Professor Alison Jaggar to Retire
The Philosophy Department announces the retirement of Professor听Alison Jaggar听as of August 31st, 2020.听听
Professor Alison Jaggar is one of the foremost political philosophers in the US, and is widely credited with having been a pioneer in the field of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of gender, as well as with introducing gender as a category of analysis into the philosophical debate on global justice. Jaggar came to CU 麻豆影院 in 1990听and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She is also a faculty affiliate in Ethnic Studies. Jaggar is a College Professor of Distinction and has lectured and held visiting positions at many universities in the US and abroad. She has been awarded numerous distinguished lectureships and fellowships, including the Dewey Lecturer, APA (2019), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017), 鈥淏est Should Teach鈥 Award (2012), CU Gee Memorial Lectureship, two NEH Fellowships, Society for Women in Philosophy Distinguished Woman Philosopher, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and other honors.
Professor Jaggar has published many books and articles and her work has been widely translated. Her books include:
Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men, edited with Paula Rothenberg (1978/1984/1993);听Feminist Politics and Human Nature听(1983);听Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited with Susan R. Bordo (1989);听Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics听(1994);听Morality and Social Justice: Point Counterpoint, with James P. Sterba听et al(1995);听The Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy, edited with Iris M. Young (1998);听Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader听(2008/2013);听Abortion: Three Perspectives, with Michael Tooley, Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine (2009);听Pogge and his Critics听(2010);听Gender and Global Justice听(2014). She is currently at work on two books,听Just Moral reasoning: Justifying Moral Claims in an Unjust World,听co-authored with Theresa W. Tobin, in which she is exploring the potential of a naturalized approach to moral epistemology for addressing moral disputes in contexts of inequality and cultural differences; as well as听Essays on Global Gender Justice.
Professor Jaggar has supervised and trained numerous PhD students, most of whom came back to CU 麻豆影院 for a conference honoring Professor Jaggar in 2014 鈥淚n the Unjust Meantime鈥, including听Corwin Aragon (Cal Poly Pomona), Amandine Catala (Canada Research Chair at Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al), Annaleigh Curtis (JD Harvard Law, Senior Associate Attorney at WilmerHale), Barrett Emerick (St. Mary鈥檚 College of Maryland), Abigail Gosselin (Regis University), Peter Higgins (Eastern Michigan University), Richard A. Jones (Howard University, retired), Hye-Ryoung Kang (CU 麻豆影院), Audra King (Central Connecticut State University), Dan Lowe (University of Michigan), Ryan Mott (Emmanuel College), Heidi Petersen (National University), Maureen Sander-Staudt (Southwest Minnesota State University), Teresa Tobin (Marquette University), Kacey Warren (Foundry College), Scott Wisor (Minerva University), Shelly Wilcox (San Francisco State), Jason Wyckoff (independent scholar), Lijun Yuan (Texas State University).
Jaggar鈥檚 career has included a great deal of service to professional philosophy. She was a founder of the Society for Women in Philosophy and the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. Since the 1970s, she has been an active citizen of the American Philosophical Association and in 2020 she will begin her second term on the听APA听Committee for the Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers.
The Department thanks Professor Jaggar for her contributions to our teaching and research mission, her service and dedication to our department and to our field, and wishes her the very best. 听We will miss you Alison!听