teaching

My teaching involves courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. 

For the 2022-23 academic year, I am teaching two undergraduate courses: “Power, Oppression, and Privilege” and our Honours Capstone: Community Engaged Learning course.

Graduate and postdoctoral supervision is an important part of my teaching. I have supervised, or am currently supervising, projects that concern medically assisted or unassisted biological reproduction, adoption, gender, race, trust or related concepts, autonomy or related concepts, moral responsibility, fiduciary relationships, and microaggressions.

Below is a partial list of my supervisees.

PhD (completed):

Heather Stewart, Philosophy, Western. The Moral and Political Status of Microaggressions, defended August 2021. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) at Oklahoma State University.

Austin Horn, Philosophy, Western. Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship, defended January 2021. Currently a student in the JD program at the University of British Columbia School of Law.

Veromi Arsiradam, Philosophy, Western. A Duty to Adopt? On the Ethics and Politics of Adoption, defended August 2018. Currently a student in the JD program at Osgoode Hall law school. 

Emma Ryman, Philosophy, Western. Fiduciary Duties and Commercial Surrogacy, defended August 2017. Recently completed a JD at the University of Toronto; currently an articling student at Polley Faith LLP; soon to be a clerk for the Supreme Court of Canada.

Stephanie Kapusta, co-supervised with R. Vernon, Philosophy, Western. Contesting Gender Concepts, Norms, and Language: Three Critical Essays on Political and Ethical Aspects of Gender Non-Conformity, defended August 2015. Currently Assistant Professor, tenure track, in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University.

Reuven Brandt, Philosophy, Western. Gamete Provision and Moral Responsibility, defended January 2015. Currently Assistant Professor, tenure track, in the Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego; formerly, Research Associate in Ethics, Lancaster University (January 2015-17).

Angel Petropanagos, Philosophy, Western. Fertility Preservation Technologies for Women: A Feminist Ethical Analysis, defended May 2013. Currently a full-time clinical ethicist at the William Osler Health System, Toronto, Canada; formerly, a postdoctoral researcher at NovelTech Ethics, Dalhousie University.

Katy Fulfer, co-supervised with H. Fielding, Philosophy, Western. Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency, defended December 2012. Currently Assistant Professor, tenure track, in the Department of Philosophy at Waterloo University; formerly (2013-16), Sophia M. Libman NEH Professor of the Humanities, Hood College.

select MA (completed):

Leena Abdelrahim, “Testimonial Smothering Reconsidered: Making Room for Testimony about Racism,” August 2019. Currently doing her PhD in Philosophy at University of Toronto. 

Thomas Milovac, Philosophy, Western, “Trust in the Medical Encounter,” August 2019. Currently doing his PhD in Philosophy at Waterloo University.

Hale Doguoglu, Philosophy, Western. "Intergenerational Trauma, Oppression, and the Nature of Distrust," August 2018. Currently doing her PhD in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Western. 

Meghan Landriault, Philosophy, Western. “Northern Women’s Health Care: A Case for Participatory Health Research,” August 2017.

Nicole Fice, Philosophy, Western. "Harm and Mandatory Vaccination,” August 2016. Currently doing her PhD in Philosophy at Western.

Chloe Wall, Philosophy, Western. “Second Guessing: Imposter Syndrome and Epistemic Injustice,” August 2015. Recently completed her PhD in Philosophy at Otago University.

Nanette Ryan, Philosophy, Western. “The Nature of Betrayal,” August 2013. Currently a PhD student in Philosophy at Georgetown University.