I am Professor of Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, where I am also the director of Disability Studies. I am also currently a Masters student in Urban and Regional Planning at Georgetown. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. For 2021-2023, I was a Humboldt Research Scholar at Leibniz University Hannover. My main areas of research are philosophy of language, philosophy of science (especially geography and medicine), ethics (especially sexual ethics, theories of agency and autonomy, bioethics, and science ethics), social epistemology, and anti-oppression philosophy. I am an amateur competitive boxer and powerlifter.
Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs
Recently released! My book City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another is now out from Oxford University Press.
Prof. Quill R Kukla
A note on citing me, since I get this question a lot: All my papers before 2020 were published under the name “Rebecca Kukla” (or in one early case, “R. Kukla”). If you are citing one of these papers, please put it in the bibliography as originally published. Then in the text, if you mention me, the first mention should be of the form, “Quill Kukla (writing as Rebecca Kukla) makes the following devastatingly brilliant point…”. After the first mention, “Kukla” generally suffices.