Joan Callahan

Joan Callahan (March 29, 1946 – June 6, 2019) was a Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, an institution where she taught for more than twenty years and served in a variety of roles, including as director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program. Callahan's research has focused on feminist theory, critical race theory, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and on the junctions of these topics.

Publications Callahan has published a very large number of peer-reviewed papers, and has contributed a number of book chapters. Callahan is currently producing, with Nancy Tuana, a collection of videos titled Feminist Philosophers: In Their Own Words, that features interviews with many of the first philosophers to introduce feminist concerns in to North American philosophy.

Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law was hailed in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy as an "engaging, skilfully edited contribution to the literature on human reproduction" that represented "proof positive of the beyond-abortion sea change."