Ally Peabody Smith Curriculum Vitae CONTACT INFORMATION EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE PRESENTATIONS allyhpsmith@gmail.com or apeabody@humnet.ucla.edu (609) 915 - 9102 University of California, Los Angeles Sept. 2016 - Present Doctoral C andidate , Philosophy Masters in Philosophy May 2017 University Center for Human Values, Princeton University Visiting Student Research Collaborator Oct. 2019 - Jan 2020 New School for Social Research Sept. 2012 - Aug. 2016 Masters in Philosophy Thesis: “Rationality as a Status - Conferring Attribute” Trinity College Sept. 2007 - May 2011 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with Honors University of California, Los Angeles Teaching Associate Consulta nt, P hilosophy July 2020 - Present University of California, Los Angeles Teaching Associate , Philosophy Sept. 2017 - Present Philosophy of Disability , Ethics, Feminist Philosophy Bioethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology , Nietzsche “Profound Intellectual Disability as Neutral Simpliciter” 3 rd Biennial Philosophy of Disability Conference UNC, Asheville March 2020 “Speaking for those who cannot speak: Advocacy for profound intellectu al disability” Atypical Agencies Works in Progress Group Princeton University Dec. 2019 “ When is it okay to say that disability is not okay? ” UCLA Proposition Series Jan. 2019 “ Cognitive Disability and the Space for Moral Standing: Foot’s Answer to Aristotle” APA Eastern Poster Session Jan. 2018 “Rationality’s Exclusions in Virtue Ethics” ACLU, Utrecht University July 2017 UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PROFESSIONAL SERVICE HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS “ Becoming Political: The Metaphysics of Agency in Nietzsche and Arendt” S outhwestern Seminar in Cont inental Philosophy Cal. State, Northridge June 2017 “Would De - abl e izing Thought Experiments Destabilize Philosophy?” philoSOPHIA , FSU March 2017 “Aristotelean Natural and Social Hierarchy: An Abridged Genealogy” New Frontiers in Ethics , University of Toronto April 2014 As a teaching assistant at University of California, Los Angeles: Ethical Theory, Introduction to Philosophy of Scien ce, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Feminist Epistemology So - Cal MAP Workshop Organizer May 2018, 2019, 2020 UCLA MAP Coordinator Sept. 2018 - Present UCLA Public Philosophy Initiative Sept. 2017 - Present UCLA F irst Year Mentor Coordinator March 2017 - May 2019 UCLA Prospective Coordinator Sept. 2016 - May 2017 Founder, “Insisting on Inclusivity” May 2017 Founder of a network of philosophy graduate students committed to increasing inclusiveness in academic phil osophy NSSR Conference Organizer April 2016 “This Essentialism Which is Not One” Collegium Phaenomenologicum Participant July 2015 Citta di Castello, Italy; topic: “Derrida’s Seminars” NSSR Feminist Reading Group, Director Sept. 2014 - May 2016 NSSR Graduate Student Forum Facilitator Sept. 2014 - Sept. 2015 NSSR Conference Organizer Nov. 2013 - March 2013 “Questioning Power: The Limits of Embodiment” UCLA, Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2019 - 2020 UCLA, Graduate Student Research Awa rd Summers 2016 and 2017 NSSR, Double High Pass in Oral Exam s Nov. 2013 NSSR, Merit - Based Scholarship Sept. 2012 - Aug. 2016