| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | Contemporary philosophy |
| Joel Michael Reynolds | |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1985 |
| Birth Place: | Eugene, Oregon, United States of America |
| School Tradition: | Phenomenology Continental Philosophy |
| Main Interests: | Applied ethics Bioethics Social Epistemology Phenomenology (philosophy) |
| Influences: | Eva Kittay Maurice Merleau-Ponty Paul-Michel Foucault Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
| Education: | Emory University (PhD in philosophy, 2017; MA in philosophy, 2014) Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon (BA in philosophy, religious studies, 2009) |
| Institutions: | Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics The Hastings Center University of Massachusetts Lowell |
Joel Michael Reynolds (born 1985) is an American philosopher whose research focuses on disability.[1] Their areas of specialization include Philosophy of Disability, Bioethics, Continental Philosophy, and Social Epistemology.[2] They are an associate professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University,[3] [4] a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics,[5] a senior bioethics advisor to The Hastings Center,[6] and core faculty in Georgetown's Disability Studies Program.[7] In 2022, they were named a Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation (class of 2025) in support of their project “Addressing the Roots of Disability Health Disparities."[8] [9] They are the founder of the Journal of Philosophy of Disability,[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] which they edit with Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, and co-founder of Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, & Society, a book series from Oxford University Press which they edit with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.[15]
Reynolds is the author of a number of books, including The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (University of Minnesota Press, May 2022),[16] The Meaning of Disability (Oxford University Press, under contract), and Philosophy of Disability: An Introduction (Polity, under contract). They are also the co-editor of The Disability Bioethics Reader (Routledge, May 2022) with Christine Wieseler, The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability (Oxford University Press, under contract) with Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and of a 2020 special issue of The Hastings Center Report, “For All of Us? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge,” also with Erik Parens.[17]
They earned their B.A. in philosophy as well as religious studies from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon[18] [19] and their M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University.[20] They have received fellowships supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[21] Reynolds previously taught at The University of Massachusetts Lowell;[22] They held the inaugural Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and the Humanities at The Hastings Center from 2017 to 2020;[23] and they held the inaugural Laney Graduate School Disability Studies Fellowship at Emory University from 2014 to 2015.[24] At the University of Oregon, Reynolds won the George Rebec Prize for best essay by a philosophy student in 2007, 2008, and 2009.[25] Also in 2009, they won the President's Award from the Robert D. Clark Honor's College for Distinguished Thesis.[26]