Naomi Scheman

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

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

• 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