Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) discussed Philosophy for Children and philosophical parenting on the podcast Nurturing Minds: The Psychology and Philosophy of Parenting, co-hosted by Rachel Riskind and Vance Ricks.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her forthcoming book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics as part of an author-meets-critics panel on her book at the 2025 North American Society for Social Philosophy conference held in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Her commentators included Lori Gallegos (Texas State…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) organized and facilitated a bilingual public philosophy workshop in El Paso, Texas entitled "Exploring Social Justice with U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Children and Youth." The event was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Association Berry Public Philosophy Fund.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Claudia Sheinbaum has a story to tell - and we need to listen" in Salon.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Peter Higgins (Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University) published "Gender and Migration" in Handbook of Migration Ethics, edited by Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja, and Johanna Gordemann.
Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) paper, "Socially, Not Legally, Undocumented," was published in The Latinx Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 2025), edited by Lori Gallegos, Manuel Vargas, and Francisco Gallegos.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike" in Los Angeles Review of Books.
Cheryl Abbate delivered a keynote talk, "Spiritualizing Animal Rights Theory," at the 2025 Rice University Graduate Animal Ethics Conference.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Immigration and Social Identity Formation" in The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration, edited by Sahar Akhtar. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has been appointed to the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Hispanics/Latinxs.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "How Mexico's Forensic Anthropologists Are Resisting Forensic Extractivism" as part of the panel "Social Philosophy in Mexico" organized by the North American Society for Social Philosophy for the Central Division annual conference of the American Philosophical Association. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Feminist Antifascism in the Writings of Verónica Gago" as part of the panel "Philosophy of Social Movements" at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting in New York City.