June 2002

EDUCATION

University of Toronto (1995-2000)
• PhD in Philosophy, 2001

University of Western Ontario (1994-95)
• Master of Arts in Philosophy, 1995

University of Calgary (1984-89)
• Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English and Philosophy, 1989

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

History of Modern Philosophy (including Early Modern Women Philosophers)
History of Philosophy of Science (especially Philosophy of Biology)

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy of Education
Feminism

PUBLICATIONS

“Diversity and the Individual in Dewey’s Philosophy of Democratic Education”. Educational Theory, 48 (3), Summer 1998.

BOOK REVIEWS

Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1668 edition), ed. Eileen O'Neill. In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online), spring 2002.

J.A. Cover and John O’Leary-Hawthorne, Leibniz on Substance and Individuation. In Philosophy in Review, March 2002.
Susan Bordo (ed), Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes. In Philosophy in Review, April 2000.

Helmut Müller-Siever, Self Generation: Biology, Philosophy and Literature Around 1800. In Canadian Philosophical Reviews, August 1998.

PRESENTATIONS (selected)

"The Relation Between Advances in Microscopy and Malebranche’s Conception of Nature”, The History of Philosophy of Science Working Group Congress, Montreal, June 2002.

“The Theological Foundations of Mary Astell’s Conservative Feminism,” Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 2002

“Émilie Du Châtelet on the use of hypothesis in natural philosophy”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, March 2002.

“Education, Relativism, and Indoctrination,” Philomathean Society Afternoon Tea, University of Pennsylvania, February 2002.

“Generation and the Organic Individual in Descartes and Malebranche,” Temple University Colloquium, Philadelphia, October 2001.

“Anne Conway on Love,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Quebec, May 2001

“The Organism, Generation, and Material Unity in Malebranche,” American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2001

“Hylomorphism, the Organism and Material Unity in Descartes,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Fransisco, California, March 2001

“The Ontology and Epistemology of Descartes’ Alleged Hylomorphism,” South-Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Houston, Texas, February 2001

“Radicalism and Conservatism in Mary Astell’s Theory of Women and Social Change,” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 2000.

“The Organism as a Paradigm of the Material Individual in Some Early Moderns,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Edmonton, May 2000.

“Generation and the Organic Individual in Descartes and Malebranche,” Descartes 2000 Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, February 2000.

“Leibniz and Aristotle on the Science and Metaphysics of Generation,” Southeast Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, November 1998.

“Francis Mercury van Helmont, Anne Conway and Leibniz on Vitalism and Natural Philosophy,” Inter-mountain Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 1998.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Penn Research Foundation research grant, 2002-03
Penn Humanities Forum, Faculty Fellow, 2002-03
Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, Junior Faculty Summer Research Stipend, 2002
Dissertation Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, 1998
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Education and Training of Ontario, 1997-1999
Senior Doctoral Teaching Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, 1998
Alice E. Wilson Award, Canadian Federation of University Women, 1997

OTHER EXPERIENCE

United Nations Headquarters, New York, 1992-1994
• Assistant in news editing, television production and research of radio archives in the Media Division

World University Services of Canada, Gaborone, Botswana, 1991
• Researcher and writer on Botswana’s educational system

World University Services of Canada and Government of Botswana, Botswana, 1989-1991
• Teacher, Head of English Department, Librarian, Fund-raiser, Beekeeper at Ngami Junior Secondary School, Sehithwa