Asha Leena Bhandary
Philosopher
Associate Professor, University of Iowa
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I am a philosophy professor at the University of Iowa, where I hold appointments in the Department of Philosophy and in the Department of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. Most broadly, I am a political philosopher and feminist ethicist. More specifically, my research focuses on care theory and critical liberalism. In my monograph, Freedom to Care (Routledge, 2020), I advance the theory of liberal dependency care (LDC), an account of distributive justice that balances the human need for care with individual autonomy. I am co-editor of Caring for Liberalism (Routledge, 2021), in which leading proponents of liberalism incorporate care into the conceptual and theoretical foundations of diverse varieties of liberalism.
My research continues to untangle the philosophical implications of the twin claims defended in Freedom to Care and some of my journal articles that most caregiving arrangements are unjust, but care is the spine of culture. One of those projects is a monograph in progress about autonomy in critical liberalism.
From 2019-2021, I was Chair of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, a national feminist intersectional philosophical organization. I am currently Co-Chair of PIKSI-Rock, the first national undergraduate diversity institute designed to improve the pipeline into academic Philosophy.
Check out the video game developed with my graduate students: Surviving the Indifferents.
My research continues to untangle the philosophical implications of the twin claims defended in Freedom to Care and some of my journal articles that most caregiving arrangements are unjust, but care is the spine of culture. One of those projects is a monograph in progress about autonomy in critical liberalism.
From 2019-2021, I was Chair of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, a national feminist intersectional philosophical organization. I am currently Co-Chair of PIKSI-Rock, the first national undergraduate diversity institute designed to improve the pipeline into academic Philosophy.
Check out the video game developed with my graduate students: Surviving the Indifferents.
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Or reach out to me at asha-bhandary@uiowa.edu
Website managed by Lulu Roarick: roaricklulu@gmail.com