Christine Overall
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Christine Overall is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a Queen's University Research Chair. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Women's Studies.
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. She is currently also an Adjunct Professor in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.
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.
Dr. Overall teaches and researches in the areas of feminist social ontology, applied ethics, and social policy, and the philosophy of religion. 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. From 1993 to 2006 she was the author of a weekly feminist column, "In Other Words," published in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
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