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Dr. Carol J. Moeller 

Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Program Director for Philosophy

Contact

Email: moellerc@moravian.edu
Telephone: 610-625-7881
Location: Comenius Room 107

Education

B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Research and/or Expertise

Ethics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Disabilities, and Cultural Studies

Recent Publications

• "The Radical Welcome Engagement Restoration Model and assessment tool for community-engaged partnerships." Health Promotion Practice, 31 Jan. 2024,
• "Community-Engaged Research Partnerships as Healing Spaces for Health Professionals and Researchers." Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 18 Sep. 2023.
• "Radical Welcome: Unexpected Healing Spaces in Community-Researcher-Clinician Partnership for Health Equity," (Abstract) The Annals of Family Medicine, vol. 21, no. Supplement 1, 1 Jan. 2023, .
• "Critical Moral Attention and Its Role in Forming a 'Beloved Community'", James Beauregaard, Giusy Gallo, Claudia Stancati, eds., The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach, Vernon Press, 2020.
• "Skating on Stolen Land," Ms. Magazine. 9/13/2020.
• "bell hooks Made Me a Buddhist." Buddhism and Whiteness, edited by George Yancy and Emily McRae, Lexington Books, 2019, pp. 181-206. 
• “'We Are Not Disposable’: ‘Psychiatric’/Psycho-Social Disabilities and Social Justice,” Simon Smith and James Beauregard, In the Sphere of the Personal: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Persons, ed., Vernon Press, May 2016. (Note: this essay is a substantially expanded version of the plenary paper listed below.) 
• “Humans All: Changing the Frame on People with Intellectual Disabilities,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 2, Winter 2012. 
• “Minoritized Thought: Open Questions of Latino/a and Latin-American Identities,” American Philosophical Association, Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Spring 2009. 
• “Interdisciplinarity and Challenges to Received Traditions,” Proceedings of ������ɫ Learning in Common Faculty Workshop, (in house publication), May 2006. 
• “Thoughts on Academic Rigor and Pedagogy,” Proceedings of ������ɫ Learning in Common Faculty Workshop, (in house publication), May 2005. 
• “Moral Responsiveness in Pediatric Research Ethics,” The American Journal of Bioethics, Fall 2003, Volume 3, Number 4, W1-W3.                
• “Marginalized Voices: Challenging Dominant Privilege in Higher Education,” in Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Backlash Against Feminism, edited by Ann Cudd and Anita Supersons, 2002, Book Series: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Series edited by James P. Sterba, Rowman and Littlefield.
• “Realism and Identity: Rethinking the Categories of our Lives,” Cultural Logic, Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 2001). 
• “Reframing Family Values: Leigh Kane’s Next of Kin Projects,” Invited program essay for Temple University Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, June 2 – August 5, 2000. 
• "Transforming 'The Master's Tools': Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Graduate School," inDegrees of Freedom, Beth Mintz and Esther Rothblum (editors), Routledge, 1997.

Courses

• 120 Introduction to Philosophy
• 222 Ethics
• 247 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philosophy
• 255 Social and Political Philosophy
• 257 Bio-Ethics and Social Justice
• 265 Feminist Philosophy
• 267 West African Philosophy: Akan Ethics
• 271 Race, Gender, Identity, and Moral Knowledge
• 323 Tibetan Buddhist Thought
• Hip Hop, Spoken Word, and Philosophy
• Philosophy and Film