Announcement from new Editors of Hypatia

We would like to briefly introduce ourselves as the new editorial team for Hypatia: A Feminist Journal of Philosophy. As a team we are very diverse, both philosophically and demographically. Our first priority will be to use this diversity to build on Hypatia’s already strong reputation by increasing both the philosophical and the demographic pluralism of the journal.

In this particular time, when feminist gains are particularly fragile, we believe in the significance of Hypatia to both emerging and established feminist and marginalized voices in philosophy. In the context of this fragility we have an opportunity to build on the strengths of the journal, as well as recognizing its shortcomings and aspiring to its promise.

We welcome all interested parties to share your hopes and concerns for the journal’s future. We also hope that you will submit articles or musings to Hypatia and propose clusters or special issues.

We hope that under our editorship Hypatia will be an important resource for feminist thinking that is philosophical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional. But it will take the entire feminist community to help make that happen. We look forward to working with you all.

Hypatia Editorial Team (University of Oregon Philosophy Department):

Bonnie Mann, Professor, works in continental feminist philosophy with strengths in feminist phenomenology, poststructuralism and materialist feminism. She is an expert on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler. She is currently on the APA Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession. Her most significant publications include two books, Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror (Oxford University Press: 2014), and Women’s Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment (Oxford University Press, 2006). Her most widely read article is “Creepers, Flirts, Heroes and Allies: Four Theses on Men and Sexual Harassment” (2012).

Erin McKenna, Professor, works in American philosophy with special focus on feminist pragmatism and ecofeminism. A former president of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, she is an expert in the areas of animal ethics, ecofeminism, the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alain Locke, and the social and political thought of John Dewey. Her books include: Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends (2018); Pets, People, and Pragmatism (2013); American Philosophies, co-authored with Scott L. Pratt (2015), and The Task of Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective (2001). She has edited several books as well. Among her numerous journal articles and book chapters, her contributions to Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey (2002) and Feminist Interpretations of William James(2015) may be most relevant here. She is a former chair of the APA Committee on the Status of Women.

Rocío Zambrana, Associate Professor, works in German Idealism (especially Hegel), Marx and Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Decolonial Thought and Decolonial Feminisms. She is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and articles and book chapters on Hegel, Kant, Critical Theory, and Decolonial Thought. Her recently completed book entitled Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico is under review. She has been a member of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Women of Color Group since 2010. She has also served as a member of the APA’s Committee for Hispanics, as a member then chair of SPEP’s Committee for the Status of Women, and as a member of the advisory board then managing board of PIKSI. She served as advertising editor, editor, chief and managing editor, and senior consulting editor for the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal from 2002-2010.

Camisha Russell, Assistant Professor, works in critical philosophy of race with strength in bioethics and is a committed philosophical pluralist. She is a current member of the APA Committee on the Status of Blacks in Philosophy, and a former member then chair of SPEP Committee on Racial and EthnicDiversity. She is also a member of the current HypatiaTask Force. Her first book, The Assisted Reproduction of Race, is due out from Indiana University Press in January 2019. Recent publications include a chapter on Eugenics in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (2018), “Questions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decentering” in Philosophy Compass (2016) and “The Race Idea in Reproductive Technologies: Beyond Epistemic Scientism and Technological Mastery” in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2015).