Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Joan McGregor is a transdisciplinary and collaborative scholar and President of ASU’s Tempe Campus Academic Senate.  Her current research has been focused on issues of food, food justice,  and food sustainability. She just published an article arguing for the intersection of food, climate, and environmental injustices and the dignitary harms that result. A major on-going public project focusing on food grew out of the Mellon funded Humanities for the Anthropocene, entitled: Dinner 2040: The Future of Food http://hfe-observatories.org/projects/dinner-2040     With Rebecca Tsosie, she collaborated on a project entitled “Governing Monsters Bioethics, Human Monsters, and Frankenfoods: Global Monster Narratives and Emerging Technologies.” Tsosie and McGregor collaborated on many projects of note was: “Genome Justice: The law and ethics of population genomics.”  McGregor has published over 50 articles, and book chapters, a book on rape.

Education

• PhD, Philosophy, minor in Law, Univeristy of Arizona, Tucson, 1985
• MA, Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1982
• BA, Philosophy (with honors), University of California - Davis, 1979

Expertise

• cultural studies
• environmental ethics
• ethical issues in environmental law
• philosophy of sustainability
• bioethics
• communities
• ecological ethics
• environmental philosophy
• engineering ethics
• emerging technologies
• privacy
• public health
• environmental humanities
• humanism
• Gender Equality
• Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions