Board of Directors
INTERIM PRESIDENT
Joel Michael Reynolds
Joel Michael Reynolds (PhD, MA) is Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies, Director of the Disability Studies Program, and Faculty in the Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University. They are jointly appointed in Georgetown University’s School of Medicine and Medical Center as Faculty in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics as well as in the Department of Family Medicine.
INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT
Adam Cureton
Adam Cureton is the Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He did his graduate work at Oxford University, on a Rhodes Scholarship, and at UNC Chapel Hill. His research is mainly focused on ethics, Kant, and philosophy of disability.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Leslie Pickering Francis
Leslie P. Francis, Ph.D., J.D., holds joint appointments as Alfred C. Emery distinguished professor of law and distinguished professor of philosophy, and adjunct appointments in Family and Preventive Medicine (in the Division of Public Health), Internal Medicine (in the Division of Medical Ethics), and Political Science, at the University of Utah.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Eva Feder Kittay
Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University/SUNY and a Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. Kittay received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is Professor of Philosophy at Gallaudet University. Her research interests include bioethics, philosophy of disability, and Deaf philosophy.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Joseph Stramondo
Dr. Stramondo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, as well as the Interim Chair of Classics and Humanities at San Diego State University. During the 22-23 Academic Year, he was the Hubert Mader Visiting Professor in Bioethics at the Albert Gnaegi Center for Healthcare Ethics at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection of biomedical ethics and philosophy of disability.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Julie Maybee
Julie E. Maybee is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and director of the interdisciplinary Disability Studies Minor at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Making and Unmaking Disability: The Three-Body Approach and Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic, as well as articles in Disability Studies, African philosophy, educational theory, race, and 19th century Continental philosophy. Her work is united by an overriding interest in the way socially defined differences and time and place shape people’s identities, knowledge and experiences.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Desiree Valentine
Dr. Valentine’s work lies at the intersections of Critical Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Queer Theory, and Disability Bioethics. Her past projects have included a philosophical exploration of the concept of ‘mixed race’ and its role in U.S. cultural imaginaries concerning racial justice and liberation. Presently, she is working on a project exploring the intersections of racism and ableism.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Ally Peabody Smith
Ally Peabody Smith is a philosopher and mixed-methods researcher specializing in ethics, philosophy of disability, philosophy of medicine, and bio- and neuroethics. She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021, where she specialized in moral philosophy. Her work encompasses four, interconnected lines of inquiry: (1) moral status; (2) capacity and communication; (3) bio- and neuroethics; and (4) the emotional, political, and social contexts of disability.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Christopher A. Riddle
Christopher A. Riddle, is The Harold T. Clark, Jr., Professor of Ethics, and a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Utica University, New York, USA. In 2016, he was a visiting researcher at the Fondation Brocher in Hermance, Switzerland, and in 2020, he was a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in New York.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Kevin Timpe
Kevin Timpe is the William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University. His primary research interests range across the metaphysics of free will, philosophy of disability, virtue theory, and philosophical theology. He has published eleven books, including Disability and Inclusive Community (Calvin Press, 2018), the Routledge Companion to Free Will (Routledge, 2017), Virtues and their Vices (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Free Will in Philosophical Theology (Bloomsbury, 2013). In addition, he’s published over 60 journal articles and book chapters.
ASSISTANT
Cassius Hou
Cassius Hou is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a JD candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center. Their research spans feminist philosophy, transgender studies, social ontology, moral psychology, and philosophy of disability. They are the current Managing Editor for the Journal of Philosophy of Disability.
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