Naomi Scheman

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• B.A.: philosophy, Barnard College, New York City, 1968 -
• Ph.D.: philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978 -

Specialties

• feminist theory
• trustworthiness and community engagement
• responsibility in research
• queer/sexuality studies
• transgender studies
• politics of epistemology

Publications

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Publications

• Naomi Scheman, "Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews," in Feminists Rethink the Self, ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers, Westview Press, 1997.
• Naomi Scheman, Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege, Routledge, 1993
• Naomi Scheman, "Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness," in(En)Gendering Rationalities, ed. Sandra Morgen & Nancy Tuana, SUNY Press, 2001.
• Naomi Scheman, “Narrative, Complexity, and Context: Autonomy as an Epistemic Value,“ inNaturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, ed. H. Lindemann, M. Verkerk, & M.U. Walker,Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Scheman, Naomi. Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trustworthiness. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Activities

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Activities

Outreach

• GRASS Routes--co-founder: Theorizing and faciltating community-based research. 2001 -

Professional

• guest professor, Centre for Gender Studies, Umeí¥ University, Sweden: visiting research position. May 2009 - June 2013

Awards

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Awards

College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1993 - none

Imagine Chair in Humanities, Arts, and Design, Sept 2012 - May 2014

Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities, September 2005 - June 2006

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

Phil 3234 - Knowledge & Society

Phil 1006 - Introduction to Philosophy & Cultural Diversity

Philosophy and Feminist Theory

Queering Theory

Transgender Studies

Development Studies & Social Change: Ways of Knowing