Chris J. Cuomo, Ph.D.

Contact:
Institute for Women’s Studies
University of Georgia
102 Benson Building
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-2846
cuomo@uga.edu

Areas of special interest:

Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Political Theory, Environmental Philosophy, Science Studies, Art

 

Degrees:

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992. Specialization: Ethics and Political Philosophy. Supervisor: Claudia Card. Thesis: “Ecological Feminism as Environmental Ethics.”

M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988.

B.A. Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University, 1986.

 

Present Position:

Director, Institute for Women’s Studies, University of Georgia, 8/06-present.

Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies.

 

Past Positions:

Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Undergraduate Director, Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati.

Assistant, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 1992-2004.

Interviewer, Artist, NYU International Trauma Studies Program, Post-9/11 Project, 2003.

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990-92.

 

Fellowships and Visiting Positions:

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, Fellow, 2002-2003.

Illinois Wesleyan University, Visiting Faculty, 2002.

Murdoch University, Australia, Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Visiting Scholar, Spring 1999.

Cornell University, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, Department of Science and Technology Studies, 1994-95.

 

Grants:

National Science Foundation, “Connecting Indigenous Knowledge to Landscape Process Research, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska,” (co-PI w/ W. Eisner and K. Hinkel) $250,000, 2006-09.

National Science Foundation, "Reconstructing Landscape Evolution of the Alaskan Coastal Plain Using Indigenous Knowledge," (co-PI with W. Eisner and K. Hinkel), $55,479, 2005-06.

Taft Center Cost-Sharing Grant, Summer 2005.

University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Awards, 1994, 1996.

Taft Summer Research and Travel Grants, 1993, 1995, 1997, 98.

 

 

BOOKS AND COLLECTIONS:

 

1. Authored:
   1. The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. Nominated for APA Book Award, 2005, and Lambda Book Award, 2003.
   2. Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing, Routledge, 1998.
   
   
   
2. Edited:
1. Feminist Philosophy: An Introductory Reader, with Alison Bailey, McGraw-Hill, forthcoming 2007.
2. Ethics and the Environment: Special Issue on Art, 8(1), Spring 2003.
3. Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections, with Kim Hall, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

 

1. “Dignity and the Right to be Lesbian or Gay,” Philosophical Studies 132 (1): 75-85, 2007.
2. Hinkel K. M., B. M. Jones, W. R. Eisner, C. J. Cuomo, R. A. Beck, R. Frohn, "Methods to Assess Natural and Anthropogenic Thaw Lake and Drainage on the Western Artic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska," Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surfaces 112, F02S16, 2007.
3. “Global Fundamentalism, Post-9/11 America, and the Ever-Present Value of Feminism,” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 16(1): 103-111, 2005.
4. “Philosophical Sisters, Incite!” Hypatia 19(4): 233-236, 2004.
5. "Science, Values, and Common Ground," The Journal of Animal Science 81:2904-2907, 2003.
6. "Ada Medina: The Artist on Process and Ethics," Ethics and the Environment 8(1): 3-21, 2003.
7. "On Ecofeminist Philosophy," Ethics and the Environment 7(2): 1-11, 2002.
8. "Still Fooling with Mother Nature," Hypatia 16(3): 149-56, 2001.
9. "Flourishing, Praxis, and Charm: An Author’s Response," in Ethics and the Environment 4(1), 1999.
10. "Thoughts on Lesbian Differences," Hypatia 13(1): 198-205, 1998."Feminist Ethics and Connection Amidst Evil," Social Theory and Practice 24(2): 301-313, 1998.
11. “Why War is not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence," Hypatia 11(4): 30-45, 1996.
12. "Unraveling the Problems in Ecofeminism," Environmental Ethics 15(4): 351-363, 1992.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS and OTHER ARTICLES:

1. "Claiming the Right to be Queer," in The Feminist Philosophy Reader, ed. Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
2. “White and Cracking Up,” in White on White/Black on Black, ed. George Yancy, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
3. "How New Yorkers Said No to War: An Experiment in Message and Action," in Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Public Knowledge, ed. Erica Meiners and Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco, Routledge, 2004.
4. “Ethics and the Eco/Feminist Self," in Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (4th edition), eds.Michael E. Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, et al, Prentice Hall, 2003.
5. "Getting Closer: On the Ethics of Knowledge Production," published on www.environment.harvard.edu/religion/research/ethcuomo.htm, 2001.
6. "Feminist Sex at Century's End," in Feminist Ethics and Politics, ed. Claudia Card, University of Kansas Press, 1999.
7. "'The Personal is Political' Revisited," with Lori Gruen, in Daring to Be Good: Feminist Ethico-Politics, eds. Bat-Ami Bar On and Ann Ferguson, Routledge, 1998.
8. "Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology, and Human Population," in Ecological Feminist Philosophies, ed. Karen J. Warren, Routledge, 1995.
9. "The Thoughtful Practice of Ecological Feminism," in Ecological Feminist Thought, ed. Karen Warren, Indiana University Press, 1996.
10. "Spinsters in Sensible Shoes: Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks," in From Mouse to Mermaid: Critical Dialogues on Film, Gender, and Culture, eds. Elizabeth Bell and Laura Sells, Indiana University Press, 1995.

 

REPRINTS:

 

1. Excerpts from Feminism and Ecological Communities in Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies, ed. Sue Spaid, Contemporary Arts Center, 2002.

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

 

1. The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture, by Roger N. Lancaster, Lambda Book Report, February 2004.
2. Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, by Val Plumwood, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 2002.
3. Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action, by Noel Sturgeon, Environmental Ethics, Winter 1999.
4. Is Science Multicultural?, by Sandra Harding, Women's Review of Books, November 1998.
5. The New Ecological Order, by Luc Ferry, Isis 87(4): 768-69.
6. Gay and Lesbian Politics, by Mark Blasius, Ethics 104.
7. Virtual Equality, by Urvashi Vaid, Lesbian Review of Books, Fall 1997

 

Teaching and Course Development:

 

Graduate Courses:

Theories of Justice, Kantian Ethics, After 2001: Philosophical Responses to Evils, Contemporary Ethical Theory, Feminist Epistemologies, Gender, Nature and Postcoloniality, Philosophy and Performance, Foundations of Feminist Theory, Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities, Women & the Construction of Knowledge

 

Undergraduate Courses:

Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy and Religion, Issues in Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Philosophy and Race (Honors), Indigenous American Philosophy, Metaethics, Seminar on Theories of Justice, Contemporary Moral Issues, Feminist Philosophy, Classics in Feminist Philosophy (Honors), Environmental Ethics, Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies, Business Ethics, Medical Ethics

 

 

Recent Conference, Invited, and Colloquium Presentations:

 

“Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Climate Change Science: Methods, Goals, and Challenges,” University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development Seminar, Barrow Area Science Consortium, April 7, 2006.

 

“Postcolonial American Philosophy: Sex and Gender at the Core,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 2006.

 

“Dignity and the Right to Be LGBT,” Author Meets Critics Session on Richard Mohr’s The Long Arc of Justic, APA Pacific Meetings, March 2006.

 

“Feminist Ethics in Theory and Practice: An Example from Climate Change Science,” Stony Brook University, Rice University, University of Georgia, February 2006.

 

“The Complexity of Food Ethics,” Conference on The Ethics of Eating: Want, Surfeit and Health, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers-Newark, March 5, 2005.

 

“Environmental Ethics, Science, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” Society for Women in Philosophy, Northeastern Illinois University, September 2004.

 

“New Perspectives in Paleoenvironmental Studies on the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska:  Women and Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” International Arctic Social Sciences, May 20, 2004.

 

"Embracing Ignorance as Part of What it Means to Know," Penn State University Rock Ethics Center Conference on the Ethics and Epistemology of Ignorance, March 27, 2004.

 

"Race is Not Sex: Comments on Overall's 'Transsexualism and Transracialism,'" Society for Analytic Feminism, Central APA, April 23, 2004.

 

“The View from Brooklyn: 9/11 and the Ethics of War,” University of Melbourne, LaTrobe University, University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University, Australia, March 2004, Colgate University, November 11, 2004.

 

“Philosophical Sisters, Incite!” National Women’s Studies Association, June 2003.

 

"Truth-Telling in War Times: Queer Traditions," Graduate Center of the City University of New York, May 2003.

 

"Faith in Performance," Visual Culture Colloquium, Cornell University, April 2003.

 

"Science, Values, and Common Ground," Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, March 2003.

 

"The Philosopher Queen on War," Wells College, February 2002, University of Montana, April 2002, Santa Monica College, March 2002.

 

“From The Gospel According to Mark to Gardens in the Dunes,” Loemker Symposium on Literature as Moral Wisdom, Emory University, Sept. 2002.

 

"Science, Work, and Practical Values," International Federation of Animal Science Societies, Quebec City, July 2002.

 

"Reading Simone Weil: It's Better to Fade Away," Stonybrook University, February 2002.         .

 

"On Ecofeminist Philosophy," International Society for Environmental Ethics, American Philosophical Association, December 2001.

 

"Critical Theory and the Science of Complexity," University of Kentucky, November 2001, Binghamton University, November 2001.

           

"Ethics and the Secular Sacred," Keynote Address, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Louisville, November 2001.

             

“Feminist Ethics after the Bombing of New York,” Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference, Tampa, October 2001.

 

"Ethics and the Limits of Policy," International Society for Environmental Ethics, American Philosophical Association, December 2000.

 

"The Philosopher Queen," Society for Women in Philosophy, Antioch College, October 2000.

 

"Identity Politics and the Spectre of the Man in a Dress,” American Studies Association, October, 2000.

 

"Getting Closer: On the Ethics of Knowledge Production," Keynote Address, Michigan State University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, October 2000.

 

"Feminist Sex at Century's End," Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference University of South Florida, November 1999, keynote panel.

 

"Race, Gender, and Nature: Ethics at the Crossroads of Oppression," Murdoch University, Perth, Australia; LaTrobe University, Melbourne; Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, University of Auckland, Winter 1999.

 

"The Emptiness of Diversity, The Fullness of Difference," Keynote Address for Diversity Week, University of Florida, October 1998.

 

Respondent on panels on Feminism and Ecological Communities, sponsored by  Society for Women in Philosophy, APA Central and Pacific Meetings, 1998.

 

"Flourishing, Justice, and Ecological Communities," International Environmental Justice Conference, University of Melbourne, October 1997.

 

"Flourishing, Feminism, and Aristotle," University of Montana, September 1997.

 

"Activism at the Crossroads: On Antiracist Environmentalism," Keynote Address Atlanta Area Women's Studies Consortium, April 1997, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Agnes Scott College.

 

"Theorizing Lesbian Difference," Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, December 1996.

 

"Rainbow-Flavored Optimism and the New Queer Politics," Lafayette College, March 1996.

 

"The Ecological Costs of War in Peaceful Times," International Association of Women Philosophers, Conference on War, Vienna, Austria, September 1995.

 

"Not So Static After All: Ecofeminism and Anti-Essentialist Critique," Binghamton University, Department of Philosophy, April 1995.

 

"'The Person is Political' Revisited," (with Lori Gruen) Ecofeminist Philosophies Conference, University of Dayton, 1995.

 

"Flourishing, Feminism, and Environmental Ethics," Cornell University, Department of Science and Technology Studies, February 1995.

 

"Ethics for Cyborgs," Illinois Wesleyan University, February 1995.

 

"Why Feminists Care About the Environment," Illinois State University, Department of Philosophy, February 1995.

 

"Population Policy in the 'Third' World: A Feminist Critique,"Conference on Feminist Ethics and Public Policy, University of Pittsburgh, November 1994.

 

"Responsibility and World Hunger," Debate with Thomas Pogge, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, May 1994.

 

"Ecofeminist Activism and Thoughtful Practice," Keynote Address, Diemer Symposium on Ethics, Hiram College, May 1994.

 

 

FACULTY SERVICE:

 

Women’s Studies Fundraising Committee, University of Georgia, 2006-07

Women’s Studies Hiring Committees, University of Georgia, 2006-07

Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee, University of Georgia, 2006-07

Taft Research Center Faculty Board, University of Cincinnati, 2004-2008

UC|21 Academic Planning: Research Excellence Committee

UC|21 Academic Planning: Research Institutes and Centers Subcommittee

UC|21 Academic Planning: McMicken Action Team

McMicken College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Council

McMicken College Interdisciplinary Committee

McMicken College Advising/General Education Subcommittee

McMicken College Curriculum Committee

Women’s Studies Governance Committee

Women’s Studies Graduate and Undergraduate Curriculum Committees

Philosophy Department Hiring Committee Chair, 1998-99, 2000-01

Philosophy Department Hiring Committee Member, 1993-94, 1995-96

Philosophy Colloquium Chair, 1997-98

Philosophy Department Merit Committee, 1993

Philosophy Graduate Admissions Committee

General Education Curriculum Committee, 1993-94

Women's Studies Graduate Advisory Council 1997-98, 2003-04

Women's Studies Graduate Admissions, 1993-94, 1995-98

International Women's Day Committee, 1996

Friends of Women's Studies Faculty Representative, 1992-93

Professional Associations:

Editor, Society for Women in Philosophy Newsletter, 2004-

American Philosophical Association

Society for Women in Philosophy

National Women’s Studies Association

Radical Philosophers' Association

Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy

International Association of Women Philosophers

American Studies Association

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

 

Women of Ohio and the World (527 political organization), Founder and Treasurer, 2004-

New Yorkers Say No to War, National Planning Committee, 2001-

Stonewall Cincinnati, Board of Directors, 1995-99

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Guest Lecturer, 1993-95

No on Issue Three Campaign, 19