Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1985 (Philosophy).
M.A. University of Virginia, 1980 (Philosophy).
B.A. Reed College, 1977 (Philosophy and Religion).

Professor of Philosophy:
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-
Associate Professor of Philosophy:
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998-
    Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies:
    University of Michigan, 1992-8
    Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan, 1997-8
Assistant Professor of Philosophy:
    University of Pennsylvania, 1989-92
    Princeton University, 1986-1989
    University of California, Irvine, 1985-6

• Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (co-edited with Charlotte Witt), Cornell University Press, 2005.
• Theorizing Feminisms (co-edited with Elizabeth Hackett), Oxford University Press, 2005.

• “What Are We Talking About?  The Semantics and Politics of Social Kind Terms,” forthcoming in Hypatia (fall 2005).
• “Social Construction: Who? What? Where? How?” In Theorizing Feminisms, ed., E. Hackett and S. Haslanger (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming 2005.
• “You Mixed? Racial Identity without Racial Biology,” In Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays, ed., S. Haslanger and C. Witt. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), January 2005.
• “Future Genders? Future Races?” Philosophic Exchange 34 (2003-4): 4-27.
• To be reprinted in, Moral Issues in Global Perspective, 2nd edition, ed., Christine Koggel.  (Broadview Press, forthcoming 2005).
• “Racial Geographies,” in Families by Law: An Adoption Reader, ed., Naomi Cahn and Joan Hollinger. (New York: New York University Press, 2004): 208-211.
• “Oppressions: Racial and Other,” in Racism, Philosophy and Mind, ed., Michael Levine and Tamas Pataki. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004): 97-123.
• “Gender, Patriotism, the Events of 9/11,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 15:4 (2003): 457-461.
• "Topics in Feminism", (With Nancy Tuana) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2003 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2003/entries/feminism-topics/>.
• “Persistence Through Time,” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, ed., M. Loux and D. Zimmerman. (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2003), pp. 315-354.
• “Social Construction: The “Debunking” Project,” in Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social Reality, ed., Frederick F. Schmitt. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 301-325.
• “Gender, Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?”Noûs 34:1 (March 2000): 31-55.
• Selected as one of the 10 best articles to appear in 2000 by the Philosopher's Annual.  Reprinted in Philosopher's Annual XXIII (2001).
• Reprinted in Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology, ed., Ann Cudd and Robin Andreason.  Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
• “Feminism in Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural,” in The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, ed., J. Hornsby and M. Fricker (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 107-126.
• “What Knowledge Is and What It Ought To Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology,” in Philosophical Perspectives 13 (1999): 459-480.
• Reprinted in a shortened version as: “Defining Knowledge: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology,” in the Proceedings of the World Congress of Philosophy, (1999).
• “Ontology and Social Construction,” Philosophical Topics 23:2 (Fall 1995) 95-125.
• Reprinted in a shortened version as: ““Objective” Reality, “Male” Reality, and Social Construction,” in A. Garry and M. Pearsall, ed., Women, Knowledge, and Reality, 2nd edition (NY: Routledge, 1996) pp. 84-107.
• A shortened version of the shortened version reprinted as: ““Objective” Reality, “Male” Reality, and Social Construction,” in The Canon and Its Critics: A Multiperspective Introduction to Philosophy, ed., Todd M. Furman and Mitchell Avila (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. 2000), pp, 257-265.
• Shortened version reprinted in Discourses (Spring 2005), a database of philosophy readings that is part of Primis, McGraw-Hill's online electronic publishing system: http://primisdiscourses.com
• “Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72:3 (September 1994) 339-359.
• “Parts, Compounds, and Substantial Unity,” in Unity and Identity of Aristotelian Substances, ed., David Charles, Mary Louise Gill, and Theodore Scaltsas (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994) 129-170.
• “On Being Objective and Being Objectified,” in A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, ed., Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993), 85-125.
• “Ontology and Pragmatic Paradox,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92:3 (1992), 293-313.
• “Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics,” Analysis 49:3 (1989), 119-125.
• “Persistence, Change, and Explanation,” Philosophical Studies 56 (1989), 1-28.

• Symposium on Gender, Race, and Philosophy (online reviews of published articles), Co-editor.  2004-
• MIT Readers in Contemporary Philosophy. MIT Press, Series Co-Editor. 2003-
• Editorial Board, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online); editor of entries on feminism, 1996-2001; co-editor with Nancy Tuana of entries on feminism, 2001-2004.
• Invited editor of special issue of Philosophical Topics 23:2 (Fall 1995): “Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge, and Reality.”

• Review of Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter (NY: Routledge, 1994) for International Studies in Philosophy vol. XXX: 4 (1998): 107-9.

• “Feminism and Metaphysics: Unmasking Hidden Ontologies” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Spring 2000.
• “Doing Philosophy as a Feminist,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, September 1992.

• The Social Embodiment of Gender and Race, under contract with Oxford Universty Press.
• Persistence (collection of essays, co-edited with Roxanne Kurtz) forthcoming, MIT Press 2005.

Scots Philosophy Club Centenary Fellowship, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 2002.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Spring 2002.
Class of '51 Fund for Excellence in Education, Class of '55 Fund for Excellence in Teaching, and Class of '72 Fund for Educational Innovation, for revisions to the Introduction to Women's Studies Course (MIT), 1999 (with Lora Wildenthal).
Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant (UM), 1997.
Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (for excellence in undergraduate education) (UM), 1997.
Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities, 1997.
National Humanities Center Fellow, 1995-6 (accepted).
Michigan Humanities Award, 1995-6 (declined).
LS&A Career Development Award (UM), 1995.
LS&A Excellence in Education Award (UM), 1992-3, 1993-4.
Women's Studies Summer Research Grant (Princeton), Summer 1988.
T.E.A.C.H. Award (one for class enrollment under 50 and one for class enrollment over 50), (UC-Irvine), Fall 1985.

• “After Gender?  A Reply to Molly Lyndon Shanley,” Susan Moller Okin Memorial Conference, Stanford University, February 2005.
• “Intrinsic Value, Unconditional Value, Constitutive Value, Etc…  A Reply to Rae Langton,” Participant/Commentator, Workshop on Instrinsic Value, Duke/UNC, May 2003.
• “Intersectionality: Racism, Class, and Gender,” Roundtable Facilitator, Conference on Racism and Philosophy, Baruch College, March 2003.
• “Assisted Procreation: Rights and Responsibilities: A Reply to Mary Lyndon Shanley,” MIT Politics and Technology of Motherhood Lecture Series, November 2002.
• “Is the Domination/Exclusivist Contract a Model for Understanding Group Domination? A Reply to Charles Mills,” APA Central Division, April 2000.
• “The Rationalist Challenge to Feminist Epistemology: A Response: A Reply to Miriam
• Thalos,” Society for Analytic Feminism, APA Central Division, May, 1994.
• “Factualism and the Puzzle of Change: A Reply to Mark Hinchliff,” APA Symposium: “Presentism and Eternalism,” March 1994.
• “Catherine MacKinnon: Theorizing Gender: A Reply to Elizabeth Rapaport,” UNH Conference: “Feminism and Reason”, October 1990.
• “Scientific Essentialism and Epistemic Self-Defeat: A Reply to George Bealer,” APA Symposium: “The Limits of Scientific Essentialism,” March 1988.

• Eastern Division SWIP, Annual Meeting, MIT, April 2002.
• “The Other Perspective on Gender and Culture,” Focused Research Project on Gender, UC-Irvine, May 1986.
• “Celebrating Our Voices: Multi-Cultural Women's Writing,” Women's Studies, UC-Irvine, April 1986.

• Panel Organizer: “Opposition to Affirmative Action: Contemporary Responses” (with Mindy Fried), MIT Tuesday, April 15, 2003.
• CCRR (Campus Committee on Race Relations) Course: “Learning Together, Working Together: Enhancing Race and Ethnic Relations at MIT,” member of instructional team, Spring 2003.
• Co-Coordinator, Big Sibling Program, Adoptive Families at MIT, Spring 2002-
• Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Gender and Philosophy (monthly dinner meetings with presentations of work in progress by feminist philosophers in the Boston area), 2000-  See: http://web.mit.edu/~philos/wogap
• Independent Activities Period (IAP) Panel Organizer:
• 2001: Rethinking/Reconstructing Family: Philosophical and Feminist Issues in Adoption, with Charlotte Witt (UNH) and Janet Farrel Smith (Umass, Boston).
• 2000: Pornography, Subordination, and Silence: Feminist Applications of Speech Act Theory, with Nancy Bauer (Tufts) and Mary Kate McGowan (Wellesley).
• Informational presentations:
•     “Inside An Open Transracial Adoption”
• Family Resource Center, MIT, January (IAP 2002).
• Resolve, Eastern Massachusetts, April 2001.
• Resolve, Detroit Area, April 1997.
•     “Adoption and “Cultural Competence””
•     Family Resource Center, MIT (IAP 2004).

Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Feminist Theory (in Women's Studies Program)
Introduction to Modern Philosophy
Introduction to Women's Studies (syllabus selected to be included in the syllabus repository at the Women and Society Internet Reference Project, SUNY-Buffalo)
Ancient Philosophy
Concepts of Self
Knowledge and Reality
Metaphysics
Theory of Knowledge
Philosophy of Language
Philosophical Topics in theStudy of Gender (cross-listed with Women's Studies)
Liberalism, Individualism, and Gender (co-taught, in Women's Studies)
Feminist Theory (in Women's Studies Program and cross-listed with Women's Studies)
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (cross-listed with Women's Studies)
Aristotle

Recent Graduate Seminars:
Apriori Knowledge (Spring 2005)
Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study (with Prof. Koffi Maglo, Spring 2004)
Problems in Metaphysics: Social Facts and Social Ontology (Spring 2003)
Topics in Epistemology (Winter 2001)
Aristotle (Winter 2000, Winter 2004)
Problems in Metaphysics: Race,Gender, and Social Construction (Winter, 1999)
Feminist Perspectives on Agency and Rationality (with Prof. Elizabeth Anderson, Winter 1997)
Natural Kinds and Social Constructions (Fall 1994)
Theories of Gender (Spring 1992)
Necessity and the A Priori (Fall 1991).

Consulting Editor, Episteme: Epistemological Controversies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 2002-
Associate Editor, Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2001-.
Editorial Board, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (annual), Oxford University Press, 2000-
Editorial Board, Studies in Feminist Philosophy book series, Oxford University Press, 1998-
Member of Editorial Board for the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 1990-93(?).
Refereeing for: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Hypatia, Legal Theory, Metaphilosophy, Noûs, Journal of Political Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Signs, Cornell Univ. Press, Harvard Univ. Press, Oxford Univ. Press, Mayfield Publishers, Princeton Univ. Press.
Consulting for: University of Michigan Press, MIT Press.
Refereeing for Hypatia special issue: “Feminist Science Studies”, Spring2002.

GRANT PROPOSAL REFEREEING:
Stanford Humanities Center, 1997-8, 1998-9, 2000-01.
Institute for Research on Women and Gender (UM), 1997, 1998.
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (UM), 1997-8.
National Humanities Center, 1996-7, 1997-8.
Rackham Divisional Committee (for Faculty Fellowships), (UM) 1993-5.

Undergraduate Advisor in Philosophy (MIT), 2003-
Junior Search Committee, chair (MIT), 2002-3.
Committee on Graduate Studies (MIT), 1998-
Chair of Graduate Studies, Philosophy Dept. (UM), 1993-5.
Graduate Studies Committee, Philosophy Dept. (UM), 1992-8.
Interdepartmental Ctte. for the Program in Classical Philosophy (Princeton), 1987-9.
Associate Faculty: Political Philosophy Program (Princeton), 1987-89.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Princeton), 1987-8.

Acting Director of Women’s Studies, July 2003-January 2004
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe, MIT Representative to the Board, and Board Co-Chair (MIT), 2000-2002
WS Personnel Committee, Chair (MIT), 1999-2001
WS Steering Committee (MIT), 1998-
WS Curriculum Committee (MIT), 1998-2000, Chair 2004-5
WS Personnel Committee (UM), 1997-8.
WS Curriculum Committee, Chair (UM), 1997-8.
Executive Committee, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (UM), 1995-8.
Budgeted (25%) appointment in Women's Studies (UM), 1995-8.
Non-budgeted appointment in Women's Studies (UM), 1992-5.
WS Executive Committee (UM), 1994-5, 1996-7.
Supervisor for WS240 (Introduction to Women's Studies) (UM), 1994-5.
WS Salary Review Committee (UM), 1993-4.
Associate Faculty, Women's Studies Program (Penn), 1989-92.
Women's Studies Advisory Committee (Princeton), 1986-89.
Focused Research Project on Gender (UC Irvine), 1985-6.
University Sexual Harassment Complaint Advisor (UCBerkeley), 1983-5.
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Title IX (UCBerkeley), 1980-84.
Research Assistant to the Title IX Committee (UCBerkeley), 1981.

SHASS Gender Equity Committee (MIT), 2002-, Chair, 2004-
Committee on Campus Race Relations (MIT), 2002-04.
Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of the Humanities Library (MIT), 2000-01
Advisory Board, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (UM), 1997-8
Search Committee for Director of the Humanities Institute (UM), 1996-7.
Rackham Merit Fellowship Committee (UM), 1994-5.
LS&A Grievance Review Board (UM), 1994-5, 1996-7.
University Committee on Undergraduate Admissions (Penn), 1991-2.

Technology Children's Center, Board of Directors, (MIT) 1999-2003
TCC Personnel Committee, Chair, 1999-2002

American Philosophical Association
Eastern Division, Executive Committee, 2001-2003
Central Division Nominating Committee, 1994-5
Central Division Program Committee, 1993-4
Area consultant (feminism) to the Eastern Division Program Committee, 1994-7, 1999-2001
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, 1993-1997
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
International Association of Women Philosophers
National Women's Studies Association
Society for Analytic Feminism
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division
Society for Women in Philosophy, National Treasurer, 2002-