Johanna C. Luttrell; Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar, Political Philosophy
The Hobby Center for Public Policy, University of Houston
Telephone: (517) 599 1227
Email: jluttre2@central.uh.edu
Education:
University of Oregon, Ph.D., 2013, Philosophy
University of Oregon, M.A., 2011, Philosophy
University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations, Visiting Student, Spring 2011;
DePaul University, B.A., Philosophy and English, minor in Journalism, 2006
University of Oxford, Hertford College, Visiting Student, Fall 2005
AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, AOC: Ethics, Aesthetics
Work Experience:
2013-2014
The Civitas Program and Phronesis: A Program in Politics and Ethics
The Hobby Center for Public Policy, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar in Political Philosophy; Mentoring honors college students; grant research and
development; teaching classes in Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Philosophy with the Department of
Philosophy
2014
The Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Education, The United Nations, NY, and the
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Board Member; Spearheaded and helped organize a series of week-long, intensive seminars for undergraduate,
graduate, and law students in areas of international humanitarian aid, urban development, and human rights.
2012-2013
The Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace
Department of International Affairs, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Graduate Teaching Fellow; Organized seminar on ‘Humanitarian Action, Human Rights, and Peacemaking in
Violent Conflict’, at the University of Oxford, budget and curriculum planning, donor development, teaching, and
post-event evaluation; Planned for the future of Restorative Justice Studies for the University of Oregon’s School of
Law; Organized the 2012-2013 Savage Professorship visit with Dr. Henry Shue of the University of Oxford;
Organized workshops inside the Oregon Penitentiary system, in conjunction with the Inside/Out National Prison
Exchange Program
2011
Center for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC)
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Special Assistant to Dr. Cheyney Ryan, Senior Research Fellow, Merton College; Organized seminar on
international human rights
2010- 2012
Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Organizer and Instructor; Organized anti-death penalty activist and writer Sister Helen Prejean’s visits to the
University of Oregon and the Eugene and Portland communities as part of a three-year prison activism initiative
around issues of justice and the death penalty
2007-2013
Department of Philosophy and Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of
Oregon, Eugene, OR
Instructor and Graduate Teaching Fellow; Taught and designed own classes: PHIL 322: Philosophy of the Arts,
PHIL 332: Philosophy of Film, and PHIL 309: Global Justice; Led regular discussion sections for both beginning
and advanced classes, held office hours to meet one-on-one with students
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2006-2007
Rostro de Cristo Foundation, Duran, Ecuador
Volunteer; Collaborated with local women’s collective, doing activism work on family planning and domestic
violence awareness in churches and schools; Taught high school and middle school English, Literature, and Poetry;
Lead university groups on retreats centered around issues of world poverty, health, urban development, and
globalization
2003-2005
DePaul University Ministries Spring Break Service Trips, Washington D.C., New Orleans,
LA, and Nogales, Mexico
Coordinator, Leader, and Volunteer; Planned and coordinated service trips for college students to the U.S/ Mexico
Border to study and volunteer in urban slums
Publications:
Peer-Edited Journals:
2014
“Alienation and Global Poverty: Arendt on the Loss of the World”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2014,
forthcoming
Non Peer-Edited Publications:
2013 “University of Oregon Should Education about Sexual Assault”, The Eugene Register, April 2014
2010 “John Berger”, The Encyclopedia of Global Justice, ed. Deen K. Chatterjee, Springer, 2010
2006 “Proust and Charm”, co-authored with Molly Medhurst, DePaul University Undergraduate Journal
Academic Awards and Honors:
2013
Invited to the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs’ Annual Fellows meeting, New York
2013
Entrance into the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Seminar on “Development Ethics:
Questions, Challenges, and Responsibilities”, Michigan State University
2012
Stern Scholars Fellowship, University of Oregon
2011
Dissertation Fellowship, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Visiting Position at University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations
2010 Fellowship, Oregon University System- Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund
2006 Philosophy Undergraduate Major of the Year, DePaul University Philosophy Department
Highest Honors, DePaul University Honors College Degree
2003 Inductee, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2002 Presidential Scholarship to DePaul University
Inductee, DePaul University Honors College
Conference Presentations:
2014
“Women’s Work and Assets in the Urban, Global South”, The Midwestern Society for Women in
Philosophy, Des Moines, IA
2014
“Women’s Work in the Slums of the Global South”, The United Nations Center for International
Education, New York, NY
2013
“Teaching Human Rights”, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York City, NY
2013
“Women, Dignity, and Global Slums”, special presentation for the National Endowment for the
Humanities’ summer seminar in “Development Ethics”, East Lansing, MI
2013
Response to John Kaag’s “The Moral Hazards of Drones: Ethics of Armchair Soldiers”, University of
Oregon Department of Philosophy Colloquia, Eugene, OR
2012
“Women’s Dignity and the Capabilities Approach”, Special Symposium on Gender Equity and Capitalism,
Wayne Morse Center, Eugene, OR
2011
“Women and War”, Special Presentation for Oakwood Seminar, Merton College, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK
2010
“Assets for the Ethically Desirous: Aristotelean Resources for John Berger’s Visions of Global
Resistance”, Radical Philosophy Association, Eugene, OR
2010
“The Question of Literature and Philosophy: A Defense of Beauvoir’s Self-Description” Annual Meeting
of the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, QC
2010
“Alienation in the World’s Urban Slums: Arendt on a Practical and Theoretical Challenge to Democracy”,
International Annual Meeting of The North American Society for Social Philosophy, Toronto, ON
2010
“Can there be Democracy in Places of Prolific Poverty?”, Annual University of Oregon Graduate
Philosophy Club Conference: ‘What is Democracy?’, Eugene, OR
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2010
2010
2009
2008
“Notes on Pedagogy in Philosophy of the Arts”, ‘Articulations’: The New School for Social Research
Annual Graduate Student Conference, New York, NY
“Can there be Democracy in Places of Prolific Poverty? Alienation in Urban Slums”, Annual Michigan
State Graduate Philosophy Conference, East Lansing, MI
“The Confusions about ‘Women’s Interests: Objections and Replies to a Global Coalition of Women’s
Political Parties”, Radical Philosophy Association Group Session, Annual Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, Vancouver, BC
“Conceiving the Public Space as a Center that Holds Against War”, Northwest Philosophy Conference,
Eugene, OR
Courses Taught:
2014 PHIL 3395: Ideas of Justice
2014 PHIL 3356/ 6356: Feminist Philosophy
2013 PHIL 1305: Introduction to Ethics
2012 PHIL 302: Global Justice
2010 PHIL 322: Philosophy of the Arts
2009
PHIL 332: Philosophy of Film
Courses Assisted:
2013
PHIL 339: Philosophy of Science
2012
PHIL: 120: Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange, CRES: 410. Justice, Reconciliation, and Community
2011
WGS 352: Women’s Literature, Art, and Society,
2010
WGS 303: Women and Gender in American History, HC 421: Justice, Reconciliation, and Community,
PHIL 211: Existentialism
2009
PHIL 102: Ethics, PHIL 312: History of Philosophy/ 19 th Century, PHIL 216: Philosophy and Cultural
Diversity
2008
PHIL 213: Asian Philosophy, PHIL 170: Love and Sex
2007
PHIL 110: Human Nature
Service:
Academic Journals
2014
Reviewer for “Journal of the American Philosophical Association”
2013
Reviewer for the journal “Philosophy and Social Criticism”
2012
Reviewer for the journals “Gender, Work and Organization”, and “PhaenEx: Journal of Existential
and Phenomenological Theory and Culture”
University of Oregon School of Law
2011
Organized and convened a panel for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics’ symposium,
‘Gender Equality and Capitalism: The Impact of Capitalist Development on Women’s Economic
Status and Rights” to be held in March, 2012
University of Oregon Department of Philosophy
2010-2011
Spearheaded Diversity Committee and Mentoring Program for University of Oregon Department
of Philosophy undergraduates
2010
Organized University of Oregon’s Graduate Philosophy Club’s Annual Conference, “What is
Democracy?”
2009-2010
Elected as Director of the University of Oregon Philosophy Department’s Graduate Philosophy
Club
2008-2009
Elected as Graduate Representative to the Committee of the Whole, University of Oregon
Philosophy Department Governing Body
Public/Community
2008
Volunteered for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in the Pacific Northwest
Served on University of Oregon Philosophy Department Search Committee for 2009-2010
Visiting Professors
2006
Elected as Employee Outreach Coordinator, Rostro de Christo Organization
2005-2006
Coordinator of Amnesty International, DePaul University Chapter
2004-2005
Elected as Communications Director for DePaul University Honor’s College Student Government
Language Expertise:
Proficient in Spanish
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Professional Affiliations:
2013
Member, International Development Ethics Association
2013
Member, Association of Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
2008- 2013
Member, the Human Development and Capabilities Approach Association
2010
Member, the Society Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
2010
Member, The North American Society for Social Philosophy
2009-2013
Member, American Philosophical Association
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