Quill R. Kukla | |
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Born | Rebecca Kukla Los Angeles, US |
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Education | |
Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
Doctoral advisor | John Haugeland |
Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
School | Pittsburgh school,Standpoint theory |
Institutions | Georgetown University |
Main interests |
Quill Kukla (previously known as Rebecca Kukla) is a Canadian and American philosopher. They are a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and the Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 2020 and 2021,they were Humboldt Research Scholar at Leibniz University Hannover. [1] They are known for their work in bioethics,analytic epistemology,philosophy of language,and feminist philosophy. [2]
Kukla received their bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990 and their PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh,where their supervisor was John Haugeland. [3] Kukla held various academic appointments in the United States and Canada before taking up their current post at Georgetown;these include Johns Hopkins University,Queen's University at Kingston,Carleton University (where they held a tenured appointment),and the University of South Florida. At the latter,they were professor in both the Department of Philosophy and in the School of Medicine. [3] Kukla is editor-in-chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and former editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Quarterly .[ citation needed ] They were formerly co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics network.[ citation needed ] They completed a master's degree in geography at Hunter College in 2019.[ citation needed ]
Kukla has been interviewed about their work in various venues,including 3:AM , [4] The Washington Post , The Huffington Post , Slate ,and Quartz . Their work on historical,cultural,and political attitudes towards bodies,especially those of mothers and pregnant women—found in their 2005 book,Mass Hysteria:Medicine,Culture,and Mothers' Bodies—has led to their being interviewed and authoring media articles on topics including the culture of pregnancy, [5] [6] sexual fetishes, [7] and attitudes towards race and obesity. [8] They are a vocal defender of women,ethnic minorities,and other minorities,especially in academia,and have been interviewed in the media on this topic. [9] [10]
Kukla additionally competes in powerlifting,and they have won national and state-level medals in the discipline. [11]
Books
Edited books
Dissertation Rebecca Kukla,Conformity,Creativity,and the Social Constitution of the Subject (Department of Philosophy,University of Pittsburgh:1995). [12]
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