ERIN BEEGHLY
Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ethics, Social Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Political Philosophy, Applied Philosophy (esp. Discrimination), Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind
 
EMPLOYMENT
  • University of Utah, Associate Professor of Philosophy, beginning July 2020.
  • University of Utah, College of Humanities Curriculum Coordinator, Fall 2020.
  • University of Utah, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,  July 2014 - June 2020
          
VISITING POSITIONS
  • Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, CHCI-ACLS Fellow, Spring 2020
  • National Humanities Center, Philip L. Quinn Fellow,  AY 2016 - 17
  • Humboldt Universtät Zu Berlin, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2015
  
EDUCATION
  • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Philosophy, 2006 - 2014
  • Oxford University, B.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (First-Class Honors), 2004- 2006
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.A., History (High Honors), 2001 - 2004

IN PROGRESS
Book:
  • What's Wrong with Stereotyping? Oxford University Press. New Topics in Applied Philosophy Series. Under Contract.

PUBLICATIONS
Edited Volume:
  • An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind. Editor with Alex Madva. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Journal Symposium:
  •  Bias in Context: Psychological and Structural Explanations of Injustice. Guest editor with Jules Holroyd. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 37, no. 2 (2020).

Articles:
  1. "What's Wrong with Stereotypes? The Falsity Hypothesis," Social Theory and Practice 47, no. 1 (2021): 33-61.
  2. "Introducing Implicit Bias: Why This Book Matters." Co-authored with Alex Madva. In An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, edited by Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva, 1-19. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  3. "Bias in Context: An Introduction to the Symposium." Co-authored with Jules Holroyd. In Journal of Applied Philosophy, Symposium on Bias in Context, 37 no. 2 (2020): 163-168.
  4. "Explaining Injustice: Structural Analysis, Bias, and Individuals." Co-authored with Saray Ayala-López. In An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, edited by Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva, 211-232 . New York: Routledge, 2020.
  5. “Bias and Knowledge: Two Metaphors.” In An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, edited by Erin Beeghly & Alex Madva, 77-98. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  6. "Embodiment and Oppression: Reflections on Haslanger." Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (1), 2019: 25-47. Reprinted in an expanded form as "Embodiment and Oppression: Reflections on Haslanger, Gender, and Race." In The Logic of Racial Practice, edited by Brock Bahler. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2021.
  7. "Failing to Treat Persons as Individuals." Ergo 26 (5), 2018: 687-711.
  8. “Discrimination and Disrespect.” In Routledge Handbook to the Ethics of Discrimination, edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, 83 - 96. London: Routledge, 2017.
  9. “What is a Stereotype? What is Stereotyping?” Hypatia, 30 (4), 2015: 675 - 691.
 
SELECTED ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
  • Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, Spring 2020. Taken in-residence at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
  • Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2019
  • Philip L. Quinn Fellowship, National Humanities Center, AY 2016 - 17
  • Selected Faculty Participant, NEH Summer Institute, Presupposition and Perception: Reasoning, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics, organized by Susanna Siegel and Nico Silins, Cornell University, 6/16 – 7/16
  • Conference Funding Grant Recipient from the University of Utah, College of Humanities for Bias in Context #4, 2/17, grant total: $13,358
  • Conference Grants Recipient (with Jules Holroyd) from the Society for Applied Philosophy, Analysis Trust, and Mind Association for Bias in Context #2, 9/16, grants total: £3,952 
  • Faculty Research and Creative Grant Recipient, University of Utah, Fall 2015
  • International Travel and Research Grant Recipient, University of Utah, 6/15, 10/15, 9/16, 9/19
  • Dissertation Fellowship, American Association for University Women, 2012 - 13
  • UC Berkeley Dissertation-Year Fellowship, (Declined to Accept AAUW Fellowship), 4/12
  • Townsend Center Dissertation Fellowship, AY 2011 - 12
  • UC Berkeley Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Spring 2011 & Spring 2010
  • UC Berkeley Ralph W. Church Fellowship, Spring 2008
  • Frank & Patricia Yeary Fellowship for Ethics in the Humanities, AY 2006 - 07
  • Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, Award for First class finals, 6/06
  • Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 5/03
 
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS                                                              
  1. "No Harm, No Foul? Harm and Wrongful Stereotyping," Belief, Evidence, and Agency Seminar, Claremont McKenna College, November 2020.
  2. "Prejudice and Stereotyping: The Problem of Statistical Stereotyping," Eastern APA, Invited Panel on the Epistemic Aspects of Prejudicial Stereotyping, 1/21; University of Edinburgh, Ethics Seminar, 3/20; Queens University, Political Philosophy Reading Group, 11/19; San Francisco State University, Seminar Visit, 12/18.
  3. "Embodiment and Oppression: Reflections on Haslanger," The Logic of Racial Practice Conference, University of Pittsburgh, 4/18
  4. "Stereotyping and Discrimination: Their Relationship and Why It Matters" University of Barcelona, 2/20; Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, 10/19; British Society for Ethical Theory, University of Glasgow, 7/19; Legal Theory Workshop, University of Surrey, 5/19; Bay Area Feminism and Philosophy Workshop, University of San Francisco, 5/19; University of Edinburgh 2/18; University of Oxford 1/18; Invited Session on Stereotypes and Stereotyping, Eastern APA, Savannah, 1/18; Minorities & Philosophy Conference, Stanford University, 5/17
  5.  “Discrimination and Disrespect," Departmental Colloquium, Connecticut College, 11/16; "Bias in Context: Conference #2, Sheffield University, England, 9/16
  6. “What is a Stereotype? What is Stereotyping?” Sociology Department Brownbag Series, University of Utah, 2/16         
  7.  "Does Morality Require Stupidity? The Case of Forbidden Base Rates,” Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Hamburg University, Germany, 10/15
  8. "Beyond the Pale: The Desert-Prioritarian View of Wrongful Discrimination,” NOMOS Network for Applied Philosophy, 10th Meeting, Berlin, 11/15
  9. "Stereotyping & The Wrong of Failing to Treat Persons as Individuals,” Legal Theory Workshop, University of Virginia School of Law, 11/17; Perception and Presupposition: Reasoning, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics, NEH Faculty Institute, Cornell University, 7/16; Bias in Context: Conference #1, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, 5/16; Plenary lecture, 13th Annual Intermountain West Graduate Conference, University of Utah, 3/16;  Humboldt University Ethics Workshop, Germany, 11/15; VI Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of Minho, Portugal, 6/15; Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women, University of Mass. Amherst, 6/15; Colloquium Talk, Eastern APA, Baltimore, 12/14; 2nd Annual Dorothy Edgington Lectures, Graduate Workshop on Race, Gender, and Hate Speech, Birbeck College, University of London, 1/14; Quarante ans de Théorie de la Justice: de la théorie à la practique, L’École des Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales, Paris, 6/13
  10. “What’s the Wrong of Stereotyping?” University of Utah, Department Research Colloquium, 2/14; UC Berkeley, Philosophy Department Research Colloquium, 12/13         
  11. “What’s (Epistemically) Wrong with Stereotyping?" Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, 11/12; Poster Presentation, Implicit Bias Workshop, Sheffield University, 7/12; Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, Oxford University, 6/12; Princeton Political Theory Graduate Conference, 4/12; UC Berkeley Townsend Center Research Working Group, 11/11   
  12.  “A Third Principle of Justice?” UC Berkeley, Richard Wollheim Society, 10/10
  13. “Will Discrimination Exist in a Just State?” London/Berkeley Graduate Conference, University College London,    5/10   
  14. “Should the Family Exist in a Just Society?” Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Conference, 3/08
           
COMMENTS
  • Comments on Shanna Slank’s "Using the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House?  A Feminist Comment on the Way We Think about Imposter Phenomenon," Pacific APA, Seattle, 4/17
  • Comments on Sophie Archer’s “Doxastic Minimalism About Self-Deception,” London/Berkeley Graduate Conference, University College London, 5/12
 
TEACHING AWARDS
  • Daniels Funds Leadership in Ethics Teaching Award, University of Utah, 11/16
  • Nomination, University of Utah Career Center Faculty Recognition Program, 3/18

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Primary Instructor, University of Utah:
  • Heroes and Villains: Living Ethically in an Unjust World, Lower-division undergrad, Spring 2019
  • Justice & International Affairs: War at Home and Abroad, Lower-division undergrad, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
  • Inclusive Feminisms, Senior Seminar for Philosophy Undergraduates, Fall 2018
  •  Discrimination and Equality in the Workplace, Upper-division undergrad/graduate seminar, Fall 2017; lower-division undergrad, Spring 2016.      
  • Philosophy in Literature: Visions of Justice Lower-division undergrad, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018; Fall 2020.
  • Ethical Dilemmas: Food, Wealth, and Social Identity, Lower-division undergrad, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2018
  •  The Philosophy of Implicit Bias,  Upper-division undergrad/graduate seminar, Fall 2014
 
Primary Instructor, UC Berkeley:  
  •  Man, God, and Western Literature: The Concept of Justice, Lower-division undergrad, Summer 2011
 
Teaching Assistantships, UC Berkeley:     
  • Philosophy of Mind (Searle), Fall 2013
  • Personal Identity, Time, and Attitudes Toward Death  (Lee), Fall 2010
  • Philosophy of Mind (Flanagan), Summer 2010
  • Political Philosophy: John Rawls (Munoz-Dardé), Fall 2009
  • Moral Psychology (Flanagan), Summer 2009        
  • Personal Identity  (Noë), Spring 2009
  • Free Will (Buchak), Fall 2008
  • Ancient Philosophy (Gelber), Summer 2008
  • Moral Psychology (Wallace), Fall 2007
 
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
  • Referee for Ergo, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Hypatia, Journal of Social Ontology, Journal of Social Philosophy, Mind, Noûs, Phil Quarterly, Philosophical Psychology, Social Theory & Practice, Synthese
  • Conference Organizer (with Jules Holroyd at the University of Sheffield and Alex Madva at California Polytechnic, Pomona) of Bias in Context: Psychological and Structural Explanations of Injustice.  Four conferences in the series: May 2016 at Cal Poly Pomona, September 2016 at University of Sheffield, January 2017 at University of Sheffield, and   October 2017 at University of Utah
  • Mentor, Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy, 2015-16 & 2016-17
  • Invited Moderator for Amy Thomasson’s “Conceptual Ethics and the Work of Metaphysics,” 50th Chapel Hill Colloquium, 10/16
  • Session Chair for Elinor Mason’s “Do the Right Thing: An Account of Subjective Obligation,” Arizona  Normative Ethics Workshop, 1/16
  • Session Chair for Jacob Ross’s “Blame, Recognition, and the Demands of Morality,” Arizona Normative Ethics Workshop, 1/15
          
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Talks:  
  • “The Puzzle of Stereotyping,” Presentation to 4th graders, The Nueva School, Hillsborough CA, 3/16, 5/18
  •  “Feminist Philosophy,” University of Utah Undergraduate Philosophy Club, 3/16
  • “Distributive Justice” (with Cindy Stark), Presentation to 6th graders, Project Youth at the University of Utah, 5/16
Podcast:
  • “Stereotypes,” National Humanities Center Podcast, conversation with director Robert Newman, 4/17
Blog Post:  
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for Applied Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Society for Analytical Feminism
 
LANGUAGES
French: Reading Proficiency