MAURICE HAMINGTON, PH.D.
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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, 2001 / M.A., Philosophy, 2000 – University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dissertation: Embodied Care – How the Nature of Human Embodiment Creates a Disposition
Toward a Relational Ethic of Care.
Ph.D., Religion and Social Ethics, 1994 – University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA
Dissertation: The Renegotiation of Religious Imagery: Mariology and the Roman Catholic Church
Graduate Certificate, Study of Women and Men in Society, 1994 – USC
M.A., Religious Studies, 1989 – Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
Thesis: John Ryan and Walter Rauschenbusch: American Social Reformers
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Organizational Behavior, 1983 – USC
B.A., Business, Cum Laude, 1982 – Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Eugene, OR
2013 to Present
Executive Dean, Academic and Student Affairs
Accreditation Liaison Officer
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, OR
Courtesy Research Associate
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY SEATTLE, Seattle, WA
2013 to Present
2012 to 2013
Director, BA in Liberal Studies
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, Denver, CO
2007 to 2012
Associate Vice President, Academic Centers and Programs
Interim Associate Dean
Director, Institute for Women’s Studies and Services
Professor of Women’s Studies and Philosophy
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA, Evansville, IN
2004 to 2007
Chair, Department of Philosophy and Political Science
Associate Professor of Philosophy
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Eugene, OR
1998 to 2004
Learning Communities Coordinator
Instructor
WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY, Monmouth, OR
1996 to 1998; 2000 to 2002
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Lecturer
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Portland, OR
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvallis, OR
1996 to 1999
1995 to 1996
Instructor (part-time)
UCLA, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN, Los Angeles, CA
1994 to 1995
Research Scholar
MOUNT ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, Los Angeles, CA
1991 to 1995
Director Two-Year Business Degree Program
Assistant Professor
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, Pasadena, CA
1983 to 1989
Instructor
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director, Human Resources, Best Foods, 1988 – 1989.
Assistant Director, Personnel, American Red Cross, 1984 – 1988.
Loaned Executive to the United Way
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Hamington, Maurice and Daniel Engster, Ed., Care Ethics and Political Theory, Oxford University
Press, 2014 [under contract].
Hamington, Maurice, Revealing Philosophy [interactive e-textbook] Thinking Strings, 2013.
http://www.thinkingstrings.com/revealing-philosophy.php
Hamington, Maurice and Celia Bardwell-Jones, Eds., Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism,
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series, Routledge, April 2012.
Hamington, Maurice and Maureen Sander-Staudt, Eds., Applying Care Ethics to Business, Issues
in Business Ethics Series, Springer, September 2011.
Hamington, Maurice, Ed., Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship,
Lexington Books (a Division of Rowman & Littlefield), August 2010.
Hamington, Maurice, Ed., Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams, Re-Reading the Canon Series,
Penn State Press, August 2010.
Hamington, Maurice, The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams, University of Illinois Press,
November 2009.
Hamington, Maurice, and Dorothy C. Miller, Eds., Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public
Issues, Rowman and Littlefield, January 2006.
Hamington, Maurice, Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Feminist
Ethics, University of Illinois Press, September 2004.
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Hamington, Maurice, and Nancy Tuana, Eds., Revealing Male Bodies, Indiana University Press,
March 2002.
Hamington, Maurice, Hail Mary? The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism,
Routledge, November 1995.
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Articles in Refereed Journals
Hamington, Maurice, “Care Ethics and Confronting Intersectional Difference through the Body,”
in Critical Philosophy of Race 3:1 (2015).
Hamington, Maurice, “Loyalty to Care: Royce and a Political Approach to Feminist Care Ethics”
in Pragmatism Today 5:1 (Summer 2014).
Hamington, Maurice, “A Performative Approach to Teaching Care Ethics,” Feminist Teacher 23:1
(Fall 2013).
Hamington, Maurice, “Caring, Journalism, and the Power of Particularism,” Expositions:
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Fall 2011 (published in 2012).
Hamington, Maurice, “Care Ethics and Corporeal Inquiry in Patient Relations,” International
Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 5:1 (Spring 2012): 52-69.
Hamingtion, Maurice with AnnJanette Alejano-Steele, Lunden MacDonald, Mark Potter, Shaun
Schafer, Arlene Sgoutas, and Tara Tull, “From Difficult Dialogues to Critical Conversations:
Intersectionality in Our Teaching and Professional Lives,” New Directions in Teaching and
Learning, No. 125, Spring 2011.
Hamington, Maurice, “Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: How Care Ethics Informs Social Justice,” Social
Philosophy Today, 26:1, 2011.
Hamington, Maurice, “Care Ethics, John Dewey’s ‘Dramatic Rehearsal’ and Moral Education,”
Philosophy of Education Yearbook 2010. Spring 2011.
Hamington, Maurice, “The Will to Care: Performance, Expectation, and Imagination,” Hypatia,
25:3 (Summer 2010) 675 – 695.
Hamington, Maurice, “Toward a Theory of Feminist Hospitality,” Feminist Formations (formerly
National Women’s Studies Association Journal), 22:1, April 2010.
Hamington, Maurice, “Hull House: Urban Epistemology and Social Action,” Southwest
Philosophy Review, 26:1 (July 2009): 241-261.
Hamington, Maurice, “Feminist Prophetic Pragmatism,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 23:2,
2009.
Hamington, Maurice, “Business is Not a Game: The Metaphoric Fallacy,” Journal of Business
Ethics, 86:4, 2009. Available online at www.springerlink.com/content/0487361291017704/
Hamington, Maurice, “Learning Ethics from Our Relationships with Animals: Moral Imagination,”
International Journal of Applied Ethics, 22:2, Fall 2008.
Hamington, Maurice, “Care Ethics and International Justice: The Cosmopolitanism of Jane
Addams and Kwame Anthony Appiah,” Social Philosophy Today, 23, 2008.
Hamington, Maurice, “Two Leaders, Two Utopias: Jane Addams and Dorothy Day,” National
Women’s Studies Association Journal, 19:2, 2007.
Hamington, Maurice, “Touching the Other in Myself: Merleau-Ponty, Tactility, and Care Ethics,”
Review Journal of Political Philosophy, 4:1, 2006.
Hamington, Maurice, “Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells on Lynching,” Journal of Speculative
Philosophy, 19:2, 2005.
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Hamington, Maurice, “Addams’ Radical Democracy: Beyond Rights,” Journal of Speculative
Philosophy, 18:3, 2004.
Hamington, Maurice, “Jane Addams and the Politics of Embodied Care,” Journal of Speculative
Philosophy, 15:2, Fall 2001.
Book Chapters
“Ethics and Experiential Learning: A Performative Approach to Care” in Julinna C. Oxley, ed.,
Philosophy Without Walls, Routledge, (accepted forthcoming)
“William James and the Will to Care for Unfamiliar Others” in Shannon Sullivan and Erin Tarver,
eds., Feminist Interpretations of William James, Penn State Press, (accepted forthcoming).
“Care as Personal, Political, and Performative” in Gert Olthuis, Helen Kohlen, and Jorma Heier,
eds., Moral Boundaries Redrawn: The Significance Of Joan Tronto’s Argument For Professional
Ethics, Political Theory And Care Practice, Peeters in Leuven, Belgium, 2014.
“Feminist Care Ethics and Business Ethics” in Christoph Luetge, ed., Handbook of the
Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, Springer, September 2012.
“Hospitality as Moral Inquiry: Sympathetic Knowledge in the Guest–Host Encounter” Hamington,
Maurice and Celia Bardwell-Jones, Eds., Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism, Routledge Studies
in Contemporary Philosophy Series, Routledge, April 2012.
“Tactility, Care Ethics, and Patient Relations” in Jeremy P. Wisnewski, Ed., Phenomenology and
Ethics, Lexington Books, March 2012.
“Care Ethics, Knowledge Management, and the Learning Organization,” in Hamington, Maurice
and Maureen Sander-Staudt, Eds., Applying Care Ethics to Business, Issues in Business Ethics
Series, Springer, September 2011.
“Care Ethics, Friendship, and Facebook” in Dylan Wittkower, Ed., Philosophy and Facebook, Open
Court Publishing Company, Open Court, October 2010.
“Caring Hospitality and Mexican ‘Illegal’ Immigrants,” in Maurice Hamington, Ed., Feminism and
Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship, Lexington Books, August 2010.
“Community Organizing: Addams and Alinsky,” in Maurice Hamington, Ed., Feminist
Interpretations of Jane Addams, Penn State Press, August 2010.
“Resources for Feminist Care Ethics in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of the Body,” in Gail
Weiss, Ed., Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty, SUNY Press, 2008.
“An Inverted Home: Socializing Care at Hull-House,” in Maurice Hamington and Dorothy C.
Miller, Eds., Socializing Care, University of Illinois Press, January 2006.
“Embodiment, Care Ethics, and Same-Sex Marriage Controversy,” in Robert M. Baird and Stuart E.
Rosenbaum, Eds., Same-Sex Marriage: the Moral and Legal Debate (2nd Edition), Prometheus
Books, September 2004.
“A Father’s Touch: Caring Embodiment and A Moral Revolution,” in Nancy Tuana, William
Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson, and Terrance MacMullan, Eds., Revealing Male
Bodies, Indiana University Press, March 2002.
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“Gender and the Challenge of Social Construction: Mary, the Mother of Jesus,” in Roberta
Rosenberg, Ed., Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Peter Lang Publishers, 2001.
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Book Review Essays
Review of Two Shining Souls: Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, and the Quest for Global Peace for
Slavonic & East European Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (October 2013): 876-877.
Review of John J. Kaag, Idealism, Pragmatism and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot
for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: An Electronic Journal, ndpr.org, February, 2012.
Review of Laura Sjoberg, ed., Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives, for The
European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 17:4, 2012.
Review of Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy, for Hypatia, 24:1, Winter 2009.
Review of Penny A. Weiss and Loretta Kensinger, Eds., Feminist Interpretations of Emma
Goldman, for Teaching Philosophy, 31:4, December 2008.
Review of Jane Duran, “Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, and Feminism,” for American
Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Fall 2006.
Review of Christina Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, Eds., Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting
Prostitution and Pornography, Joyce Outshoom, Ed., The Politics of Prostitution: Women’s
Movements, Democratic States and the Globilisation of Sex Commerce, and Denise Brennan, What’s
Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic,” for
National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 18:2, Summer, 2006.
Review of Noddings, Nel, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, for Hypatia, Volume 19,
Number 3. Summer 2005.
Review of Erin McKenna, The Task of Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective” for Journal
of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 17, Number 2, 2003.
Review of Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey, Shannon Sullivan,
Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism, and James
Livingston, Pragmatism, Feminism and Democracy, for National Women’s Studies Association
Journal, 15:1, Spring 2003.
Review of Isaac D. Balbus, Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father, for
Hypatia, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2002.
Review of Candice Fredrick and Camille Atkinson, Women, Ethics, and the Workplace for Business
Ethic Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 4, October 2000.
Review of Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Pragmatism and Feminism, for National Women’s Studies
Association Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 1998.
Review of Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the
Holocaust--Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum, for National Catholic Reporter,
February 6, 1998.
Review of Martin Marty, The One and the Many: America’s Struggle for the Common Good, for
National Catholic Reporter, September 5, 1997.
Review of Sally Cuneen, In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol, and Helen Hackett, Virgin
Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult the Virgin Mary, for National Catholic Reporter,
November 8, 1996.
Review of Susan Frank Parsons, Feminism and Christian Ethics, and Germain Kopaczynski, No
Higher Court, for National Catholic Reporter, September 6, 1996.
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Review of June O’Connor, The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day, for Graduate Women’s Studies
Bulletin, G.T.U., Berkeley, January 1994.
Encyclopedia Entries
Jupiter Hammon, Dictionary of Early American Philosophy, 2010.
George Moses Horton, Dictionary of Early American Philosophy, 2010.
Jane Addams, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), 2006 [major revision 2014].
Jane Addams, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), 2006 [revised 2013].
Cesar Chavez, The Seventies in America, Salem Press, 2005.
Angela Davis, The Seventies in America, Salem Press, 2005.
Star Trek, The Seventies in America, Salem Press, 2005.
Rosa Parks, The Fifties in America, Salem Press, 2004.
Anna Garlin Spencer. Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes Press, 2004.
Dual-Earner Families. Encyclopedia of Family Life. Salem Press, 1998.
Gender Inequality. Encyclopedia of Family Life. Salem Press, 1998.
Women’s Roles. Encyclopedia of Family Life, Salem Press. 1998.
Plastic Surgery, Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism. Salem Press, 1998.
Old Boys Network. Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism. Salem Press, 1998.
Roman Catholics. Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Salem Press, 1997.
Father Charles Coughlin. Encyclopedia of Propaganda. Salem Press, 1997.
Christianity and Women. Ready Reference: Women’s Issues, Salem Press. 1996.
Humane Vitae. Ready Reference: Women’s Issues. Salem Press, 1996.
Women. Business & Corporations. Ready Reference: Women’s Issues, Salem Press. 1996.
Breast Implants. Ready Reference: Women’s Issues, Salem Press, 1996.
Adrienne Rich--Of Woman Born. Masterplots II: Women’s Literature. Salem Press, 1995.
Other Publications
“Forward,” Ethical Issues in E-Business: Models and Frameworks, Ed. Daniel E. Palmer, Advances
in E-Business Research Series, IGI Global, 2010.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Invited
Presentation, “Jane Addams,” Peace and the Environment Symposium, Simon Fraser University,
February 2014.
Keynote address, “The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams,” Joanne Brown Symposium: Peace and
Social Change—Pondering the Texts and Ideas of Select Nobel Peace Laureates, Simon Fraser
University, November 2009.
National Academic Conferences
“Care Ethics and Engaging Intersectional Difference through the Body” Western Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 2015.
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Morality for Humans, Or Is Mark Johnson A Closeted Care Ethicist?” Society for the Advancement
of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, Allendale, MI, March 2015.
“Care as Power and Subversion: A Relational Approach to Freedom and Resistance” North
American Society for Social Philosophy, Ashland, Oregon, July 2014.
“Loyalty to Care: Royce and a Political Approach to Feminist Care Ethics.” Summer Institute in
American Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon, July
2014.
“Politics Is Not A Game: The Radical Potential of Care.” Western Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 2014. Organized day-long mini conference on care ethics.
“Dewey and a Performative Approach to the Moral Education of Care,” Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, New Jersey, March 2013.
“Care and the Politics of Jesus,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
Hollywood, CA, March 2013.
“Care Theory and Taxes,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR,
March 2012.
“Foucault and Feminist Care Ethics,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA, November 2011.
“Performativity and Feminist Care Ethics,” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Annual
Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, October 2011.
“Toward A Performative Theory of Care,” Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
(FEAST) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 2011.
“Toward A Performative Approach to Caring: Aesthetics, Freedom, and Joy in Beauvoir’s Ethics,”
Simone de Beauvoir Society, Eugene, Or, June 2011.
“Performances of Care and Intersectionality,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 2010.
“Corporeal Resources for Empathetic Knowing in Patient Relations: John Gregory and Feminist
Care Ethics,” Canadian Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May
2010.
“Care Ethics, John Dewey’s ‘Dramatic Rehearsal’ and Moral Education,” Philosophy of Education
Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 2010.
“The Will to Care: Expectancy Theory, William James, and Feminist Ethics,” Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, March 2010.
“Care, Embodiment, and Intersectionality” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, November 2009.
“Feminist Prophetic Pragmatism,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual
Meeting, College Station, TX, March 2009. Winner of Addams Prize for Outstanding Contribution
to Feminism and Pragmatism.
“Liberté, Egalité, Sororité: How Care Ethics Informs Social Justice,” North American Society for
Social Philosophy Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 2008.
“The State of Care Ethics,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati,
June 2008.
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“Toward a Theory of Feminist Hospitality,” Canadian Women’s Studies Association Meeting,
Vancouver, British Columbia, (paper accepted but not presented due to family medical emergency),
June, 2008.
“Community Organizing: Addams and Alinsky,” Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy Annual Meeting, East Lansing, Michigan, March 2008.
(Commentator) “Why Minimalism Fails as Justification of Democracy,” American Philosophical
Association Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, December 2007.
“Feminist Hospitality,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, July
2007.
“An Ethic of Hospitality: Derrida and U.S. Immigration Policy,” American Philosophical
Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2007.
“Before Jane Addams, There Was Fanny Wright,” Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy Annual Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina, March 2007.
“Victorian Radical? Jane Addams’ Extreme Democracy,” Radical Philosophy Association Annual
Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, October 2006.
“Cosmopolitanism, Care, and International Justice: Jane Addams Meet Kwame Anthony Appiah,”
North American Society for Social Philosophy Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, August
2006.
“The Possibility and Impossibility of Hospitality: Jacques Derrida and Jane Addams on Meeting the
Other,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, California, June 2006.
“Jane Addams’ Feminist Pragmatist Philosophy: A Model for 21st Century Social Work (with
Martha Raske),” Council for Social Work Education Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February
2006.
“Socializing Care at Hull-House,” Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST)
Annual Meeting, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 2006.
“Embodied Care and Same-Sex Marriage,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Orlando, June 2005.
“Public Pragmatism: Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells on Lynching,” Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy Annual Meeting, March 2005.
“Lateral Care and Women’s Shelters: One Response to Feminist Critiques of the Maternal in Care
Ethics,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, June 2004.
“Addams’ Radical Democracy: Moving Beyond Rights,” Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy Annual Meeting, March 2004.
“Hull House: A Feminist Pragmatist Utopia,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division
Annual Meeting, March 2004.
“A Dish Served Cold: The Gender of Revenge and Breaking the Cycle,” National Women’ Studies
Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 2003.
“Jane Addams and Dorothy Day: A Contrast in Utopian Thinking,” Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy Annual Meeting, Denver, March 2003.
“Gender, Embodied Care, and War,” National Women’s Studies Association, Las Vegas, June 2002.
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“Jane Addams’ Disruptive Emotional Epistemology,” Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, Portland, Maine, March 2002.
“What Jane Addams Adds to the Ethics of Care,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2001.
“Care Ethics in the City: Jane Addams’ Social Morality,” Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2001.
“What Jane Addams Adds to the Ethics of Care,” National Association for Humanities Education,
Portland, Oregon, March 2001.
“Resources for A Feminist Ethic of Care in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of the Body,”
International Merleau-Ponty Circle Conference, Washington D.C., September 2000.
Regional Academic Conferences
“A Performative Theory of Care Ethics: The Everyday Negotiation of the Political Animal,” Pacific
Association for the Continental Tradition, Seattle, Washington, October 2011.
“Women as Peacemakers,” Peace & Justice Story Conference: Healing Wounds Through Story,
Rocky Mountain Storytellers Association, Denver, Co., October 2010.
“The Proto-Feminist Pragmatism of Frances Wright,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis,
Tennessee, February 2007.
“Addams on Peace: A Missed Opportunity,” Midwest Pragmatist Reading Group Annual Meeting,
Chicago, September 2006.
“Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité . . . et Hospitalité? Jacques Derrida and a Reconsideration of
American Values,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2006.
“Life is Not a Game: Unintended Transfers of Moral Meaning in Metaphor,” Indiana Philosophical
Association Fall Meeting, November 2004.
“Jane Addams and Dorothy Day: A Study in Contrasts with A Singular Philosophy of Engagement,”
Exploring Jane Addams: A Multidisciplinary Colloquium, University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio,
November 2002.
Additional Presentations
“A Performative Theory of Care,” Antioch University Scholarship Series, November 2012.
“Jane Addams: Philosopher & Activist,” Women’s History Month Presentation, Metropolitan Sate
University of Denver, March 2012.
“Three Challenges Facing Progressive Adult Education,” Antioch University Seattle, January 2012.
“All the World Is A Stage: A Performative Approach to Care Ethics,” Philosophy Colloquium,
University of Portland, March 2011.
Moderator and panel participant, Breakfast Book Discussion: Feminist Interpretations of Jane
Addams, edited by Maurice Hamington. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Annual Meeting, Spokane, Wa., March 2011.
“Reflections From Faculty Leaders, What Works and Why,” American Association of Colleges and
Universities, Orlando, Fl., February, 2011.
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“Jane Addams and Progressive Era Social Justice,” Philosophy Colloquium, University of Portland,
October 2010.
“Immigration as an Issue of Hospitality,” Auraria Library Colloquium, Denver, October 2010.
“The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams,” University of Wyoming, Philosophy Colloquium,
September, 2010.
“Re-Presenting the History of Mary,” Iliff School of Theology Graduate Lecture, University of
Denver, February, 2010.
“Jane Addams: Pacifist Pragmatist,” Invited Presentation, Women and Gender Studies Program,
University of Colorado, Boulder, February 2009.
“Beneficence and Beyond: Caring Transactions and the Doctor-Patient Relationship,” University of
Colorado, Denver Philosophy Lecture Series, February 2008.
“Political Philosophy of Cornel West,” Black History Month Presentation, University of Southern
Indiana, February 2007.
“Embodied Care,” University of Southern Indiana, Liberal Arts Colloquium. March 2005.
“Ethics and Happiness: What is the Connection?” (Invited Presentation), Phi Theta Kappa,
Community College Honor Society Western Regional Meeting, Canby, Oregon, 1999.
Invited respondent to Stewart W. Herman’s Durable Goods: A Covenantal Ethic for Management
and Employees, Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 1999.
Religion and Ethics: What is the Connection? Invited lecture as part of the series, Ethics and the Public
Life, Western Oregon University, December 6, 1996.
History of American Catholicism, Guest Lecture in course on Contemporary Issues in Religion, University
of Oregon, May 1996.
Virtual Mary, Mount St. Mary’s College Women’s History Month Lecture, March 1995.
Doctor Assisted Suicide, Mount St. Mary’s College campus presentation, March 1993.
Doctor Assisted Suicide, Medical Assistants Association, Pasadena, September 1992.
Feminist Ethics and Women’s Colleges, Mount St. Mary’s College, Graduate Hooding Address,
May 1992.
RELEVANT COURSES TAUGHT
African-American Philosophy, American Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Bioethics, Business and Diversity,
Business Ethics, Contemporary Moral Issues, Corporate Responsibility, Critical Thinking,
Epistemology, Ethical Theory, Feminist Ethics, Feminist Theory, Gender Issues in Business and
Economics, Gender Issues in the Bible, Introduction to the Bible, Introduction to Philosophy,
Introduction to the Study of World Religions, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Metaphysics, Moral
Truth, Philosophy and Cultural Diversity, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Religion,
Professional Ethics, Progressive Era Thought (Graduate), Sexual Harassment, The Social Philosophy of
Jane Addams, Social and Political Philosophy, The Great Ideas in Philosophy, Theories of Love and Sex
(Graduate).
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RECENT AWARDS & HONORS
2013 Innovation Award for Jane Addams Community Engagement Scholar Program, Antioch University
Seattle.
2012 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG) Outstanding
Edited Book Award for Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism (Routlege 2012).
2011 Institutional nominee as U.S. Professor of the Year, sponsored by the Council for Advancement
and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
Metropolitan State University of Denver.
2010 Golden Key International, Outstanding Researcher Award, Metropolitan State University of
Denver.
2009 Ally of the Year, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People on the Auraria Campus
for the development and coordination of the Minor in Sexualities and Genders, September 2009.
Addams Prize for paper making outstanding contribution to feminism and pragmatism, “Feminist
Prophetic Pragmatism” presented at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy annual
conference, College Station Texas, March 2009.
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana,
2006.
Research Award (course release) for proposed Anthology on the Philosophy of Jane Addams, University
of Southern Indiana, College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2006.
Embodied Care nominated for Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award given by the Association of
American Publishers, 2004.
Research Award, (course release), for attendance at the Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy Summer Institute to assist with research for Jane Addams manuscript, University of
Southern Indiana, College of Liberal Arts, Summer 2005.
Sabbatical, Lane Community College for book project on Jane Addams’ Ethics, 2003 to 2004.
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, for project on the Philosophy and
Politics of Jane Addams, Iowa State University, 2002.
League for Innovation, Innovation of the Year Award, the Community College Moment (faculty journal
co-founded by Maurice Hamington), 2002.
Schafer Award for Innovation for developing a national refereed faculty journal, Lane Community
College, 2001.
COMMITTEE, COLLEGE, AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Outside Tenure Evaluator, Philosophy, Hawaii University, July 2014
Outside Program Reviewer, Southwestern Minnesota State University, Philosophy Department, April 2012.
Peer Article Reviewer, Journals: Ethics & Life, Feminist Formations, International Journal of Feminist Approaches
to Bioethics, Polymath, Social Philosophy Today, Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society. Publishers:
Fordham, Longman, Oxford, Polity. Ongoing.
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Outside Tenure Evaluator, Trent University, Business Administration, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, November
2011.
Outside Program Reviewer, University of Northern Colorado Women’s Studies, April 2011.
Representative to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities to provide input to the Red Balloon
Project, to reinvent higher education, February, 2011.
Faculty Handbook Committee, Metropolitan State College of Denver, 2010 to 2012.
Tri-Institutional Library Planning Committee, Metropolitan State College of Denver, 2010 to 2011.
School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Curriculum Committee 2010 to 2012.
Chair, Faculty Professional Development Advisory Board, 2 Metropolitan State College of Denver, 2010 to 2012.
Facilitator, yearlong Faculty Learning Community “Difficult Dialogues” on diversity and teaching, Metropolitan
State University of Denver, 2009-10.
Member, college-wide Campus Climate Survey Committee, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2009 to 2011.
Hiring Committee, Director, First Year Experience, Metropolitan University College of Denver, Summer 2009.
Website creator and manager, The Jane Collective, www.janecollective.org 2008 to Present.
Hiring Committee (Chair), Associate Director Women’s Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Metro State
University of Denver, Summer 2008.
Faculty Senate, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2008 to 2009.
Chair, Integrative Studies Committee, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2008 to 2009.
Diversity Committee, (Chair, Climate Subcommittee), Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2008 to 2009.
Hiring Committee, Philosophy, tenure-track, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Fall 2007.
College Assessment Committee, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2007 to 2008.
Indiana State Commission of Higher Education Nominating Committee, 2007.
Faculty Senate (elected), University of Southern Indiana, 2006 to 2007.
Hiring Committee, Political Science, tenure-track, University of Southern Indiana, Fall 2006.
Hiring Committee, International Studies Director, tenure-track, University of Southern Indiana, August 2006.
Invited to Team-Teach Workshop for Faculty Teaching in the Core Curriculum, U.S.I., May 2006.
Coordinated Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecture, (Nancy Tuana), University of Southern Indiana, March 2006.
Honors Faculty Council, University of Southern Indiana, 2005 to 2007.
Hiring Committee, Director of English Composition tenure-track position, U.S.I., 2005 to 2006.
Hiring Committee, Philosophy tenure-track position, University of Southern Indiana, 2004 to 2005.
Gender Studies Committee, University of Southern Indiana, 2004 to 2007.
Student Evaluation of Teaching Committee, University of Southern Indiana, 2004 to 2007.
Learning Community Coordinator, Lane Community College, 2001 to 2004.
Treasurer, (elected), Lane Community College Education Association, 1999 to 2001.
Faculty Council, Lane Community College, 1998 to 2000.
Academic Policy Committee, (elected) Mount St. Mary’s College, 1993 to 1995.
Academic Freedom Committee, (elected), Mount St. Mary’s College, 1994 to 1995.
Mission of the College Committee, Mount St. Mary’s, 1994 to 1995.
Program and Service Review Committee, (elected), Mount St. Mary’s, 1993 to 1995.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Philosophical Association
MAURICE HAMINGTON, PH.D.
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Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (Nomination Committee, 2006 to Present / Chair,
2009 to present).
Canadian Philosophical Association
Canadian Women’s Studies Association
National Women’s Studies Association (Governing Council, 2006 to 2008; Finance Committee, 2006 to
2008; Fundraising Committee (Chair), 2006 to 2008; Membership Committee 2005 to 2008; 30th
Anniversary Committee, 2006, Gloria Anzaldua Book Prize Committee 2008 to 2010).
Feminist Formations (formerly National Women’s Studies Association Journal) (Editorial Board, 2006
to Present).
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Philosophy of Education Society
Radical Philosophy Association (Program Committee, 2009 to 2011).
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (Program Committee, 2010 to Present)
Society for Women in Philosophy
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Presentation, Seattle City Continuing Education, “Care in the Workplace,” December 2012.
Women’s Bean Project, Board of Directors, Denver, CO, 2010 to 2012.
Executive Team (Secretary) 2011 to 2012
Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, Board of Directors, Denver, CO, 2012.
Judge, Evansville Better Business Bureau, Students of Integrity Essay Contest, Evansville, IN, 2007.
Community Board Member, Planned Parenthood of Southern Indiana, 2006 to 2007.
Volunteer, Albion Fellows Bacon Center (Women’s Center), Evansville, IN, 2005 to 2007.
Volunteer, CARDV (Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence), Corvallis, OR, 2002 to 2004.
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