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Linda Martín Alcoff
Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1987
Linda Martín Alcoff works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology,
feminist theory, and philosophy of race. Her books and anthologies include
Feminist Epistemologies (with Elizabeth Potter, Routledge 1993), Real
Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell 1996),
Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell 1998), Thinking From the
Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation (with
Eduardo Mendieta, Rowman & Littlefield 2000), Identities (with Eduardo
Mendieta, Blackwell, 2002), Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in
Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Visible Identities: Race, Gender
and the Self (Oxford, 2006), Identity Politics Reconsidered (with Satya
Mohanty, Michael Hames-Garcia and Paula Moya, Palgrave 2006), and The
Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (with Eva Feder Kittay, Blackwell
2006). She has written over fifty articles concerning Foucault, sexual
violence, the politics of epistemology, gender and race identity, and Latino
issues. Her next book is an anthology on race and nationalism, co-edited
with Mariana Ortega. She held an ACLS Fellowship for 1990-1991 and a
fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University for
1994-1995.
In recognition of her outstanding undergraduate teaching, Professor Alcoff
was awarded a Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professorship. She was one of
three professors at Syracuse University named in the first year of these
awards. In 2006 she was named the Distinguished Woman in Philosophy by the
Society of Women in Philosophy.
She has been chair of the APA Committee on Hispanics/Latinos, a member of
the Executive Committee of the Eastern division APA, and Co-Director of
SPEP, the Society for the Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Alcoff has been a Visiting Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, Brown University,
Cornell University, Florida Atlantic University, Aarhus University in
Denmark, and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She is currently
serving a three-year term as Director of the Women's Studies Program at
Syracuse University.
Professor Alcoff is on leave.
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Prof. Alcoff's e-mail address: lsalcoff at syr dot edu
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