Rebecca Kukla
Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics and Gynecology

Ph.D. Pittsburgh 1996.  Prof. Kukla joined the USF Philosophy Department in Fall 2007.  She is also Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a core faculty member in the graduate program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at USF.  In addition to her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Rebecca Kukla completed an honours B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990, a Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University in 2005, and her Sommelier Certification at Algonquin College in 2007.  She is the author of Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Rowman and Littlefield 2005), the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (Cambridge 2006), and, with Mark Lance, the co-author of 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons (Harvard University Press 2008).  She is the current co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, a scholarly society with members in thirty countries.  She holds a $100,000 research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled "Autonomy and the Negotiation of Information in Reproductive Health Care".  Her research interests include philosophical and cultural studies of medicine, epistemology, eighteenth century philosophy, and feminist philosophy. 

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