Christine Overall
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Christine Overall is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and holds a Queen's University Research Chair. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Gender Studies, and is an Adjunct Professor in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.
From 1997 to 2005 she served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 2003 she became the Inaugural Humphrey Professor of Feminist Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. She held the position of Charlton Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University from 2004 to 2005, and the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax) from 2006 to 2007. From September 2011 to January 2012 she will be the Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan.
In 1996 Dr. Overall was the winner of a provincial award for teaching excellence presented by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1998. In 2008 she received the Award in Gender Studies from the Royal Society.
She is the editor or co-editor
of three books and the author of five. Her most recent book, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A
Philosophical Inquiry (University of California Press, 2003) won the
Canadian Philosophical Association's 2005 book prize and the Royal Society of
Canada’s Abbyann D. Lynch Medal in Bioethics in 2006.
Her next book is Why Have Children? The
Ethical Debate; it will be published by MIT Press in 2012.
From 1993 to 2006 she was the
author of a weekly feminist column, "In Other Words," published in
the Kingston Whig-Standard. She
currently writes a bi-monthly column, “It’s All Academic,” for University Affairs, Canada’s academic
magazine.
Dr. Overall teaches and
researches in the following areas:
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feminist
philosophy (especially questions about gender, sex, sexuality, trans
identities, disability, age, or socioeconomic class);
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applied
ethics and bioethics (especially questions in reproductive ethics and social
policy, and questions about aging, death, and longevity);
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contemporary analytic philosophy of religion.
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