ethics: A Foundation for Personal Growth and Social Responsibility, at Western Illinois University, April 2015 

 

Invited and Refereed Lectures

  1. Upcoming: AI + Care: How care should guide us. Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Symposium, Iowa City, IA, April 1-2, 2026
  2. Upcoming: Author-Meets-Critics session on Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World, 2027 Pacific APA, Portland, Oregon, March 2027. Commentators: Ishani Maitra, Andrea Westlund, and Ronald Sundstrom.
  3. Upcoming: Committee on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies and Committee on the Status of Women and Gender cosponsored Author-Meets-Critics session on Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World, 2027 Central APA, Denver, Colorado, February 2027. Commentators: Emily S. Lee, Talia Bettcher, and Youjin Kong.
  4. “Caring persons and grafted subjects: what’s the difference?”, Conference in Memory of Virginia Held, CUNY Graduate Center, October 16, 2026.
  5. “Just Care: Gender, Race, and Reproductive Justice”, June 8, 2026; “Just Care for Grafted Subjects and Outsiders”, July 16, 2026, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
  6. “Outsider Oppression and Relational Egalitarianism”, 2026 American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Feb. 18, 2026, Chicago, IL.
  7. “Colonialism, Liberalism, and Anti-Asian Racism”, Pacific APA, Upcoming in April 2025, San Francisco.
  8. “Liberalism and Non-Interference in the Lives of Women of Color,” Invited speaker, “Keeping the Republic” Conference, University of Notre Dame and Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, May 8, 2024. (Funded by University of Notre Dame).
  9. Session organizer and speaker, “‘Family Values’ as an Asian American Women”, Central APA, Feb. 21-24, 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana. Cosponsored by the Committee on Women and Gender.
  10. “Why liberalism?” University of Virginia Department of Philosophy, Charlottesville, VA, January 10, 2023.
  11. “The arrow of care map’s impact on social ontology”. MIT Complexity Theory Conference, Cambridge, MA, October 6-9, 2023.
  12. “‘Being at Home’ in White Patriarchal America,” Invited speaker, “Keeping the Republic” Conference, University of Notre Dame and Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, May 8, 2023. (Funded by University of Notre Dame).
  13. On being an Asian American woman at the APA meetings, APA Committee on the Status of Women, Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA, April 5, 2023.
  14. Invited Lecture about Freedom to Care, in Empathy and Radical Care seminar, funded by the Center for the Humanities, Care theme, Wesleyan University, March 9, 2023.
  15. MAP speaker, “Care and Liberty”, March 8, 2023.
  16. “Negative Liberty for Women of Color: Political Priority, Intersectional Obstacles,” University of Iowa Department of Philosophy Colloquium, February 17, 2023.
  17. “Freedom without Justice”, Conference for the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Thought, October 7, 2022, Clearwater Beach, Florida (peer-reviewed).
  18. “The Case for Critical Liberalism,” University of Tampere, Philosophy Department Research Seminar Series, October 20, 2022 (invited).
  19. “Why reciprocity in care is necessary for an antiracist liberalism”, Care and Liberalism session at Pacific APA, (wrote and submitted panel proposal to APA Committee on Inclusion in the profession), April 13-15, 2022.
  20. Freedom to Care Dialogue Symposium Workshop. September 24, 2021. (Zoom) with critics Helga Varden, Elizabeth Edenberg, Tiina Vaittinen, and Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer.
  21. “Microaggressions, unjust care arrangements, and the psychocorporeal aspects of autonomy”, Invited paper for International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPH) 2021 Symposium: Diana Tietjens Meyers on Autonomy, Paderborn, Germany & Zoom, July 19, 2021.
  22. Care Forum on Freedom to Care. Hobby School of Public Affairs. University of Houston. With commentators Jennifer Nedelsky and Tamara Metz. April 16, 2021 (Recording publicly available).
  23. “Racial Hierarchy, Deference, Care, and Interpersonal Justification,” Invited speaker in “White care / brown care: race, class and power in care work.” American Philosophical Association Symposium, Pacific Division Main Program, April 9, 2021, Portland, Oregon. (Rescheduled from San Francisco 2020 meeting due to Covid-19.)
  24. Manchester Centre for Political Theory, Seminar Speaker in the Political Theory Core, January 7, 2021, 11:00 am-12:30 pm (Zoom).
  25. Symposium workshop on Gina Schouten’s Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor, December 15-16, 2020 (presented paper and gave comments on the other papers).
  26. Author Meets Critics symposium on Freedom to Care. American Philosophical Association, Central Division Main Program, February 26, 2020, 3:00-6:00 PM. With Critics Andrea Westlund (Florida State University), Daniel Engster (University of Houston), and Kelly Gawel (New School).
  27. “Care, race, and culture.” University of Iowa Philosophy Departmental Colloquium, March 6, 2020.
  28. “Why liberal care theory should not model persons as caring” (invited). Northwestern University's Practical Philosophy Workshop, May 31, 2019 (rescheduled due to snow). Chicago, Illinois.
  29. “A liberal theory of care.” UI American studies Floating Fridays, March 23, 2018 (invited interdisciplinary talk).
  30. “Other-directed desires, care and contractarianism”, Central APA, Main Program Colloquium paper, Central APA Feb. 21-24, 2018 (Peer-reviewed, 25% acceptance rate).
  31. Invited symposium panel at the Eastern APA: Marriage, Contract and Care: Elizabeth Brake. Savannah, Georgia, January 3-6, 2018 (3,000 words).
  32. “The Arrow of Care Map: Abstract Care in Ideal Theory”, Wellesley College Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, April 14, 2017 (Invited).
  33. “Deformed desires, Choices, and ‘Private’ Oppression”, Feminist Ethics and Social Thought Conference, October 5-8, 2017 (Submitted and peer-reviewed panel).
  34. “Deformed desires and unjust care-giving arrangements”, International Association for Value Inquiry, Eastern APA, Baltimore, MD Jan. 7-10, 2016.
  35. “The Arrow of Care Map”, The Society for Analytical Feminism, Lowell, MA September 17, 2016 (peer-reviewed).
  36. “Care in liberal multiculturalism: evaluating arranged marriage”, FEAST 2015 Oct. 1-4, 2015 Clearwater Beach, Florida (peer-reviewed).
  37. “The arrow of care methodology for contractarianism” Hypatia conference May 29, 2015, Villanova University (submitted and peer-reviewed panel).
  38. “Adjusting the fulcrum between autonomy and care: multiculturalism”, American Philosophical Society, Main Program, Pacific Division, April 1-5, 2015, Vancouver, BC (peer-reviewed).
  39. “Adjusting the fulcrum between autonomy and care: multiculturalism”, University of Iowa Faculty Colloquium, March 27, 2015.
  40. “Adjusting the fulcrum between autonomy and care: multiculturalism”, Illinois State University 2014-2015 Colloquium Series, May 1, 2015 (invited).
  41. “Caring skills as protest: a Millian view”, International Social Philosophy Conference, Ashford, Oregon July 17-19, 2014 (peer-reviewed).
  42. “I care about justice, but who will bring me tea?” Central APA, Society for Analytic Feminism session (peer-reviewed), February 18-21, 2014. Commentator: Serene Khader.
  43. “Autonomy and authenticity: Diana Tietjens Meyers,” Eastern APA, 2012 Distinguished Women Award sponsored by the Society for Women in Philosophy, Atlanta, GA, December 28, 2012.
  44. “Mothers and slaves: self-authentication in the work of John Rawls,” Wesleyan University, Division II Faculty Lunch Seminar, April 26, 2012.  
  45. “The social forms challenge to justice in dependency care”, Faculty Colloquium, University of Iowa Department of Philosophy, March 8, 2013.
  46. “The social forms challenge to justice in dependency care”, Western Political Science Association, Hollywood, CA, March 28, 2013 (peer-reviewed).
  47. “The multicultural conflict with de-gendering caregiving skills”, Eastern APA, American Society for Value Inquiry Session, Atlanta, GA, December 29, 2012 (invited).
  48. “Liberal Dependency Care”, University of Iowa, Philosophy Department Colloquium, February 3, 2012.
  49. “Liberal Dependency Care”, Oregon State University, Department of Philosophy, January 27, 2012.
  50. “Liberal Dependency Care”, Iowa State University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, January 19, 2012.
  51. “Freedom to Care”, Feminist Ethics and Social Thought Conference, Zion, IL, September 23, 2011 (peer-reviewed).
  52. “Freedom to Care”, International Social Philosophy Conference, Milwaukee, WI, July 22, 2011 (peer-reviewed).
  53. “Freedom to Care”, New York Society for Women in Philosophy Workshop, NYU Philosophy Department, January 20, 2011.
  54. “Care-giving Skills and the Context of Choice”, Public Lecture, University of Connecticut, February 16, 2011.
  55. “Individual Autonomy for the Capabilities Approach”, Colloquium paper (Main Program) Eastern Division American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, December 28, 2010 (peer-reviewed), Commentator, Anne Donchin
  56. “Freedom to Care”, International Social Philosophy Conference, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Toronto, Canada, July 17, 2010 (peer-reviewed).
  57. Commentary on Julinna Oxley’s “Care Ethics, Empathy and Moral Theory: Do Women Do It Better?” Society for Analytic Feminism at Central APA, Chicago, February 19, 2009.
  58. “Dependency in Justice: Kittay and Rawls”, Central Division American Philosophical Association, Society for Analytic Feminism Group Program, Chicago, IL, April 2008 (peer-reviewed).

 

Professional Service

National/International Service to the Profession of Philosophy

  1. Founding Director, Care Lab: 2025-2026 at University of Iowa as Iowa Care Lab, in collaboration with the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and 2026+ at Stony Brook University as the Care Lab at Stony Brook.
  2. Chair, APA Committee on Asian & Asian American Philosophers & Philosophies (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027).
    1. Associate Chair July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024
  3. Member of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027).
  4. Program Committee Member for 2026 Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association
  5. Leibowitz Prize Committee, American Philosophical Association, Spring 2026
  6. Founding member of Care Forum Advisory Board, sponsored by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership (2023-2025).
  7. Co-Chair of PIKSI-Rock, Fall 2022-Fall 2023.
    1. Co-Chair for Summer Institute to Promote Diversity in the Field of Philosophy; averaged 5 hours/week. 
    2. Advisory Board Member 2015-2017, & 2020-2022
    3. Managing Board Member August 2017-July 2020. (Co-chaired publicity 2018; reviewed applications 2020)
  8. Review Committee for NEH 2022 Summer Seminar: Philosophical Perspectives on Giving and Receiving Care (Spring 2022)
  9. Chair, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, (Jan. 1, 2019 - 12/31/2020)
    1. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization, including but not limited to responsibility for the 2019 conference. Launched new endowment initiative, created new social media position, created new mid-career mentoring focus and initiated further antiracism initiatives
    2. Revised and updated the mission statement
    3. Filed and secured for 501c (4) status
    4. Chair-Elect, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (2016-2018)
  10. Nominating Committee Co-Chair for Diana Tietjens Meyers, Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award 2012; Nominating Committee Co-Chair for Lori Gruen, Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award (awarded as the “Distinguished Philosopher Award”)
  11. Philosophical consultant, American Academy of Neurology’s Ethics, Law and Humanities Committee (Spring - Fall 2013)
  12. Manuscript referee: Routledge (2025), Journal of Philosophy (2025), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2025), Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (2024, 2025), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2024, 2025), Analytic Philosophy (2024), Philosophical Quarterly (2023), Journal of Applied Philosophy (2023, 2026), Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2023), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2022), Essays in Philosophy (2022), Res Publica (2022), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2022), Ergo (2021, 2026), Journal of Social Philosophy (2020), Journal of Political Philosophy (2018), Hypatia (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2026), Journal of Moral Philosophy and Politics (2016) Social Theory and Practice (2016), Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (2016, 2018, 2022, 2022, 2023), Social Philosophy Today (2012), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2012), Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2013)

 

Service to the University of Iowa

  1. University of Iowa Department of Philosophy 
    1. Director of Undergraduate Studies, beginning July 1, 2026
    2. Lectures and Arrangements, 2014-2020, 2023-2026
    3. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Assistant Professor Faculty Search Committee, 2024-2025
    4. UI Ethics Bowl Guest Judge, Fall 2025
    5. University of Iowa Philosophy Department Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2016-Spring 2023; Chaired Graduate Admissions in 2023 
    6. Minorities and Philosophy University of Iowa faculty advisor, Spring 2018 – 2024 
    7. Department Budget Committee, Fall 2016-2018
    8. Graduate Student Placement and Professionalization Committee 2013-2016
      1. Planned TA workshops, professionalization for the classroom, placement for job candidates, reviewed job application materials for current applicants
    9. Guest Lecturer, High School UI Philosophy summer camp, Lyceum (2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2026)
  2. University of Iowa Department of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies
    1. Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Spring 2024
    2. DCG, 2022-2023, 2023-2024 
    3. Fourth-year review co-chair
  3. University-level service
    1. Summer Outreach Research Program Mentor for talented and underrepresented undergraduate students, mentored student during their 8-week residential program at the University of Iowa, Summer 2023
    2. Co-founder, Committee on the Status of Women of Color, and At-Large Member of the University of Iowa Council on the Status of Women, 2019-2020
    3. Steering Committee Member, UI Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio (2016-2017)
    4. Grant reviewer for University of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research Seed Grant (2020)
  4. College-level service
    1. Undergraduate Educational Policy Curriculum Committee, CLAS Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, University of Iowa, August 2022-May 2025 (weekly meetings)
      1. Secretary for Spring 2025
    2. Internal Reviewer for the Department of Classics (Spring 2024)

 

Mentorship and Advising

International Mentorship:

International Visiting Scholar Host and research collaborator for Dr. Min Xu, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southeast University, China, 2021-2022, funded by the China Scholarship Council, Project: “The Breakdown of Intergenerational Dependency Care Reciprocity in the Chinese Family”. 

 

Iowa Care Lab Fellows:

Michael Greer, Fall 2025 residency

Kyle Scott, Fall 2025 residency

Costanza Porro, Fall 2025 zoom fellow

Shazia Rehman Khan, Obermann International Fellow, Fall 2025

 

Doctoral Dissertation Committees, Chaired:

  1. Aura Qui (2025-present). “Elder Care Thinking.” 
  2. Laura Brown (2018 – 2024). “Mediated Ideal Theory.” Current employment: Legal Reporter for Minnesota Lawyer (permanent), Humanities Instructor at National Louis University
  3. Timothy Sommers (Ph.D., 2022). “How Equality Matters to Justice: Relational Egalitarianism, Distributive Justice, and the Concept of Equality.” Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (2023-current)
  4. Nikolaos Maggos (Ph.D., 2019) (co-chair with Jovana Davidovic), “Black Oppression, White Domination” 
  5. Phillip Ricks (Ph.D., 2017) (co-chair with David Stern). “A Theory of Resistance”

 

Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member: Mansour Golpour (2026+), Chaeyeon Lee (2025+), Danielle Colburn (Ph.D received 2025), David Babcock (Ph.D. received 2022), Brady Hoback (Ph.D. received 2016)

 

GWSS Graduate Certificate Capstone Mentor

Andres Restrepo, 2023-2024, Ph.D. student in Anthropology

Osamamen Oba Eduviere, Spring 2025, Ph.D. student in Religious Studies

 

Master’s Thesis Committees, Chaired: 

  1. Jamie Ritzo, (2019-2021). “Conditioned Coerced Niceness.” First faculty job placement: Sustainability Management School (SUMAS), Gland, Switzerland. 
  2. Sooraj Saksena (2021-2022). Currently enrolled in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at Northwestern University.

 

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees, Chaired:

  1. Ellie Zupancic Fall 2019-Spring 2021, “Universalizing Adaptive Preferences”
  2. Tobias Garcia-Vega Spring 2019-Spring 2020, BA with Honors and recipient of the

CLAS Dean’s Achievement Award, Philosophy Department’s Gustav Bergmann Award, 

“Saving Rawlsian Selfhood: Toward a Socio-historical Theory of Selves in John Rawls’ Theory of Justice”, enrolled in philosophy Ph.D. at University of Illinois, Chicago

  1. Thomas Casady 2015, BA, “The Primary Good of Basal Self-Respect”

Honors Thesis Committee Member: Killian Beck all 2019, BA: Anne Ringelestein Completed Fall 2018, BA; Michael Corrazza Completed Spring 2018, BA; Elizabeth Huebner Fall 2016, BA.

 

Sample of undergraduate student mentees: Lilian Sanchez (Associate Director of Public Affairs in the Office of the Vice President of the United States), Hira Mustafa (Fordham Law School), Laura Villareal (Esperanza United, Health and Violence Prevention Specialist).

 

New Courses Designed and Taught at UI

Undergraduate courses

  1. Theories of Social Justice SJUS: 2000* (Core course for Social Justice major) (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)

*Developed new course syllabus 

  1. Who’s autonomous? Culture, race and gender PHIL 3847 (Fall 2020)
  2. Feminist Ethics PHIL 2422 (Fall 2019, Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
  3. Topics in Philosophy: Ideal and Non-ideal Theories of Justice (Spring 2017)
  4. John Rawls’ Political Philosophy (Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2022)
  5. Bioethics (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, and as a TILE course: Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022)
  6. Multiculturalism and Toleration: Philosophical Issues (Fall 2013; Spring 2015, Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023)
  7. Philosophical Issues PHIL 4798: Feminist Ethics *redesigned course to teach at the 4000 level for graduate and advanced undergraduate students (Fall 2024)

 

Graduate seminars

  1. Care, Relationship Goods, and Justice (Fall 2022)
  2. Racism and Social Equality (Spring 2020)
  3. Feminist Ethics Seminar (Fall 2018)
  4. Autonomy Theory (Spring 2016)
  5. Topics in Care and Justice (Fall 2012)

 

General Education courses – large format lecture with 100+ students and management of TAs.

  • Matters of Life and Death (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2023, Spring 2024) (Large format lecture beginning in 2020) 
  • Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2013)
  • Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Spring 2026)

 

Directed Reading courses taught: 

Philosophy of “niceness” (Fall 2018)

Equality of opportunity (Summer 2018)

The Morality of Freedom (Summer 2013)

Autonomy theory (Fall 2013) 

Bioethics and human nature (Fall 2014) 

The capabilities approach and ideal and non-ideal theory (Fall 2016)

 

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

  • Fund to Enhance Community and Inclusion Award: Iowa Care Lab
  • Planning stage: 2024-2025
  • Funded: July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026
  • High Impact Hiring Initiative Research Funding
  • Arts & Humanities Standard Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, 2023, for monograph Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World 
  • Funded four manuscript workshops with philosophers of autonomy, liberalism, and social epistemology, held in 2023 (NYC June 2023, two workshops in Chicago July 2023, and via zoom December 2023)
  • Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Fellow-In-Residence, Fall 2021
  • Reproductive Justice Working Group Research Collaborator, 2022-2023
  • Professional Development Award, University of Iowa, Spring 2021-Fall 2021
  • Mellow Sawyer Seminar member, “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging”, University of Iowa, 2019-2020
  • The Daily Iowan’s Hills Bank and Trust Company teaching recognition, (2018+)
  • AAUW American Postdoctoral Fellowship Alternate (2017)
  • TILE Essentials Certification (completed 2017)
  • Just Living Theme Semester Grant. Co-authored with David Stern. $1,000. Awarded Jan. 21. 2015 to bring speaker Scott Samuelson to give a public philosophy lecture on Feb. 19th with coordinating events.
  • Old Gold Summer Research Faculty Award ($6,000) (Summer 2014) University of Iowa
  • UI Associate Dean’s Curriculum Fund Award ($2,000) to develop Bioethics as a new course for CLAS for Fall 2014
  • Research Assistant funding through the American Academy of Neurology ($5,000) for Ethics, Law and Humanities Project, Summer 2013
  • Humanities Institute CLAS Dean’s Graduate Fellow, full-time fellowship funding for research awarded to the top-ranked candidate in the humanities at the University of Connecticut, August 2010-May 2011 ($22,676.36 + $1,500)
  • University of Connecticut Waterbury Campus Director’s Special Commendation for Teaching Excellence, Spring 2010
  • Michael J. Hogan Graduate Summer Research Award, summer funding for top dissertation student at the University of Connecticut, Summer 2009 Amount: $5,000 (Nomination-based award)
  • Outstanding Scholar Award, one of three awards given annually to doctoral students, University of Connecticut, 2006-2009
  • Stanford Cap and Gown Honor Society (2002-present) and Women’s Leadership Award (2002)
  • Connecticut Governor’s Scholar Award, award given to top twenty juniors in the state of Connecticut (1997)

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Philosophical Association, 2006-present

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 2006- 2025 

Society for Analytical Feminism, 2007- 2018 

Society for Women in Philosophy, 2006-2014

North American Society for Social and Political Philosophy, 2010- 2014

New York Society for Women in Philosophy, 2010- 2012

American Section of International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 2006-2009 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

2004-2006 Strategy consultant to non-profit organizations Wellspring Consulting, LLC

 

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Tae Kwon Do, Black Belt earned December 2022, Mireu Martial Arts Coralville, IA
  • Mountains climbed: Mount Shasta, California, 14,180 ft.; Mt. Adams, Washington, 12,276 ft.
  • Iowa City Kickers soccer coach, Spring 2026
  • Other languages: French, basic Finnish 
  • Citizenship: U.S.A., Finland