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Anna Gotlib

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Anna Gotlib is an associate professor of philosophy and a collegiate adviser for those students interested in law and law-related careers. Before joining the faculty at Brooklyn College, she was an assistant professor of philosophy and director of the Pell Honors Program at Binghamton University (SUNY). Prior to her academic career, she was employed as an attorney, specializing in international law and labor law.

Education

J.D., Cornell Law School (International Law), 1997

M.A., University of Michigan (Philosophy), 2002

Ph.D., Michigan State University (Philosophy (with a specialization in Bioethics)), 2007

Selected Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Books and Publications

Broken Stories: Trauma, Memory, Nostalgia, Anna Gotlib, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2026).

In a Barbie World: Barbie as Narrative, Symbol, and Cipher, Routledge, ed. with Claire Katz, 2025.

Forced Migration And Health Justice, Oxford University Press, Eckenwiler, Gotlib, Chung, Wild, Zion, eds., (forthcoming 2025).

"Are You Really #Kenough? Barbie, Main Character Syndrome, and NPCs," In a Barbie World: Barbie as Narrative, Symbol, and Cipher, Gotlib and Katz eds., Routledge, 2025.

"Unshareable Fears, Fearing Alone, and Narrative Self-Estrangement," Moral Psychology of Fear, Ami Harbin, ed., Rowman & Littlefield (forthcoming 2025).

"Synecdochical Migrants, Master Narratives, and Moral Luck," Forced Migration And Health Justice, Eckenwiler, Gotlib, Chung, Wild, Zion, eds., Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2025).

"The Smile of Claudia Gator: Magnolia, Aimee Mann, and Forgiveness," Music and Trauma, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, ed., University of Michigan Press, (forthcoming 2025).

"Main Character Syndrome, Monomyths, and Why Mattering to Each Other Still Matters," Aeon/Psyche, 27 September 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/why-main-character-syndrome-is-philosophically-dangerous

Guest Editor (with Jenny Krutzinna) Clinical Ethics, Special Issue: Phenomenologies of Care: Patients, Caregivers, and Narratives, 2024.

Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political Reflections on COVID-19, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2022.

"Explosion Principle." Journal of Medical Humanities (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-022-09739-0

"Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the 'Silent Bodies' of Childfree Women," in Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on NOT Choosing Children, Ed. Davinia Thornley, Rutgers University Press, 2022.

"Nostalgia as a Weapon," Culturico, September 19, 2022.

"Lupins." Journal of the Plague Years, September 30, 2022.

"Fractured Epistemologies: Bioethics Pedagogy Meets Science Denialism" (with Ruth Groenhout), Teaching Philosophy 45.4 (2022): 447-476.

Forced Migration and Health Justice (Anna Gotlib, Lisa Eckenwiler, Nancy Berlinger, Ryoa Chung, Verina Wild, Deborah Zion, eds.) (Oxford University Press).

"I Remember Damage: Inescapable Scars, Scarring Escapes, and Living with the Absurd." Philosophie.ch. 8 March, 2022. https://www.philosophie.ch/en/philosophy/articles/2022/gotlib-2022-03-08

"Why Everything is Awful and Nothing is Surprising." Journal of the Plague Years. https://www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink/ 2022.

"Fractured Epistemologies: The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Anti-Science Movement, and the Nature of Evidence" (with Ruth Groenhout), Teaching Philosophy, (forthcoming 2022).

"Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19," The Journal of Medical Humanities, 1-21. 23 Feb. 2021, doi:10.1007/s10912-021-09680-8

"Trauma unmakes the world of the self. Can stories repair it?" Aeon/Psyche, November 23, 2020. https://psyche.co/ideas/trauma-unmakes-the-world-of-the-self-can-stories-repair-it

"Power, Identity, and Liminality in an American Hospital," Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, Eds. Elizabeth Victor and Laura Guidry-Grimes, Springer, (forthcoming 2021)

"Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the 'Silent Bodies' of Childfree Women," in Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on NOT Choosing Children, Ed. Davinia Thornley, Rutgers University Press, (forthcoming 2021).

"Commentary on 'Neurotechnologies, Relational Autonomy, and Authenticity'" IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, vol. 13 no. 1, 2020, p. 120-128.

"Surviving and Getting Your Life Back Are Two Different Things": COVID-19, ICU Psychosis, and the Coming Mental Health Crisis," APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 20 (1) 2020: 28-32.

"When Progress Goes Wrong: (Bio)technology, Identity, and the Other", Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Shannon Vallor (ed.) Oxford University Press, November 2020 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190851187.013.1

When Progress Goes Wrong: (Bio)technology, Identity, and the Other, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Shannon Vallor (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2020, (forthcoming)

"Refugee," (2019). Journal of Medical Humanities. 10.1007/s10912-019-09569-7.

The Moral Psychology of Regret, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2019.

"I Am Not Your Canvas: Memory, Liminality, and the (Re)claiming of Refugee Voices," Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship, Oliver, Kelly; Madura, Lisa M. & Ahmed, Sabeen (eds.) Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019.

"Wanting to Want: Constructing the Ambivalent Childless Self," Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? (Natalie Sappleton, editor), Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

"Refugees, Narratives, or How to Do Bad Things with Words" The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 2017.

The Moral Psychology of Sadness, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2017.

"Memory, Sadness and Longing: Exile Nostalgias as Attunement to Loss," The Moral Psychology of Sadness, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2017.

"'But You Would Be The Best Mother': Unwomen, Counterstories, and the Motherhood Mandate,"Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, January 2016, DOI 10.1007/s11673-016-9699-z

Review of Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, by Hilde Lindemann, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, https://kiej.georgetown.edu/book-reviews/archive/lindemann-2014/

"Feminist Ethics and Narrative Ethics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ISSN 2161- 0002,http://www.iep.utm.edu/July 2015.

"Subjectivity." Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4th ed. Macmillan Reference.

"Girl, Pixelated: Narrative Identity, Virtual Embodiment, and Second Life." Humana Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26, May: 153-78.

"Intergenerational Justice and Health Care: A Case for Interdependence." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

"Beyond the Trolley Problem: Narrative Pedagogy in the Philosophy Classroom." Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

"Bioethics and the Law." Encyclopedia of Human Biology, 3rd ed. Elsevier.

"Customary Laws and Their Impact on Women." The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. 2nd ed., volumes 1-4. Eds. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc.

"The Other Side of Care: Some Thoughts on Care-Giving and Grief." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Fall, 6.2: 179-84.

"On the Borderlands: Chronic Pain as Crisis of Identity." Dimensions of Pain Routledge. 41-59.

"Gender Stereotypes in the Multiverse." The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Sage Press.

"Women and Information Technology." The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Sage Press.

"Bad Mothers." Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly. Sage Publications, Inc.

"Maternal Bodies." Encyclopedia of Motherhood, first edition. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly. Sage Publications, Inc.

"Of Bodies and Selves: Toward a Bioethics of Embodiment" bibliographic essay. Hypatia, Summer, 25.3: 624-31.

"Stories From the Margins: Immigrant Patients, Health Care, and Narrative Medicine." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2.2, October: 51-74.

Creative Work

"Explosion Principle." Journal of Medical Humanities (2022).

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Ethics in Motion: Feminist Ethics and #MeToo (EMFEM), Grant from the Icelandic Research Fund, 2023-2026

Award for Outstanding Faculty Service in Student Mentoring, Brooklyn College CUNY, 2024

Award for Student Mentorship, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Office, Brooklyn College CUNY, 2022

Recipient of the 2022 Claire Tow '52 Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Fulbright Specialist Grant, University of Iceland, Iceland.

Fulbright Specialist, University of Iceland (2019-2020)

Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 2013-14 academic year.

Medical Humanities Working Group Grant, Brooklyn College, 2013-15.

Stewart Travel Award, CUNY.

Travel grant, for "Feminist Approaches to Bioethics."

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Commentary on "Alabama's IVF Ruling and the Problem of Legal Ghosts," APA Central Division Meeting (virtual), February 2025.

"Pronatalism, Voluntary Childlessness, and Women's Health Care," Horizon Health Network Ethics Grand Rounds, January 14th, 2025.

"The Last Taboo: Regretting Motherhood as Thoughtcrime," Old Dilemmas, New Voices: Feminist Ethics and #MeToo, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-28, 2025.

"Unshareable Fears, Fearing Alone, and Narrative Self-Estrangement," Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, March 29, 2024.

Unshareable Fears, Fearing Alone, and Self-trust," Panel on Ami Harbin's Fearing Together, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York, New York, January 18, 2024. 2024

"Public Discourse as Real and as Ideal: Against Viewpoint Inclusivity as Overriding Principle," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2023 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 10-14, 2023.

"Illness as Disorientation: Why Narratives Should Not Try To Put Us Back Together," Keynote, The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society, Stories of Illness and Health: Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics University of Antwerp, Belgium, July 5, 2023.

"Narrative Bioethics and the Stories that Shape It," The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society Stories of Illness and Health: Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics, University Antwerp, Belgium, July 6, 2023.

"What Do We Mean When We Talk About 'Narrative Ethics'?" The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society, Stories of Illness and Health: Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics, University Antwerp, Belgium, July 6, 2023.

"Stories that Heal, Stories that Wound: Feminist Perspectives on Moral Distress," Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 14, 2023.

"Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political Reflections: A panel discussion," Brooklyn College, City University of New York, April 25, 2023.

"Existentialism," Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College, March 21, 2023.

"Publishing Controversies," 16th World Congress of Bioethics, The Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland, July 20-22, 2022.

"Trauma Out Loud: Bioethics as Public Philosophy," Canadian Society of Practical Ethics (CSSPE) Webinar Series, March 27, 2022.

"Using Our Outside Voices," 2022 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 23-26, 2022.

"'The Thing I Came For': Feminist Bioethics and Topographies of Disorientation," Plenary, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)/16th World Congress of Bioethics, Basel, Switzerland, July 18-22, 2022.

"Why Medical Humanities Should be the Pippi Longstocking of Medicine," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2022 Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 26-29, 2022.

"Are Journal Editors the 'Engineers of the Human Soul'?", 16th World Congress of Bioethics, The Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland, July 20-22, 2022.

"The thing I came for": Feminist bioethics and topographies of disorientation," Plenary, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)/16th World Congress of Bioethics, Basel, Switzerland, 18-22 July, 2022.

"The Past is Not Behind Us: Medical Humanities, Marginalized Populations, and the (Dis)Repair of Trust," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2021 Annual Meeting, October 11-16, 2021.

"The Smile of Claudia Gator: Magnolia, Aimee Mann, and Forgiveness," Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference (virtual), February 12-14, 2021.

Engaged Philosophy, Interview, November 2020. https://www.engagedphilosophy.com/interviews/

"Fractured Epistemologies: A Bioethicist (Re)considers the COVID-19 Pandemic," Ethics Grand Rounds, Horizon Health Network in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, December 14th, 2021.

"Memories of Dark Things: A Case for Not Forgetting Trauma," William Paterson University Colloquium (virtual), March 11, 2021.

Hess Scholar "Disruptive Pedagogies" Panel, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College CUNY October 25, 2021.

Hess Scholar "The New Nativism" Panel, Ethyle R.Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College CUNY October 28, 2021.

"Contested Liberties: The Anti-Vax/Anti-Science Movement's Rejection of Public Health," APA Committee for Philosophy and Medicine, 2020 APA Central Division meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 26-29, 2020.

"Is My Anxiety the Right Kind? The Role of (Negative) Emotions in Human Flourishing," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2020 Annual Meeting, October 12-18, 2020.

"Off-Clock as Off-Modern: The Arctic Night as Subversion of Modern Narratives," Darkness, Nuuk, Greenland, November 30-December 3, 2020.

"Pluralism and Pandemics: At the Boundaries of Choice," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2020 Annual Meeting, October 12-18, 2020.

"Scholarship as Solidarity: The Feminist Bioethicist as (Reluctant) Public Intellectual," World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 2020.

"How to deliver SDG 16.9- Digital Identity (DID) to all by 2030?" Department of Economic and Social Affairs and Sustainable Development, 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA75) (virtual) meeting, New York, September 28, 2020.

"Is Anxiety Good for Us?" Author-meets-Critics session, 2020 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 26-29, 2020.

"Memories of Dark Things: A Case Against Fictionalizing Who We Are," University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, January 17, 2020.

"There Are No Stories Here: Trauma, Identity, and Liminality in an (American) Hospital," University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, January 26, 2020.

"Demanding Resilience After Trauma: An Analysis of Moral Failure," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2019 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA., October 24-27, 2019.

"Wanting to Want: Childlessness and the Narratives of Ambivalence," International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy, 21st-26th July, 2019.

"Why Professionals Must Be Narrativists: Interdisciplinarity as a Radical Act," Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 5-7, 2018.

"Fearful Contingencies: A Few Thoughts on Losing and Finding Narratives," Themes from Lindemann ("Hildefest"), Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan, April 21, 2018.

"Bioethics at the Margins: Re-centering Practitioners, De-marginalizing Practices," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2017 Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, October 19-22, 2017.

"Troubled Discourse and Moral Hazards: Memory, Trauma and Violence" (with Brenda Foley and Stephanie Jensen-Moulton), Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 24, 2017.

"Memory, Sadness and Longing: Exile Nostalgias as Attunement to Loss"? Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, March 28, 2017.

How to do Bad Things with Words Night of Philosophy & Ideas , sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, January 28, 2017

"De-marginalizing Patient Voices as Reclaiming Personhood: Making Cultural Literacy a Health Care Priority," 13th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 13th-15th, 2016.

"From Where I Stand: Critical Distance in Bioethics as Choice and as Circumstance" (3-paper panel presentation with Alison Reiheld and Saba Fatima)American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2016 Annual Meeting.Washington, D.C. October 6-9, 2016.

"In Praise of Falling Down: Moral Failure, Moral Regret, and Manual Hygiene in Bioethics"(3-paper panel presentation with Hilde Lindeman and Jamie Nelson), American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. October 6-9, 2016.

"The Lucky, the Unlucky, and the Other: Modern Migrations, Public Discourse, or How To Do Bad Things with Words," 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 21-23, 2016.

"The Sick Man of Europe?: Women?s Healthcare Regulation as Surrogate for Russia?s Public Health Disaster," 13th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 13th-15th, 2016.

"Human Enhancement: How Perfect is Too Perfect?" The Society of Bioethics and Medicine, Brooklyn College CUNY, March 17, 2016.

"Memory and Nostalgia," Memory and Memorialization: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, TU Delft, The Netherlands, November 17, 2016.

"(Non)Maternal Desires: Bad Mothers, Nonmothers, and Other Unwomen," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 12th - 15th, 2015.

"A Voice of One's Own: Reflective Teaching, Bioethics, and the Underprivileged Student," International Social Philosophy Conference (NASSP), William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, July 16-18, 2015.

"More Than Words: The Ethics of Medical Interpreting," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2015 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 24th, 2015

"Bringing Medical Humanities to Brooklyn College: A Work in Progress," The 19th Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 20, 2015.

"(Non)Maternal Desires: Bad Mothers, Nonmothers, and Other (Counter)stories," Colloquium, Department of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 26, 2015.

"Bad Patients, Liminal Selves: How Not To Talk About Chronic Pain," The Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, June 10th, 2015.

"Broken Identities, Uncertain Longings: Nostalgia as a Moral Emotion," CUNY Junior Philosophy Faculty Group, Graduate Center CUNY, May 6th, 2015.

"Broken Identities, Uncertain Longings: Nostalgia as a Moral Emotion," Philosophy Department Colloquium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, April 23rd, 2015.

"Broken Stories: Memory, Identity, Nostalgia: An Overview of the Project," Whiting Seminar, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 7th, 2015.

"Death, Dying, Euthanasia, and Physician-Assisted Suicide," The American Medical Student Association, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 7th, 2015.

Invited panelist, ?Tom Digby?s Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Gender (a conversation with the author),? International Social Philosophy Conference (NASSP), WilliamJewell College, Liberty, Missouri, July 16-18, 2015.

"'But You Would Be the Best Mother': Unwomen, Counterstories, and the Motherhood Mandate." FAB Affinity Group Meeting, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 16th Annual Meeting. San Diego, Oct. 16-19.

"The Many Harms of Professional Exclusion: Bioethics, Identity, and Power Within Philosophy Departments." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 16th Annual Meeting. San Diego, Oct. 16-19.

"The Revolution That Wasn‟t: International Intervention and Women‟s Health in Post-Soviet Russia." 12th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Mexico City, June 23-25.

"Memory Holes: Unrestricted Self-Authorship, Memory Manipulation, and the Law," Brooklyn Public Philosophers Lecture Series, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York, November 24th, 2014.

"Why Our Stories Matter: Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia." The Lyceum Lectures. Binghamton, N.Y., Feb. 27; March 6, 13 and 20.

"Paternalistic Individualism and Other Contradictions: The Strange New World of Post-Soviet Clinical Trials." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 15th Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Oct. 24-27.

"Girl, Pixelated: Identity, Virtual Embodiment, and Second Life." Gender, Bodies & Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames. Roanoke, Va., April 26-28.

"Intergenerational Justice and Health Care: A Case for Interdependence." 11th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 25-27.

"Representing the Silence: Poetry on the Other Side of Illness." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21.

Commentary on "Memory and Memorialization: What‟s Morality Got to Do With Them?" (Jeffrey Blustein). Liebson Colloquium. Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College.

Gotlib, Anna, Sheldon Krimsky and Christine Vitrano. "HeLa's Troubled Legacy: Medicine, Ethics and Other Puzzles of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." The Liebson Colloquium. Brooklyn College. Nov. 1.

"Medical Education and Medical Migrations: Burning the Candle at Both Ends." American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1.

"Transformations of the Self: Emerging Technologies and The Ethics of Memory Modification." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Oct. 15.

"Art, Music, and Health." The Lyceum Lectures. Binghamton, N.Y., April 5 and 12.

"Chronic Pain: Private Suffering, Clinical Dilemmas." Medicine in Action: A Bio-Ethics Speaker Series. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Edwardsville, Ill., Dec. 2.

Professional Leadership

Calgary Journal, Interview, "Childfree women and the motherhood mandate," March 10, 2023.

ELLE Magazine (Spain), Interview, "Toxic positivity and "tragic optimism,'" March 8, 2023.

IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), Editor, 2018-2022; Editor-in-chief, 2022-present

FAB: International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Co-coordinator, 2020-present

CUNY IRB, member, 2020-present.

Faculty mentor, Philosophy Society

Clinical Ethics, special issue editor

BA/MD admissions interviewer

CUNY IRB, member

Honors Academy Reading Day, Reader

Philosophy Department Appointments committee, member

Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, Member

Developer of the Philosophy and Medical Ethics major at Brooklyn College CUNY

CUNY IRB, member

Philosophy Department Appointments committee, member

Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, Member

Brooklyn Public Philosophers 2014-present

IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics) Editor, 2018-present

Collegiate adviser, pre-law, Brooklyn College, 2014-present.

Member, advisory board, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2014-16.

Member, editorial board, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2014-18.

Co-chair, CUNY Consortium for Bioethics.

Pedagogical Achievements

Philosophy Department Social Hour speaker

"Bioethics, Psychology, and the Law," "Ethical & Legal Issues in Psychology," CUNY Graduate Center, November 16, November 23, 2020.

Philosophy Department Social Hour speaker

Community Activities

"Public Health, Pandemics, and Public Policy,"The Lyceum Lectures, Binghamton, New York, October 5th; October 12th, 2015.

Other Professional Activities

"Main Character Syndrome, NPCs, and the Other: Why Mattering to Each Other Still Matters," Interview, The Academic Minute, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, November 2024.

BBC World Service, Interview, "COVID-19 and Russia," November 1, 2021.

Medical News Today, Interview, "Russians 'have a hard time trusting their own vaccine,' expert says," October 12, 2021,

The Daily Beast, Interview, "Russia's Petty Race With the West Ends in Dire COVID Crisis," November 1, 2021.

Brooklyn. All in.