2008-2009

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Joan C. Callahan

Professor


Philosophy
and
Gender and Women's Studies

University of Kentucky
114 Breckinridge Hall
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0056

(on leave)

PHONE: 859-257-1388

FAX: 859-257-7353

 

mailto:buddy@uky.edu

 

Updated October 2008

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Areas of Specialization and Interest:

Ethical Theory, Practical Ethics (including Bioethics, Professional Ethics, Ethics and Public Policy), Social and Political Philosophy, Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Philosophy of Law

Higher Education:

Ph.D. Philosophy: December 1982; University of Maryland, College Park
M.A. Philosophy: December 1979; University of Maryland, College Park
M.A. Humanities: June 1977; Simmons College
B.A. Philosophy: June 1976; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Summa cum Laude

Regular Positions:

2007- present: on leave
1995-2007: Professor, Philosophy; Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky
1998-2007: Director, Gender and Women's Studies Program; University of Kentucky
1988-1995: Associate Professor; Department of Philosophy; University of Kentucky
1986-1988: Assistant Professor; Department of Philosophy; University of Kentucky
1983-1986: Assistant Professor; Department of Philosophy; Louisiana State University
1982-1983: Instructor; Department of Philosophy; Louisiana State University

Adjunct / Part-time / Other Positions:

2005-2007: Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics, University of Kentucky
1994-2007: Graduate Faculty, Gender and Women's Studies Program, University of Kentucky
1992-2007: Graduate Faculty, Social Theory Program, University of Kentucky
1981-1982: Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
1979-1981: Lecturer; Department of Philosophy and University College; University Maryland, College Park (interim)
1979-1981: Research Associate; School of Medicine; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (interim)
1977-1981: Teaching and Research Assistant; Department of Philosophy; University of Maryland, College Park
1977-1980: Instructor; Department of Philosophy and Division of Continuing Education; Simmons College (summers)
1976-1977: Teaching Assistant; Department of Philosophy; Simmons College
1976: Lecturer; Department of Philosophy; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (summer)
1975: Teaching Assistant and Tutor; Department of Philosophy; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Current Research -- Main Project

I am currently working with Nancy Tuana of Penn State University on digitally filming interviews with the first cohort of feminist philosophers in North America. The interviews average five hours each, and will be archived at the University of Kentucky and Penn State libraries. We will also produce searchable versions of the interviews online at PSU, as well as a print volume of selections from the interviews. In some cases, we will also produce shortened versions of the interviews for in-class use. To date, this project has been generously supported by the University of Kentucky Gender and Women's Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Oral History Program, and Vice President for Research; the Rock Ethics Institute of the Pennsylvania State University; and the American Philosophical Association. Please contact either Professor Tuana or me for updates on our progress

Publications -- Books:

Reproduction,Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives. Contributing editor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Menopause: A Midlife Passage. Editor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies. With James W. Knight. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989. (Outstanding Academic Book Award, Choice, 1991.)

Ethical Issues in Professional Life. Contributing editor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (Second edition in preparation.)

Publications -- Journals:

"Why 'Gay' Marriage Matters -- At Least for Now," in press, Special Issue of Hypatia, a Journal of Feminist Philosophy--Essays in Honor of Claudia Card.

Writing Against Heterosexism: Special Issue of Hypatia, a Journal of Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Sara Ruddick and Bonnie Mann, Winter 2007.

"Multiple Gestations: Some Policy Issues," with Patricia K. Jennings, Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care Philosophy and Policy, 9 (2001): 167-185.

"Liberalism, Reproductive Technologies, and Feminist Skepticism," Special Issue of Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie: Applied Ethics at the Turn of the Millenium, ed. Elspeth Attwooll and Annette Brockmöller (2001): 49-55.

"A Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproduction-Assisting Technologies: A Case Study on the Limits of Liberal Theory," with Dorothy E. Roberts, Kentucky Law Journal 84/4 (1996): 1197-1234.

Introduction to the Symposium, "Feminism and Philosophy in the Mid-1990s: Taking Stock," Metaphilosophy 27/1,2 (1996): 184-188.

"Contraception or Incarceration: What's Wrong With This Picture?" Stanford Law and Policy Review 7/1 (1996): 67-82.

"Christian Science Healings: An Alternative Health Care System?" Journal of Social Philosophy XXVI/3 (Winter 1995): 105-111.

"Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Lethal Injection in Late Abortion," Journal of Clinical Ethics 6/3 (1995): 254-63. (This is the lead article in a symposium on Theoretical Issues. It is followed by responses from John C. Fletcher and Bethany Spielman.)

"Evaluating Religious Practices: Ecclesioethics Engendered," Professional Ethics 3:2 (1994): 37-56.

"Let's Get the Lead Out: or Why Johnson Controls is Not an Unequivocal Victory for Women," Journal of Social Philosophy XXV/3 (1994): 65-75.

"Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse?" With James W. Knight. Women and Criminal Justice 3:1/2 (1992): 5-33. (This is a revised and updated adaptation of materials from Chapters 7 and 9 of Knight and Callahan, Preventing Birth.)

"Acts, Omissions, and Euthanasia." Public Affairs Quarterly 2:2 (1988): 21-36.

"Muyskens on Moral Problems in Nursing." Business and Professional Ethics Journal 5:1 (1987): 75-82.

"On Harming the Dead." Ethics 97:2 (1987): 341-52. (Reviewed in The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1987: 29-30.)

"Paternalism and Voluntariness." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16:2 (1986): 199-219.

"The Fetus and Fundamental Rights." Commonweal 11 April 1986: 203-09.

"Academic Paternalism." International Journal of Applied Philosophy3:1 (1986): 21-31.

"The Silent Scream: A New, Conclusive Argument Against Abortion?" Philosophy Research Archives XI (1986): 181-95.

"Enforcing Slavery Contracts: A Liberal View." Philosophical Forum 16:3 (1985): 223-36.

"Response to Rebecca Dresser's 'Involuntary Confinement: Legal and Psychiatric Perspectives.'" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 10:2 (1985): 199-202.

"Liberty, Beneficence, and Involuntary Confinement." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 9:3 (1984): 261-93.

Publications -- Encyclopedia Articles:

"'Applied' Ethics." In The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, within The Blackwell Encylcopedia of Management, edited by R. Edward Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1997, 2nd edition, 2003.

"Prenatal Harm." In Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies, edited by Annette Burfoot. New York: Garland Press, 1999.

"Contraception: Ethics." In Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies, edited by Annette Burfoot. New York: Garland Press, 1999.

"Birth Control Ethics," Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, edited by Ruth Chadwick. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.

 

Publications -- Reviews, Review Essays, and Critical Notices:

Review: Leslie Pickering Francis and Anita Silvers, eds., Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Impications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions (New York: Routledge, 2000). Hypatia 16/4 (2001): 147-55.

Review: Leslie Pickering Francis, ed., Sexual Harassment as an Ethical Issue in Academic Life (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Newsletter 9/2 (2001), 10-11.

"First Steps in Preventive Ethics," critical notice of Laurence B. McCullough and Frank A. Chervenak, Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). Hastings Center Report 26/2 (1996): 45-46.

Review: Mary Briody Mahowald, Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). Ethics 105:4 (1995): 950-951.

"Procreative Liberty: Whose Procreation, Whose Liberty?" Stanford Law and Policy Review 6:2 (1995): 121-125. Critical note on John Robertson's Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies special issue on "Advances in Reproductive Technology: Legal, Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications."

"Feminism and Reproductive Technologies." Journal of Clinical Ethics 5:1 (1994): 75-85.

"The Contract Motherhood Debate." Journal of Clinical Ethics 4:1 (1993): 82-91.

Review: John Donnelly, ed., Suicide: Right or Wrong? (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1990). Ethics 102:1 (1991): 198-99.

Review: Christine Overall, Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1987). Canadian Philosophical Reviews X:10 (October 1990): 421-23.

Review: Michelle Stanworth, ed., Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987). American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 89:2 (1990): 60-61.

Review: Ruth Macklin, Mortal Choices: Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Medicine (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988). The Quarterly Review of Biology 64:3 (1989): 372-73.

Publications -- Chapters in Books:

"Liberalism, Reproductive Technologies, and Feminist Skepticism," in Applied Ethics at the Turn of the Millenium, ed. Elspeth Attwooll and Annette Brockmöller. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, pp. 49-55.

"Menopause: Taking the Cures or Curing the Takes?"in Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics, ed. Margaret Urban Walker. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999, pp. 151-174.

"Speech that Harms: The Case of Lesbian Families," in On Feminist Ethics and Politics, ed. Claudia Card. University Press of Kansas, 1999, pp. 244-266.

"Freestanding, Pervasive, and Combined Approaches to the Teaching of Criminal Justice Ethics," in Teaching Criminal Justice Ethics: Strategic Issues, ed. John Kleinig and Margaret Leland Smith. Cincinnati: Anderson, 1997, pp. 89-104.

"Reproductive Punishment: Long-Acting Contraceptives as a Condition of Probation." In Punishment: Social Control and Coercion, ed. Christine Sistare. New York: Peter Lang, 1996, pp. 179-209. (A revised version of this article is published as "Contraception or Incarceration: What's Wrong with This Picture?" in the Stanford Law and Policy Review, supra.)

"Professions, Institutions, and Moral Risk." In Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility, edited by Daniel E. Wueste. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994, pp. 243-270.

"Nursing and AIDS: Some Special Problems." With Jill Powell. In AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics, edited by Michael Davis and Elliot D. Cohen. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994, pp. 51-73.

"On Treating Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse," with James W. Knight in Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family, edited by Diana Meyers, Kenneth Kipnis, and Cornelius Murphy. New York: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 143-170. (This paper is an adaptation of the material in "Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse?" from Women and Criminal Justice, supra. This version of the material was prepared for a collection of essays in philosophy of law.)

"Women, Fetuses, Medicine, and the Law." With James W. Knight. In Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, edited by Helen Bequaert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp. 224-239. (This is a somewhat shorter adaptation of the material in "Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse?" from Women and Criminal Justice, supra, prepared for a collection of essays in feminist medical ethics.)

"Obligations Attending Gaining Information: A Moral Question for Health Survey Researchers." Health Survey Research Methods, edited by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services (#89-3447) 1989: 157-60.

Publications -- Other:

"Feminist Ethics and Social Theory: A New FEAST for Us All," Newsletter of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8:1 (May 2000): 10.

"Testimony before the Joint House and Senate Judiciary Committee, Commonwealth of Kentucky," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues 99:2 (Spring 2000): 237-238.

"Roundtable: Evaluating the Teaching of Criminal Justice Ethics," with James Blashill, Charles Claxon, Michael Davis, James F. Doyle, William Heffernan, Mark Jones, Kate King, John Kleinig, Bruce MacMurray, Margaret Leland Smith, Zug B. Standing Bear, Cheryl Swanson, Elizabeth Welfel, and Kenneth Winston, in Teaching Criminal Justice Ethics: Strategic Issues, ed. John Kleinig. Anderson, 1997, pp. 189-200.

Critical Response to Franklin Miller's review of Susan Sherwin's No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care, in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Medicine and Philosophy 95:2 (Spring 1996): 77-79.

"A Feminist Critique of Procreative Liberty," in materials for the "Women's Legal Studies Institute: Two Decades of Women's Legal Theory and Doctrine," Linda Hirshman, Chair, sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Law School, July 1994.

"From the "Applied" to the Practical: Teaching Ethics for Use." American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 90:1 (Fall 1990): 29-34. (Invited paper on teaching practical ethics.)

"Promiscuity and the Public Health: Some Clinical and Ethical Issues." With W. David Hager, MD; Martha Bird, MD; Arthur L. Frank, MD; Miriam L. David, MD; and Joseph Engelberg. Hospital Practice 25:9 (1990): 63ff. (Transcript of Ethics Grand Rounds at the Chandler Medical Center.)

Publications -- Work Reprinted:

"From the 'Applied' to the Practical: Teaching Ethics for Use," In Teaching Philosophy: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Suggestions, ed. Tziporah Kasachkoff. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. (This is an updated version of my 1990 article (supra) from the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy.)

"From the 'Applied' to the Practical: Teaching Ethics for Use," In In the Socratic Tradition: Essays on Teaching Philosophy, ed. Tziporah Kasachkoff. Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. (This is an updated version of my 1990 article (supra) from the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy.)

"Preventing Birth," with James W. Knight. Selections from Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies. In Gender, edited by Carol C. Gould, in the series, Key Concepts in Critical Theory. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humana Press, 1997.

"Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Lethal Injection in Late Abortion." Earlier version of the paper in the Journal of Clinical Ethics, reprinted in Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Joan C. Callahan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

"Academic Paternalism." In A Professor's Duties: Ethical Issues in College Teaching, edited by Peter J. Markie. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994.

"The Fetus and Fundamental Rights." Revised version, in Taking a Stand, edited by Irene Clark. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

"The Fetus and Fundamental Rights." Revised version, in The Ethics of Abortion: The Continuing Debate, 2nd ed., edited by Robert Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1994. (Also reprinted in the 1st ed., New York: Prometheus, 1989.)

"Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse?" With James W. Knight. In The Criminalization of A Woman's Body, edited by Clarice Feinman. New York: Haworth Press, 1992.

"The Fetus and Fundamental Rights." Revised and expanded in Abortion and Catholicism: The American Debate, edited by Thomas A. Shannon and Patricia B. Jung. New York: Crossroads, 1988.

"Academic Paternalism." In Ethical Issues in Professional Life, edited by Joan C. Callahan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

"Liberty, Beneficence, and Involuntary Confinement." In An Introduction to Bioethics, edited by Rem B. Edwards and Glenn C. Graber. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1987.

Presentations -- Professional Associations / Professional Conferences:

"Feminist Philosophers: In Our Own Words," keynote address, 2007 Conference, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

"Why 'Gay' Marriage Matters -- At Least for Now," keynote address, 2007 Kentucky Philosophical Association Conference

"Same-Sex Marriage: Caught in the Crossfire," Panel on Policy Issues, the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Biannual Conference, Clearwater Beach

"Why Marriage Matters -- At Least for Now," invited, special session on same-sex marriage, American Philosophical Association Committees on LGBT Persons in the Profession and Inclusiveness in the Profession, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco.

"Homeland Security: Which Women's Homelands? Which Women's Security?" invited, at the conference, "Critical Criminology and Feminist Analyses," Eastern Kentucky State University

"Two Weddings, a Funeral, and a Journal Or Recent Encounters with Feminism, Fashion and Resistance," keynote address, Pre-conference Workshop, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati

"Multiple Gestation: Some Public Policy Issues," invited, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Indiana Section, in Conjunction with the Indiana-Purdue University Medical Humanities Program, Indianapolis

"On Revising the Payments for Hate Speech," invited, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston

"Sanctioning Speech that Harms: An Immodest Proposal"

"Liberalism, Reproductive Technologies, and Feminist Skepticism," 19th World Congress, International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy on "The Transformation of Legal Systems and Economies in an Age of Regional and Global Interdependence," New York

"Teaching Criminal Justice Ethics: Freestanding, Pervasive, and Combined Approaches," Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, conference on "Teaching Criminal Justice Ethics: Strategic Issues," New York

"A Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproduction-Assisting Technologies: A Case Study on the Limits of Liberal Theory," International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Section, Lexington

"A Feminist Critique of Procreative Liberty," Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, session on "Liberty, Feminism, and New Reproductive Technologies," Phoenix

"Evaluating Religious Practices: Ecclesioethics Engendered," "Author Meets Critics" session on Margaret P. Battin's Ethics in the Sanctuary, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division meeting, Los Angeles

"Feminist Ethics and Reproductive Technologies," American Society forValue Inquiry session on "Feminist Contributions to Value Inquiry," American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta

"Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Feminism," International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Section, Salt Lake City

"Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Lethal Injection in Late Abortion"

"Policing or Providing? The Personal and the Political in Social Work Ethics," National Association of Social Workers, Bi-State Annual Conference, Louisville

"Moral Decision Making," Kentucky Society for Clinical Social Work

"Hazardous Workplaces and Prenatal Harm: Let's Get the Lead Out," American Philosophical Association Committee on Law and Philosophy and Committee on the Status of Women jointly-sponsored session on "Pregnancy in the Hazardous Workplace: In the Wake of Johnson Controls," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division meeting, New York

"Professions, Institutions, and Moral Risk," conference on "Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility," Clemson University

"Science as Practice and Malpractice in Science," comment, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting

"Substance Abuse and Fetal Harm: The Evolving Social Issues," conference on "Women, Alcohol, and Drugs: Issues for the '90s," sponsored by the Cabinet for Human Resources, Commonwealth of Kentucky

"The Nurse as Patient Advocate," Kentucky Nurses' Association

"Women as Fetal Containers," Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta

"Paternalism and the Elderly," conference on ethics and the care of the elderly, Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati

"Professional Ethics in Health Care Institutions," conference on ethics and the care of the elderly, Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati

"Is Fetal Harm Child Abuse?"

"Toxic Workplaces: Excluding Women to Protect the Unborn," Kentucky Philosophical Association

"Obligations Attending Gaining Information: A Moral Question for Health Survey Researchers," Fifth Conference on Health Survey Research Methods, National Center for Health Services Research and Health CareTechnology Assessment, Denver

"Toward a National Code of Ethics for Pre-School Teachers: A Comment on Kipnis," Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco

"Moral Consistency in Politics," "International Conference on Ethical Issues in Reproduction: Religious Perspectives," Catholics for a Free Choice, Washington, DC

Panel presentation, conference, "Ethics in Science," Association For Women in Science, Baton Rouge Chapter

"Academic Paternalism," North American Society for Social Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division meeting, Baltimore

"Evidence in Assessing the Voluntariness of Self-Harmful Actions,"

"Paternalism and Psychological Compulsion," Ninth Annual Philosophy Convention of the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge

"On Harming the Dead," Eighth Annual Philosophy Convention of the State of Louisiana, New Orleans

"Enforcing Slavery Contracts," Faculty Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Louisiana State University

"The Principle of Paternalism" Sixth Annual Philosophy Convention of the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge

"Paternalism and Involuntary Civil Confinement," Faculty Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Louisiana State University

"Using Logic in Today's World," Maryland Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

Presentations -- Campuses:

"The Fetus and Fundamental Rights"

"Marriage in the 21st Century," Centenary College of Louisiana

"Feminist Philosophers in North America - An Audio-Visual Sampler"

"Professions, Institutions, and Moral Risk," University of Kentucky

"On Revising the Payments for Hate Speech"

"Procreative Liberty, Possessive Individualism, and Human Cloning: A Comment on David Orentlicher's ‘Cloning and the Preservation of Family Integrity,'" Indiana-Purdue University College of Law and Medical Humanities Program

"Women's Studies and Women's Positions in Hard Times: A Conversation on Strategic Issues," Indiana-Purdue University, Women's Studies Program

"Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies"

"A Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproductive Technologies: A Case Study in the Limits of Liberal Theory"

"Moral Risk in the Academy," Faculty Humanities Seminar, Muhlenberg College

"Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Lethal Injection in Late Abortion"

"Reproductive Technologies and Their Implications for the Family: Feminist Perspectives,"Series on Reproduction and the Family, sponsored by GTE and the Sloane Foundation, Trinity College, Hartford

"Let's Get the Lead Out: Or Why Johnson Controls is Not an Unequivocal Victory for Women," Law School, University of South Carolina

"Prenatal Harm as Child Abuse?" Law School, University of South Carolina

"Parentalism and the Elderly," Gerontology Program, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

"Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Feminism," public lecture, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

"Is Fetal Harm Child Abuse?"

"Religion and Moral Consistency in Politics," George Mason University, American Studies Seminar on Religion and Politics

"The Ethics of Zealous Advocacy," Colloquium Series, College of Law, University of Kentucky

"Scientific Malpractice," College of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University

"The Silent Scream: A Philosophical Critique," National Organization of Women, Baton Rouge Chapter

"Ethical Issues in Heart Transplantation," School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda

Editorial Positions:

2007: Editor, with Sara Ruddick and Bonnie Mann, Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy -- Writing Against Heterosexism

2007-2012: Associate Editor, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

2003-present: Editorial Board, The Journal of Social Philosophy

2000-present: Editorial Board, The Florida Philosophical Review

1993-present: Editorial Board, Professional Ethics

1998-2003: Editor, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy

1994-98: Editorial Board, Gender, Race, and Class

1990-94: Editorial Board, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy

Reviewer For:

American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy; American Philosophical Quarterly; Basil Blackwell Publishers; Bioethics; Broadview Press; Business and Professional Ethics Journal; Cambridge University Press; Cornell University Press; Ethics; Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics; Garland Publishing Company; Florida Philosophical Review; Hypatia; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; Johns Hopkins University Press; Journal of Clinical Ethics; Journal of Social Philosophy; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Law and Society Review; National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Science Foundation; National Women's Studies Association Journal; Oxford University Press; Professional Ethics; Race, Gender, and Class; Rowman and Littlefield; St. Martin's Press; Stanford University Press; Social Problems; Temple University Press; Wadsworth Publishing Company; Westview Press; Women and Criminal Justice.

Selected University/College Service -- University of Kentucky:

2007-08: Search Committee, Ethics position, Department of Philosophy

2006-07: Advisory Board for "The Outsource," Center for LGBTQQ Issues

2006: Panelist, LGBT Issues in Healthcare, College of Medicine Hospital Leadership Program

2006: Reviewer, Faculty Research Support Program, Office of the Vice President for Research

2006: Panelist, "Writing for Publication," the Graduate School, UK

2005-present: Arts and Sciences Dean's Advisory Committee on Women Faculty

2005-present: Faculty Associate, UK Center for Bioethics and Patients' Rights

2005-present: Faculty Advisor, V-Day UK

2005: Panelist, "Promotion and Tenure: What you Need to Know," sponsored by the President's Commission on Women

2005: Panelist: Professional Seminar in Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Allied Health, "Surviving and Thriving in Academic Culture"

2005: Reviewer, Faculty Research Support Program, Office of the Vice President for Research

2002-07: Faculty Advisor, UK Lavender Society

2003-2005: Provost's Area Advisory Committee on Arts and Humanities

2004: Reviewer, Faculty Research Support Program, Office of the Vice President for Research

2003-04: College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Executive Committee

2002: Speaker: Seminar in Ethics, College of Social Work: "Feminist Ethics"

2002: Panelist: Teaching and Learning Center Series: "Making a Difference," panel on gender minorities

2002: Panelist: Professional Seminar in Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Allied Health, "Surviving and Thriving in Academic Culture"

2002: College of Arts and Sciences, Dean's Faculty Advisory Committee

2002: Chair, Program Review Committee, Latin American Studies Program

2002: Chair, Search Committee, Philosophy Department Chair

2001-02: President's Commission on Women

2001-02: Faculty Advisor, UK Lambda

2001-02: Faculty Advisor, Feminist Studies Collective

2001-02: Provost's Area Committee on Librarians

2001-02: College of Arts and Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure and Promotion in the Humanities

2000-02: Self-study, University of Kentucky

2000-02: Strategic Planning Advisory Committee to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

2001: Seminar for NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship Program Recipients

1999-00: Faculty Advisor, Feminist Studies Organization

1999: Kirwan Memorial Faculty Prize Committee, the Graduate School, University of Kentucky (awards $5,000 to an outstanding faculty member)

1998-99: Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Task Force on Interdisciplinary Programs

1998: Art Works Planning Committee, Commemoration of Fifty Years of Desegregation at the University of Kentucky

1998: Selection Committee, M.J. Dickson Quality Nursing Care Award, University of Kentucky Hospital

1997-99: Co-Chair, University Senate Task Force on Domestic Partnerships

1997-98: Chair, Chancellor's Advisory Area Committee on Tenure and Promotion, Arts and Humanities

1997-98: Search Committee, Dean of Arts and Sciences

1996-98: Chair, University Senate ad hoc Committee on the Status of Women

1996-97 College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee on Tenure and Promotion, Mathematics and the Physical Sciences

1997: Organizer, Women's Studies theorist visit by Nancy Tuana, Women's Studies Program

1996-98: University Senate

1996-98: Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Tenure and Promotion, Arts and Humanities

1996: Kirwan Memorial Faculty Prize Committee, the Graduate School, University of Kentucky (awards $5,000 to an outstanding faculty member)

1995-96: Chair, Women's Studies Program Committee on Affiliation and Review

1995-97: Chair, University Senate Advisory Hearing Committee on Privilege and Tenure

1994-97: University Senate Advisory Hearing Committee on Privilege and Tenure

1994-95: Co-Chair, Graduate Committee, Women's Studies Program

1994-95: Steering Committee, Women's Studies Program

1994-95: Bylaws Formulation Committee, Women's Studies Program

1994-95: Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Promotion, Tenure, and Merit Review Issues

1995: Ad Hoc Merit Review Committee for Women's Studies Faculty

1995: Organizer, Val Plumwood public presentation, "Feminist Ecology and the Liberation of Nature"

1995: Organizer, Women's Studies theorist visit of Marilyn Frye and public presentation by Marilyn Frye, "The Necessity of Differences"

1994: Review Committee, University Honors Program

1994: Ad Hoc Merit Review Committee for Women's Studies Faculty

1993-94: Search Committee, Singletary Chair in the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences (outcome: appointment of Susan Bordo [English and Women's Studies] and William Freehling [History] as Singletary Chairs)

1993: Ad Hoc Merit Review Committee for Women's Studies Program

1992-94: AIDS Policy Committee, Chandler Medical Center

1991-92: Ad Hoc Committee on Commercial and Health Professional Interactions, Chandler Medical Center Ethics

1991-92: Senate Council Appointee, Senate Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards

1991-92: Chair, Dean's Planning and Priorities Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences

1991-92: Search Committee, Director of Women's Studies

1991: Admissions Advisory Committee

1990-92: Dean's Advisory Committee on Planning and Priorities, College of Arts and Sciences

1990-91: Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship Committee

1990-91: Chair, University Senate Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards

1990: Co-planner, conference on women in science, Women's Studies Program

1990: Co-planner, "Changing the Disciplines," Women's Studies Program

1990: Chair, Search Committee for Acting Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

1988-89: Women's Studies Advisory Committee

1988-91: University Senate

1987-88: Dean's Committee on Excellence in Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences

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Professional Honors, Affiliations and Offices:

LINKS:

Homepage for Joan C. Callahan

University of Kentucky Gender and Women's Studies Program

University of Kentucky Department of Philosophy

FEAST: The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

Society for Women in Philosophy

Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy

Feminist Theory

page updated January 2008