Biography
Joan McGregor is a Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and Director of Lincoln Center of Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. She is adjunct professor with Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Senior Scholar with the School of Sustainability, and a Fellow at Institute for Humanities Research. McGregor’s current research interests are focused on moral and legal questions in sustainability and in particular food systems and sustainability. She has collaborated with scientists and engineers, worked on the ethics of emerging technologies on among other issues, concerns to indigenous peoples and published widely in jurisprudence and bioethics. McGregor was co-director of two NEH summer institutes on sustainability on entitled “Fierce Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics” and “Rethinking the Land Ethic: Humanities and Sustainability.”
Selected Publications
- “The Intersection of Environmental, Climate, and Food Justice”, invited chapter Food Justice, the Environment, and Climate Change eds. Erinn Cunniff Gilson and Sarah Kenehan Rowman & Littlefield (2018).
- “Towards a Philosophical Understanding of TEK and Ecofeminism” in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Methods for Environmental Sustainability Edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling, Cambridge University Press (2018).
- “Public Interests and the Duty of Food Citizenship” in Citizenship and Immigration editors Ann Cudd and Win-chiat Lee Springer Press (2016) 71-88.