Joel Michael Reynolds is Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies, and incoming Director of the Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University. They are also Faculty in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and the Medical Humanities Initiative at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Medical Center, Senior Bioethics Advisor to the Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of the Greenwall Foundation. Since 2021, Dr. Reynolds has been a Visiting Lecturer in Bioethics at the Yale School of Medicine, and they are the 2023-24 Visiting Professor in Criti…
Joel Michael Reynolds is Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies, and incoming Director of the Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University. They are also Faculty in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and the Medical Humanities Initiative at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Medical Center, Senior Bioethics Advisor to the Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of the Greenwall Foundation. Since 2021, Dr. Reynolds has been a Visiting Lecturer in Bioethics at the Yale School of Medicine, and they are the 2023-24 Visiting Professor in Critical Care Ethics & Decision-Making at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Reynolds is the founder of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability and co-founder of the book series Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society. In recognition of the impact of their scholarship, they were named an Honorary Fellow of the McLaughlin College of Public Policy at York University in 2022 and elected as a Fellow of The Hastings Center in 2023.
Reynolds is the author or co-editor of six books including The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), The Disability Bioethics Reader (Routledge, 2022), The Meaning of Disability (Oxford University Press, 2025), Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies (Routledge, 2025), and Philosophy of Disability: An Introduction (Polity, 2026). They are author or co-author of over fifty journal articles, book chapters, and scholarly commentaries, and their current research includes a number of article-length studies as well as books chapters for Philosophical Foundations of Disability Law, Methods in Medical Ethics, The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, The Oxford Handbook of Genetic Counseling, and the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Human Nature. Their public philosophy has been featured in TIME, AEON, The Conversation, Health Progress, The Bioethics Forum, and in a Tedx talk. For more information, see https://www.joelreynolds.me.
