Cynthia Willett
Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-4199
404-712-9425 FAX
cynthia.willett@emory.edu
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1988
Research: political ethics, moral philosophy, ethics and social theory, race and gender studies, philosophy and literature, new critical theory, American social thought.
Selected
Publications: Author of Irony in the Age of Empire (Indiana, 2008), The Soul of Justice: Social
Bonds and Racial Hubris (Cornell 2001); Maternal
Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (Routledge 1995);
editor of Theorizing Multiculturalism (Blackwell
1998); articles in Cultural Critique, Philosophy
and Literature, Research in Phenomenology, and Journal
in Speculative Philosophy.
Fellowships and Honors: Executive Board, American Philosophical Society (Eastern, 2007-2010), Executive Board, Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy; Emory College Winship Distinguished
Research Scholar, 1998-2001; Chancellor’s Distinguished
Teaching Award at University of Kansas, 1995.
Co-editor of the web-based Symposia on
Gender, Race and Philosophy: http://web.mit.edu/sgrp
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