Sally Scholz
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| Institutions | Villanova University |
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Feminist theory, social philosophy, political philosophy |
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Sally J. Scholz (born 1968) is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Her research focuses on social and political philosophy and feminist theory. Her early work involves issues of violence against women, oppression and peacemaking, and then progresses to ethics of advocacy and violence against women in conflict settings, including war rape and just war theory. Her recent research involves these issues in addition to solidarity. She won the Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006. She has published four single-author books and edited three academic journals, among many other publications.
Scholz received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Portland in 1989, with a double major in Philosophy and Theology and a minor in French. She received her Master of Arts in Philosophy in 1991 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1993, both from Purdue University.
Scholz worked as a legal advocate for victims of domestic violence during her time in Indiana. She served as an Assistant Professor at Villanova after she received her Ph.D., and then served as a Visiting Scholar at Chiang Mai University and Stanford University from 1997 to 1998. She was promoted to Associate Professor at Villanova in 2001, becoming Professor in 2006. She served as the Faculty in Residence in the Center for Peace and Justice Education from 2005 to 2010. She is currently a member of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Board as Chair of the Committee of Lectures, Publications and Research and serves as Vice President of the North American Society for Social Philosophy.
Scholz's research specializes in social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics and feminist theory. Her work is influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Simone de Beauvoir. Her other early work involves issues of violence against women, oppression and peacemaking, with many essays focusing on war rape and just war theory. Her later work addresses these issues along with solidarity, as explored in her book Political Solidarity (2008). Her work on solidarity involves research on collective movements for social change and global and transnational feminist accounts of solidarity.
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