Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented on a virtual symposium on her book Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice at the Third Annual International Forum on Migrants, Refugees and Human Rights, organized by Paso de Esperanza A.C. in Monterrey, Mexico.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) is the author of an article, "Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers," that has been published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.  
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) created and launched the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals's Animal Ethics from the Margins (AEfM) project, which highlights the work of underrepresented voices in the animal ethics literature. The AEfM website features an early career bibliography, classic texts about animals (books and journal…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) delivered comments on a paper, "Can I Be A Vegetarian Who Eats Meat?" by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby at the 13th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME). She also co-organized the annual Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals pre-RoME workshop. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed for the Wisdom at Work podcast about her work in public and academic philosophy, including her Philosophy for Children outreach in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter, "It's Not Just a Personal Preference: Racialized Discrimination in the Tinder Context," in College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You (Oxford University Press).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Iván Sandoval Cervantes (Anthropology) published an op-ed in Salon, "Who Doesn't Love a Taco? Taste the Nation and the Problem with Neoliberal Immigrant Rights Activism."
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented her paper "'Maybe It Was All God Trying to Stop Me': The Harmful Intimacy of Crossing Borders for Abortion Care" as part of the Resisting Borders II online conference "Refugee and Migrant Health: Caring on the Landscape of Displacement."
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published her paper "How to Help when it Hurts: ACT Individually (and in Groups)" in Animal Studies Journal, which explores the moral responsibilities of individuals in a world of collective wrongs and moral conflicts. 
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published her paper, "The Epistemology of Meat Eating," in Social Epistemology.
Kyle Catarata (Philosophy) recently had an op-ed published in the Las Vegas Sun. In his piece, American Payment System is Widening the Wealth Gap, he discusses the inequality in the business models of credit card companies and how a real-time payment system can benefit low-income families. Catarata is a second-year student…
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published her paper, "Meat Eating and Moral Responsibility," in Utilitas.