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Election for the Vice President of NASSP, 2010-2015
Only current members of NASSP may vote. Submissions will be checked against the current membership list.
Candidates: Sally J. Scholz Lisa H. Schwartzman
See the candidates’ statements below. When you’re ready to vote, please click the “Vote” link, and in the body of the auto-generated Email type in: a) your name, and b) the last name of the candidate of your choice.
CANDIDATE STATEMENTS
Sally J. Scholz has been an active member of NASSP since 1991. She served as the Archivist and Newsletter Editor for the society from 1994-2000, Program Co-Chair for the 19th, 23rd, and 24th annual conferences (with Joe Betz, Colleen Stameshkin, and Jordy Rocheleau, respectively), and Co-Chair of the Eastern Division with Joe Betz (2001-2005). She is dedicated to working on increasing the participation of members in activities of the society and continuing to build membership as well as raising the profile of NASSP among professional philosophical associations. Scholz is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University where she teaches courses in social and political philosophy, ethics, and feminist theory to students at every level. Her books include On de Beauvoir (2000), On Rousseau (2001), Political Solidarity (2008) and the forthcoming Feminism: A Beginner’s Guide (2010). She co-edited Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past, Vision for the Future (with Judith Presler), The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Les Mandarins’ (with Shannon Mussett), and a special issue of the Journal of Social Philosophy on solidarity with Carol Gould (Volume 31, No. 1). She has also published 48 scholarly articles (a few in the Social Philosophy Today book series) on violence against women, oppression, and just war theory among other topics. Scholz is currently faculty-in-residence at the Center for Peace and Justice Studies at Villanova, co-editor of the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies (with Bill Werpehowski), and former editor of the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Scholz is married to economist Christopher Kilby and their two children, Tessa and Luke, have occasionally attended NASSP receptions.
Lisa H. Schwartzman: I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, where I have been teaching since receiving my Ph.D. in Philosophy from SUNY Stony Brook in 2000. I teach and write on a variety of topics in social philosophy, including equality, rights, hate speech, autonomy, and critiques of liberalism. I am the author of Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique (Penn State Press, 2006) and the co-editor of Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). In my current research, I examine the concept of “choice” in both feminist theory and liberal political philosophy. I have been an active member of NASSP for over a decade, regularly presenting papers at conferences, co-organizing the Central Division APA sessions, co-chairing the Program Committee (2004), and serving as an Executive Board member (2005-present). I am also active in numerous other professional societies and have held various leadership positions, most recently serving as the Program Committee Chair of FEAST (the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory). At Michigan State, I serve on the advisory committee for Women’s Studies, the board of the Center for Gender in Global Context, and on numerous departmental committees. Next fall, I will be visiting the University of Waterloo in Ontario, as I have accepted an invitation to be the Humphrey Professor in Feminist Philosophy for the fall semester. Over the years, I have encouraged my colleagues and graduate students to submit papers and attend NASSP’s conferences and panels, as I understand the value of critical engagement and the importance of philosophical community. If elected as Vice President, I would work to build and maintain an active and engaged community of social philosophers.
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