Curriculum Vitae
Mechthild E. Nagel
Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045, USA

email: mecke.nagel@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-Universität 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:
Social/Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century German/20th C French Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Peace Studies, Criminal Justice Ethics, Human Rights
 
Academic Experience
2008-present Director, Center for Intercultural and Gender Studies, SUNY Cortland
2008-present Visiting Professor, Social & Cultural Studies, Hochschule Fulda, Germany
2006  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
1999-02 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Cortland
1997-1999 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
1996-1997 Instructor, Department of Women’s Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Spring 1996 Teaching Associate, Women’s Studies Program, UMass Amherst
1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Women's Studies Program, Umass Amherst
Spring 1993 Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College
1989-1992 Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Umass Amherst

Awards and Honors
2009 Outstanding Achievement in Research Award, SUNY Cortland
2009 Phi Kappa Phi, Honors Society, SUNY Cortland
2009 Co-PI and Faculty Trainer for “Training the Trainer: Advancing Scholarship and Pedagogy on Diversity,” (Joint Labor Management Committee, Albany, $38,000 for 3 years)
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
2004-8 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 of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies ($15,000, 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).
2002, 03, 05, 06, 07, 08 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).
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.

Publications - Books 
1. Ann Ferguson and Mechthild Nagel, Dancing with Iris: The Political Philosophy of Iris Marion Young, Oxford University Press, 2009 (268pp.).
2. Mechthild Nagel and Seth N. Asumah, Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality, Africa World Press, 2007 (238 pp.).
3. The Hydropolitics of Africa: A Contemporary Challenge (co-edited with M. Kitissou, M. Ndulo, M. Grieco), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007 (344 pp.).
4. Masking the Abject: A Genealogy of Play, Lexington Books, 2002 (128 pp.).
5. Andrew Light and Mechthild Nagel, Race, Class and Community Identity, Humanity Books, 2000 (233 pp.).
 
Publications -- Journals Edited
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, online, Editor-in-chief, Vol. 1(1), 2004. web.cortland.edu/wagadu (special edition, intro, 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 
33. “Ethics of Imprisonment,” Journal for Ethical Culture (Brooklyn).
32. Caroline Kaltefleiter  and Mechthild Nagel, “From the Prison Tower to the Ivory Tower,” Academic Repression: The Assault on Free Speech in the Post 9/11 World (Steven Best, Peter McLaren, Anthony J. Nocella, II, eds.), AK Press, 2009
31. Ann Ferguson and Mechthild Nagel, “Introduction,” Dancing with Iris: The Political Philosophy and Phenomenology of Iris Marion Young, Oxford University Press, 2009 (3-19).
30. "What if Habermas Went Native?" Peace Studies Journal, 1, 2008: 1-12.
            http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org/archive/Nagel.pdf
29. “Abolishing the Death Penalty, Abolishing Prisons.” Moving Thought to Action. (Torry Dickinson, ed.), Paradigm Publishers, 2008
28. “Prisons as Diasporic Sites: Liberatory Voices from the Diaspora of Confinement,” Journal of Social Advocacy and Systems Change, 1, March 2008: 1-31 http://cortland.edu/ids/sasc/content/prison_nagel.pdf  
27. "Women's Rights behind Walls." Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Viviane Saleh-Hanna, ed.), University of Ottowa Press, 2008, 223-44
26. "'I write what I like': African Prison Intellectuals and the Struggle for Freedom," Journal of PanAfrican Studies, 2(3), 2008: 68-80 http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol2no3/IWriteWhatILike.pdf
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,” Scholar's Symposium: the Work of Angela Y. Davis, Journal of Human Studies, 30, 2007: 281-90
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, 2007, 163-73
22. “Gender, Incarceration and Peacemaking: Lessons from Germany and Mali.”  Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality (co-edited with Seth Asumah), Africa World Press, 2007, 43-51
21.  “Introduction.” Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality (co-edited with Seth Asumah), Africa World Press, 2007, 1-10
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, 2007, 325-45 (Spanish translation of book in preparation, 3/2008)
19. “Ann Ferguson,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Donald Borchert, ed.) Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2006, 606-7
18. “Environmental Justice and Women’s 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, III, Brill Publishers, 2005, 436-39
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. Nagel’s 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, 2003, 165-75
12. “Reforming the Contract?” Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America (Stokes and Melendez, eds). Michigan State University Press, 2003, 11-4
11. “Gefängnis und Profit. Made in the USA.” WarenWelten (Engel and Krohmer, eds.). Trafo Verlag, 2003, 89-104
10. “Prisons, Big Business, and Profit: Whither Social Justice?”  Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Social Justice (Asumah and Johnston-Anumonwo, eds.). Global Publications, Binghamton University, 2002, 361-85
9. “Toward a Critical Social Ontology.” Review Essay of Patricia Huntington, Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray (1998), Human Studies 25(2), 2002: 251-256
8. “Cyborg-Mothers: Feminist Discourses of ARTs.”   Problems of Resistance (Martinot with James, eds.).  Prometheus Press, 2001, 203-15.
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, 2001, 53-69
6. “Thrownness, Playing-in-the-world, and the Question of Authenticity.” Feminist Interpretations of Heidegger (Huntington and Holland eds.). Penn State Press, 2001, 289-306
5. “Introduction.” Co-authored with Andrew Light and David Roberts for Race, Class and Community Identity, 2000, 9-19
4. “Cyborgs and Other Machines.” Research in Philosophy and Technology, 18, 1999, 247-56
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, 1998, 19-30
2. “Critical Theory Meets the Ethic of Care: Engendering Social Justice and Social Identities.”  Review essay for Social Theory and Practice, 23 (2), 1997: 307-26
1. “Of Monsters and Transgression.” Alterity, Excess, Community, Proceedings of the seventh annual Strategies of Critique conference at York University, Toronto, pp.113-22, 1993.
n.d. “Mothers and Monsters” (Umass Amherst, 1993)

Publications - Book Reviews
12. Autobiography of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El.  Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 16(2), 2007: 130-33
11. Hearing Visions Seeing Voices, Mmatshilo Motsei. Wagadu, 3, May 2006. wagadu.org
10. Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America, Linda Layne. In National Women's Studies Journal 16(3), 2004: 233-235
9. 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), 2001: 213-17
8. Institutional Violence by D. Curtin and R. Likte (eds.). In Philosophy in Review 20(6), 2000: 410-11
7. Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, Robin Schott (ed.). In Hypatia 4(3), Summer, 1999, 169-72
6. Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "PostSocialist" Condition, Nancy Fraser.  In Philosophy in Review 8(3), 1998: 172-74
5. Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity, Allison Weir.  In Canadian Philosophical Review of Books 16(4), 1996: 328-30
4. 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), 1995: 10-2
3. Dragons for Sale. Studies in Unreason, Robert Wheeler.  In Canadian Philosophical Review of Books 14(4), 1994: 298-300
2. Homo Ludens: Der spielende Mensch, Günther Bauer (ed.).  In Play Theory and Research, 1(3), 1993: 222-4
1. Heidegger et Nazisme: morale et politique, Victor Farías, 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, 2007: 42. 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, 2001: 20-2
2. “Reclaiming Affirmative Action.” East Wind, West Wind, Minnesota State University, Mankato Quarterly Journal, Winter Quarter, 1998: 6-7
1. Review of Blood at the Root: Motherhood, Sexuality and Male Dominance, by Ann Ferguson. In Against the Current 31, 1991: 6

Conference, Keynote, and Workshop Presentations (Refereed, unless otherwise indicated.)
85. “Prison Abolitionist Perspectives,” Social Justice Conference, Binghamton University, November, 2008 (invited).
84. Caroline Kaltefleiter  and Mechthild Nagel, “From the Prison Tower to the Ivory Tower,” for book session: Academic Repression: The Assault on Free Speech in the Post 9/11 World, Concerned Philosophers for Peace Association, SUNY Cortland, Nov. 2008.
83. “Media Images of (Youthful) Offenders: A Comparative Analysis of Race, Class, Gender in Germany and the United States of America.” ICOPA 12 and Howard League of Prison Reform, King’s College, London, July 23, 2008.
82. “Negotiating Women’s Rights in the Postcolonial (Carceral) Society: Cultural Justice vs. Criminal Justice.” New York African Studies Association, Cornell, March 29, 2008.
81. “Internationalizing the Africana Curriculum: Developing Partnerships with Universities and NGOs,” New York African Studies Association, Cornell, March 29, 2008.
79. 80. "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).
78. "Reflections on Angela Davis's Abolition Democracy," Radical Philosophy Association, Creighton University, November 4, 2006.
77. "Perspectives on Prison Activism” Ithaca College, July17, 2006 (invited).
73. 74. 75. 76. “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.
72. “Books thru Bars, Ithaca.” Activist conference, Wells College, March 2006 (invited).
70.71. “Promises of Ubuntu in the New South Africa.” Institute for African Development, Cornell, March 9, 2006 (invited). Also presented at New York State African Studies Association, SUNY New Paltz, April, 2006.
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 Dean’s 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 Chandra 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 Women’s 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 Women’s 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 Women’s 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 Women’s 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.”  Women’s 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 être 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, Nov. 18.
2006 Program member, Institute for African Development, Cornell, "Power, Gender, and Social Change in Africa and the Diaspora," Cornell, Apr. 21-22.
2005 Organizer of panel, “Women’s Rights, Women’s Resistances,” for ‘Human Rights in a Globalizing Era?’ Conference, University of Windsor, Aug. 5, 2005.
2004 Organizer, chair, Author Meets Critic, Carol Gould’s 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 Women’s Lives,” Engaging Philosophy conference, Nov. 14.
2003 Chair, “The Prison in the Age of Punitive Paternalism,” Gender, Race, and Incarceration Conference, Cornell University, Apr. 19.
2002 Organizer, chair, “Contextualizing Local Knowledge of the International Health System: Female Genital Circumcision (FGC) and HIV/AIDS in Africa,” African Studies Association, Washington, DC., Dec. 8.
2002 Organizer of session, “Voices from Within: Prison Intellectuals and Liberatory Education,” Diversity Conference, SUNY Cortland, Nov. 16.
2001 Program Chair, Thinking about Prisons: Theory and Practice, SUNY Cortland, Oct. 24-26. Organized 30 sessions.
2000 Organizer, chair, "Excitable Speech, Women's Rights, and Citizenship: Critical Global/Local Feminist Perspectives," National Women’s Studies Association, Boston, Jun. 2 presentations.
2000  Organizer, chair, "The Spell of the Empire: Critical Global Trends in Feminist Discourses," Socialist Scholars Conference, NY, 2 Apr. 3 presentations.
1999 Organizer, "Women's Human Rights in an International Perspective,” National Women’s Studies Association, Albuquerque. 18 Jun. 4 presentations.
1998 Organizer and translator of talk by Irene Nagel, “Remembering the Dresden Firestorm,” Co-sponsored by Women’s Studies and the Kessel Institute for Peace, MSU. Apr, 14.
1998 Co-Organizer, “Workshop on Affirmative Action.” Co-sponsored by Women’s 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, Mar. 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, Apr. 10. Organized 10 sessions.
  
Courses taught in Philosophy at SUNY Cortland (1999-present
Prejudice, Discrimination and Morality
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
Ethics of Death and Dying
Courses taught in Women’s Studies at SUNY Cortland (2000-2004)
Approaches to Women Studies (WST 100)
Senior Thesis- Independent Study (WST 400)
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 dissertation committees:
Jason Mallory, “Prisoner Oppression, Democratic Crises, Abolitionist Visions: Toward a Social and Political Philosophy of Mass Incarceration,” Philosophy, Binghamton University, completed 2008
Betty Wambui, “Social Contract - A tool for theorizing practice.” Philosophy, Binghamton University, completed 2006
University Service
SUNY-Cortland:
2008 – present Multicultural and Diversity Council for Social Justice
2008 – present Affirmative Action Committee (ex officio)
2008 – present Committee on the Status of Women
2008 – present Women’s Faculty Caucus, Coordinating Committee
2006, 2007-present Personnel Committee, Humanities
2007-10 Study Abroad program
2006-present Chair of Philosophy Curriculum Committee
2005-6 Acting Chair, Philosophy
2004-present Chair and founder, Wellness Group
2004-present Benefits Chair, UUP chapter, member of Executive Board
2003 Program Chair. Philosophy Conference
2003-present, Co-chair, TransAfrica Project
2003-4 Ethnic Studies Taskforce
2002 Chair of Teaching Philosophy Taskforce, Fall
2002 Long Range Goal (International Education), Fall
2002-03 Mali Interest Group
2002-05 Chair, Philosophy Assessment Committee
2002-04 Mentor, Blake/Scott Program
2001-02 September 11 Committee
2001 Middle States Committee on Equity, Access, and Diversity
2001 Program Committee chair, international conference on prisons, sponsored by Social Philosophy
2001-present Clark Center for International Education
2000-1 Affirmative Action Committee, Faculty Writing Group
2000-04  Advisor, P.O.W.E.R. (student group)
2000 Student Affairs Committee, Spring
2000-02 Chair, International Faculty Taskforce/UUP
2000-present Africana Studies Committee
2000-02 Chair of Steering Committee of Multicultural and Gender Studies Council  
1999-present Women’s Studies Committee
1999-2000 Affirmative Action Chair, 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 Women’s 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, Educational Research and Reviews, American Journal of Play.
Professional Organization Service:
2008- Theory in Action, Transformative Studies Institute, NJ
2008- Peace Studies Journal (Le Moyne College)
2008- New York Journal of Sociology (SUNY Cortland)
2008- Editorial board member, Africa Peace and Conflict Network
2007- Editorial board member, Journal of Social Advocacy and Systems Change (SUNY Cortland)
2007- Associate Editor, book series: Critical Studies on the Left, Lexington Books
2005- Editorial board member, book series: Social Philosophy, Rodopi
2003- Editorial board member, Journal: The Perspective on South Africa
2003- Editorial board member, publications committee, Institute for African Development, Cornell University
2002- Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (eJournal, wagadu.org)
2002-06 Co-chair, Radical Philosophy Association
2000-1 Member of the International Task Force, National Women's 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.
 
 
 updated: 12/27/08

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