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Cynthia Willett

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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