I am currently Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender/Women's Studies, Indiana University. From 2022 to 2025, I taught classes on Sports Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon (where I previously taught Philosophy from 1989-1994). I also taught Philosophy of Sport classes in the UO Robert Clark Honors College (where I taught Philosophy from 1989-1994), (See syllabi under Teaching Materials).
As Laureate Professor/Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona from 2017-2022, I taught Aesthetics, Philosophy of Sport, Feminist Philosophy, and Philosophy in Literature that included my Oxfor…
I am currently Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender/Women's Studies, Indiana University. From 2022 to 2025, I taught classes on Sports Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon (where I previously taught Philosophy from 1989-1994). I also taught Philosophy of Sport classes in the UO Robert Clark Honors College (where I taught Philosophy from 1989-1994), (See syllabi under Teaching Materials).
As Laureate Professor/Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona from 2017-2022, I taught Aesthetics, Philosophy of Sport, Feminist Philosophy, and Philosophy in Literature that included my Oxford University Press edited volume, Camus's The Plague: Philosophical Perspectives (2023; see PHIL 238 Fall 2021 syllabus under Teaching Materials). Co-authored with Ritwik Agrawal (Philosophy and Cog Sci at Arizona) is our online "Feminist Aesthetics and Feminist Philosophy of Art" (Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, 2024).
Recent publications include, "Holding Institutions Responsible for Student-Athlete Well-Being," in College Sports Ethics: Challenges, Questions, and Opportunities (Bloomsbury, 2025). Forthcoming in the journal, Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy, is "The Ethics of Children Playing Tackle Football," co-authored with Edward Weiser. Also forthcoming is a co-edited (with Sukhvinder Shahi and Ritwik Agrawal) special issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics on "Transnational Feminist Aesthetics."
For scholars interested in studying the sports legacy of a noted philosopher of action and past president of the NCAA,my late husband Myles Brand (1942-2009), see my co-edited special issue (with R. Scott Kretchmar), "The Myles Brand Era at the NCAA: A Tribute and Scholarly Review" Journal of Intercollegiate Sport 14:3 (December, 2021) and www.mylesbrand.com: a website with over 300 of his speeches, podcasts, and videos.
