Asha Leena Bhandary
Philosopher
Associate Professor, University of Iowa
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I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, where I also hold an appointment in the Department of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies (GWSS). A political philosopher and feminist ethicist, my articles and books advance care theory and radical liberalism. In my first 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. My co-edited volume Caring for Liberalism (Routledge, 2021) brings together leading scholars of care in liberalism.
My research continues to untangle the philosophical implications of my claims that most caregiving arrangements are unjust, but care is the spine of culture. One of those projects is a new book project, provisionally titled, Being at Home.
I regularly teach classes in applied ethics, the Theories of Social Justice course for the Social Justice major, graduate seminars on care, autonomy theory, Rawls, and liberalism, Bioethics, and Multiculturalism. I advise graduate students in political philosophy and feminist ethics.
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 my claims that most caregiving arrangements are unjust, but care is the spine of culture. One of those projects is a new book project, provisionally titled, Being at Home.
I regularly teach classes in applied ethics, the Theories of Social Justice course for the Social Justice major, graduate seminars on care, autonomy theory, Rawls, and liberalism, Bioethics, and Multiculturalism. I advise graduate students in political philosophy and feminist ethics.
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