Shelley Wilcox

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001

On leave 2007-08

Professor Wilcox 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 urban environmental issues.  She was awarded the 2005 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Award.

During 2007-08, Professor Wilcox will be visiting the Philosophy Department at San Francisco State University. 

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Recent Articles:

• “Who Pays for Gender De-Institutionalization?” in Gender Identity in a Globalized Society, ed. by Ana Marta González (forthcoming, 2007).
•  “Immigrant Admissions and Global Relations of Harm,” Journal of Social Philosophy (Summer, 2007) pp. 274-91.
•  “American Neo-Nativism and Gendered Immigrant Exclusions,” in Feminist Interventions: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. by Andrew, Keller, and Schwartzman (Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) pp. 213-32.
• “Culture, National Identity, and Admission to Citizenship,” Social Theory and Practice 30:4 (October, 2004) pp. 559-83.

Recent Courses

• Graduate Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy: Citizenship in the Global Era
• Feminist Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Classics in Moral Philosophy
• Senior Seminar
• Political Philosophy
• Honors Introduction to Ethical Theory
• Environmental Ethics
• Philosophical Challenges to the Individual

2007-2008 Contact Information

Department of Philosophy
San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Ave.

San Francisco, CA 94122

swilcox@sfsu.edu