MACALESTER BELL Fall 2015

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1 MACALESTER BELL Fall 2015 Department of Philosophy Department: (610) Thomas Hall, Bryn Mawr College Department Fax: (610) No. Merion Avenue Bryn Mawr, PA, EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor (tenured), Bryn Mawr College, Department of Philosophy, Fall 2015-present Associate Professor (without tenure), Franklin & Marshall College, Department of Philosophy, Spring 2015 Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, Fall 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, Winter 2014 EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 2005 M.A., Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 2001 B.A., summa cum laude, Philosophy, University of Minnesota, August 1999 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Ethics, Moral Psychology AREAS OF COMPETENCE Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Aesthetics FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Chamberlain Fellowship, Columbia University, 2009 Graduate Student Travel Award, American Philosophical Association, 2005 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation and National Research Council of the National Academies, Royster Society of Fellows, the Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

2 Bell/2 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (Cont.) Scholars for Tomorrow Fellowship: Aesthetics in Society, the Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000 Participant, Summer Institute in Philosophy for Minority Students 1998, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University BOOK Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt (New York: Oxford University Press, April 2013) Reviewed in: o Choice, October 2013 o Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 2013 o Metapsychology Online Reviews, November 2013 o Hypatia Reviews Online, October 2014 o APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Fall 2014 Subject of Author Meets Critics panel at Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 2015 PAPERS 1. Grizzly Man, Sentimentality, and our Relationships with Other Animals in Understanding Love Through Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, eds. Christopher Grau and Susan Wolf (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) pp The Standing to Blame: A Critique in Blame: Its Nature and Norms, eds. Neal A. Tognazzini and Justin Coates (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) pp Forgiveness, Inspiration and the Powers of Reparation, American Philosophical Quarterly, 49, 3, 2012, pp Globalist Attitudes and the Fittingness Objection, Philosophical Quarterly, 61, 244, 2011, pp Anger, Virtue, and Oppression, in Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, ed. Lisa Tessman (Dordrecht; New York: Springer, 2009) pp Forgiving Someone for Who They Are (and Not Just What They ve Done), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 77, 3, 2008, pp A Woman s Scorn: Toward a Feminist Defense of Contempt as a Moral Emotion, Hypatia, 20, 4, 2005, pp

3 Bell/3 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Review: Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (on-line), Summer Review: Burdened Virtue: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (on-line), Summer 2006 WORK IN PROGRESS 1. Forgiving the Dead (undergoing revise and resubmit) 2. Respecting Photographic Subjects 3. Photographs and Moral Convictions 4. The Ethics of Deaccessioning 5. Virtues and Resistance INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Affective Injustice, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 2015 Hypocrisy and Blame, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 2014 Forgiving the Dead (Job Talks) Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 2014 Department of Philosophy, Jesus College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 2014 Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, February 2014 Forgiving the Dead Department of Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA, December, 2013 Snark: A Moderate Defense Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 2013 Forgiving the Dead, Department of Philosophy, Queens University, Kingston, ON, March 2013 What s So Special About Resentment? Hard Feelings and Disvalue Pluralism, Morality and Emotions Group, Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values, Columbus, OH, April 2012

4 Bell/4 INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (CONT.) On The Standing to Blame, Ethics and Epistemology Working Group, Fordham University, New York, NY, October 2011 Wrongdoing and Repair: On The Standing to Blame, Department of Philosophy, Union College, Schenectady, NY, October 2011 Forgiveness, Inspiration, and the Powers of Reparation, Ethics Reading Group, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 2011 Respecting Aesthetic Subjects, Workshop on Respect for Persons, Emerald Isle, NC, May 2010 The Ethics of Moral Criticism, Colloquium in Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, April 2010 Globalist Attitudes and the Fittingness Objection, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 2009 Privacy, Respect, and Artistic Subjects, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA, July 2009 Racial Vices, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Committee on Black Philosophers, Virtue Ethics and Racism, Chicago, IL, February 2009 Forgiveness, Condonation, and Making Amends, Mid-Atlantic Reading Group on Ethics, New York, NY, September 2008 Globalist Attitudes and Special Relations, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, April 2008 Anger, Oppression, and Virtue, Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy, New York, NY, November 2007 Anger, Resistance, and the Possibility of Degeneration: Virtue Ethics and the Negative Emotions, Minnesota International Conference in Ethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, July 2007 Fording the Great Divide: on the Possibilities and Limitations of Human-Animal Friendship, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Interdisciplinary Working Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2007

5 Bell/5 INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (CONT.) How to Argue About Moral Emotions, Society for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Toronto, ON, May 2006 Beyond Scorn: On Overcoming our Contempt for Persons, Conference in Honor of Tom Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 2005 Rethinking Repentance as a Reason to Forgive, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, April 2005 (Winner of graduate student travel stipend) In Praise of Contempt, (Job Talks) Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, ON, February 2005 Department of Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, February 2005 Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY January 2005 Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 2005 Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004 Can Liberals Justly and Effectively Inflict Shaming Punishments? 21 st International Social Philosophy Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, July 2004 Contempt as a Response to Sexist Oppression and Oppressors, Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, June 2004 (Winner of award for best graduate student paper) Disvaluing our Relationships with Others, Special Conference on Values: Values, Rational Choice and the Will, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, March 2004 TEACHING EXPERIENCE FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE Lower-Division Undergraduate Course Moral Philosophy Upper-Division Undergraduate Course Seminar: Responsibility UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Lower-Division Undergraduate Course Honors Introduction to Philosophy Upper-Division Undergraduate/Graduate Course Topics in Ethics: Responsibility Senior Thesis: Free Speech and the Internet

6 Bell/6 TEACHING EXPERIENCE (CONT.) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Lower-Division Undergraduate Courses Contemporary Civilization I (4 times) Contemporary Civilization II (6 times) Contemporary Moral Problems (5 times) Introduction to the Philosophy of Art Upper-Division Undergraduate Courses Ethics Topics in Ethics: Sex and Reproduction Topics in Ethics: Love and Friendship Seminar: Emotions and Value Seminar: Wrongdoing, Responsibility, and Repair Seminar: The Emotions Seminar: Ethics, Emotions, and Character Quodlibetal Studies Responsibility and Moral Luck Emotions and Aesthetics Feminist Accounts of Autonomy Graduate Seminars (Contested) Modes of Moral Understanding Relationships and Partiality Emotions and Value Blame and Forgiveness Negative Moral Psychology Dissertation Committees: Robbie Kubala, Justifying Partiality, external reader, in progress Jonathan Rick, From Partial Passions to Moral Sentiments: Taking up Adam Smith s Impartial Spectator Perspective, reader, defended 8/18/09 Katherine Rickus, The Anatomies of Affect, reader, defended 8/17/12 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Lower-Division Undergraduate Courses (Full Responsibility) Philosophy of Art Feminism Social Ethics and Political Thought Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Ethics

7 Bell/7 SERVICE Department of Philosophy, Columbia University Philosophy and Race Speakers Series Committee, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010 Undergraduate Senior Thesis Committee, Colloquium Committee, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2008 Political Search Hiring Committee, Fellowship Officer, Faculty Liaison, Ethics Reading Group, Open Search Interview Committee, Columbia University Speaker ( In Defense of Negative Emotions ), Café Humanities, 2010 Shenton Prize Committee, Office of the Core, 2010 Shenton Prize Committee, Office of the Core, 2007 Contemporary Civilization Steering Committee, Profession Chair, Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, Identity, and Memory Eastern APA, 2009 Referee, in some instances several times, for American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Hypatia, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Mind, Philosophers Imprint, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Social Theory and Practice, Continuum Press, Oxford University Press OTHER ACTIVITIES Invited Participant, Mid-Atlantic Research Group in Ethics, Invited Participant, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, October 2007 Invited Participant, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Interdisciplinary Working Group, Invited Faculty Mentor, Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy, 2006 Invited Graduate Mentor, Rutgers Summer Institute in Philosophy for Minority Students, 2000