Feminist Philosophy
This report for academic year 2016-17 divides graduate programs into the two categories indicated below.
Strongly Recommended departments have indications that graduate students will be encouraged and supported to pursue work in this area, will find a supportive community of scholars and mentors, and will be able to write a state of the art dissertation in feminist philosophy.
Recommended departments have indications that graduate students will be encouraged and supported to pursue work in feminist philosophy.
For information about the basis of these recommendations, please go to our FAQ and Methodology pages. The recommendations below are in no ranked order; they are listed alphabetically.Please keep in mind that these lists have been produced by surveying experts in this sub-field of philosophy. The Pluralist Guide advises students to use these lists as a prima facie guideline for further research. Faculty retire and change departments, and the particular area that one philosopher is working within (that is, in feminist philosophy, continental philosophy, critical race philosophy and so on) may not connect with a given student’s interests. We encourage you to use these lists alongside the APA Grad Guide here as well as your own research into departments. Department chairs will often provide names of current students who can be consulted for more information, and though the students that chairs direct you toward may be a select set, putting all of these sources of information alongside each other can significantly inform your decision about where to apply.
Strongly Recommended
Binghamton University, SUNY
City University of New York Graduate Center
Dalhousie University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Marquette University
MIT
Michigan State University
New School
Pennsylvania State University
Stony Brook University, SUNY
University of Georgia
University of Kentucky, Lexington
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Memphis
University of Minnesota
University of Oregon, Eugene
University of Washington, Seattle
Vanderbilt University
York University
Recommended
Arizona State University
DePaul University
Columbia University
Fordham University
Loyola University, Chicago
McGill University
Northwestern University
Purdue University
Queen’s University, Kingston
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Stanford University
Texas A&M
University of Alberta
University of Cincinnati
University of Connecticut, Storrs
University of Guelph
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Montreal
University of Toronto
University of Western Ontario
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Villanova University