Ally Peabody Smith Curriculum Vitae CONTACT 3754 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90034 INFORMATION [email protected] or [email protected] (609) 915-9102 EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles Sept. 2016- Present Doctoral Student, 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 Honors Thesis: “Cognitive Disability in Moral Philosophy” EMPLOYMENT University of California, Los Angeles Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Sept. 2017-Present AREAS OF Philosophy of Disability, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF Bioethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Nietzsche COMPETENCE PRESENTATIONS “Speaking for those who cannot speak: Advocacy for profound intellectual 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 “Becoming Political: The Metaphysics of Agency in Nietzsche and Arendt” Southwestern Seminar in Continental Philosophy Cal. State, Northridge June 2017 “Would De-ableizing 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 UNDERGRADUATE As a teaching assistant at University of California, Los Angeles: Ethical TEACHING Theory, Introduction to Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Feminist Epistemology PROFESSIONAL So-Cal MAP Workshop Coordinator Jan. 2019-May 2019 SERVICE UCLA MAP Coordinator Sept. 2018-Present UCLA Public Philosophy Initiative Sept. 2017-Present UCLA First Year Mentor Coordinator March 2017-Present 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 philosophy 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” HONORS, GRANTS, UCLA, Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2019-2020 AND AWARDS UCLA, Graduate Student Research Award Summers 2016 and 2017 NSSR, Double High Pass in Oral Exams Nov. 2013 NSSR, Merit-Based Scholarship Sept. 2012-Aug. 2016 Trinity College, Faculty Honors Sept 2007-May 2011 Trinity College, Dept. Honors in Philosophy May 2011
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