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Joel Michael Reynolds
Born (1985-11-30) 30 November 1985 (age 39)
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
EducationEmory University (PhD in philosophy, 2017; MA in philosophy, 2014)
Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon (BA in philosophy, religious studies, 2009)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolPhenomenology · Continental Philosophy
InstitutionsGeorgetown University
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
The Hastings Center
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Main interests
Applied ethics · Bioethics · Social Epistemology · Phenomenology (philosophy)
Websitejoelreynolds.me

Joel Michael Reynolds (born 1985) is an American philosopher whose research focuses on disability.[1] Their areas of specialization include Philosophy of Disability, Bioethics, Continental Philosophy, and Social Epistemology.[2] They are an associate professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University,[3][4] a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics,[5] a senior bioethics advisor to The Hastings Center,[6] and core faculty in Georgetown's Disability Studies Program.[7] In 2022, they were named a Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation (class of 2025) in support of their project “Addressing the Roots of Disability Health Disparities."[8][9] They are the founder of the Journal of Philosophy of Disability,[10][11][12][13][14] which they edit with Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, and co-founder of Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, & Society, a book series from Oxford University Press which they edit with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.[15]

Reynolds is the author of a number of books, including The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (University of Minnesota Press, May 2022),[16] The Meaning of Disability (Oxford University Press, under contract), and Philosophy of Disability: An Introduction (Polity, under contract). They are also the co-editor of The Disability Bioethics Reader (Routledge, May 2022) with Christine Wieseler, The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability (Oxford University Press, under contract) with Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and of a 2020 special issue of The Hastings Center Report, “For All of Us? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge,” also with Erik Parens.[17]

They earned their B.A. in philosophy as well as religious studies from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon[18][19] and their M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University.[20] They have received fellowships supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[21] Reynolds previously taught at The University of Massachusetts Lowell;[22] They held the inaugural Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and the Humanities at The Hastings Center from 2017 to 2020;[23] and they held the inaugural Laney Graduate School Disability Studies Fellowship at Emory University from 2014 to 2015.[24] At the University of Oregon, Reynolds won the George Rebec Prize for best essay by a philosophy student in 2007, 2008, and 2009.[25] Also in 2009, they won the President's Award from the Robert D. Clark Honor's College for Distinguished Thesis.[26]

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  1. ^ "Joel Michael Reynolds (Georgetown University) - PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  2. ^ "Joel Michael Reynolds (0000-0002-9640-5082)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  3. ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  4. ^ "Joel Michael Reynolds to Join GU Philosophy Department in Fall 2020". Department of Philosophy. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  5. ^ "Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD » The Kennedy Institute of Ethics". The Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  6. ^ "Hastings Center Scholars". The Hastings Center. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  7. ^ "Faculty". Disability Studies. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  8. ^ "Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD". The Greenwall Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  9. ^ "KIE Scholar named Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics » The Kennedy Institute of Ethics". 2022-06-07. Archived from the original on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  10. ^ "The Journal of Philosophy of Disability - Philosophy Documentation Center". www.pdcnet.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  11. ^ Eckstrand, Nathan (3 August 2020). "The Forefront of Research: Introducing the Journal of Philosophy of Disability | Blog of the APA". Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  12. ^ "Announcing The Journal of Philosophy of Disability". Bill of Health. 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  13. ^ "New scholarly journal, The Journal of Philosophy of Disability, taking submissions beginning June 1 2020". IJFAB Blog. 2020-05-31. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  14. ^ "KIE Senior Scholar Founds The Journal of Philosophy of Disability » The Kennedy Institute of Ethics". 2021-11-25. Archived from the original on 2021-11-25. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  15. ^ "Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, & Society". Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, & Society. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  16. ^ "The Life Worth Living". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
  17. ^ "For "All of Us"? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge: Hastings Center Report: Vol 50, No S1". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  18. ^ "The George Rebec Prize | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  19. ^ "2009 | Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Oregon Chapter". pbk.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  20. ^ "Graduate Placement". philosophy.emory.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  21. ^ "CV of Joel Michael Reynolds, Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  22. ^ "Reynolds Gets $250,000 NEH Grant for Disability Work". www.uml.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  23. ^ "Hastings Center Welcomes Inaugural Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities". The Hastings Center. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  24. ^ "Emory Magazine / Spring 2015 / Page 60". Issuu. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  25. ^ "The George Rebec Prize | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  26. ^ "2009 Commencement Awards | Robert D. Clark Honors College". 2010-12-02. Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
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