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University of Toronto St. George Campus - Philosophy

-- Professional philosopher; Experienced writer, researcher, editor
Research
Shelley
Tremain
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
For over two decades, a passion for social justice has provided the motivation for my professional, academic, and activist work. I wrote a doctoral dissertation on disability and social justice and have published more than 25 books and articles on disability, bioethics, biotechnologies, feminism, Foucault, and disability activism. My paper entitled "On the Government of Disability," originally published in Social Theory and Practice (2001), has been reprinted three times. I am the editor of the path-breaking collection Foucault and the Government of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005), a member of the Editorial Boards of the Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ), the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS), and Ethnographica: A Journal of Disability and Culture, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB). An updated and exxpanded second edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability is forthcoming in 2014. I am currently working on a monograph entitled Foucault and (A) Feminist Philosophy of Disability that will be published by The University of Michigan Press in 2015.

Specialties: Research, writing, and editing in disability studies, bioethics and biotechnologies (such as prenatal genetic testing and stem cell research), social justice, power and oppression, feminism, Foucault

Experience

  • University of Toronto (Mississauga and Scarborough campuses)

    Philosophy professor

    Shelley worked at University of Toronto (Mississauga and Scarborough campuses) as a Philosophy professor

  • University of British Columbia

    Philosophy professor

    Shelley worked at University of British Columbia as a Philosophy professor

  • Self-employed

    Independent scholar

    I am a writer, editor, researcher, and consultant with specializations in the areas of disability studies, bioethics and biotechnologies, social justice, and feminism.

  • University of Sydney

    Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Bioethics

    As the Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Bioethics, I taught in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science and the Bioethics Program at the University of Sydney.

  • Wilfrid Laurier University

    Philosophy professor

    In addition to teaching in the Philosophy Department of Wilfrid Laurier between 2008-2010, I taught there for a semester in 2004.

Education

  • York University

    PhD

    Philosophy
    My PhD dissertation examined several Anglo-American theories on social justice (Rawls, Dworkin, Sen, and Nussbaum) for disabled people. After I completed my PhD at York University (Toronto), I held the Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Public Health at University of California at Berkeley and the World Institute on Disability in Oakland, CA.