Shelley Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She works in the areas of social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and applied ethics, with a special interest in citizenship theory and its applications to immigration and environmental ethics. Dr. Wilcox has published articles and reviews in several anthologies as well Social Theory and Practice, Ethics, and the Journal of Social Philosophy. She recently participated in an NEH seminar, “Human Rights in an Era of Globalization,” at Columbia University.  She won the 2005 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Award. 

As a CHAT fellow, Dr. Wilcox will be working on a book manuscript on urban environmental ethics.  Her project draws upon citizenship theories to develop a new ethical theory to guide our responses to urban environmental issues such as blight, environmental racism, gentrification, sprawl, lack of green space, historical preservation, and our relationship with urban animals.