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Professor<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Office Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses for Winter 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • PHIL 4330\/5350: Relational Theory, Past and Present<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • PHIL 5900: Research Seminar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Supervisor. She comes to Carleton from Bryn Mawr College, PA, where she was the Harvey Wexler Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for International Studies. Her main research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of moral theory, practical ethics, feminism, and social and political theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She is the author of Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory<\/em> (1998), a book that brings together her interests in moral, political, and feminist theory. She is co-editor (with Rockney Jacobsen) of Our Faithfulness to the Past: The Ethics and Politics of Memory <\/em>(authored by Sue Campbell and published posthumously Oxford 2014). She has collaborated extensively as editor or co-editor of 14 collections including Moral Issues in Global Perspective<\/em> (1999 and a 3 volume 2nd<\/sup> edition 2006); Contemporary Moral Issues<\/em> (4th<\/sup> and 5th<\/sup> editions 1997, 2005); Care Ethics: New Theories and Applications<\/em> (2 special issues 2010 and 2011, reprinted as a book 2013); Gender Justice and Development<\/em>: Local and Global<\/em> (special issue 2012, reprinted as a book 2015); Examining Injustice: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Issues<\/em> (special issue 2017, reprinted as a book 2018); and Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches, Implications, and Applications <\/em>(special issue 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She has published more than 45 journal articles and chapters in edited collections, the most recent of which explore topics in development ethics, feminist theory (particularly feminist relational theory), Settler-colonialism; Indigenous issues; and their intersections. She is the former President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Board member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), and is a Lead Co- Editor for the Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Moral Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Practical Ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Feminist Philosophy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Social and Political Philosophy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Development Ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Relational Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Settler-colonialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Indigenous Issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Recent Publications <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Books (edited and co-edited)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches, Implications and Applications. <\/em>Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>. Edited by Ami Harbin, Christine Koggel, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Volume 18, Issue 1, April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Examining Injustice: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Issues.<\/em> Expanded reprint of special issue of Ethics and Social Welfare<\/em>, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017. Edited by Christine Koggel. Routledge, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz. <\/em>Edited by Christine Koggel and Andreea Ritovoi. Lexington Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global, Volume I<\/em>. Reprint of special issue of Ethics and Social Welfare<\/em>. Edited by Christine Koggel and Cynthia Bisman. Routledge, 2015 (reprinted in paperback March 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Our Faithfulness to the Past: The Ethics and Politics of Memory<\/em>. Sue Campbell (published posthumously). Edited by Christine Koggel and Rockney Jacobsen. Oxford University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Care Ethics: New Theories and Applications<\/em>. Reprint of two special issues of Ethics and Social Welfare<\/em>. Co-editor with Joan Orme, Routledge. 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Chapters in Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cIndigenous Voices and Relationship: Insights from Care Ethics and Accounts of Hermeneutical Injustice\u201d in Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives, edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson. Rutgers University Press. (Forthcoming 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cFeminist Philosophy and Poverty\u201d in Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, edited by Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak. Routledge (forthcoming 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cFeminist Relational Theory: Introduction\u201d in Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches, Implications, and Applications<\/em>. Co-edited by Christine Koggel, Ami Harbin, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>, 2022: 18 (1): 1-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cVoice and Relationship: Insights from Care Ethics and Accounts of Hermeneutical Injustice\u201d in Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives<\/em>, edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson. Rutgers University Press. (Forthcoming 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cExpanding Agency: Conceptual, Explanatory, and Normative Implications\u201d in Agency, Democracy, and Participation in Global Development<\/em>, edited by Lori Keleher and Stacy Kosko. Cambridge University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cIntroduction\u201d in Examining Injustice: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Issues.<\/em> Edited by Christine Koggel. Expanded reprint of special issue of Ethics and Social Welfare<\/em>. Routledge, 2018: 1-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cGender: Feminist Insights on Inequality in Development\u201d in Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics<\/em>, edited by Jay Drydyk and Lori Keleher. Routledge, 2018: 116-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cA Critical Analysis of Recent Work on Empowerment: Implications for Gender.\u201d Reprinted in Gender Justice and Development: Vulnerability and Empowerment, Volume II<\/em>, edited by Eric Palmer. Routledge, 2015: 19-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cA Relational Approach to Equality: New Developments and Applications\u201d in Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law and Policy<\/em>, edited by Jocelyn Downie and Jennifer Llewellyn. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012: 63-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Recent Articles in Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cFeminist Relational Theory: The Significance of Oppression and Structures of Power,\u201d International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics<\/em>. Volume 13, number 2 (2020): 49-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cEpistemic Injustices in Settler Nations: Implications for Agency, Participation, and Self-Determination\u201d for Special Issue of Ethics & Economics: Injustice<\/em>. 16:1 (2019): 1-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBook review article of Wellbeing, Freedom, and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined<\/em> (Ingrid Robeyns), Economics and Philosophy<\/em>. 35 (2019): 575\u2013580.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cEpistemic Injustice in a Settler Nation: Canada\u2019s History of Erasing, Silencing, Marginalizing\u201d for Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>. Reconciliation and Transitional Justice<\/em>. 14:2 (2018): 240-251. (Reprinted in Reconciliation, Transitional and Indigenous Justice<\/em>. Edited by Krushil Watene and Eric Palmer. Routledge SPIB 2020: 118-129)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cCritical Commentary on Ami Harbin\u2019s Disorientation and Moral Life<\/em>\u201d in Special Issue Ethics and Social Welfare<\/em>. Injustice: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Issues<\/em> edited by Christine Koggel. Volume 11, Issue 2 (July 2017): 191-7.  (Reprinted in expanded collection, Examining Injustice: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Issues<\/em>. Routledge SPIB 2018: 56-61).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThemes in Lorraine Code\u2019s Work: The Epistemological and the Moral\/Political\u201d for Special Issue of Feminist Philosophical Quarterly: Retrospective on Lorraine Code\u2019s Work<\/em>, Fall (2017). Guest Editors: Anna Mudde and Susan Dieleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cRemembering and Loving in Relationships Involving Dying, Death, and Grief\u201d for Special Issue of Hypatia: Feminist Love Studies in the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/em>, Volume 32, Number 1 (2017): 193-198. Guest Editors: Ann Ferguson and Margaret E. Toye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBook Review Article of Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard<\/em> (Jill Stauffer). Hypatia Online Reviews.<\/em> June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBook Review Article of Displacement by Development<\/em> and Ethics of Global Development<\/em>\u201d (Penz, Drydyk, and Bose and Crocker) Journal of Human Development and Capabilities<\/em>, Volume 16, Number 1 (2015): 142-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cRelational Remembering and Oppression\u201d Hypatia<\/em>, Volume 29, Number 2 (2014): 493-508.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cIs the Capability Approach a Sufficient Challenge to Distributive Accounts of Global Justice?\u201d Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>, Volume 9, Number 2 (August 2013): 145-57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cA Critical Analysis of Recent Work on Empowerment: Implications for Gender\u201d. Journal of Global Ethics<\/em>, Volume 9, Number 1 (December 2013): 263-75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9244,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Christine","cu_people_last_name":"Koggel","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-82","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-full-time-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Moral and political philosophy; Feminist theory; Gender; Development ethics; Relational theory; Applied ethics; Settler-colonialism; Indigenous Issues","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Honours (Carleton), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Queen\u2019s)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"christine.koggel@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"3239","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12404,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/82\/revisions\/12404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}