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Curriculum Vitae Of Curriculum vitae of ALISON M. JAGGAR College Professor of Distinction Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0232, USA Phone: 303-492-8997 FAX: 303-492-8386 e-mail: <[email protected]> DEGREES B.A. Hons. (Philosophy) 1961-64 University of London (Bedford College) M. Litt. (Philosophy) 1965-67 University of Edinburgh Ph.D. (Philosophy) 1967-70 State University of New York at Buffalo HONORS AND AWARDS 2012 “The Best Should Teach” Boulder Gold Teaching Award. 2011 University of Colorado Gee Memorial Lectureship for advancing women, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and distinguished teaching. 2011-13 “Responding to Global Poverty,” research award from Norwegian Research Council (with Gerhard Overland and Thomas Pogge). 2009-12 Partner Investigator, Australian Research Council Linkage Grant for project to Develop New Gender-Sensitive Poverty Indices. 2008 A&S College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. 2003-04 Faculty Fellow, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado. 2003 Runner-up, best CU professor in the Colorado Daily’s Best of Boulder Awards. 1998-9 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1995 Society for Women in Philosophy Distinguished Woman Philosopher 1993.4 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship 1990- Various funding awards from the University of Colorado including the President’s Fund for the Humanities, the Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Dean’s Fund for Excellence, and a seed grant from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS). 1990 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship 1989 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 1980-81 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1976-77 American Association of University Women Dorothy Bridgman Atkinson Endowed Fellowship 1972.89 Recipient of numerous Taft grants-in-aid of research and University Research Council Awards, University of Cincinnati ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2014- Part-Time Distinguished Research Professor, University of Birmingham, UK. 2013- Faculty Affiliate, University of Colorado Department of Ethnic Studies. 2007-14 Professor Two and Research Coordinator, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, NORWAY. 2008- Arts & Sciences College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. 2004-08 Graduate Director and Associate Chair, Philosophy Department, University of Colorado at Boulder. 1994-97 Director of Women’s Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder 1994 Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Guest Researcher in Feminist Studies, University of Oslo, NORWAY 1993 Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, NEW ZEALAND 1990- Professor of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Alison M. Jaggar, Curriculum vitae, Page 2 1984-85 First Laurie New Jersey Professor in Women's Studies and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University 1984-90 Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics, University of Cincinnati 1982-91 Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati 1980 Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles 1976-82 Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati 1975 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago 1972-76 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati 1970-72 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Miami University of Ohio 1968-70 Part-time Instructor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men, edited with Paula Rothenberg, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1/e 1978; __________ 2/e 1984; __________ 3/e 1993. 2. Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Totowa, N.J: Rowman & Allanheld, and Brighton, U.K: Harvester Press, 1983. __________ Chinese translation by Meng Xin, Higher Education Publishers: Beijung, 2009. 3. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited with Susan R. Bordo, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989. __________ Genero, Corpo, Conhecimento, Portuguese translation of Gender/Body/Knowledge, Brazil: Editoria Rosa dos Tempos, 1997. 4. Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. 5. Morality and Social Justice: Point Counterpoint, with James P. Sterba, Milton Fisk, William A. Galston, Carol C. Gould, Tibor Machan and Robert Solomon, Lanham, MD and London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. 6. The Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy, edited with Iris M. Young, Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. __________ Ukrainian translation, Kyiv, Ukraine: Osnovy Publishers. __________ Korean translation, Seoul, South Korea: Seolwanagsa Publishers, 2005. 7. Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2008. Supplemented edition, 2013. 8. Abortion: Three Perspectives, with Michael Tooley, Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine, Oxford University Press, 2009. 9. Pogge and his Critics, Polity Press, 2010. 10. Gender and Global Justice, Polity Press, 2014. Books in progress 11. Undisciplining Moral Philosophy, co-authored with Theresa W. Tobin. 12. Essays on Global Gender Justice, in progress. Research report 13. The Individual Deprivation Measure: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Poverty Measurement, 2014. Book length research report by Scott Wisor, Sharon Bessell, Fatima Castillo, Joanne Crawford, Kieran Donaghue, Janet Hunt, Alison Jaggar, Amy Liu, and Thomas Pogge, http://www.iwda.org.au/research/individual-deprivation-measure/ JOURNAL ISSUES EDITED 1. Philosophical Topics. Issue devoted to the topic of global gender justice. Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2009. 2. Bioethics: Journal of the International Association of Bioethics. Special issue concerning the use of prisoners and other vulnerable populations in biomedical research co-edited with Annette Dula, Ben Hale, and Dayna Matthew. Volume 24, number 1, January 2010. ARTICLES AND REPRINTS 1. "The Just State As a Round Square," Dialogue, XI:4, (December,1972) 580-83. 2 Alison M. Jaggar, Curriculum vitae, Page 3 2. "On One of the Reasons for the Indeterminacy of Translation," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XXXIV:2, (December 1973) 257-65. 3. "It Does Not Matter Whether We Can Derive 'Ought' from 'Is'," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, III:3, (March, 1974) 373-79. 4. "The Sanctity of Life as a Humanist Ideal," Journal of Social Philosophy, V:2 (April, 1974) 8-11. 5. "On Sexual Equality," Ethics, 84:4 (July, 1974) 275-91. __________ reprinted in Paula R. Struhl and Karsten J. Struhl, eds., Philosophy Now: An Introductory Reader, 2/e, New York: Random House, 1975. __________ reprinted in Jane English, ed., Sex Equality, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1977. __________ reprinted in Marjorie Weinzweig and Sharon Bishop, eds., Philosophy and Women, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1978. __________ reprinted in Richard L. Purtill, ed., Moral Dilemmas: Readings in Ethics and Social Philosophy, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1985. __________ reprinted in Stewart, ed., Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 6. "Philosophy as a Profession," Metaphilosophy, 6:1 (January 1975). __________reprinted in Terrell Ward Bynum and Sidney Reisberg, eds., Teaching Philosophy Today: Criticism and Response, Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 1977. __________reprinted in Terrell Ward Bynum and William Vitek, Applying Philosophy, New York: Metaphilosophy Foundation, 1986. 7. "Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide," Philosophical Forum, V:1-2, (Winter, 1975) 347-60. __________ reprinted in Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston, eds., Philosophy and Sex, Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Press, 1975, __________ reprinted in 2/e, 1984. __________ reprinted in Marx W. Wartofsky and Carol Gould, eds., Women and Philosophy: Towards a Philosophy of Liberation, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. 8. "Affirmative Action with Respect to Women in Academia: the Law and its Implementation," American Philosophical Association Bulletin 27, (September, 1975). 9. "Political Philosophies of Women's Liberation," in Mary Vetterling Braggin, Frederick Elliston and Jane English, eds., Feminism and Philosophy, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams and Co., 1977, 5-21. __________ reprinted in Marjorie Weinzweig and Sharon Hill, eds., Philosophy and Women, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1978. __________ reprinted in Richard A. Wasserstrom, ed., Today's Moral Problems, 2/e, New York: MacMillan, 1979. __________ reprinted in 3/e, 1985. __________ reprinted in James Gould, ed., Classical Philosophical Questions, 5th edition, New York: Charles E. Merrill, 1985. __________ reprinted in Richard T. Garner and Andrew Oldenquist, eds., Society and the Individual: Readings in Political and Social Philosophy, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990. __________ reprinted in E.D. Klemke, A. David Kline and Robert Hollinger, eds., Philosophy: The Basic Issues, London and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. __________ reprinted in Celia Wolf-Devine and Philip Devine, eds., Sex and Gender: A Spectrum of Views, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1996. __________ reprinted (in Chinese translation) in Yinhe Li, Classics of Feminist Theory, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1997. __________ reprinted in Celia
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