I received mine! Indeed my mailbox has
been flooded this morning with ballot emails from Maurice and Lisa T. diana
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Diana Tietjens Meyers
Ignacio Ellacuría SJ Chair of Social
Ethics and
Professor of Philosophy
1032
Phone: 773-508-2295
From: Feminist ethics
and social theory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maurice Hamington
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009
10:15 PM
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Subject: Re: Ballot for FEAST
members
I am not sure what is wrong. It doesn't bounce back to me. [log in to unmask]
and [log in to unmask]
but nothing happens.
On Dec 13, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Lisa Tessman wrote:
Hi Maurice,
I (still) didn't get a ballot... ?
Lisa
On Dec 13, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Maurice Hamington wrote:
Hi Lisa,
I sent this e-mail out to both the member and the FEAST list yesterday,
but I don't think it got distributed. I didn't get one. I will try
again.
Maurice
Begin forwarded message:
From:
Maurice Hamington <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
December 12, 2009 12:08:20 PM MST
Subject:
Ballot for FEAST members
Dear FEAST Members,
I apologize for the tardiness of this ballot but it should only take a
few moments to fill out. Please keep in mind that only members may vote.
FEAST
BALLOT 2009
Please return your vote by Monday, December 28 to
A. INTRODUCTION:
1. Election of Steering Committee members to commence service
on January 1, 2010:
FEAST Steering Committee
seats to be filled are:
1. At Large Member (January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2011)
2. Grad Representative (January 1, 2010-December 31, 2011)
Bios of candidates (in alphabetical order):
For At
Large Member (three-year term):
Louise Collins. I have been a
low-profile participant in FEAST since its inception and am eager to become
more actively involved in the organization. I am pleased to be completing
my sixth - and final! - year as Philosophy Department chair at Indiana
University South Bend, where I am an associate professor of Philosophy, and
also serve on the Women’s Studies Governing Board.
I
presented a paper on feminist approaches to children’s literature at the 2001
proto-FEAST meeting, served on the program committee in 2003, 2005 & 2007,
and chaired a session at the 2009 meeting.
I
have a paper forthcoming in the 2010 Hypatia FEAST Special Issue, entitled,
“Autonomy and Authorship: Story-Telling in Children’s Picture Books.” My
current research project explores the significance of on-line relationships.
Among
my hopes for FEAST: that the organization continue to flourish and provide a
supportive, professional venue for feminist philosophers to share our work;
and, that the organization continue to nurture the next generation of feminist
scholars from diverse backgrounds.
Peter Higgins (Ph.D.,
Alice MacLachlan is an assistant professor in the
department of philosophy at
Lisa Rivera. I am an
Associate Professor at the
I was overjoyed to find in FEAST a place
where I could collaborate with other feminist theorists, both intellectually
and politically. FEAST’s mission to increase the “visibility and influence” of
feminist ethics and feminist social and political philosophy gives me the hope
that FEAST will continue to be a resource for those of us who want to challenge
the status quo in the academy, and further feminist ethical and political
perspectives within and beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Some
of my hopes for FEAST:
I hope that FEAST will mentor graduate
students and junior faculty in order to promote the professional success and
flourishing of feminist ethicists, political philosophers, and social theorists.
I hope FEAST will promote the work of
people with diverse backgrounds and those who are underrepresented in
philosophy by providing intellectual collaborators, a constructive place to
develop work, and guidance in negotiating the rocky terrain of academia.
I want to work with others to support
PIKSI and develop further strategies to make academic philosophy include those
who are now marginalized from, or altogether shut out of, the discipline.
I hope we will continue to have many
difficult conversations, and that these conversations will lead to
opportunities for feminist action both inside and outside the university.
I hope that FEAST conferences continue to
be venues where feminists with a variety of different theoretical orientations
can engage with one another to cultivate our work. The conferences are a place
where we can find intellectual collaborators and expand our own theoretical
frameworks. I want to support those who find venues for publishing
the writing of FEAST members.
I hope that FEAST members can be resources
for one another in the face of two prolonged wars, an alarming environmental
situation, and other forms of injustice and oppression. Many of the scholars in
FEAST are also experienced activists and organizers. I hope to work with others
in the FEAST community to voice a feminist perspective on the ethical and
political issues we face.
For Grad
Representative (two-year term):
Jessica Kyle. I am a Ph.D. student in
Having the good fortune to be part of a
very feminist-friendly graduate program in philosophy, I am aware of the
significance of environments that encourage the flourishing of academic-related
feminist pursuits and also strongly interested in promoting these spaces. And,
as president of my program’s Graduate Student Organization, I have worked to
ensure representation of and promote responsiveness to graduate student
interests and concerns. These efforts have included serving on the
GSO Committee for Graduate Student Professional Support, through which I have
helped to organize activities including conference presentation and teaching
workshops. I would love to have the opportunity to draw on this
experience for the advancement of graduate students in feminist philosophy. A
primary commitment of mine as FEAST grad student representative would be to the
continuation and strengthening of those programs and activities put in place
through the hard work of other graduate students; these include the FEAST
Mentoring Program and FEAST Conference events such as the Mentoring Breakfast
and student/faculty lunch session on succeeding as women philosophers. While
the initiation of new programs and activities is dependent on the feedback of
FEAST grad student members, a further hope I have is to help compile and make
available through the FEAST website, listserv, and perhaps other digital venues
a range of information and resources specifically tailored to the issues and
needs of graduate student women in philosophy.
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Please cut and paste from here, and send to
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B. BALLOT
1. Instructions:
Please complete the following form and return it by Monday, December 28 to the FEAST
Nominating Committee, via Maurice Hamington at [log in to unmask]
The
easiest procedure for all of us will be for you to just cut and paste the
ballot itself, as directed just above.
Please
vote for one (and only one) nominee for each of the open seats.
2. Vote:
For At-Large Representative (two-year term):
___ Louise Collins
___ Peter Higgins
___ Alice MacLachlan
___ Lisa Rivera
For Grad Representative (two-year term):
___ Jessica Kyle
Again,
please return your ballot by Monday, December 28 to Maurice Hamington at [log in to unmask]
Thank
you.
Maurice
Hamington, Chair
FEAST
Nominating Committee
Maurice Hamington
Associate Professor of Women's Studies &
Director
Institute for Women's Studies and Services
1-303-556-8441
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Lisa Tessman
Associate Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy
Program in Social,
Political, Ethical and Legal Philosophy (SPEL)
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777-2269
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