Anne (Schulherr) Waters, J.D., Ph.D., a CIC, and past Rockefeller scholar, is of Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Jewish descent. She holds four graduate degrees (two doctorates earned in 1992), and is an editor, educator, philosopher, poet, and lawyer, having published in several philosophy and American Indian journals and anthologies, written many appellate briefs, and edited several books. In 1992 Dr. Waters was the first of two American Indians to receive a Ph.D. in the discipline of Philosophy.
Dr. Waters is editor of the first American Indian philosophy anthology, American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays (Blackwell,…
Anne (Schulherr) Waters, J.D., Ph.D., a CIC, and past Rockefeller scholar, is of Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Jewish descent. She holds four graduate degrees (two doctorates earned in 1992), and is an editor, educator, philosopher, poet, and lawyer, having published in several philosophy and American Indian journals and anthologies, written many appellate briefs, and edited several books. In 1992 Dr. Waters was the first of two American Indians to receive a Ph.D. in the discipline of Philosophy.
Dr. Waters is editor of the first American Indian philosophy anthology, American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays (Blackwell, Oxford Oct 2004), Co-editor of American Philosophies: An Anthology (Blackwell, Oxford 2003), co-guest Editor of a special issue of Hypatia - A Journal of Feminist Philosophy: Indigenous Women in the Americas (Indiana Univ. 2003), and is currently working on two books, one to be titled Crossing Borders to Return: American Indian Women in Academe, and another, Criminals on the Courts’ Bench: Paradoxes of the American Justice System As Seen Through the Eyes of A Native American.
Dr. Waters is co-editor of the Living Indigenous Philosophies (Global) Series with the State University of New York Press (two books published, more forthcoming), and editor of the Indigenous Philosophies of the Americas Special Series (Value Inquiry Book Series Editions Rodopi); and past editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter of American Indian Philosophy.
Dr. Waters is always looking for new manuscripts of Indigenous Philosophies for both series. She lives in Los Angeles, Ca. and can be contacted via [email protected]