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Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center. She works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, Latino philosophy, and philosophy of race. Her books and anthologies include Feminist Epistemologies co-edited with Elizabeth Potter (Routledge, 1993), Thinking From the Underside of History co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell, 1996), Identities co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta (Blackwell, 2002), Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield 2003), Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (Oxford 2006), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy co-edited with Eva Feder Kittay (Blackwell 2006), and Identity Politics Reconsidered co-edited with Michael Hames-Garcia, Satya Mohanty and Paula Moya (Palgrave, 2006).
She has written over fifty articles
concerning Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of
epistemology, gender and race identity, and Latino
issues. She is currently at work on two new books: a
collection of feminist essays, and an account of political
epistemology. Also forthcoming are an anthology co-
edited with Mariana Ortega on the topic of race and
nationalism, and two anthologies co-edited with Jack
Caputo, one on St. Paul and one on feminism, sexuality,
and the return of religion. She has held an ACLS
Fellowship, a Society for the Humanities at Cornell
University Fellowship, and she was named one of
Syracuse University's first Meredith Professors for
Teaching Excellence. She has served on the Executive
Committee and the Nominating Committee of the
American Philosophical Association, as Chair of the
Committee on Hispanics/Latinos for the APA, as Co-
Director of SPEP (the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy), and is currently on the APA
Eastern Division Program Committee. She was named
the Distinguished Woman in Philosophy for 2005 by the
Society for Women in Philosophy, and in 2006 she was
named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the
United States by Hispanic Business magazine.
The Frantz Fanon Prize Committee has announced that the 2009 prize will be awarded to Linda Martín Alcoff, VISIBLE IDENTITIES: RACE, GENDER, AND THE SELF (Oxford University Press, 2006)
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