Last updated: October 2008

 

Linda Mart’n Alcoff

 

Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies, and Political Science

Director of the WomenÕs Studies Program

Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

 

Department of Philosophy                                                                  WomenÕs Studies Program

541 Hall of Languages                                                                          208 Bowne Hall

Syracuse University                                                                                 Syracuse University       

Syracuse NY 13244                                                                               Syracuse NY 13244

Phone 315-443-2245                                                                            315-443-3707

Fax 315-443-5675                                                                               Fax 315-443-9221

 

Email: lsalcoff@syr.edu                                                                                               

 

Starting January 2009: Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College/CUNY

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in philosophy, Brown University 1987. (Committee: Ernest Sosa, advisor; Martha Nussbaum, Richard Schmitt)

M.A. in philosophy, Georgia State University 1983.

B.A. in philosophy with honors, Georgia State University 1980.

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

Brown Graduate Fellowship 1983-1984

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1990-1991

Feminist Epistemologies was a Critic's Choice Book by the American Educational Studies Assoc., 1993

Outstanding Woman Educator Award, Eta Pi Epsilon (Senior WomenÕs Honor Society) 1993-1994

Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University 1994-1995

Meredith Professorship for Excellence in Teaching, Syracuse University, since 1995

Distinguished Woman in Philosophy, 2005, Society for Women in Philosophy

Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics for 2006, Hispanic Business Magazine

 

 

TEACHING POSITIONS:

Syracuse University, Professor of Philosophy, 1999-present

SUNY Stony Brook, Professor of Philosophy and WomenÕs Studies, 2002-2003

Brown University, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Spring 2001

Florida Atlantic University, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Fall 2000

Aarhus University, Denmark, Visiting Professor, November 1999

Syracuse University, Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1995-1999

Cornell University, Visiting Professor, Society for the Humanities, 1994-1995

Syracuse University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1988-1994

Kalamazoo College, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1987-1988

 

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE:

Continental philosophy, including 19th and 20th century

Foucault

Epistemology, coherentism and feminist epistemology

Feminist theory

Critical race theory

Post-colonialism

 

 

OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Nominating Committee, American Philosophical Association, 2002-2005

Executive Committee, APA Eastern Division, 1999-2002

Chair, Committee on Hispanics/Latinos, APA, 1998-2001

Co-Director, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy 1997-1999

Chair, Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, SPEP, 1999- 2001

Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern APA, 1998-2001

Committee on the Status of Women, APA 1995-1997

Book Review Committee, SPEP, 1995-1996

Committee on the Status of Women, SPEP, 1992-1995

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Authored Books:

 

1. Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology Cornell University Press, 1996. (Newly reissued in paperback, 2008)

 

2. Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

Edited Books:

 

1. Feminist Epistemologies co-edited with Elizabeth Potter, Routledge 1993.

 

2. Epistemology: The Big Questions Blackwell 1998.

 

3. Thinking From the Underside of History: Enrique DusselÕs Philosophy of Liberation, co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

 

4. Identities: A Reader co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta, Blackwell 2003.

 

5. Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy  Rowman and Littlefield 2003.

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6.  Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Eva Feder Kittay, Blackwell, 2006.

 

7. Identity Politics Reconsidered co-edited with Satya Mohanty, Paula Moya, and Michael Hames-Garcia,  Palgrave/MacMillan, 2006.

 

Forthcoming edited books:

 

1. Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader co-edited with Mariana Ortega, SUNY Press.

 

2. Saint Paul among the Philosophers co-edited with John Caputo, Indiana University Press.

 

Special issues of journals:

 

1. Philosophy Today Spring 98, co-edited with Merold Westphal and Debra Bergoffen, Proceedings of SPEP 1997.

 

2. Philosophy Today Spring 99, co-edited with Merold Westphal, Proceedings of SPEP 1998.

 

3. Philosophy Today Spring 2000, co-edited with Walter Brogan, Proceedings of SPEP 1999.

 

Other editorial work:

 

Editor, Routledge Series: Introducing Feminist Philosophy (four books in print to date)

 

Co-editor, Palgrave Series: The Future of Minority Studies (three books in print)

 

Co-editor, Palgrave Series: Breaking the Waves, a new series in feminist theory

 

ARTICLES:

 

1.  ÒLordship, Bondage, and the Dialectics of Male/Female RelationshipsÓ co-authored with Linda A. Bell, Cogito II (Spring 1985): 79-93.

 

2.  ÒSkepticisism, or Charles Sanders Peirce's Alternative to the Skeptical DilemmaÓ Auslegung, XIII (Winter 1986): 6-18.

 

3. ÒJustifying Feminist Social ScienceÓ Hypatia 2 (Fall 1987): 107-127. Reprinted in Feminism and Science edited by Nancy Tuana (Indiana University Press, 1989).

 

4. ÒCultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism:  The Identity Crisis in Feminist TheoryÓ SIGNS Spring 1988, 405-436;  reprinted in  Reconstructing the Academy: Women's Education and Women's Studies, edited by Elizabeth Minnich, Jean O'Barr and Rachel Rosenfeld, (University of Chicago Press, 1988); in Feminist Theory in Practice and Process edited by Micheline R. Malson et al (University of Chicago Press, 1989); in Feminism and Philosophy: Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application edited by Rosemarie Tong and Nancy Tuana, Westview Press, 1995; in Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory edited by Sherry Ortner, Geoff Eley and Nick Dirks, Princeton University Press, 1994; in Feminism edited by Susan Moller Okin and Jane Mansbridge, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.; in The Second Wave edited by Linda Nicholson, Routledge 1996; and in Beyond Portia: Women, Law and Literature in the U.S. eds. Jacqueline St. Joan and Annette Bennington McElhiney, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997: pp. 87-113. This essay has also been translated into Spanish for Feminaria, a journal published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Volume 2, No. 4 (Noviembre, 1989): 1-18, and into Italian and published in Memoria: revista di storia delle donne, N. 25 (1, 1989): 7-36; and into spanish a second time as ÒFeminismo cultural versus posestructuralismo: la crisis de identidad en la teor’a feministaÓ translated by Marysa Navarro, for Nuevas Direciones edited by Marysa Navarro and Catharine Stimpson, Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Econ—mica, 2001.  . 

 

5. ÒFeminist Politics and Foucault: The Limits to a CollaborationÓ in Crises in Continental Philosophy edited by Arlene Dallery and Charles Scott (Albany: SUNY Press 1990).

 

6. ÒThe Problem of Speaking For OthersÓ  in Cultural Critique (Winter 1991-92), pp. 5-32; revised and reprinted in Who Can Speak?  Authority and Critical Identity edited by Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, University of Illinois Press, 1996; and in Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds edited by Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, (New York: New York University Press, 1994); and also in Racism and Sexism: Differences and Connections eds. David Blumenfeld and Linda Bell, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995; and also in Theorizing Feminisms edited by Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger, 2005; and also in Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging Conventional, Interpretive, and Critical Conceptions edited by Alecia Youngblood Jackson andLisa A. Mazzei, Routledge 2008.

 

7. ÒSurvivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?Ó co-authored with Laura Gray, SIGNS Winter 93, Vol. 18, No. 2: 260-290.  Translated into German and reprinted as ÒDer Diskurs von >Uberlebenden< sexueller Gewalt: Uberschreitung oder Vereinnahmung?Ó in Forum Kritische Psychologie 33 (1994): 100-135.  Reprinted in Getting a Life, edited by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith, University of Minnesota Press, 1996: 198-225.  A shortened version of this paper appeared under the title, ÒSurvivors of Sexual Violence: Telling It So It Will Never Happen Again,Ó in Off Our Backs (April 1992), and in Phoebe Fall 1992, Vol. 4, No. 2: 30-37.

 

8. ÒFoucault as Epistemologist,Ó Philosophical Forum, Winter 93, Vol. XXV, No. 2, pp. 95-124.

 

9. ÒIs the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?Ó Philosophical Topics 23 (2), Fall 1995: 1-26.  Also in The Annual Proceedings of the Center for the Philosophic Exchange, 1995-1996 no.26: 58-79.

 

10. ÒExpert Discourses of Critique,Ó in Reinterpreting the Political edited by Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen Watson, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 20, SUNY Press, 1998.

 

11.  ÒPhilosophy and Racial IdentityÓ Radical Philosophy Jan/Feb 1996, 5-25.  Also refereed in Philosophy Today, Spring 1997, Vol. 41, No.1/4, Pp. 67-76. Reprinted in Ethnic and Racial Studies Today edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos (London: Routledge, 1999).

 

12. ÒThe Politics of Postmodern Feminism, RevisitedÓ Cultural Critique No. 36, Spring 97, pp. 5-27.

 

13. ÒImmanent TruthÓ in Science in Context 10, (1997): pp. 97-112.

 

14. ÒWhat Should White People Do?Ó Hypatia Summer 98, Vol. 13, No. 3: pp. 6-26; reprinted in Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World, an anthology edited by Sandra Harding and Uma Narayan, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001) 262-282.

 

15. ÒToward a Phenomenology of Racial EmbodimentÓ Radical Philosophy 95, May/June 1998, 15-26; reprinted in Race edited by Robert Bernasconi (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001), 267-283.

 

16. ÒPhilosophy Matters: A Review of Recent Work in Feminist PhilosophyÓ SIGNS, Vol. 25, no. 3, Spring 2000: 841-882.

 

17. ÒHabits of Hostility: On Seeing RaceÓ Philosophy Today Vol. 44, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Vol. 26, SPEP Supplement 2000, pp. 30-40.

 

18.ÒReclaiming TruthÓ The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture Fall 2001, Vo. 3, No. 3, 26-41. Revised and reprinted in Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Disciplines edited by JosŽ Medina and David Wood, Blackwell 2005, 336-349.

 

19. ÒObjectivity and Its PoliticsÓ New Literary History Vol. 32, Autumn 2001, No. 4, 835-848.

 

20. ÒDoes the public intellectual have intellectual integrity?Ó Metaphilosophy Vol. 33, October 2002, 521-534.

 

21. ÒLatinas/os, Asian-Americans and the Black/White ParadigmÓ Journal of Ethics Volume 7, Issue 1, 2003: 5-27.

                                               

22. ÒSchutteÕs Nietzschean postcolonial politicsÓ in Hypatia vol. 19, no. 3 (Summer 2004) 144- 156.

 

23.ÒLatino vs. Hispanic: The Politics of Ethnic NamesÓ and "A Response to Gracia" Philosophy and Social Criticism, June 2005, Vol. 31, no. 4, 395-408, 419-422.

 

24. ÒAgainst Post-Ethnic FuturesÓ Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2004, 99-117.

                                               

25. "Anzaldua: The Unassimilated Theorist" in Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, January 2006, Vol. 121, No. 1, pp. 255-259.

 

26. "Commentary on Elizabeth Anderson's 'Uses of Value Judgments in Science'" in the web-based Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy, January 2006, http://mit.edu/sgrp>http://mit.edu/sgrp. 

 

27. "Fraser on Redistribution, Recognition, and Identity" European Journal of Political Theory, 2007, 6 (3): 255-265.  

 

28. "Caliban's Phenomenological Ontology," C.L.R. James Journal, forthcoming.

 

29. "Mignolo's Epistemology of Coloniality" The New Centennial Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, Winter 2007, pp. 79-102.

 

30. "Dreaming of Iris" Philosophy Today, SPEP Supplement 2008, pp. 4-9.

 

31. "Mapping the Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality" International Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 48, No. 2, Issue 190, June 2008, 231-238.

 

32. "Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework" forthcoming in Philosophical Topics.

 

INVITED CHAPTERS, ARTICLES:

 

1. ÒFeminist Critiques of Social ScienceÓ APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Volume 1, December 1987: 14-16.

 

2. ÒHow is Epistemology Political?Ó in Radical Philosophy: Tradition, Counter-Tradition, Politics edited by Roger Gottlieb, Temple University Press, 1993.

 

3. ÒAre Old Wives' Tales Justified?Ó co-authored with Vrinda Dalmiya, in Feminist Epistemologies, edited by Elizabeth Potter and myself, (New York: Routledge, 1993).

 

4. ÒOn Mastering Master DiscoursesÓ a review essay in American Literary History Summer 1993, Vol. 5, No. 2, 335-346.

 

5. ÒDemocracy and Rationality: A Dialogue with Hilary Putnam,Ó in Women, Culture, and Development edited by Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press, 1995.

 

6. ÒFeminist Theory and Social Science: new knowledges, new epistemologiesÓ in Body/Spaces: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality edited by Nancy Duncan, Routledge, 1996: 13-27.

 

7. ÒMestizo Identity,Ó in American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity edited by Naomi Zack, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. Reprinted in The Idea of Race eds. Robert Bernasconi and Tommy Lott, Hackett, 2000.

 

8. ÒReflections on Formal MentoringÓ Teaching Philosophy Vol. 18, No.4, December 1995, pp. 359-368.

 

9. ÒA Philosophical Dialogue with `Dialogue with the Other'Ó in Gender-Nature-Culture, Working Paper 12, 1994, (published in Denmark), pp. 5-22.

 

10. ÒDangerous Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of PedophiliaÓ  Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault edited by Susan Hekman, Penn State Press, 1996: 99-136; reprinted in Philosophy and Sex 3rd edition, eds. R. Baker, K. Wininger, and F. Elliston (1998, Prometheus), 500-531.

 

11. ÒPhenomenology, Post-structuralism, and Feminist Theory on the Concept of ExperienceÓ in Feminist Phenomenology edited by Linda Fisher and Lester Embree, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000; also translated into German in Phanomenologie und Geschlechterdifferenz (Phenomenology and Sexual Difference) edited by Silvia Stoller and Helmuth Vetter, Austria, 1998.

 

12. ÒOn the Elimination of Experience in Postmodern FeminismÓ Feminism, Epistemology, and Ethics: Proceedings of the Oslo Conference 1994 ed. by Inger Nygaard Preus et al, University of Oslo, 1996: 15-30.

 

13. ÒMerleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on ExperienceÓ in Chiasms: Merleau-PontyÕs Notion of Flesh, edited by Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor (Albany, SUNY Press, 2000), 251-272.

 

14.  ÒResponse to my CriticsÓ an essay responding to five reviews of Real Knowing, for a special issue of Social Epistemology, 1998, vol. 12, No. 3: 289-305.

 

15. ÒLatina/o Identity PoliticsÓ in The Good Citizen, edited by Eduardo Mendieta, et al, Routledge, 1998.

 

16. ÒBecoming an EpistemologistÓ in Making Futures: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Becomings, ed. by Elizabeth Grosz, Cornell University Press, 1999.

 

17. ÒIs Latina/o Identity a Racial Identity?Ó Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.: Ethnicity, Race and Rights edited by Jorge Gracia and Pablo DeGreiff, Routledge Press, 2000. Reprinted in Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity eds. Jorge Gracia and Elizabethg Mill‡n-Zaibert Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004, 311-334. Revised as "Los latinos y las categor’as raciales," translated by Edison Barrios, forthcoming in Jorge J. E. Gracia and Ivan Jaksic, eds., Filosofia e identidad cultural en America Latina, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, Caracas, in progress.

 

18. ÒOn Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?Ó EnGendering Rationalities ed. by Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgen, SUNY Press, 2001; and in revised form in Women of Color and Philosophy: Reflections on the Discipline ed. by Naomi Zack, Blackwell, 2000.

 

19. ÒWhoÕs Afraid of Identity Politics?,Ó in Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the        Predicament of Postmodernism, edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia, Univ. of California Press, 2000.

 

20.ÒGadamerÕs Feminist EpistemologyÓ in Feminist Interpretations of Gadamer ed. Lorraine Code, Pennsylvania State Press, 2002.

 

21. ÒThe Case for CoherenceÓ in The Nature of Truth ed. by Michael Lynch, MIT Press, 2001.

      

22. ÒPower/Knowledges in the Colonial Unconscious: A Dialogue Between Dussel and FoucaultÓ in Thinking From the Underside of History eds. Alcoff and Mendieta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

 

23. ÒOf Philosophy and Guerilla WarsÓ in The Philosophical ÒIÓ edited by George Yancy, Rowman and Littlefield 2002.

 

24. ÒPrefaceÓ for Globalization and Latin America edited by Mario Saenz, Rowman and Littlefield 2002.      

 

25. ÒCan Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Speak to Philosophers?Ó  Newsletter on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, Spring 2002, Vol. 1, no. 2, 41-43.

 

26. ÒRethinking Maternal ThinkingÓ Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 2003, 85-89.

 

27.  ÒFoucaultÕs Philosophy of Science: Structures of Truth/Structures of PowerÓ Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophies of Science edited by Gary Gutting, Blackwell 2005, 211-223.

 

28. ÒThe Metaphysics of Sex and GenderÓ Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics edited by Barbara Andrew, Jean Keller, Lisa Schwartzman, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

 

29. ÒEpistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types,Ó in Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance edited by Nancy Tuana and Shannon Sullivan, SUNY Press, 2007.

 

30. ÒEl movimiento norteamericano contra la violaci—n: Paradigmas desafiantes del discurso, Ò trans. by Anita Ca–izares M., in Pensar (en) GŽnero: Teor’a pr‡ctica para nuevas cartograf’as del cuerpo edited by Carmen Mill‡n de Benavides and çngela Mar’a Estrada Mesa. Bogot‡: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Pp. 372-389.

 

31. "Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" in Black Ethnicity/ Latino Race? edited by Jorge Gracia, Cornell University Press, 2007.

 

32. "Rorty's Anti-Representationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence" forthcoming in Feminist Interpretations of Rorty, edited by Marianne Janack, Pennsylvania State Press.

 

33. "Alien and Alienated" forthcoming in a book on Latin American and African American Philosophy, edited by George Yancy.

 

34. "An Epistemology for the Next Revolution," in Mapping the Decolonial Turn, edited by Nelson Maldonado, forthcoming.

 

35. "New epistemologies: Post-positivist accounts of identity" SAGE Handbook on Identities edited by Margaret Wetherell and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, forthcoming.

 

 

 

Dictionary and Encyclopedia articles:

 

1.Entries on ÒFoucault,Ó ÒGadamer,Ó and ÒContinental EpistemologyÓ for A Companion to Epistemology edited by Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992).

 

2.ÒRacismÓ entry for A Companion to Feminist Philosophy eds. Alison Jaggar and Iris Young, Basil Blackwell, 1997. 

 

3. Entries on ÒIdentity PoliticsÓ and ÒOfelia SchutteÓ for Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories edited by Lorraine Code, 2001.

 

4. Entry on "Identity Politics" in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by William A. Darity, Macmillan, forthcoming.

 

Interviews:

 

1. ÒIdentity: Cultural Knowledge---self-knowledge,Ó in the journal disClosure: a Journal of Social Theory, No. 7, 1998.

 

2. "Philosophy in/and Latino and Afro-Caribbean Studies" A series of three interviews on the relationship between Latino studies, Black studies, and philosophy, with Paget Henry, Juan Flores, and Lewis Gordon, in Nepantla: Views from the South Vol. 4, Issue 1, and APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy.

 

3. Interviewed by Ivan Marquez for a Joint Issue of the Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy and the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, forthcoming.

 

4. "Feminism(s) and the Left:  A Discussion with Linda Mart’n Alcoff" interviewed by Laura Gray-Rosendale, in Radical Relevance: Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Steven Rosendale  (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 238-256.

 

5. "Feminist Epistemologies/ Interview with Linda Alcoff by Alireza Shomali" in Madreseh (Cultural and Philosophical Quarterly) Tehran, 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4: pp. 58-63.

 

 

Short Introductions:

           

1. ÒIntroduction to symposium on Maria Pia LaraÕs Moral TexturesÓ Hypatia, 2000.

 

2. ÒIntroduction for Symposium on Jorge GraciaÕs Hispanic/Latino IdentityÓ Philosophy and Social Criticism vol. 27, no. 2, March 2001, pp. 1-2.

 

3. ÒIntroduction for Symposium on Jorge ValadezÕs Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and Self-Determination in Multicultural SocietiesÓ in  Philosophy and Social Criticism.

 

4. Foreword for Damian Baca's Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing forthcoming with Palgrave MacMillan.

 

5. Foreword for Black Bodies, White Gazes, by George Yancy, forthcoming with Rowman and Littlefield.

 

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

1. Outlaw Aesthetics, by Fred Schroeder, review co-authored with Milton Snoeyenbos, in Journal of Popular Culture, (Spring 1982): 187.

 

2. Art, An Enemy of the People, by Roger Taylor, review co-authored with Milton Snoeyenbos, in Journal of Popular Culture, (Winter 1983): 157.

 

3. Feminism and Foucault, edited by Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, in Ethics, October 90.

 

4. Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge edited by Mary McCanney Gergen, in American Scientist, 78 (March-April 1990), 187.

 

5. Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason by Gary Gutting, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, December 91, Vol. 51, No.4.

 

6. Historicism and Knowledge by Robert D'Amico, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 92, 241-243.

 

7. Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought by Ofelia Schutte, in Hypatia vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 176-183.

 

8. Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism by Lewis Gordon, in Philosophy in Review, April 1997, Vol. XVII, No. 2: 95-100.

 

9. Color Conscious by Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, in Constellations, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1997, 286-288.

 

10. Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis, by Jacqueline M. Martinez, in APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Spring 2001.

 

11. Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights by Drucilla Cornell, in Hypatia vol. 19, no. 3 (summer 2004), pp. 225-228.

 

12. Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts by Arnold Davidson, in Canadian Philosophical Review.

 

13.  "Latino Oppression" a review of  Race, Racism and Reparations by Angelo Corlett, in Journal of Social Philosophy December 2005.

 

Works in Progress:

 

1. The Rational Heart: Feminist Essays 1988-2008 a book project.

 

2. Political Epistemology a book project.

 

essays:

 

1. "Toward a Political Epistemology: Horkheimer, Habermas, and Foucault."

 

2. "Latina Feminisms"

 

3.  "Knowledge and Interiority: Abuse Memories and the Question of Truth"

 

4. "Edward Said's Decolonized Humanism"

 

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

 

1. ÒOut in the AcademyÓ Syracuse University, a symposium with six speakers, 1993-4.

 

2. SPEP national yearly conferences, 1997, 1998, 1999.

 

3. ÒThe Future of Minority StudiesÓ a series of bi-coastal conferences held at Stanford, Cornell, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and Binghamton University, Syracuse University 2001-2007, co-organized with Satya Mohanty, Paula Moya, Tobin Siebers, and Michael Hames-Garcia. See www.fmsproject.cornell.edu

 

4. Co-organizer for a Ray Smith Symposium on "St. Paul Among the Philosophers" Syracuse University April 2005 (three day conference, eight plenaries including Badiou, Zizek, Boyarin). 

 

5. "Feminism and War" Syracuse University Women's Studies Program, October 2006. Eight plenary speakers, 32 panels, 450 participants.

 

6. Co-organizer for a Ray Smith Symposium on "Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion" April 2007. (three day conference, eight plenaries including Butler, Cixous, Mahmood).

 

7. Co-organizer for the national FMS conference held at Syracuse University, "Activist Scholars and Pedagogies of Transformation," September 20-22, 2007.

 

8. Co-organizer of a Ray Smith Symposium, "The Politics of Love" Syracuse University April 2009. (three day conference, eight plenaries including Hardt, Marion, Benjamin)

 

INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, etc.:

 

1980's

 

 "Reasons to be Pro-Choice," September 1981, Georgia State University public debate sponsored by student organizations and the Philosophy Department.

 

"Skepticisism, or Charles Sanders Peirce's Alternative to the Skeptical Dilemma," April 19, 1985, the Sixth Annual Conference of the Graduate Student Association at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

"Feminism and Epistemology," October 1, 1985, Wesleyan University Women's Studies Program.

 

 "Truth Relativism," January 27, 1986, Department of Philosophy, Kalamazoo College.

 

 "Justifying Feminist Social Science," April 1986, Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Eastern Division meeting, Hamilton College.

 

 "A Feminist Ethic for Women's Traditional Professions"  April 30, 1986, Connecticut College Women's Studies Program.

 

 "Feminism and Women's Work," November 1986, Connecticut College Women's Studies Program.

 

 "Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism:  The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" December 1986, Eastern Division SWIP, Boston.

 

"On Bloom's Diagnosis of the Philosophy Curriculum: A `Lightweight' `Nihilist' Responds" December 8, 1987, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University.

 

 "Eroticism and Pornography" January 13, 1988, the Women's Equity Coalition at Kalamazoo College.

 

"New Versions of the Coherence Theory: Gadamer and Foucault" January 29, 1988, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University.

 

 "On Bloom's Diagnosis of the Philosophy Curriculum: A `Lightweight' `Nihilist' Responds" March 4, 1988, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters annual meeting.

 

"Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism:  The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" March 1988, Midwest Division of SWIP meeting, Indiana University.

 

"How can we revive the women's movement?" March 5, 1988, the Women's Exchange, Western Michigan University.

 

 "New Versions of the Coherence Theory: Gadamer and Foucault," April 1, 1988, Michigan State University Department of Philosophy.

 

 "New Versions of the Coherence Theory: Gadamer and Foucault" April 12, 1988, the Heraclitean Society at Western Michigan University.

 

"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault" October 13-15, 1988, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Meetings, Duquesne University.

 

 "The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault" November 1988, Post-Modernism Across the Ages Conference, Syracuse University.

 

"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault," December 1988,  Radical Philosopher's Association meetings, Washington D.C.

 

"Coherence, Hermeneutics, and Truth" December 1988, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, Washington D.C..

 

 "Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism:  The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" February 1989, Concordia University, Montreal.

 

 "Feminist Debates on Pornography" February 1989, Syracuse University Women's Studies Program.

 

"The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Foucault," April 1989, the Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division, SUNY Stony Brook.

 

 "Resistant Subjectivity" December 1989, Modern Languages Association, Washington D.C.

 

1990

 

 "The Problem of Speaking for Others" March 1990, Eastern Division SWIP.

 

"The Problem of Speaking for Others," April 1990, SUNY Buffalo Women's Studies conference.

 

"The Problem of Speaking for Others,"  April 1990, Hamilton College Philosophy Department.

 

"The Problem of Speaking for Others," May 1990, conference on "Human Dignity and Social Progress" held in Havana, Cuba.

 

 "Commentary on Nancy Fraser's book Unruly Practices," October 1990, SPEP meeting at Villanova University.

 

 "The Problem of Speaking for Others," October 1990, University of North Dakota conference on "Women's Research and Revision of the Academy," keynote speaker. 

 

"High Theory, Real Life, and the Politics of Problematics," October 1990, University of North Dakota Women's Studies Department.

 

 "Response to Sandra Harding," December 1990, SWIP Eastern Division, Boston.

 

1991

 

 "The Problem of Speaking for Others" March 1991, Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference at SUNY Binghamton.

 

 "A Commentary on the Contingencies of Liberal Discourse," May 16-18, 1991, International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, University of Montreal.

 

"Response to Hilary Putnam on Democracy and Rationality," August 14-16, 1991, World Institute of Development Economics Research conference on "Human Capabilities: Women, Men, and Equality," Helsinki, Finland.

 

 "Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" with Laura Gary, October 8, 1991, SU Women's Studies Fall reception.

 

"Response to Debra Bergoffen on Simone de Beauvoir", October 17-19, 1991, SPEP, Memphis State.

 

 "Going Public" October 30, 1991, Soule Library Branch Luncheon Series.

 

 "Speaking Out as Survivors of Sexual Violence," November 6, 1991, Colgate University Women's Studies Program.

 

 "How is Epistemology Political?" November 6, 1991, Colgate University Philosophy Department.

 

"Speaking Out as Survivors of Sexual Violence" November 13, 1991, McGill University College of Law panel "The Right to Non-Violence."

 

 "The Problem of Speaking for Others," November 21, 1991, Le Moyne College Philosophy

Department.

 

1992

 

 "How is Epistemology Political?" January 30, 1992, Queens University, Kingston Ontario.

 

"Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" with Laura Gray, March 3, 1992, LeMoyne College Women's History Month.

 

 "Response to Joseph Levine on Objectivity in History," Spring 1992, History/Philosophy Colloquium, Syracuse University.

 

"Female Gender Identity" July 22, 1992, Kalamazoo College.

 

Panel discussion on "Fefu and Her Friends," July 23, 1992, Kalamazoo College.

 

 "Columbus and Colonialism" given as a part of a public debate, October 7, 1992, sponsored by La Lucha, Syracuse University.

 

 "Expert Discourses of Critique" October 8-10, 1992, SPEP annual meeting, Boston.

 

"Feminist Epistemologies" with Elizabeth Potter, December 1992, Eastern Division SWIP, Washington D.C.

 

1993

 

"Feminist Epistemologies" February 1993, SUNY Buffalo Philosophy and Cognitive Science colloquium.

 

 "Response to Richard Miller," February 1993, Syracuse University/Cornell University Joint Colloquium.

 

"Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and Pedophilia," March 1993, SWIP Eastern Division, University of South Florida.

 

"Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" April 1993, Memphis State University, Philosophy and Women's Studies Deaprtments.

 

"On Ethnic Mixing," May 3-8, 1993, Conference on "Rethinking Subjectivity: Modernity and the Self," Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

 

"Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and Pedophilia" May 1993, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.

 

"Theoretical Correctness" October 1993, SPEP, Loyola University, New Orleans.

 

"Raced Purely or Purely Erased: Problems in Mixed Race Identities" December 3, 1993, Denison University, Philosophy Department.

 

"Book Commentary on Ofelia Schutte's Cultural Identity in Latin America" Eastern Division Iberian Philosophy Society Meeting, December 28, 1993, Atlanta.

 

1994

 

"An Introduction to Debates in Feminist Theory" for the "Gender, Place and Space" Symposium, Geography Department, Syracuse University, January 21, 1994.

 

 "Foucault and Pedophilia" February 1994, University of Texas at Austin, Women's Studies.

 

"Immanent Epistemology" February 1994, University of Texas at Austin, Philosophy Department.

 

 "Mixed race subjectivity," SWIP conference, SUNY Binghamton, April 9, 1994.

 

"Dangerous Pleasures: A Post-Liberal Account of Pedophilia," York University on "Post-Liberal Discourse and the Ethics of (Ms)Representation" Toronto, April 22-23, 1994. (Keynote speaker)

 

 "The Elimination of Experience and Identity in Postmodernism," May 1994, Central Division American Philosophical Association, Kansas.

 

"Feminism and Phenomenology," June 1994, University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, conference on feminist philosophy, (keynote speaker).

 

"A Philosophical Dialogue with `Dialogue with the Other'" June 1994, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense Denmark. 

 

"Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and Feminist Theory on the Concept of Experience" November 17-18 1994, Conference on Feminist Phenomenology, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University.

 

1995

 

"The Crisis of Experience in Feminist Theory" Center for the Humanities, Memphis State University, Januray 27, 1995.

 

"The Elimination of Experience in Postmodern Feminism" February 3, 1995, Women's Studies, Cornell University.

 

"PutnamÕs Realism" February 23, 1995, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University.

 

 "Raced Purely or Purely Erased," LeMoyne College, Department of Philosophy, March 15, 1995.

 

 "Raced Purely or Purely Erased: Concepts of Mixed race Identity" and "Race and Identity" Duquesne University, March 23-24, 1995.

 

"Is the Feminist Critique of Rationality Rational?" CUNY Graduate School, New York SWIP, April 6, 1995.

 

 "Raced Purely or Purely Erased: Concepts of Mixed Race Identity" Fordham University, Department of Philosophy, April 7, 1995.

 

"The Elimination of Experience in Poststructuralist Feminist Theory," Sofphia meeting, May, 1995.

 

"Modernist Notions of the Self as Racialized Identities," Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May 14-21, 1995.

 

 "Racialized Identities" conference sponsored by Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, May 26-27, 1995.

 

"Politics and Truth: How can Feminists Have Both?" University of Oslo, Conference on "The Concept of Experience in Feminist Theory," June 1995, keynote.

 

"Everything You Wanted to Know About Feminism But Were Afraid To Ask" Unitarian Retreat, five lectures, July 8-15, 1995.

 

"Feminist Theory and the Problem of Experience," Hobart and William Smith, Philosophy Department, September 22, 1995.

 

"Philosophy and Racial Identity," SUNY Binghamton, Philosophy Department, September 27, 1995.

 

 "Toward a Theory of Racialized Subjectivity", Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, October 1995.

 

 "Latina Identity Politics," conference on Latina Feminisms, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, October 1995.

 

 "Philosophy and Racial Identity," at the "Strangers and Others" conference, Middlesex University, London, November 22-23, 1995.

 

"Latina Identity Politics" for a panel on Multiculturalism and Hispanic Identity, Eastern APA, New York, 1995.

 

"Women with Tenure" for a panel on women and tenure, Eastern APA, New York, 1995.

 

1996

 

 ÒPhilosophy and Racial Identity,Ó for conference on ÒThe Academy and Race: Toward a Political Philosophy of ActionÓ Villanova University, March 8-10. 1996.

 

  ÒIs the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?Ó  SUNY Brockport, March 1996.

 

 "Commentary on Nancy Hartsock" Pacific APA, April 1996.

 

ÒImmanent TruthÓ, Conference on "Contemporary Models of Critique in Society, Science, and the Arts" Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, May 13-16, 1996.

 

ÒIs ÔRaceÕ the Way to Rights?Ó Conference on ÒRace, Rights and RespectÓ Rutgers June 1996.

 

 ÒImmanent TruthÓ for an NEH Summer Seminar on feminist epistemologies, Eugene Oregon July 1996.

 

 ÒVisible Identities,Ó Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department, University of Minnesota, August 16, 1996.

 

 ÒDangerous PleasuresÓ for a conference on ÒRethinking Sex, Gender, and Sexualities" University of Memphis, September 26-28, 1996.

 

 ÒPutnamÕs RealismÓ University of Mississippi September 1996.

 

  ÒComment on Elizabeth KassabÕs ÔIs Europe an Essence?Õ SPEP, Washington D.C. October 1996.

 

 ÒCommentary on Lewis GordonÕs Bad Faith and Antiblack RacismÓ Eastern APA 1996.

 

1997

 

 ÒWhitenessÓ University of Kentucky March 1997.

 

 ÒFeminist EpistemologiesÓ College of Sweetbriar, April 1997.

 

ÒBecoming an EpistemologistÓ a conference on ÒBecomings,Ó University of Richmond, April 4-6. 1997.

 

ÒLatina Identity PoliticsÓ University of San Francisco, April 1997.

 

 ÒImmanent Truth: An UpdateÓ for ÒEngendering RationalitiesÓ conference at Eugene Oregon, April 18-20 1997.

 

 ÒWhitenessÓ and ÒThe Politics of Postmodern FeminismÓ, University of Hawaii, May 1997.

 

 ÒIdentity Politics RevisitedÓ keynote talk, Austin and Hempel lecture series, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia September 26, 1997.

 

 ÒImmanent TruthÓ panel presentation for CSWIP, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Sept.27, 1997.

 

 ÒToward a Realistic Realism about IdentityÓ at the Hispanics: Cultural Locations conference,  San Francisco, October 1997.

 

ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó WomenÕs Studies and the Center for Ethnicity and Race, Stanford, October 1997.

 

ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó SUNY Binghamton, WomenÕs Studies Dept, November 1997.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó UCLA, Philosophy and WomenÕs Studies, November 1997.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Duke University, November 1997.

 

 Commentary on Amy AllenÕs ÒThe Anti-Subjectivity Hypothesis in Michel FoucaultÓ, Eastern APA 1997.

 

1998

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Vassar College, Philosophy Dept., February 1998

 

 ÒTeaching Without a Beard: Gender Issues in the ClassroomÓ a panel presentation at the Pacific APA, March 1998, sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Prague Academy of Sciences, May 1998.

 

 Rutgers conference for recruiting minorities, ÒFeminist philosophy and epistemologyÓ.

 

ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó LaTrobe University, Australia, July 1998, hour, invitation.

 

ÒToward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment,Ó Monash University, Australia, Philosophy and Cultural Studies, July 1998, hour, invitation.

 

 ÒToward a Phenomenology of Racial EmbodimentÓ Australian National University, WomenÕs Studies, July 1998, hour, inviation.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó University of New South Wales, Philosophy Department, July 1998, hour, invitation.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Philosophy Department, Macquarrie University, July 1998, hour, invitation.

 

 ÒToward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment,Ó Philosophy and WomenÕs Studies, Sydney University, July 1998, hour, invitation.

 

 ÒFeminist epistemologyÓ World Congress of Philosophy, Boston 1998, thirty minutes, invitation.

 

 ÒWhere does whiteness fit on the multi-cultural map,Ó University of Alabama, Philosophy and WomenÕs Studies, Sept. 1998, hour, invitation.

 

ÒIs Latino/a Identity a Racial Identity?Ó SUNY Buffalo conference on Hispanic Identity and Ethnic Rights, October 1998.

 

ÒRacial embodimentÓ for a conference on ÒRace and PhilosophyÓ sponsored by the Radical Philosophy group, Univ. of  London, November 1998.

 

 ÒRealism and IdentityÓ American Studies Association, November 1998.

 

 Commentary on Charles MillsÕ Blackness Visible, Eastern APA, 1998.

 

1999

 

 ÒWhat can white people do about racism?Ó SUNY Cortland, February 9, 1999.

 

 A series of three lectures given at Oberlin College, February 1999.

 

 ÒAre social identities relevant to knowledge?Ó SUNY Brockport, March 4, 1999.

 

 ÒThe U.S. Anti-Rape MovementÓ for a conference in Fes, Morocco, May 1999.

 

 A series of three lectures at the University of Oslo, Philosophy Dept, and Centre for Research on Women, May, 1999.

 

ÒRace and GenderÓ Presentation at the University of Tromso, Norway, May 1999.

 

 ÒEpistemologies of Philosophy of LiberationÓ presnted at the Interamerican Congreso of Philosophy, Puebla Mexico, August 1999.

 

 ÒIs Social Identity Epistemically Salient?Ó York University, Philosophy Dept., September 1999.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Miami University, Harris Lecture, September 1999.

 

 Six lectures at the Department of Philosophy, University of Aarhus, Denmark, on Feminist Epistemology and Immanent Realism, November 1999.

 

 ÒCan a Theory of Power/Knowledge Retain Truth?Ó University of Copenhagen, November 1999.

 

 Commentary on Uma NarayanÕs ÒFeminist Politics and Cross-Cultural Analysis,Ó Eastern APA, 1999.

 

2000

 

ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Philosophy Department, New School, Jamuary 2000.

 

 ÒIs Identity a Problem?Ó Philosophy Department, Penn State, February 2000.

 

 ÒFoucault and Liberation TheologyÓ Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March 2000.

 

Commentary on Georgia WarnkeÕs book, Legitimate Differences, Pacific APA, April 2000.

 

 ÒGender and Cultural StudiesÓ Universidad de Javeriana, Bogota Colombia, August 2000.

 

ÒWhoÕs Afraid of Identity Politics?Ó Appalachian State, September

 

 ÒSeeing RaceÓ SPEP October 2000.

 

ÒWhoÕs Afraid of Identity Politics?Ó SUNY Stony Brook, November 2000.

 

 ÒWhoÕs Afraid of Identity Politics?Ó Florida Atlantic University November 2000.

 

ÒLatino vs. Hispanic: Does it Make a Difference?Ó APA Eastern 2000.

 

ÒAsian Americans, Latinos, and the Black/White BinaryÓ APA Eastern 2000.

 

2001

 

 ÒGoing beyond conversations/reclaiming truthÓ Virginia Commonwealth Symposium February 15, 2001.

 

 ÒWhoÕs Afraid of Identity Politics?Ó  Harvard, Humanities Center, February 22, 2001.

 

ÒPower/Knowledge and the Epistemic CriterionÓ St. Louis University conference on Philosophy of social science: keynote, April 2001.

 

ÒIs a public intellectual an ÔappliedÕ intellectual?Ó Central APA May 2001.

 

 ÒWhoÕs Afraid of Identity Politics?Ó Rhode Island College April 2001.

 

 ÒHorkheimer, Habermas and Foucault on Power/KnowledgeÓ Brown University May 2001. 

 

 ÒHorkheimer, Habermas and Foucault on Power/KnowledgeÓ Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May 2001.

 

 ScholarÕs session on Ofelia Schutte, SPEP 2001.

 

 ÒThe need for universalism,Ó Cornell University conference ÒReclaiming Identity Politics,Ó November, 2001.

 

 Commentary on ÒSpeaking with Myself as OtherÓ by Robert Bernasconi, Eastern APA, December 2001.

 

2002

 

ÒLatinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White ParadigmÓ at the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy, CUNY, Jan. 20, 2002.

 

 ÒSocial Identity as Historical MemoryÓ Keynote talk: ÒCulture and MemoryÓ conference at Univ. of South Carolina, Feb. 2002.

           

 ÒGadamerÕs Feminist EpistemologyÓ and ÒLatinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White ParadigmÓ at Georgia State University, 2002.

 

 ÒLatinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White ParadigmÓ Northeast Florida Conference, March 2002.

 

 ÒGadamerÕs Feminist EpistemologyÓ Vanderbilt March 2002.

                                                                                                           

 ÒFoucaultÕs Philosophy of ScienceÓ Notre Dame conference on continental philosophies of science, September 2002.

 

 ÒThe Metaphysics of Sexual DifferenceÓ SPEP, Loyola University, Chicago October 2002.

 

 ÒIs identity politics divisive?Ó for the ÒFuture of Minority Studies ConferenceÓ University of Michigan, October 2002.

                                               

ÒNietzsche and Foucault on KnowledgeÓ Eastern APA December 2002.

 

 ÒRuddickÕs Maternal Ethics: A ReappraisalÓ SWIP panel, Eastern APA December 2002.

 

2003

 

ÒLatinos, Asian Americans, and the Black White ParadigmÓ Brown University conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and race, March 2003.

 

ÒRace and Sex: A contrasting metaphysicsÓ Pacific APA March 2003.

 

"Decolonizing Epistemology" Invited Speaker for the NEH Summer Seminar at Penn State University, August 2003.

 

 ÒThe Metaphysics of Sex and Gender,Ó keynote talk, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Association, University of South Florida, October 17-19, 2003.

 

 ÒAgainst postethnic futures, Ò keynote talk, Future of Minority Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 9-11, 2003 .

 

 ÒComments on the Fraser/Honneth DebateÓ Critical Theory Roundtable, SUNY Stony Brook, September 24-25, 2003.

 

ÒAppiah on Race and IdentityÓ SPEP, Boston, Nov. 6-8, 2003.

 

2004

 

ÒIdentity Politics ReconsideredÓ Stanford University Humanities Center and Race and Ethnic Studies Program, February 26, 2004

 

ÒIdentity Politics and Class StruggleÓ Towson State University, Baltimore, March 11, 2004.

 

 ÒCommentary on Jeffrey RosenÕs The Naked CrowdÓ Maxwell School conference, March 19, 2004.

 

 ÒEpistemologies of IgnoranceÓ keynote talk, Feminist Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Science Studies conference, Penn State, March 26-28, 2004.

 

 ÒGay marriage as a social movementÓ SU LGBT student program debate, March 31, 2004.

 

ÒThe Metaphysics of Sex and Gender,Ó Trent University, Philosophy and WomenÕs Studies, April 2, 2004.

 

ÒJudith Butler RevisitedÓ a week long seminar taught at Cornell University for the Society for the Humanities, April 5-9, 2004.

 

ÒWilkersonÕs sexual realismÓ Cornell University symposium on sexuality and post-positivist realism, English dept., April 5, 2004.

 

 ÒIdentity politics in the age of empireÓ for a conference on ÒEmpireÓ Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, April 9, 2004.

 

 ÒLatinos, identity, and historyÓ for Central APA, Chicago, April 23-25, 2004.

 

 ÒIdentity Politics and Class StruggleÓ DePaul Philosophy Department conference, April 30-May 1, 2004.

 

ÒKnowledge and InteriorityÓ International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, May 19-25,  2004.

 

 ÒRealism and IdentityÓ a talk for the School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Cornell University, June 26, 2004.

 

ÒThe Ontology of Sex and GenderÓ Critical Realism conference, Cambridge University, August 17-19, 2004.

 

ÒRecognition versus RedistributionÓ American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 2-4, 2004.

 

 ÒCritical realism and objective realismÓ for a Critical Realism conference at QueenÕs University, Canada, Sept. 24-25, 2004.

 

ÒAgainst Post-ethnic FuturesÓ Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 6, 2004.

 

ÒThe Metaphysics of Sex and Gender,Ó MIT Philosophy and WomenÕs Studies, Boston, Oct. 19, 2004.

 

ÒLGBT and WomenÕs Studies: Common GroundsÓ for the LGBT Conference, Syracuse University, Sept. 23, 2004.

 

ÒEdward Said on Decolonizing Humanism,Ó SPEP, Memphis,  2004.

 

 ÒFeminist epistemology versus social epistemologyÓ FEMMSS conference, U. of Washington, Seattle, Nov. 5-7, 2004.

 

 ÒThe epistemology of toleranceÓ for a conference sponsored by the Philosophy Department at American University, Washington D.C., Nov. 12, 2004.

 

 ÒComments on Angelo CorlettÕs Race, Racism and ReparationsÓ APA Eastern Division meetings, Dec. 27-30, 2004.

 

2005

 

ÒIdentity Politics: A DefenseÓ UCLA Transnational Studies Program, January 11, 2005.

 

ÒIdentity Politics: North and SouthÓ Duke University, February 19-20, 2005.

 

ÒComparative Race, Comparative RacismsÓ at the Symposium on ÒBlack Ethnicity, Latino Race?Ó SUNY Buffalo, April 1-2, 2005.

 

ÒThe Metaphysics of Sex and Gender" Philosophy dept., Florida State University, April 9, 2005.

 

 ÒIdentity Politics: A DefenseÓ U. of San Francisco, Philosophy Department, April 2005.

 

 "An Epistemology for the Next Revolution" Opening panel for the ÒToward a Post-continental PhilosophyÓ conference at Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, April 21-23, 2005.

 

 "Mignolo's Epistemology of Coloniality" Keynote talk, Caribbean Philosophy Association Meetings, June, 2005.

 

 "US Latino issues in/and philosophy"  NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Latin American Philosophy, Buffalo, June 2005.

 

"Transnational feminist debates" chair and commentator, Future of Minority Studies conference, Cornell, July 30-Aug.1, 2005.

 

 "Identity Politics: A Defense" Potter Memorial Lecture, Washington State University, Sept. 29, 2005.

 

 "Comments on John McCumber" SPEP, Oct. 2005.

 

 "Lessons for feminist theory from Ciudad Juarez" conference on Ciudad Juarez, Syracuse Univ. Nov. 2, 2005.

 

 "Intolerance, Difference and Disagreement,"  Grinnell College Colloquium on Intolerance, Fall 2005.

 

"Reproduction and gender identity"  Eastern APA, 2005.

 

Respondent on Panel for Distinguished Women in Philosophy, Eastern APA.

 

2006

 

"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, Keynote speaker, March 10-11, 2006, Boulder Colorado.

 

"Respondent to Book session on Visible Identities" Pacific APA, Portland, March, 2006.

 

"Latina Feminisms" Conference on Latina Feminist Philosophy, John Carroll University, April 6-8, 2006.

 

"Respondent to Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth" Central APA, April 2006.

 

"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Central APA, April 2006.

 

Book panel on Visible Identities:Race, Gender, and the Self, FMS Colloquium at Stanford, July 2006.

 

"Comments on the Duke Lacrosse team Scandal" for Constitution Day, sponsored by Political Science Dept., Syracuse University, Sept 19, 2006.

 

Book Session on Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self at the California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, University of San Francisco, San Franciso, CA; Sept. 22-24, 2006

 

Book Session on Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA; Oct. 12-14, 2006.

 

"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Glasscock Center for Humanities, Texas A&M University, Nov. 2, 2006.

 

"Rorty's Anti-Representationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence" Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University,  Nov. 3, 2006.

 

"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, November 30, 2006.

 

"Rationality and Group Identity" Eastern APA, Dec, 27-30, 2006, Washington DC.

 

"Commentary on Jorge Gracia's Surviving Race, Ethnicity and Nationality" Eastern APA, Dec. 27-30, 2006, Washington DC.

 

Author Meets Critic Session at the Eastern APA, sponsored by the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy, on Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self. December 29, 2006.

 

2007:

 

"Mignolo's Political Epistemology" Duke University Conference on "The Collapse of Traditional Knowledge: Economy, Technology, Geopolitics" January 26-28, 2007.

 

"Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" Altherr Symposium speaker, Haverford College, Feb. 3-4, 2007.

 

"Rorty's Anti-representationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence" Conference of FEMMSS (Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies), Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona, Feb. 8-10, 2007.

 

Goutman Lecture, Philosophy Department, George Washington University, Feb. 23, 2007.

 

"Agency, rationality, and Group Identities" Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, St. Joseph's UniversityApril 7, 2007.

 

"Mignolo's Epistemology of Coloniality," Latin American Philosophy Symposium, University of Buffalo, April 19-20, 2007.

 

Late May and early June: taught a master (graduate) class at the University of Utrecht on feminist and critical race philosophy.

 

"Layered Identities" June 4-9, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Cyprus.

 

Co-teaching with Satya Mohanty a Summer Seminar for the Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute on "Intersectional Identities: Realist Explorations" Cornell University, July 2007.

 

"Racial profiling as epistemic practice: When is identity relevant?" September 6-7, 2007: Philosophy dept, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

 

"Truth and Sexual Violence" October 19-20, 2007: The Future of Feminist Theory Conference, Rutgers University.

 

"Racial profiling as epistemic practice: When is identity relevant?" October 26, 2007: Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Canada

 

"Iris Young's feminist phenomenology" November 8-10, 2007: SPEP.

 

"Epistemologies of Ignorance; Three Types" SAAP, Nov. 8, 2007: Chicago IL.

 

"Racial Profiling as Epistemic Practice," Duquesne University, Dept. of Philosophy, Dec. 7, 2007.

 

Comments on "Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality" Panel, December 27-30, 2007: Eastern APA, Baltimore MD.

 

Comments on "Race, Reference, and Realism" main program. Eastern APA, Baltimore MD. 

 

"Rationality, Agency, and Identity" February 7, 2008: Union College, Schenectady NY

 

"Rationality, Agency, and Identity" February 22, 2008: Charles McCracken Distinguished Guest Lecturer for 2007/8 at Michigan State University

 

"Racial Profiling as Epistemic Practice" March 13, 2008: Rhodes College, Memphis TN

 

"Comment on Tommie Shelby's 'We Who Are Dark'" March 19-23, 2008: Pacific APA, Pasadena CA.

 

"Can Whites be a Part of the Rainbow?" April 4-5, 2008: Allegheny College, PA; keynote speaker for conference on Whiteness

 

"Can Whites be a Part of the Rainbow?" April 17-19 Central APA, main program.

 

"Latinos beyond the binary" Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics at UCLA, May 8, 2008

 

"Truth and Sexual Violence" May 23-24, 2008: University of Hull, England; keynote speaker for UK SWIP.

 

"Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework" May 29-31, 2008: University of Oslo, Norway

 

"Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework" July 29, 2008: Keynote, International Association of Women in Philosophy, Seoul, Korea.

 

"Gender and reproduction" Asian Center for Women's Studies, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul.

 

forthcoming:

 

"Latinos Beyond the Binary" Spindel Conference on Race, Racism and Liberalism, U. of Memphis, Sept 25-27, 2008.

 

"Race, Gender and Rationality" and "Latinos Beyond the Binary" Minnesota State University, Oct. 2-3, 2008.

 

"Can whites be a part of the rainbow?" St. Lawrence University, Oct. 14, 2008.

 

SPEP Scholar Session, Oct. 16-18, 2008.

 

"Truth and Sexual Violence," "Rationality and Group Identity" Univ. of Kansas and Kansas State University, Oct. 29-31, 2008.

 

"Latinos Beyond the Binary" Drew University conference on "Latino Philosophy and Theology" Nov.20-22, 2008.

 

"Comments on Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice"  and "Comments on Georgia Warnke's After identity" Eastern APA Dec. 28-30, 2008.

 

CUNY Graduate Center, March 11, 2009.

 

Boston College, March27, 2009.

 

 

 

Committees:

 

            Syracuse University:

 

            a. Department (Philosophy):

 

Metaphysics and Epistemology Comprehensives Committee 1988-present

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department 1992, 2006-8

Faculty Mentoring Committee, Philosophy Department 1991-1998, 03-04.

Executive Committee 1995-98

Search Committees, 1995-98, 03-04, 04-05, 07-08.

 

            b. Department (Women's Studies):

 

Director, 2004-08

Women's Studies Program Advisory Board 1988-present

Co-Chair, Women's Studies Curriculum Committee 1989-1990

Newsletter Committee, Women's Studies Program 1992-1993

 

            c. College:

 

Humanities Doctoral Program Advisory Board 1988-1990, 1993-95

Search Committee for the Safire Chair in Modern Letters 1989-1990

Ad Hoc Investigative Committee for the Psychology Department 1992-93

Dean's Committee on the Conditions of Women, College of Arts and Sciences 1992-1993

Latino/Latin American Studies Program Advisory Board 1993-present

Search Committee for a Director of Latino/Latin American Studies, 1997-1999

Curriculum Committee, 2005-8

Humanities Council 2005-8

Watson Committee, 2004-2005

Faculty Council, 2005-7

 

            d. University:

 

Chancellor's Task Force on Rape 1989

R.A.P.E. Center Advisory Board from 1990 to 1994, 1997-1998

Faculty Advisor, Students Concerned About Rape Education (SCARED) 1989-1994

Co-founder and advisor for Women For Women, a support group for survivors of sexual violence on campus 1989-91

Contact Person Project, R.A.P.E. Center 1992-present

Program on the Resolution of Conflict Program Committee 1993-4

Faculty Advisor, SEAC 1999-2002.

University Senate 2001-2002, 2003-2005.

Senate Committee on Promotions and Tenure Appeals, University Senate, 2001- 2002

Co-Chair, Senate Committee on Diversity, 2003-08

Chancellor's Task Force on Institutional Culture 2005-08

 

            e. Profession:

 

(Listed at the top of c.v.)

 

 

Editorial Boards:

 

Hypatia

Continental Philosophy Review

Culture, Theory, and Critique

Constellations

Social Theory and Practice

Notre Dame Philosophical Review

Web Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy

Journal of Social Philosophy

 

Manuscript Reviews for Journals also include:

 

SIGNS

Philosophy Today

Teaching Philosophy

Dialogue

Cultural Critique

differences

European Journal of Philosophy

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Latino Studies

Social Epistemology

Journal of Politics

Political Theory

 

Book manuscripts reviewed for:

 

Routledge

Cornell University Press

Oxford University Press

SUNY Press

Temple University Press

Rowman and Littlefield

Westview

Polity Press

Peter Lang

 

I review grant and fellowship applications for Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, Canadian Council of Humanities and Social Science, and others.

 

I have done external reviews of departments at UCLA and Temple University (Women's Studies), and UC Riverside (Philosophy).