Curriculum Vitae
Mechthild E. Nagel
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045, USA
email: nagelm@cortland.edu
Web: web.cortland.edu//nagelm
tel: 607-753-2013
fax: 607-753-4114
Education
B.A. equivalent in Philosophy (Chinese, Latin, minors) 1987,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt at Freiburg, Germany
M.A. in Philosophy, May 1991, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
Ph.D. in Philosophy, September 1996, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Dissertation: "Philosophical Perspectives on Play from
Homer to Hegel"
Areas of Specialty:
Applied Ethics, Human Rights, Social/Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy,
19th and 20th Century German/20th C French Philosophy, Africana
Philosophy, Philosophy of Prisons and Peace Studies
Publications - Books
1. Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality (co-edited with Seth Asumah), Africa World Press,
2007 (238pp.).
2. The Hydropolitics of Africa: A Contemporary Challenge
(co-edited with M. Kitissou, M. Ndulo, M. Grieco), Cambridge Scholars Press,
2007 (344pp.).
3. Masking the Abject: A Genealogy of Play, Lexington Books, 2002 (128 pp.).
4. Race, Class and Community Identity (co-edited with Andrew Light), Humanity Books, 2000
(233pp.).
Publications -- Journals Edited
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Womens and Gender Studies,
online, Editor-in-chief, Vol. 1(1), 2004. web.cortland.edu/wagadu (special
edition, 6 papers, 1 poem).
Research in Philosophy and Technology (JAI Press), Review Editor, Vol. 21, 2002 (6
review essays, 24 book reviews).
Research in Philosophy and Technology (JAI Press), Review Editor, Vol. 19, 2000 (15
book reviews).
Academic Publications - Articles, Book chapters,
Encyclopedic Essays
28. Abolishing the Death Penalty, Abolishing Prisons. Moving
Thought to Action. (Torry Dickinson, ed.),
Paradigm Publishers (2008 forthcoming).
27. "Women's Rights behind Walls." Colonial
Systems of Control: Criminal
Justice in Nigeria (Viviane Saleh-Hanna, ed.). (University of Ottowa
Press, 2008, forthcoming)
26. "'I write what I like': African Prison
Intellectuals and the Struggle for Freedom," Journal of PanAfrican
Studies, vol 2(3), pp. 68-80, March 2008)
25. "In Search of Abolition Democracy." Democracy,
Racism and Prisons. Radical Philosophy
Today, Vol. 5 (Harry van der
Linden & Peter Amato, eds.), Philosophy Document Center, 2008.
24. Witness to Injustice for Scholar's Symposium: the Work
of Angela Y. Davis, Journal of Human Studies, vol. 30, pp. 281-290, 2007.
23. The Poors and the Struggle for Water and Sanitation in
South Africa Hydropolitics in Africa: A Contemporary Challenge (Kitissou et al, eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
pp.163-173, 2007.
22. Gender, Incarceration and Peacemaking: Lessons from
Germany and Mali. Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global
Penality (co-edited with Seth Asumah),
Africa World Press, pp. 43-51, 2007.
21. Introduction. Prisons and Punishment:
Reconsidering Global Penality (co-edited
with Seth Asumah), Africa World Press, pp.1-10, 2007.
20. The Role of Prisons in a Socialist Future, or: The
Incorrigible Ethos of Incarceration. The Future of Socialism (Anton and Schmitt, eds.). Lexington Books,
pp.325-345, 2007. (Spanish translation of book in preparation, 3/2008.)
19. Encyclopedic essay Ann Ferguson for Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, 2nd ed., 2006.
18. Environmental Justice and Womens Rights: A Tribute to
Wangari Maathai. Wagadu 2(1), 2005.
web.cortland.edu/wagadu (invited paper).
16. 17. Encyclopedic essays Women Prisoners and Political
Prisoners in Africa, South of the Sahara for Encyclopedia on Women in
Islamic Cultures, Vol.III, Brill
Publishers, 2005, pp.436-439.
15. Editorial to the special edition, Feminists Confront
Empire. Wagadu 1(1), 2004.
web.cortland.edu/wagadu
14. Review essay of Ch. Mohanty and J. Nagels books in Wagadu 1(1), 2004. web.cortland.edu/wagadu
13. Prison Intellectuals and the Struggle for Abolition. Community
and the World: Participating in Social Change
(Dickinson, ed.). Nova Science, pp.165-175, 2003.
12. Reforming the Contract? Racial Liberalism and the
Politics of Urban America (Stokes and
Melendez, eds). Michigan State University Press, pp.11-14, 2003.
11. Gefngnis und Profit. Made in the USA. WarenWelten (Engel and Krohmer, eds.). Trafo Verlag, pp.89-104, 2003.
10. Prisons, Big Business, and Profit: Whither Social
Justice? Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Social Justice (Asumah and Johnston-Anumonwo, eds.). Global
Publications, Binghamton University, pp. 361-385, 2002.
9. Toward a Critical Social Ontology. Review Essay for Human
Studies 25(2), pp.251-256, 2002.
8. Cyborg-Mothers: Feminist Discourses of
ARTs. Problems of Resistance
(Martinot with James, eds.). Prometheus Press, pp. 203-215, 2001.
7. On the Limits of Feminist Cross-Cultural Analysis. Issues
in Africa and the African Diaspora in the 21st Century. (Asumah and Johnston-Anumonwo, eds.). Institute of
Global Cultural Studies Press at Binghamton University, pp.53-69. 2001.
6. Thrownness, Playing-in-the-world, and the Question of
Authenticity. Feminist Interpretations of Heidegger (Huntington and Holland eds.). Penn State Press, pp.
289-306, 2001.
5. Introduction. Co-authored with Andrew Light and David
Roberts for Race, Class and Community Identity, pp.9-19, 2000.
4. Cyborgs and Other Machines. Invited paper for Research
in Philosophy and Technology, Vol.18,
pp.247-256, 1999.
3. Play in Culture and the Jargon of Primordiality: A
Critique of Huizinga's Homo Ludens. Play Writes: Diversions and
Divergences in Fields of Play (Duncan,
Chick, and Aycock eds.). Ablex, pp. 19-30,1998.
2. Critical Theory Meets the Ethic of Care: Engendering
Social Justice and Social Identities. Review essay for Social Theory
and Practice , Vol.23 (2), pp.307-326,
1997.
1. Of Monsters and Transgression. Alterity, Excess,
Community, Proceedings of the seventh
annual Strategies of Critique conference at York University, Toronto, pp.113-122,
1993.
n.d. Mothers and Monsters (Umass Amherst, 1993)
Under Preparation for Publication
Anthology: Dancing with Iris: Between
Phenomenology and the Body Politic in the Political Philosophy of Iris Marion
Young (co-edited with Ann Ferguson). Under
review by Oxford University Press
Articles:
1. "Prisons as Diasporic Sites: Liberatory Voices from
the Diaspora of Confinement" (accepted with revisions Journal of Social
Advocacy and Systems Change, March 2008)
2. "Women Outlaws: Politics of Resistance in the US Criminal Justice
System"
3. "Promises of Ubuntu in the New South Africa" (revise and resubmit
African Studies Quarterly, March 2008))
4. Visions of Justice for Africa (Reintegration of South
African Freedom Fighters)
5. "What if Habermas Went Native?" Journal of
Peace Studies (accepted with revisions, March 2008).
6. From the Prison Tower to the Ivory Tower (with Caroline
Kaltefleiter, invited paper for anthology Academic Repression).
Publications - Book Reviews
12. Review of Autobiography of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El.
In Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 16:2, Fall, 2007.
11. Review of Hearing Visions Seeing Voices, Mmatshilo Motsei. In Wagadu vol.3, wagadu.org. May 2006 (online).
10. Review of Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of
Pregnancy Loss in America, Linda Layne. In National
Women's Studies Journal 16(3), pp.233-235,
2004.
9. Review of What is a Woman? And Other Essays, Toril Moi, Whiteness, Cuomo and Hall (eds.), and Shadowboxing, Joy James. In National Women's Studies
Journal 13(2), pp.213-217, 2001.
8. Review of Institutional Violence by D. Curtin and R. Likte (eds.). In Philosophy
in Review 20(6), pp.410-411, 2000.
7. Review of Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, Robin Schott (ed.). In Hypatia 4.3, Summer, pp.169-172, 1999.
6. Review of Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on
the "PostSocialist" Condition,
Nancy Fraser. In Philosophy in Review 8(3), pp.172-174, 1998.
5. Review of Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the
Critique of Identity, Allison Weir.
In Canadian Philosophical Review of Books 16(4), pp.328-330, 1996.
4. Review of Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical
Exchange, S. Benhabib, J. Butler, D.
Cornell, N. Fraser (with an introduction by L. Nicholson). In Canadian
Philosophical Review of Books, 15(3),
pp.10-12, 1995.
3. Review of Dragons for Sale. Studies in Unreason, Robert Wheeler. In Canadian Philosophical
Review of Books 14(4), pp.298-300, 1994.
2. Review of Homo Ludens: Der spielende Mensch, Gnther Bauer (ed.). In Play Theory
and Research, 1(3), pp.222-224, 1993.
1. Review of Heidegger et Nazisme: morale et politique, by Victor Faras, in subject (1)1, 1988.
Articles in Popular Magazines and Special Editions
6. Special Edition: Salary Special (co-edited with Henry Steck, SUNY Cortland, United
University Professions); with entries on nation-wide salaries of the
professoriate. Fall 2006.
5. "Iris Marion Young - 1949-2006." In Against
the Current (128), p.42 , 2007. Also published on
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/540.
3. 4. A Week in Court: Chronicling Domestic Violence in IthacaToday.com (August 2000). Republished in She said/She
said, SUNY Cortland, Spring, pp.20-22,
2001.
2. Reclaiming Affirmative Action. East Wind, West Wind, Minnesota State University, Mankato Quarterly
Journal, Winter Quarter, pp.6-7, 1998.
1. Review of Blood at the Root: Motherhood, Sexuality and
Male Dominance, by Ann Ferguson. In Against
the Current (31), p.6, 1991.
Academic Experience
2006 Full, tenured Professor of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy, SUNY Cortland
2005-6 Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Cortland
2003-present Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute for African
Development, Cornell University
2002-06 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, SUNY
Cortland
2001-02 Chair of the Center for Multicultural and Gender
Studies, SUNY Cortland
2000-01 Co-Chair of the Center for Multicultural and Gender
Studies, SUNY Cortland
1999-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,
SUNY Cortland
1997-1999 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Womens
Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
1996-1997 Instructor, Department of Womens Studies,
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Spring 1996 Teaching Associate, Womens Studies Program,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Women's Studies Program,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Spring 1993 Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Mount
Holyoke College
1989-1992 Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Awards and Honors
2007 Participant in 4 week NEH Summer Institute on
"Law, Democracy, and Human Rights", Georgia State University, Atlanta
2006 Phi Beta Phi, International Honors Society,
SUNY Cortland chapter
2005-6 Award for infusing service learning into curriculum,
SUNY Cortland
2005-6 Faculty Trainer, Ethics Institute, SUNY Cortland
2004-7 Faculty Trainer, Teaching Diversity Workshop, SUNY Cortland
2004 Participant in Living Democracy, Learning Community, SUNY Cortland
2003 Recipient of Excellence in Research and Scholarship
Award, SUNY Cortland
2003 Recipient of Excellence in Multicultural and/or
Diversity Teaching Award, SUNY Cortland.
2002 Principal Investigator and Grant Recipient for
eJournal: Wagadu: A Journal for Transnational Womens and Gender
Studies ($15,000.00, Technology Committee
of Joint Labor/Management Program, Albany, NY).
2002-3 Faculty Research Grant recipient for project
Analysis of African Penal Approaches, SUNY Cortland ($3,000.00).
2002, 03, 05, 06, 07 Recipient, Individual Development
Award, Spring.
2002, 03, 04, 05 Recipient, Cortland College
Foundation Travel and Research Grant, Spring
2002 Assessment Incentive Grant for Multicultural and Gender
Studies (MGS), Spring.
2002 Title III participant in Advising Workshop, January.
1998-9 Faculty Research grant recipient for project
Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: On the Politics of Asylum and
Immigration in Post 1989 Germany, Minnesota State University, Mankato ($3,
000.00).
1998 Invited participant, Valley Writers Workshop, Minnesota
State University, Mankato, September 2-5.
1987-88 Tuition-Scholarship as exchange student at
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Conference, Keynote, and Workshop Presentations (Refereed, unless otherwise indicated.)
80. Negotiating Womens Rights in the Postcolonial
(Carceral) Society: Cultural Justice vs. Criminal Justice. New York African
Studies Association, Cornell, March 29, 2008.
79. Internationalizing the Africana Curriculum: Developing
Partnerships with Universities and NGOs, New York African Studies Association,
Cornell, 3/29, 2008.
77. 78. "Prisons as Diasporic Sites: Liberatory Voices
from the Diaspora of Confinement," symposium celebrating life and work of
Prof. Ann Ferguson, UMass Amherst, May 11, 2007 (invited). Also presented for
the Program in Social, Political, Ethical and Legal Philosophy, Binghamton
University, October 16, 2007 (invited).
76. "Reflections on Angela Davis' Abolition
Democracy," Radical Philosophy Association, Creighton University, November
4, 2006.
75. "Perspectives on Prison Activism Ithaca College,
July17, 2006 (invited).
71. 72. 73. 74. What if Habermas went native?
International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany June 22, 2006. Also
presented at Concerned Philosophers for Peace, St. Bonaventure University,
October 20, 2006; Radical Philosophy Association Conference, Creighton
University, November 3, 2006; Language of Violence Conference, SUNY Cortland,
November 18, 2006.
71. Books thru Bars, Ithaca. Activist conference, Wells
College, March 2006 (invited).
70. Promises of Ubuntu
in the New South Africa. Institute for African Development,
Cornell, March 9, 2006 (invited).
69. Peace circles: A Comparative Perspective from Native
America to South Africa. Annual Conference of the Regional Peace Studies
Consortium, LeMoyne College, November 15, 2004.
67.68. Women Outlaws: Politics of Gender and Resistance in
the US Criminal Justice System. Syracuse University, November 5, 2005
(invited). Also delivered for Black History Month, SUNY Cortland, February 2006
(invited).
66. African Women and Criminal In/Justice. Harpur
College Deans Workshop on Prisons & Social Transformation, Binghamton
University, October 26, 2005 (invited keynote).
65. Witness to Injustice. Panel presentation on Angela
Davis at SPEP, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 22, 2005 (invited).
64. Presentation on Ch. Mohanty Feminism without Borders, SOFPHIA biannual meeting, October 1, 2005.
63. Women behind Walls. Human Rights in a
Globalizing Era? Conference, University of Windsor, August 5, 2005.
62. Lessons from the Greenbelt Movement. Annual conference
of New York African Studies Association, Binghamton University, April 29, 2005.
61. Environmental Justice and Womens Rights.
Institute for African Development, Cornell, 28 April 2005 (invited).
60. Ending Prisons, Ending Punishment. Annual
Conference of the Regional Peace Studies Consortium, Maxwell School, Syracuse
University, November 13, 2004.
59. Future of the RPA. Plenary session at the 6th
international conference, Radical Philosophy Association, Howard University,
November 6, 2004.
59. Summer Institute on Infusing Diversity into Teaching.
Facilitator-teacher. SUNY Cortland, May 19-24, 2004.
54. 55. 56. 57. 58. Gender, Prisons and Peacemaking in
Mali, African Studies Association, Washington DC, Nov, 2003. Also presented at
Gender Inequalities Conference, Egerton University, Kenya, April 2004;
Institute for African Development, Cornell, April 2004 (invited); SUNY
Cortland, Black History Month, Feb., 2004 (invited).
53. Gender, Prisons and Peacemaking: International
Perspectives. Sustainable Feminisms Conference, Macalester College, Oct.4,
2003.
52.(with Katie Williams) Corrections Law and Military Law
after 9/11. Invited Symposium, Canadian Philosophical Association, Hallifax,
May 30, 2003.
51. Respondent to paper on Bio-politics. Canadian
Philosophical Association, Hallifax, May 30, 2003.
50. I Write What I Like: African Prison
Intellectuals and the Struggle for Freedom. New York State African Studies
Association annual conference, Cornell, April 11, 2003.
49. AIDS Education in African Prisons: A proposal for
Action. African Studies Association, Washington DC, December 8, 2002.
48. Teaching in Prison and Learning from Prison
Intellectuals. Diversity Conference, SUNY Cortland, November 16, 2002.
47. African Prison Intellectuals. Radical Philosophy
Conference, Brown University, Providence, November 8, 2002.
46. Prisons as Diasporic Sites. Applied Geography
Conference, Binghamton, October 26, 2002.
45. "Gender and Racial Identity: Redefining Whiteness
in Power and Structural Analysis" (with Dr. Seth Asumah). 15th Annual
National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE
2002), May 30, New Orleans, 2002.
44. "African Approaches to Penal Abolition."
Institute for African Development, Cornell University, February 28 (invited),
2002.
43. "International Perspectives on Prisons."
Sandwich Seminar presentation for Black History Month, SUNY Cortland, February
27 (invited), 2002.
42. After September 11: Interrogating Whiteness (with
Kauther Badr). Residence Life Conference, SUNY Cortland, February 23, 2002.
41. Teaching to Transgress. A workshop for Faculty
Development Center, SUNY Cortland, Feb. 15 (invited), 2002.
40. "Thrownness, Playing-in-the-world, and the Question
of Authenticity." The Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Goucher College, October 8. (invited symposium), 2001.
39. "Prisons and Profit". Ware –
Fetisch – Konsum symposium, Salecina, Switzerland, July 19, 2001.
38. "Unfinished Liberation: The Specter of
Apartheid." Critical Theory & Race: Contesting the Racial Contract,
Purdue University, W Lafayette, March 24, 2001.
37. "Prisons as Diasporic Sites." Critical
Resistance Conference: Contesting the Prison Industrial Complex, Columbia
University, March 10, 2001.
36. "Teaching Anti-Racism," a workshop at Radical
Philosophy Association, Chicago, IL, November 3, 2000.
35. "On the Prison Industrial Complex," a workshop
at SOFPHIA, Amherst, MA, Sept.29 (invited), 2000.
34. "Internationalizing the NWSA," Roundtable
participant, International Task Force at the annual meeting of the National
Womens Studies Association, Boston, MA, June 2000 (invited), 2000.
33. "The Promise of Dis-Locating Cultures."
National Women's Studies Association, Boston, June 17, 2000.
32. (Virtually) Tearing Down the Walls: Prison Education
Through Distance-learning (with Larry Ashley) at International Conference on
Penal Abolition, Toronto, May 12, 2000.
30. 31. "On the Limits of Feminist Cross-Cultural
Analysis." Socialist Scholars Conference, NY, April 2, and New York
African Studies Association, Cortland, April 29, 2000.
29. "Mumia, the Death Penalty, and MOVE," sandwich
seminar with Larry Ashley and Kathy Russell, Black History Month, SUNY
Cortland, February (invited), 2000.
28. "The Quest for Abolitionism." Presented
at a panel sponsored by the Radical Philosophy Association at the American
Philosophical Association, Boston, December 28, 1999.
27. Skin/Technologies of the Self. Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Eugene, OR, October 8, 1999.
26. Not Under Western Eyes? National Womens Studies
Association, Albuquerque, NM, June 18, 1999.
25. Bread and Roses. Women and Leadership
Conference, Mankato, Feb.13. (invited), 1999
24. Criminal Injustice. Invited Keynote Speaker for
plenary The Prison Industry and Political Prisoners. Minnesota State
University, Mankato, Jan.20, 1999.
23. Technologies of the Self: A Materialist Feminist
Critique. Radical Philosophy Association, national meeting, San
Francisco, Nov. 6, 1998
22. Thrownness, Playing-in-the-world, and the Question of
Authenticity: Heidegger under Feminist Eyes. Society for Philosophy of
the Contemporary World, Estes Park, August 11, 1998.
21. Publishing Your Conference Presentation.
Workshop at National Womens Studies Association, Oswego, June 14, 1998.
20. Feminist Play with the Abject. Pathways to Peace
conference sponsored by the Mankato State Kessel Institute for the Study of
Peace and Change, May 8, 1998.
19. On the Poverty of Discourse Ethics and Monstrous
M/others of Antigone. Respondent for papers by Cynthia Willett and
Tina Chanter; invited symposium (Maternal ethics), American Philosophical
Association (Pacific Division), L.A., March 28, 1998.
18. Am I that Name?: Postmodern Automatons and the Politics
of Resistance. Womens Studies Symposium, Purdue University, W.
Lafayette, March 13, 1998.
17. "What exactly do we mean by interlocking
oppression?" Women's Center Brownbag Lunch Lecture Series, Minnesota
State University, Mankato, Mankato, November 11 (invited), 1997.
16. Respondent for papers by Asli Gocer and Heather Reid for
a Plato Symposium, at the Fourth Biennial Umass Philosophy Homecoming
conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 4 (invited), 1997.
15. Respondent for a paper by Melissa Burchard:
"Violence as Rational Action: A Key to Understanding Violence Against
Women," at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, Oakland, March 27 (invited), 1997.
14. "In the Dialectics of Enlightenment: Foucault and
Habermas." Philosophy Club, Minnesota State University, Mankato,
February 25 (invited), 1997.
13. "Urban Center, Community Values and the Country
Feel." Presented at a panel sponsored by the Society for Philosophy
and Geography at the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 27,
1996.
12. "On the Politics of Urban Renewal."
Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, December 6, 1996.
11. "Multiculturalism and its Discontents: On the
Politics of Asylum and Immigration in Post-1989 Germany." Radical
Philosophy Association, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, November 15, 1996.
10. Biennial meeting of SOFPHIA, book discussant of
Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity by Allison
Weir, Boston, October 6 (invited), 1996.
9. Respondent for a paper by Ales Erjavec: "From
Iconoclasm to Postmodernism" at the Pacific Division Meeting of the
American Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar, CA, April 4 (invited), 1996.
8. Biennial meeting of SOFPHIA, New York, October 22,
discussant of a paper by Dion Farquar: "Reproductive Technologies"
(invited), 1995.
7. "A Radical Agenda for the Next Decade,"
co-panelist of a plenary session (with Iris Young, Milton Fisk, and Charles
Mills), Radical Philosophy Association at Drake University, Des Moines,
November 5 (invited), 1994.
6. "A Postmodern Feminist Subversion of the Ideal of
Community." Eastern Division APA; panel sponsored by the Radical
Philosophy Association, Atlanta, December 29, 1994.
5. Respondent for a paper (on the philosophy of Benjamin,
Heidegger and Bataille) by Peter Madsen: "Il faut tre absolument
radical(e)" at the Annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics,
Santa Barbara, October, 28 (invited), 1994.
4. "Huizinga under Heidegger's Spell."
Pacific Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar, California,
April 8, 1993.
3. "Of Monsters and Transgression.
"Strategies for Critique VII," Annual Graduate Student Interdisciplinary
Symposium, at York University, Toronto, April 1-2, 1993.
1.2. "Play in Culture and the Jargon of Primordiality:
A Critique of Huizinga's Homo Ludens." Eastern Division of the
American Society for Aesthetics, Providence, RI, March 19. Also presented
at the Association for the Study of Play (TASP), St. Paul, MN, April 24, 1993.
Conferences/sessions organized/chaired:
2006 Program member, Philosophy Dept., "The Language of
Violence: Critical Thinking about War and Peace," SUNY Cortland, November
18.
2006 Program member, Institute for African Development,
Cornell, "Power, Gender, and Social Change in Africa and the
Diaspora," Cornell, April 21-22.
2005 Organizer of panel, Womens Rights, Womens
Resistances, for Human Rights in a Globalizing Era? Conference,
University of Windsor, August 5, 2005.
2004 Organizer, chair, Author Meets Critic, Carol Goulds
book Globalizing Democracy. 6th
international conference, Radical Philosophy Association, Howard University,
Nov.6, 2004.
2003 Program chair, Engaging Philosophy: Justice and the
Global Civic Community, SUNY Cortland, Nov.
14-5. Organized 20 sessions.
2003 Organizer, Chair, Students Perspectives on Feminism
and Womens Lives, Engaging Philosophy conference, Nov. 14.
2003 Chair, The Prison in the Age of Punitive Paternalism,
Gender, Race, and Incarceration Conference, Cornell University, April 19.
2002 Organizer, chair, Contextualizing Local Knowledge of
the International Health System: Female Genital Circumcision (FGC) and HIV/AIDS
in Africa at African Studies Association, Washington, DC., December 8.
2002 Organizer, Voices from Within: Prison Intellectuals
and Liberatory Education, Diversity Conference, SUNY Cortland, November 16.
2001 Program Chair, Thinking about Prisons: Theory and
Practice, SUNY Cortland, October 24-26.
Organized 30 sessions.
2000 Organizer, chair, "Excitable Speech, Women's
Rights, and Citizenship: Critical Global/Local Feminist Perspectives," at
National Womens Studies Association, Boston, June. 2 presentations.
2000 Organizer, chair, "The Spell of the Empire:
Critical Global Trends in Feminist Discourses," at Socialist Scholars
Conference, NY, 2 April. 3 presentations.
1999 Organizer, "Women's Human Rights in an
International Perspective, at National Womens Studies Association,
Albuquerque. 18 June. 4 presentations.
1998 Organizer and translator of talk by Irene Nagel,
Remembering the Dresden Firestorm, Co-sponsored by Womens Studies and the
Kessel Institute for Peace, MSU. April, 14.
1998 Co-Organizer, Workshop on Affirmative Action.
Co-sponsored by Womens Studies and Philosophy, MSU. May 12. 5 presentations.
1997 Program Committee Co-Chair of the Midwest Division of
the Society for Women in Philosophy, Spring Conference, University of Wisconsin
at Madison, March 14-16. 12 presentations.
1993-94 Member of the Program Planning Committee for the
First International Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association at Drake
University, IA. Nov.4-8, 1998. 30 sessions.
1993 Co-Organizer of the first Annual Graduate Student
Conference sponsored by Women's Studies, UMASS, Amherst, April 10. Organized 10
sessions.
Courses taught in Philosophy at SUNY Cortland
(1999-present)
"Prejudice and Discrimination"
"Social and Political Philosophy"
"Feminist Social Thought"
"Prisons and Punishment"
"Contemporary Moral Problems"
Postmodernism and Liberation Theories
Philosophical Approaches from Hegel to Nietzsche
Philosophy of Human Nature
Existentialism
Introduction to Philosophy
Courses taught in Womens Studies at SUNY Cortland
(2000-2004)
Approaches to Women Studies (WST 100)
Senior Thesis- Independent Study (WST 400)(2 students).
Courses taught at area prisons in New York State
(2000-2005):
Behavioral Philosophy (MacCormick Secure Center)
Social and Political Thought (Cayuga Correctional)
Introduction to Philosophy (MacCormick Secure Center)
Introduction to Philosophy (Five Points Correctional)
Member of PhD committees:
Betty Wambui, Binghamton University (2006)
Jason Mallory, Binghamton University (defense scheduled
2008)
University Service
SUNY-Cortland:
2006, 2007-present Member of Personnel Committee, Humanities
2007-10 Member of Study Abroad program
2006-present Chair of Philosophy Curriculum Committee
2005-6 Acting Chair, Philosophy
2004-present Chair and founder of Wellness Group
2004-present Benefits Chair, UUP chapter, member of Executive Board
2003 Program Chair of Philosophy Conference
2003-present, co-chair, TransAfrica Project
2003-4 Member, Ethnic Studies Taskforce
2002 Chair of Teaching Philosophy Taskforce, Fall
2002 Member of Long Range Goal (International Education), Fall
2002-03 Member of Mali Interest Group
2002-05 Chair of Philosophy Assessment Committee
2002-04 Mentor in Blake/Scott Program
2001-02 Member of September 11 Committee
2001 Member of the Middle States Committee on Equity, Access, and Diversity
2001 Program Committee chair for an international conference on prisons,
sponsored by Social Philosophy
2001-present Member of Center for International Education
2000-1 Affirmative Action Committee, Faculty Writing Group
2000-04 Advisor for P.O.W.E.R. (student group)
2000 Member of Student Affairs Committee, Spring
2000-02 Chair of the International Faculty Taskforce/UUP
2000-present Member of Africana Studies Committee
2000-02 Chair of Steering Committee of Multicultural and Gender Studies Council
1999-present Member of Womens Studies Committee
1999-2000 Affirmative Action Chair, United University Professors (UUP) and
member of the Executive Board of the UUP at Cortland
Professional Service
Manuscript Referee for:
Mayfield Publications, Rowman and Littlefield Press, Guilford Press, Journal
of the Society for Philosophy of the Contemporary World, Hypatia, National
Womens Studies Association Journal, International Journal of Politics and
Ethics, SUNY Press, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell, McGill Queens University Press,
Journal of Social Philosophy, Radical Philosophy Today Series, Social
Philosophy Today Series, Africa Peace and Conflict Network.
Professional Organization Service:
2008- Editorial board member of Africa Peace and Conflict
Network
2007- Editorial board member of Journal of Social
Advocacy and Systems Change
2007- Associate Editor of book series: Critical Studies on
the Left, Lexington Books
2005- Editorial board member of book series: Social
Philosophy, Rodopi
2003- Editorial board member of Journal: The Perspective
on South Africa
2003- Editorial board member, publications committee,
Institute for African Development, Cornell
2002- Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Wagadu: A Journal
of Transnational Womens and Gender Studies
(eJournal, wagadu.org)
2002-06 Co-chair of Radical Philosophy Association
2000-1 Member of the International Task Force, National
Women's Studies Association.
1998-9 Co-convener of Upper Midwest Womens Studies
Association.
1996-2002 Member of the Executive Advisory Board of the
Radical Philosophy Association.
1996-2003 Member of the Editorial Board of the Radical
Philosophy Association's Series of National Conference proceedings.