Naomi Scheman

Contact Me

nschema@umn.edu

Affiliations

• Philosophy
• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• Graduate School: Interdisciplinary center for the Study of Global Change

Links

• Personal Homepage

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

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

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

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

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

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

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

Outreach

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

Publications

• Naomi Scheman, Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege, Routledge, 1993
• 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. Download
• Naomi Scheman, "Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness," in(En)Gendering Rationalities, ed. Sandra Morgen & Nancy Tuana, SUNY Press, 2001. Download
• 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. Download
• Scheman, Naomi. Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trustworthiness. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1993
• Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities, September 2005 - June 2006
• Imagine Chair in Humanities, Arts, and Design, Sept 2012 - May 2014