Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Linda Martin Alcoff

Can Whites Be a Part of the Rainbow?
A Kathryn Fraser Mackay Lecture Endowment Event
8:00 p.m.
Eben Holden Center

Linda Martin Alcoff is professor of philosophy, women's studies and political science, and is currently the director of women's studies at Syracuse University She works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, Latino philosophy, and philosophy of race.  She was named the Distinguished Woman in Philosophy for 2005 by the Society for Women in Philosophy, and in 2006 she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine.

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). She has written over fifty articles concerning Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of epistemology, gender and race identity, and Latino issues. She is currently at work on an anthology with Mariana Ortega on the topic of race and nationalism, and on two new books: a collection of feminist essays, and an account of political epistemology. She held an ACLS Fellowship for 1990-1991 and a Fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University for 1994-1995. In 1995 she was named one of Syracuse University's first Meredith Professors for Teaching Excellence. She has served on the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee of the American Philosophical Association, as Chair of the Committee on Hispanics/Latinos for the APA, and as Co-Director of SPEP (the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy). She was named the Distinguished Woman in Philosophy for 2005 by the Society for Women in Philosophy, and in 2006 she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine.