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Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College
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).

Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury College
Heidi Grasswick is Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont, and regularly contributes to the Women¹s and Gender Studies program at Middlebury. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, and an M.A. from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She has previously served as the President of the Society for Analytical Feminism and President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy. Her research interests include feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, social epistemology, and bridges between ethics and epistemology. She has written articles on the epistemic relationship between individuals and their communities (Hypatia 2004), testimony in the moral realm, and the epistemic significance of sharing knowledge. She is the editor of Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge (Springer 2011). Her current work focuses on developing relationships of trust between various communities of knowing.

Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta
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Cressida Heyes is Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she writes and teaches in feminist philosophy, political theory, and philosophy of the body. She is the author of Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice (Cornell 2000), and Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies (Oxford 2007); the editor of The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy (Cornell 2003), and the four-volume set Critical Concepts: Gender and Philosophy (Routledge 2011); and the co-editor (with Meredith Jones) of Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer (Ashgate 2009).

Mariana Ortega, John Carroll University
Mariana Ortega is Professor of Philosophy and current holder of the Shula Chair in Philosophy at John Carroll University, University Heights, OH. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Her main areas of research are 20th Continental Philosophy, specifically Heideggerian Phenomenology, Latina Feminism and Race Theory. Her research focuses on questions of self and sociality, visual representations of race, and the question of identity. She has published articles in journals such as Hypatia, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly and Radical Philosophy Review. She is co-editor with Linda Martín-Alcoff of the anthology Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY, 2009). She is currently working on a monograph that elaborates a notion of self as multiplicitous subjectivity in light of Existential Phenomenological views and Latina feminisms.

Falguni A. Sheth, Hampshire College
Falguni A. Sheth is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and minor in South Asian Studies from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. She works in the areas of continental philosophy, political philosophy and legal theory, critical race theory and philosophy of race, post-colonial, theory, and sub-altern and gender studies. She has published articles in the intersections of philosophy of race, feminist theory, and political philosophy. Her books are Race, Liberalism, and Economics (coedited, U. Michigan Press, 2004) and Toward a Political Philosophy of Race (SUNY Press, 2009). Her current research is in several areas: hybrid subjectivity, gender, and race; Foucault’s biopolitics in the context of legal subjectivity; the emergence and legal construction of Punjabi-Mexicans at the turn of the 20th century; and the metaphysics of misrecognition. Sheth has served on the Immigrant Rights Commission of San Francisco and is an organizer of the California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race. For more information, visit her website.

Alison Stone, Lancaster University
Alison Stone is Professor in European Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. She works in feminist philosophy and theory, with particular interests in French feminism and debates around embodiment, essentialism, sexual difference, and sex and gender. She also works in continental philosophy, especially German idealism and Romanticism, Marxism, and the Frankfurt school. Her books are Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2004), Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2006), An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Polity Press, 2007), and Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity (Routledge, 2011). She has also edited The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir, San Francisco State University
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Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir works in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy. She has a BA in philosophy and mathematics from Brandeis, AM in philosophy from Harvard, and PhD in philosophy from MIT. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. (Email: asta@sfsu.edu.)

Ann Garry, California State University, Los Angeles
Ann Garry has taught Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles for a very, very long time.  She is frequently Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at UCLA and recently taught feminist philosophy at the University of Tokyo on a Fulbright Fellowship.  She co-edited Women, Knowledge and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy.  Herarticles range from feminist issues in bioethics and philosophy of law to analytic feminist epistemology and philosophical method.  Recently she has been working on the intersections of race, sexuality and gender.  Since the 1970s she has been active in founding and maintaining the institutions of feminist philosophy, including Hypatia.

Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
Sandra Harding teaches in Philosophy, Women's Studies, and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of 15 books, including Sciences From Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities (Duke Univ. Press, 2008), Science and Social Inequality (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006), and The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader (Routledge, 2006). She was co-editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2000-2005.

Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sally Haslanger is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and an affiliate in the Women's and Gender Studies Program. She began her philosophical life specializing in analytic metaphysics and epistemology, and Aristotle. Over time she has focused more on social/political philosophy and feminist theory. She has published on persistence through change, pragmatic paradox, and Aristotle's theory of substance; in feminist theory, on objectivity and objectification, and Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender. Her recent work is on the social construction of purportedly natural categories such as gender, race, and the family, and on feminist epistemology.

Diana Tietjens Meyers, University of Connecticut
Diana Tietjens Meyers is Emerita Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. From 2008 to 2013, she held the Ellacuría Chair in Social Ethics and was a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. In spring 2003, she held the Laurie Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She works in three main areas of philosophy: philosophy of action, feminist ethics, and human rights theory. Her monographs are Inalienable Rights: A Defense (1985, Columbia University Press), Self, Society, and Personal Choice (1989, Columbia University Press), Subjection and Subjectivity: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Moral Philosophy (1994, Routledge), and Gender in the Mirror: Cultural Imagery and Women’s Agency (2002, Oxford University Press; also available through Oxford Scholarship Online). Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action and Social Life (2004, Rowman and Littlefield) is a collection of her (mostly) previously published essays. She has co-authored and edited many books and special journal issues. Among her many articles and book chapters are her recent “Psychocorporeal Selfhood, Practical Intelligence, and Adaptive Autonomy,” in Autonomy and the Self, ed. Michael Kühler and Nadja Jelinek (2012, Springer); “Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of ‘Impure’ Victims,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2011: 255-275; and “Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude – Feminist Reflections on the State of the Art.” in Beauty Unlimited, ed. Peg Brand (2012, Indiana University Press). Professor Meyers is currently writing on three topics: human rights, art and politics, and psychocorporeal identity and agency. Her major current projects are a monograph, Victims’ Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights, and an edited collection, Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights.

Ann E. Cudd, University of Kansas
Ann E. Cudd is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Humanities at the University of Kansas and co-editor for value theory for Hypatia. She is the author of Analyzing Oppression (2006), co-author of Capitalism, For and Against: A feminist debate (2011), and co-editor of Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology (2004) and Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism (2002). She is currently working on a book on intercultural and interpersonal intervention.

Cheryl Hall (Coeditor 1995-98), University of South Florida
Cheryl Hall teaches political theory in the Department of Government & International Affairs at the University of South Florida. She has written extensively about political theory's gendered disparagement of passion in publications such as "`Passions and Constraint': The Marginalization of Passion in Liberal Political Theory" (Philosophy & Social Criticism), "Recognizing the Passion in Deliberative Democracy: Toward a More Democratic Theory of Deliberative Democracy" (Hypatia), and The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason (Routledge). She has recently begun working in the area of environmental political theory with a focus on overcoming obstacles to environmentally sustainable ways of life.

Linda López McAlister (Editor 1990-95, Coeditor 1995-98), University of South Florida
Linda López McAlister is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of South Florida. She received her philosophical education at Barnard College (AB 1962) and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1969). She has taught at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate School, UCLA, San Diego State, Florida State, and University of South Florida. Her main areas of philosophical work were the philosophy of Franz Brentano and history of women in philosophy. She served as General Editor from 1990 to 1995 and co-General Editor from 1996-1998. She is now a theatrical producer/director in Albuquerque, NM.

Alia Al-Saji is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. Her research brings together 20th century phenomenology, French philosophy, feminist theory and philosophy of race. She has published extensively on questions of time, embodiment and perception. In recent work, she has analyzed the forms of racism directed toward Muslim veiling. Her work has appeared in such journals as Continental Philosophy Review, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Southern Journal of Philosophy. Al-Saji is a co-editor of the Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy and the Feminist Philosophy section editor for Philosophy Compass.

Amy Allen, Dartmouth College
Amy Allen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Westview Press, 1999) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Bat-Ami Bar On, Binghamton University
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Bat-Ami Bar On is Professor of Philosophy and women's studies and Director of the Institute for Advanced studies in the Humanities at Binghamton University. She currently works in the intersections of democratic theory and normative theories of political violence in a manner that is inflected by her reading of Hannah Arendt.

Talia Mae Bettcher
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Talia Mae Bettcher is a Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles and she currently serves as Chair. Her research is located the intersections of transgender studies and feminist philosophy. Some of her articles include “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion” (2007) and “Trans Identities and First Person Authority” (2009). With Ann Garry, she co-authored the Hypatia special issue Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gender Realities (2009).

Samantha Brennan, Western University
Samantha Brennan is Professor of Philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, where she also the Department Chair of Philosophy and an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research. Brennan is also a member of Western's Queer Faculty Caucus. Her main research interests are in moral and political philosophy, including feminist ethics. She has edited a number of special issues of journals on feminist themes (analytic feminism, for Hypatia, with Anita Superson and feminist moral philosophy, for Canadian Journal of Philosophy). Brennan's publications have appeared in such journals as Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Archiv fur Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, Dialogue, and Social Theory and Practice. Her full CV is available on the web at http://publish.uwo.ca/~sbrennan/cv.pdf.

Miranda Fricker,University of Sheffield
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Miranda Fricker is a professor at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007), which explores how relations of social power and identity impinge in our epistemic practices to produce distinctively epistemic forms of injustice – injustices in which someone is undermined specifically in their capacity as a knower. She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy with Jennifer Hornsby (2000); and she is co-author of Reading Ethics, written with Sam Guttenplan, an introductory textbook of commentaries on selected readings in moral philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Her main areas of interest are ethics, social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and those areas of feminist philosophy that focus on issues of power, social identity, and epistemic authority.

Marilyn Friedman, Vanderbilt University
Marilyn Friedman is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and Professorial Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University and Australian National University, Australia. She works in feminist philosophy, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Her most recent books are Autonomy, Gender, Politics (Oxford, authored) and Women and Citizenship (Oxford, edited).

Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus College
Lisa Heldke teaches in the Philosophy Department and the Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies Program at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she holds the Sponberg Chair in Ethics. Much of her scholarly work has been devoted to the explication and exploration of the philosophical significance of food, foodmaking and agriculture. She is the author of Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer, and coeditor Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food. She works in the tradition of pragmatist feminist epistemology, and has published papers drawing upon the heritage of John Dewey, Jane Addams and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Sonia Kruks, Oberlin College
Sonia Kruks is the Danforth Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, where she teaches political philosophy and theory. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of feminist and twentieth century continental theory,  with an emphasis on existential phenomenology. She has published on Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Fanon, Arendt, and others. Her most recent book is  Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics (Cornell University Press, 2001), and she is currently at work on a project on the political philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir.

Lynn Hankinson Nelson (Philosophy)
Lynn Hankinson Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. Her areas of expertise are feminist epistemology, feminist philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology and the social sciences. She is the author of Who Knows: From Quine to Feminist Empiricism (1990) and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of W. V. O. Quine (with Nelson, 2003), Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science (with Nelson, 1996), and Feminist Science Studies, a special issue of Hypatia (with Wylie, 2004). Her essays on topics in feminist philosophy of science include "Relativism and Feminist Science Scholarship" (Engendering Rationalities, 2001), "Feminist Philosophy of Science" (Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Science, 2001), and "The Very Idea of Feminist Epistemology" (Hypatia 1995).

Dorothea E. Olkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Dorothea Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy, former Chair of Philosophy and former Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She has recently completed three books: The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible), a co-publication of Edinburgh University Press Columbia University Press (2007); Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, coedited with Gail Weiss, (Penn State University Press, 2006); and The Other—Feminist Reflections in Ethics, Helen Fielding, Gabrielle Hiltman, Dorothea Olkowski, Anne Reichold, eds. (Palgrave Publishers, 2007). She is currently working on a book, Nature, Ethics, Love, for Columbia and Edinburgh University Presses.

Shannon Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University
Shannon Sullivan is Head of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy, Women’s Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State University. She is author of Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (Indiana UP, 2001) and Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (Indiana UP, 2006). She is co-editor of Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (SUNY Press, 2007), Difficulties of Ethical Life (Fordham UP, 2008), and Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems: Expanded Edition by Josiah Royce (Fordham UP, forthcoming).

Rosemarie Tong, The University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Rosemarie Tong is Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at UNC Charlotte. Receiving her PhD in Philosophy from Temple University in 1978, she has come to be internationally known for her contributions to feminist thought and bioethics. Dr. Tong has authored and co-edited thirteen books, including Ethics in Policy Analysis (1985), Controlling our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective (1994), Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (1996), Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World with Ann Donchin and Sue Dodds (2004), New Perspectives in Health Care Ethics: An Interdisciplinary and Crosscultural Approach (2007) and Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (2008 3rd edition). She has also published over one hundred articles on topics related to feminist theory, reproductive and genetic technology, biomedical research, global bioethics, aging, and healthcare reform. Currently, Dr. Tong’s research is focused on ethical issues in long-term care, cognitive enhancement and genetics.

Georgia Warnke, University of California, Riverside
Georgia Warnke is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Her most recent books are Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates (University of California Press, 1999) and After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She is currently finishing work on a book, Debating Sex and Gender, for Oxford University Press’s Fundamentals of Philosophy series.

Gail Weiss, George Washington University
Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences at The George Washington University. Her areas of specialization include phenomenology and existentialism, feminist theory, and philosophy of literature, and she is especially interested in philosophical and feminist issues related to human embodiment. Her work on the intercorporeal dimensions of embodied experience can be found in Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana U. Press, 2008), and Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Routledge 1999), and is also reflected in her edited and co-edited volumes: Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty (SUNY 2008), Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Penn State Press 2006), Thinking the Limits of the Body (SUNY 2003) and Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture (Routledge 1999) as well as her published journal articles and book chapters.

Naomi Zack, University of Oregon
Naomi Zack received her PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1970. Following  a twenty year absence from academia, since 1990 she has taught at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, since 2001. Zack has published widely on race, gender, and 17th century philosophy and is the author of these books: Race and Mixed Race (Temple, 1993); Bachelors of Science (Temple,1996); Philosophy of Science and Race (2002, Routledge); Inclusive Feminism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and the short textbook Thinking About Race  (2nd edition 2006). Zack is also the editor of American Mixed Race (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), RACE/SEX (Routledge, 1997), and Women of Color and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002). She has written numerous articles and has spoken widely about her work, in both the US and Europe.  Forthcoming books are: Ethics for Disaster (Rowman and Littlefield 2009) and The Handy Philosophy Answer Book (Invisible Ink Press, 2009).