Jean Harvey Karen Houle
Areas of Feminist Research: Social and Political Philosophy (esp. French Feminist Though), Environmental Philosophy
My present research interests are in the area of political theory and post-structuralist thought. I am thinking through the ways in which our dominant conceptual heritage has framed ethical and political questions, including both how the issues are seen and how particular solutions to these issues are presented as real, viable possibilities for change and resistance. My work is primarily conceptual but has points of insertion in familiar ethical and political questions, including perennial feminist questions about oppression and domination, access to resources, health and power. I have written about abortion and surrogate motherhood. I also work on environmental issues such as just distribution of waste, ecosystem health, and animality.
Patricia Sheridan
Areas of Feminist Research: Early modern philosophy, Locke, early modern women philosophers, history of ethics, feminism (historical and contemporary)
My area of expertise is British philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a special emphasis on women philosophers of this period. Through my research, I hope to bring women's intellectual contributions into the philosophical canon. I have published on Anne Conway and Catherine Trotter Cockburn, and plan to continue working on these and other women (including Lady Mary Shepherd), who made significant contributions
to philosophical debates of their time. I am also interested in the history ethics, and particularly the sentimentalist philosophers of the eighteenth century. Karen Wendling Areas of feminist research: social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, philosophy of medicine, ethics
I'm interested in egalitarianism, broadly conceived. Much of my work has focussed on institutional inequalities, particularly those that are informally rather than formally institutionalized. I understand institutions as systems of rules; informal institutions are social patterns of rule-following behaviour in which the rules are widely understood and followed but not formally codified as laws, by-laws, policies, procedures, and so on. Language, friendship and etiquette are largely informal institutions. My particular interest is in informally institutionalized forms of social inequality such as sexism and
racism, in the forms of both discrimination and privilege. I'm also interested in the development of radical egalitarian political thought, beginning with heretical pre-Reformation religious sects, continuing through the development of liberalism in the seventeenth century, the revolutions of the eighteenth century, the rise of socialism, the gradual extension of the franchise, abolitionism and the woman's rights movement in the nineteenth century, and into the equality-seeking movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. | 
