KRISTA K. THOMASON Curriculum Vitae CONTACT INFORMATION Mail: Swarthmore College Philosophy Department 500 College Avenue Swarthmore PA, 19081 Phone: 610-328-8429 Email: kthomas2@swarthmore.edu Website: bit.ly/kktphil EXPERTISE AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Kant s Moral Theory, Social/Political Philosophy AOC: Philosophy of Law, Bioethics, Continental Philosophy, Race and Gender Theory, Ancient Philosophy PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College, Fall 2011-Present (three-year appointment) Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 (one-year appointment) Instructor, Lamar University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 EDUCATION University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D., October 2009 Thesis: Rethinking Shame Committee: David Sussman (chair), Arthur Melnick, William Schroeder, Helga Varden University of Illinois MA, August 2006 University of North Carolina at Greensboro BA, May 2002 (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
PUBLISHED PAPERS 1. Shame and Contempt in Kant s Moral Theory, Kantian Review Vol. 18, No. 2, July 2013 2. A Kantian Argument for Sovereignty Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Public Reason (forthcoming). 3. Transitional Justice as Structural Justice, Theorizing Transitional Justice, edited by Corradetti, Eisikovits, and Rotondi, Ashgate Publishing (forthcoming). 4. Review of Dale Dorsey s The Basic Minimum: A Welfarist Approach, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 2012. 5. Review of Avishai Margalit s On Compromise and Rotten Compromises, Phi Beta Kappa s The Key Reporter (forthcoming). PAPERS IN PROGRESS 1. Accepting Responsibility (under review) 2. Fairness or Forgiveness? (under review) 3. The Moral Value of Envy (under review) 4. Toward a Kantian Theory of Emotion (in progress) 5. A Kantian Defense of Shaming Punishments (in progress) 6. Moral Responsibility and Child Soldiers (in progress) PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks 1. Accepting Responsibility, Knox College, May 2013 Conference Presentations 1. The Moral Significance of Immoral Emotions, 30 th International Social Philosophy Conference, July 2013 2. A Kantian Argument for Sovereignty Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Pacific Division APA Meeting (main program), March 2013 3. Philosophy and Human Rights: Scholarship and Activism, Pacific Division APA Meeting, organized by Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy's session on Academic Service- Learning, March 2013
4. A Kantian Argument for Sovereignty Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Midwestern Study Group of the North American Kant Society, March 2013 5. Kant and the Negative Emotions, at the conference Kantian Ethics and Moral Life, University of Antwerp, Belgium, September 2012 6. Get Over It: Praising Fairness Over Forgiveness, Pacific Division APA Meeting (main program), April 2012 7. A Retributive Defense of Shaming Punishments, Central Division APA Meeting (main program), March 2011 8. Autonomy and Pregnancy: Case Law and Pregnant Embodiment, 27 th International Social Philosophy Conference, July 2010 9. The Role of Contempt in Kantian Ethics, International Kant Congress, Pisa, Italy, May 2010 (unable to attend due to British Airways strike) 10. The Role of Contempt in Kantian Ethics, Eastern Division APA Meeting (main program), December 2009 11. Resurrecting the Scarlet Letter: The Role of Shame in Punishment at 26 th International Social Philosophy Conference, August 2009 PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY Comments for Not Yet Holy: Kant on Striving for Virtue by Mavis Biss at Central Division APA Meeting, February 2013 Comments for Public-Reason, Private-Reason: A State Soul Analogy by Benjamin Richards, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Conference, November 2012 Comments for Punishment, Fairness, and Forgiveness" by Zachary Hoskins at Eastern Division APA Meeting, December 2010 Comments for Kantian Supererogation by Michael Byron at Central Division APA Meting, February 2010 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS Faculty Fellow, Institute for Liberal Arts, Swarthmore College, 2013-1014 SEED Grant, Swarthmore College, Summer 2013 (Education Technology Grant) Smalley Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2008-2009 (Merit Fellowship) Philosophy Department Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2004-2005, Summer 2008, 2008-2009 (Merit Fellowships) Selected to University of Illinois List of Instructors Ranked Excellent by their students, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008 Student Excellence Award, UNC-Greensboro, May 2002
Phi Beta Kappa, inducted April 2002 Roger A. Schwirck Award, for excellence in philosophy at UNC-Greensboro, April 2001 PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS Participant in Institute for Liberal Arts Faculty Seminar on Poverty and Inequality, Swarthmore College, Fall 2013 Participant in Hess Faculty Seminar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum, January 2012 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Executive Committee for North American Society for Social Philosophy, 2013-2014 External examiner for undergraduate honors thesis Virtual Bodies and Immortal Flesh: What Transhumanism s Valuation of the Human Body Means for Human Life by Jennifer Kaufman, Knox College, May 2013 Invited Panelist on The Future of the Liberal Arts, sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Swarthmore College, March 2013 Invited Panelist on Public Forum on Health Care Reform, sponsored by Swarthmore College Health Society, November 2012 Program Committee for Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College, 2012-present Selection Committee for Davis Projects for Peace, Swarthmore College, 2012-2013 Book Reviewer for Phi Beta Kappa, The Key Reporter Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Philosophy Reviewer for Journal of Value Inquiry PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Philosophical Association North American Kant Society North American Society for Social Philosophy Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1. Visiting Assistant Professor -- Swarthmore College, Fall 2011-present Introductory Courses: Introduction to Philosophy Intermediate Courses: Moral Philosophy; Human Rights and Atrocity (cross-listed with Peace and Conflict Studies); Philosophy of Race and Gender (cross-listed with Black Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies); Bioethics; Social and Political Philosophy Advanced Courses: Honors Seminar Moral Philosophy; Honors Seminar Social and Political Philosophy
2. Visiting Assistant Professor -- Mount Holyoke College, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Intermediate Courses: Ancient Philosophy; Ethics; Existentialism; Social and Political Philosophy Advanced Courses: Topics in Philosophy: Revenge and Forgiveness 3. Instructor -- Lamar University Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Introductory Courses: Introduction to Philosophy GRADUATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1. University of Illinois, Graduate Instructor, Fall 2007-Spring 2009 Introductory Courses: Introduction to Ethics 2. University of Illinois, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2004-Spring 2007 Introductory Courses: (discussion section leader) Introduction to Philosophy; Ethics Intermediate Courses: (grader) Ancient Philosophy; Philosophical Feminism Advanced Courses: (grader) Ethical Theories GRADUATE COURSE WORK Course work in AOS: Ethical Theories James Wallace Recent Developments in Ethics (Constructivism) David Sussman Seminar Ethical Theory (Kant) David Sussman Social Philosophy Richard Mohr Recent Developments in Ethics (Moral Responsibility) David Sussman Seminar in Ethical Theory (Moral Realism) David Sussman Seminar in History of Philosophy (Kant s Theory of Personhood) Arthur Melnick Recent Developments in Ethics (Parfit, Nagel, Korsgaard) David Sussman (audit) Course work in AOC: Classical Ancient Philosophers (Platonic Metaphysics) Richard Mohr Philosophy of Law and the State Michael Moore Seminar in Philosophy of Law (Consequentialism and Deontology) Michael Moore Seminar in History of Philosophy (Plato) Richard Mohr Classical Modern Philosophers (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) Arthur Melnick Seminar in the History of Philosophy (Hellenistic Philosophy) Kirk Sanders Topics in Recent European Philosophy (Max Scheler) William Schroeder
Seminar in Philosophy of Mind (Self-Building) William Schroeder (audit) Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity William Schroeder (audit) Seminar in Feminist Philosophy Helga Varden Course work in other topics: Metaphysics Hugh Chandler Contemporary Problems (Consciousness) Arthur Melnick Philosophy of Art Barbara Sattler Formal Logic Bob Wengert PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES David Sussman, Associate Professor (Ph.D. dissertation advisor), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, dsussman@illinois.edu, (217) 714-8154 Helga Varden, Associate Professor (Ph.D. dissertation committee member), University of Illinois at Urbana, hvarden@illinois.edu, (217) 721-5673 Alan Baker, Professor (chair), Swarthmore College, abaker1@swarthmore.edu, (610) 328-8342 Richard Eldridge, Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy (current colleague), Swarthmore College, reldrid1@swarthmore.edu, (610) 328-4967 Glen Pettigrove, Senior Lecturer (professional contact), University of Auckland, g.pettigrove@auckland.ac.nz, 86102 (ph + 64 9 373 7599)