Margaret Urban Walker (born August 8, 1948),
is the Donald J. Schuenke Chair Emerita in Philosophy at
Marquette University
Marquette University () is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, the first Bishop of the diocese of M ...
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Before her appointment at Marquette, she was the Lincoln Professor of Ethics at
Arizona State University, and before that she was at
Fordham University.
[ She has also previously held visiting appointments at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of South Florida, and the Catholic University of Leuven.][
In 2002, Walker was awarded the Cardinal Mercier chair at the Catholic University of Leuven, and was the first woman ever to hold the chair.][
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Education and career
Walker (born Margaret Urban) received her bachelor's in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois ...
in 1969. She went on to receive her master's in philosophy from Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
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in 1971, and her doctorate in philosophy, also from Northwestern, in 1975.[
Walker was a member of the Philosophy Department at Fordham University for 28 years before moving to Arizona State University from 2002 to 2010 (where she received the Defining Edge Research in the Humanities Award in 2007), and moving to ]Marquette University
Marquette University () is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, the first Bishop of the diocese of M ...
in 2010.[ She retired in May 2017.] She held visiting appointments at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of South Florida, and the Catholic University of Leuven.[ During her second visiting appointment at the Catholic University of Leuven, she was the first woman to hold the Cardinal Mercier Chair in Philosophy.][ She also was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at ]Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
's Center for Human Values from 2003 to 2004.[
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Research areas
Walker's recent research has focused on repairing moral relations after wrongdoing, especially in relation to political violence.[ She has contributed to research projects with the International Center for Transitional Justice on gender and reparations and truth commissions.][ She was drawn to this area through her earlier work, in which she focused on the effects of social inequalities on the way morality is understood in ethics and everyday life.][ Some of her earlier research focused on developing a social differences-focused approach to ethical theory.][ She strongly defends the view that although moral understandings are inextricably linked to the historical and social practices that they derived from, that those historical and social practices not only can be, but must be critically assessed.][
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Publications
Books
Walker has authored seven books, numerous book chapters, and a large number of papers.[
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Book chapters
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Journal articles
From 2005 to 2010, Walker served as an associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.[ She served as series co-editor of '' Feminist Constructions'', a 25-volume series of books released between 2002 and 2007.][ She co-edited the annual volume of the '' Association of Feminist Ethics and Social Theory'' from 2003 to 2005.][
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References
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1948 births
American women philosophers
Feminist philosophers
Northwestern University alumni
Marquette University faculty
Moral psychology
20th-century American philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
American ethicists
Living people
Catholic feminists
20th-century American women
21st-century American women