The 2025 Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women* Faculty in Philosophy

The 2025 Mentoring Workshop

For Early Career Women* Faculty in Philosophy

June 4-6, 2025

Washington University in St. Louis

The Seventh Biennial 2025 workshop will be held June 4-6, 2025 at the Washington University in St. Louis. The 2025 Keynote Speaker will be Teresa Blankmeyer Burke!

The Mentoring Workshop began as an initiative of the Women in Philosophy Task Force, an umbrella group aimed at coordinating initiatives and intensifying efforts to advance the careers of women in Philosophy. Its inaugural workshop in 2011 followed a model designed by women in the American Economics Association. There is mounting evidence that mentoring is important for success in academia. The Mentoring Workshop aims to build long-term mentoring relationships between eminent senior and junior scholars in the discipline of Philosophy.

*While we retain the historic title for this workshop, the directors would like to emphasize that the goal of this workshop is to provide mentorship to philosophers who might have had difficulty finding it in virtue of their gender. Given the demographics of the field, this includes philosophers from one or more of the following groups: women, nonbinary people, and trans* people.

Keynote Speaker

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke,
Gallaudet
University

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is a philosophy professor and bioethicist at Gallaudet University, the world’s only bilingual liberal arts college for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students. She works in a field she defines as deaf philosophy — the space where philosophy intersects with Deaf studies. (The use of upper case Deaf designates the cultural community of signed language users; lower case deaf designates audiological status). She currently serves as the Faculty Administrator for Faculty Development in the Office of the Provost at Gallaudet University. She is also Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Disability, along with Joel Michael Reynolds.