NAAPE 2024 Keynote Speaker Profiles
Nancy E. Snow, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, Kansas University, USA
Nancy E. Snow joined the KU Philosophy Department as a tenured full professor in late August, 2022. She was formerly Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests are in virtue ethics, moral psychology, and virtue epistemology. She is the author of Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory (Routledge, 2010), Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and seventy papers on virtue and ethics more broadly. She is the co-author (with Jennifer Cole Wright and Michael T. Warren) of Understanding Virtue: Theory and Measurement (Oxford University Press, 2021) and has edited or co-edited seven volumes. She is the series editor of “The Virtues,” a fifteen-book series published by Oxford University Press. From 2014-2022, she has either co-directed, been the PI on, or been heavily involved with interdisciplinary grants totaling a little under $10 million. In addition to other projects, she is currently editing a book on hope, authoring a monograph on hope, and planning work on a monograph on virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.
Gina Schouten, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, USA
Gina Schouten is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She writes on justice and legitimacy, education, feminism, and egalitarianism. Her first book, Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor, assesses political liberalism as a theory of legitimacy and considers its capacity to approve political intervention aimed at eroding the gendered division of labor. Her forthcoming book, The Anatomy of Justice, argues for a reorientation in liberal egalitarian theorizing about justice and shows that that reorientation supports compelling resolutions to longstanding difficulties internal to egalitarianism and compelling defenses of liberalism against feminist and egalitarian critics. Adjacent to her major research areas, she’s written on diversity problems in philosophy, the ethics and politics of abortion, and doing non-ideal theory in political philosophy. Before starting at Harvard, she taught at Illinois State University (2013-2016). She received her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013) and her BA from Ball State University (2006).
Quentin Wheeler-Bell, Ph.D.
School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Quentin Wheeler-Bell, Ph.D., is an Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Assistant Professor at Indiana University. His research delves into the intersections of education and democratic theory, concentrating on critical pedagogy and the philosophy of education. Holding a Ph.D. in Educational Policy from the University of Wisconsin, his work explores the normative foundation of Critical Pedagogy and its implications for human flourishing. With publications in prestigious journals like Educational Theory and Educational Policy, his scholarly contributions encompass topics such as neoliberalism, urban poverty, and social justice education. Dr. Wheeler-Bell is also a dedicated educator, offering courses on educational thought, philosophy of education, and critical pedagogy. He's been recognized for his teaching excellence and mentoring efforts and actively contributes to academia through committee participation and conference presentations. He's working on a book delving into the normative dimensions of critical pedagogy, further enriching his research trajectory.
Anthony Laden, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Tony Laden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he has taught since 1996. He teaches classes on democracy, justice, educational ethics, and philosophical writing, among other topics. He is the author of Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do About Them (forthcoming in November 2024 from University of Chicago Press), as well as Reasoning: A Social Picture (Oxford, 2012), and Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity (Cornell, 2001).
