Carol C. Gould has taught at Temple University as Professor of Philosophy and Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics and previously was Professor of Philosophy and Government at George Mason University, where she directed the Center for Global Ethics. She is the Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy, immediate past President of the American Section of the International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Executive Director of the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Chair of the Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research of the American Philosophical Association.. Gould has held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Fulbright Foundation, as Senior Scholar in France and as Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of Marx's Social Ontology (MIT Press, 1978), Rethinking Democracy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988), and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge, 2004), which won the 2009 David Easton Award of the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association. Gould is also the editor of seven books including Women and Philosophy, Beyond Domination, The Information Web, Cultural Identity and the Nation-State, and Gender, and has published over sixty articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and applied ethics.