Chris Cuomo is the Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the

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. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the Institute for African-American Studies, and the Institute for Native American Studies (all also at the University of Georgia.) Before moving to the University of Georgia, Cuomo was the Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics at the

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Education and career

Cuomo received her doctorate in philosophy from the

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in 1992. Prior to her current appointment at the University of Georgia, Cuomo held appointments at the

(where she was the Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics,) as well as at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

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and

Murdoch University Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its n ...

. Besides her academic appointments, Cuomo has also received research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Research on Women, and Idea for Creative Exploration.

Research areas

Cuomo's work has covered a wide area, but her primary focuses have included attempts to articulate feminist philosophy on its own terms and interdisciplinary efforts to bridge the gap between theory and practice, especially in ways which join social and environmental concerns. She has also brought feminist approaches in to a wide variety of other theoretical fields, including

environmental ethics In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...

climate justice Climate justice is a concept that addresses the just division, fair sharing, and equitable distribution of the burdens of climate change and its mitigation and responsibilities to deal with climate change. "Justice", "fairness", and "equity" ar ...

, and various forms of activism. Much of Cuomo's current research focuses on

and how

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might inform us about the effects of climate change on particular landscapes.

Publications

Cuomo has authored or co-authored several books, including: * ''Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing'' (1998) * ''Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections'' (1999) * ''The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge'' (2003) * ''Feminist Philosophy Reader'' (a popular introductory textbook, co-authored with Alison Bailey.)

Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing

In ''Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing'', Cuomo, in a significant departure from earlier scholars, proposes a theoretical framework for ecofeminism that emphasizes the feminism over the eco. Cuomo argues, far more strongly than traditional environmental ethicists, that the subordination of nature to man cannot be properly understood without first understanding the subordination of woman to man. A key component of Cuomo's ecological feminism is the idea of 'flourishing' – a condition wherein attention is paid not only to the interests of the person who does the valuing, but also to the interests of the thing that is being valued.

References

External links

Chris Cuomo on PhilPapersChris Cuomo on Academia.edu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cuomo, Chris Living people American women philosophers Feminist philosophers Ecofeminists University of Georgia faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni 21st-century American philosophers 20th-century American philosophers 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)