Publications:

                      

Monograph:

Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective, Lexington Books, 2008.

 

Peer Reviewed Articles:

·        “Forgiveness and Environmental Ethics,” forthcoming in Agricultural and Environmental Ethics in 2009; Special Issue, "Virtue and Environment," guest-edited by Ron Sandler and Phil Cafaro.

•  “A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Education,” co-authored with Profs. Angela Johnson and Sybol Cook Anderson, in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, Vol. 33 (2009). Special Issue: Women's Education/Educating Women in the post-secondary context.
• “The Atrocity Paradigm applied to Environmental Evils,” in Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 9 (1), 2004.
• “Required of Ourselves: Forgiveness and Moral Obligation,” in The World of Forgiveness: The Periodical of the International Forgiveness Institute, Vol. 4, No. 2, University of Wisconsin Press, May/June 2001.

 

Edited collections: 

·        Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card.  Co-editor, with Andrea Veltman (James Madison University).  Original essays by authors including Ann Cudd, Eric Kraemer, María Pía Lara, Alice MacLachlan, Sarah Clark Miller, Robin May Schott, Laurence Thomas, and Lynne Tirrell.  Contracted for publication with Lexington Books; all contributions complete, production scheduled for June 2009.

·        “Oppression and Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card.”  Co-editor, with Andrea Veltman (James Madison University).  Original essays by authors including Samantha Brennan, Joan Callahan, David Concepcion, Vicky Davion, Marilyn Friedman, Hilde Lindemann, Sheryl Ross, and Lisa Tessman. Special issue of Hypatia, Vol. 24, no. 1 (Winter 2009). 

 

Invited/Editor-reviewed contributions:

·        “Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” forthcoming in 2009 in Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card (Lexington Books).

·        “Self-forgiveness and Third-Party Forgiveness,” in Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009), ed. by David White and Stephen Schulman.

·         “Love to Count: Arguments for inaccurately measuring the proportion of philosophers who are women,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol.8 (2), Spring 2009.

·         “The Limits of Forgiveness,” in Hypatia, Vol. 24, no. 1 (Winter 2009). 

·         “Ethics of Care,” entry, in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale, 2008.

·        “The Case for our Widespread Dependency,” review essay, in Social Theory and Practice, April 2004 (30:22, 247-257).

 

Book Reviews:

·        A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future, by Roger S. Gottlieb, solicited for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal, Winter 2006.

·        People of the Bomb, by Hugh Gusterson, solicited for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal, Winter 2005.

·        Philosophy of Love and Sex, 4^th ed., edited by Alan Soble, in the APA Bulletin on Feminism, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2005.

·        Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy, ed. by Sharon Lamb and Jeffrie Murphy, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online), 2002.

 

Conference Presentations, refereed:

·        “Recognition, Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” to be presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), University Of Guelph, October 2-4, 2009; conference theme: “Responsiveness, Responsibility and Repair.”

·        “Feminism in the Classroom,” workshop panelist, to be presented at the September 2009 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST).

·        “Why bother?:  Environmental pessimism, forgiveness, and electoral participation,” presented at the Pacific APA, Society for Women In Philosophy panel, Vancouver, Canada (April 2009).

·        “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” presented at the 10^th Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum conference, sponsored by Towson University, Baltimore, MD (November 14-16, 2008).

·        “Why Our Students Stay: Strategies for retention and teaching of women of color in STEM disciplines,” presented at the National Association for Research and Science Teaching (April 2008).

·        “Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness,” presented at the 1^st Global Conference: Forgiveness – Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria (March 2008).

·        “A Moral Imperative: Professionalizing Women,” presented at the UK Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Conference, University of Nottingham, University Park campus, Nottingham, England (November 22–23, 2007).

·        “Race and the Academy: What we can and should do,” presented at The National Women’s Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Charles, Illinois, June 28-30, 2007.

·        "Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science,” presented at Gender Balance/ Gender Bias: The 6^th International Gender and Education Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin (March 28-30, 2007).

·        “Women’s Altruism and Academic Professions,” presented at Educating Women/Women’s Education In the Post-Secondary Context, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (February 8 – 10, 2007); acceptance included consideration for publication in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal.

·        “The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity,” presented at the group session of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 2006.

·        “The politics of pedagogy: Global warming, public policy, and the ethics of identifying controversy,” presented at the 32nd Annual Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy, on Environmental Philosophy and the Duties of Citizenship, October 13, 2006.

·        “Meaningful Narrative and Genuine Forgiveness,” presented at the special session of The Society for Analytic Feminism at the Central APA, April 2004.

·        “Humility and Moral Luck,” presented at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Feb. 2000. 

·        “Forgiving the wrongdoer for harms to others: A defense of third-party forgiveness,” at the Central Division Meeting of the Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Fall 1998, Loyola University in Chicago.

 

Invited presentations:

·        Ball State University: “Taking My Name: Separatism and Feminist Epistemology,” March 16, 2006, “Forgiveness of Philosophers,” March 17, 2006.

·        St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland: “Forgiving for Teachers and Counselors,” October 20, 2005.

·        “Hitler was a Vegetarian, or, Moral Qualms about Deep Ecology,” at Carleton College, January 2004.

·        “Forgiveness in Relationship: The explanatory power of feminist models,” at University of San Diego, February 2004.

·        Panel discussion member of UW Zoology Dept. Faculty/Staff Colloquia, Spring 1997.  Topic: “What moral treatment do animals deserve?” 

 

Conference Activity: Commentator or Chair

·        “Radical Hope for Living Well in a Warmer World,” commentator; “Buddhism and Care Ethics,” commentator, APA-Central, February 2009.

·        “Saving Strawson” commentator, APA-Central, April 2008.

·        “Memory and Vulnerability: Forgiveness and Shame,” Session chair and Commentator, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, June 7, 2006.

 

Conference Organizer

·        CardFest 2006: Morality, Luck and Identity, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, in celebration of Claudia Card's 65th birthday, April 14-15, 2006.  Program available at http://mysite.verizon.net/knorlock.  Original presentations included philosophers David Concepcion, Victoria Davion, Marilyn Friedman, Virginia Held, Hilde Lindemann, Elizabeth Spelman, Lisa Tessman, Lynne Tirrell, and Margaret Urban Walker.

·        Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Midwest Division Meeting, UW-Madison, March 1997.  Presented (as a member of a panel) a discussion paper, “The Disvalue of Forgiveness.”

 

Online contributions/Service to the profession:

·        “Women in the Profession: A report to the Committee on the Status of Women,” editor-reviewed by Christina Bellon and Rosemarie Tong.  Available on the American Philosophy Association’s CSW website at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/women (pdf).

·        Feminism-publishing journals, a survey of Philosopher’s Index.  Available at http://groups.google.com/group/feministdraftexchange/web/feminism-publishing-journals?hl=en (posted October 2007).

·        Junior Faculty Mentoring wiki, editor 2007-present.  Available at http://smcmjuniorfacultymentoring.wikispaces.com/.

 

Awards and honors:

·        NEH Summer Institute: “A Fierce Green Fire at 100: Aldo Leopold and the Roots of Environmental Ethics,” sponsored by the Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research, Prescott, Arizona, June 22 – July 17, 2009

·        St. Mary’s College of Maryland Faculty Development Grants, awarded in 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005.

·        University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Grant-in-aid, 2007

·        Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching, junior faculty, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2007

·        Convocation speaker, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, May 2005

·        St. Mary’s College Pre-Tenure Research Award winner, Fall 2004

·        St. Mary's College of Maryland SGA Faculty Service Award, 2004, 2003

·        St. Mary's College of Maryland Nominee for NEH Summer Stipend, 2004

·        Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, Fall 1999

           

 

Teaching:

Courses taught:

Ethical Theories

Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Ethics

Feminism and Philosophy

Senior Seminars (Topics: Moral Relationships; Responses to Evil; Senses of Responsibility)

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Ethics

Honors Program/Paul Nitze Seminar

Critical Thinking

Symbolic Logic

Values Inquiry

Introduction to Gender Studies