HALLIE LIBERTO Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

344 Mansfield Rd, U-1054, Storrs, Connecticut 06269

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

The University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor, August, 2011 – present

Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Spring, 2017

Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellow, Princeton University, 2014 – 2015

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Ethics, Social Philosophy, Bioethics; Philosophy of Law

EDUCATION:Ph.D. Philosophy – University of Wisconsin, Madison:2011; Chair: Daniel Hausman

B.A. Philosophy & Women’s Studies – Columbia University: 2004

PUBLICATIONS

“The Problem with Sexual Promises” Ethics. Forthcoming.
“Two Ways to Transfer a Bodily Right” The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Forthcoming.
“Promises and the Backward Reach of Uptake” American Philosophical Quarterly. Forthcoming.
“Promises, Release-Seeking, and Exploitation: How you should not get off the hook” Spindel supplement to the Southern Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.
“Promissory Obligation: Against a Unified Account” in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics. Edited by Mark Timmons, forthcoming.
“Intention and Sexual Consent” Philosophical Explorations, special issue on: Intentions. Forthcoming.
“Species Membership and the Veil of Ignorance: What principles would the representatives of animals choose?” Utilitas, forthcoming
“Evil, Wrongdoing, and Concept-Distinctness” with Fred Harrington. Philosophical Studies, 173 (6): 1591-1602. (2016)
“Introduction to Special Issue on Dominating Speech” in Social Theory and Practice. Volume 42. Number 2. April, 2016. pp. 225-227
“Review of Buchanan, Allen. The Heart of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2013.” Ethics. July 2015 (Vol. 125, No. 4).
“Exploitation and the Vulnerability Clause” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Special Issue from the British Society of Ethical Theory Meeting, Vol.17: 4 (2014).
“The Exploitation Solution to the Non-Identity Problem” Philosophical Studies, Selected Papers from the 2013 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Vol. 167, Issue 1 (2014).
“The Moral Specification of Rights: A Restricted Account” Law and Philosophy, Vol. 33: 2, (2014).
“Noxious Markets vs Noxious Gift Relationships” Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 39: 2 (2013)
“Denying the Suberogatory” PhilosophiaVol. 40, Number 2 (2012)
“On the Costly Compromises of Research Relationships” The American Journal of Bioethics, July, Volume 10, Number 7 (2010).
“The Ethics of Polyamorous Marriage” in The Ethics of the Family, Stephen Scales, Linda Oravecz, Adam Potthast (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (2010)
“Normalizing Prostitution vs Normalizing the Alienation of Sexual Rights: A response to Scott A. Anderson” Ethics Vol. 120 (2009)

COMPLETED VOLUME CHAPTERS (STILL PENDING FINAL REVIEW)

“Sweatshops, Sex, and Survival: Exploitation and the nature of consent” in Exploitation ed. Matt Zwolinski, pending final review of volume by Oxford University Press
“Chemical Castration and the Violation of Sexual Rights” in Treatment for Punishment, ed. David Birks,pending final review of volume by Oxford University Press

GUEST EDITING

“Dominating Speech” special issue of Social Theory and Practice. Vol. 42. No. 2. April, 2016.

“Contested Sexual Consent” invited to edit special issue slated for 2018, CFP in progress.

AWARDS, GRANTS, and FELLOWSHIPS

Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University, Spring, 2017
Seed Grant: The ABCDs of Contested Sexual Consent. Public Discourse Project. Spring and Fall, 2016
Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship, Princeton University, Center for Human Values, 2014 - 2015
University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute, Program Funding Award for Workshop on “The Duty to Resist Oppression” Fall, 2013
Graduate Student Paper Prize, APA Pacific Division Awards Committee, 2009
Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin’s Graduate School, 2009

PRESENTATIONS (RECENT & UPCOMING)

“What Business Ethics can do for Sexual Ethics”

Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, May 2017

“Sex, Promises, and the Resilience of Moral Powers”

Symposium on Sexual Promises, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Meeting, 2017

“Sexual Coercion and Moral Powers”

University of Virginia Law School, November 2016

Keynote Address, Western Michigan Graduate Philosophy Conference, November 2016

“Crimes of Non-Consent”

University of Colorado – Boulder, Philosophy Department, September 2016

“Exploitation and the Nature of Consent”

Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2016
University of Florida - Gainesville, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, March 2016

“Moral Debilitation”

Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2016

“Sexual Consent: Moral Validity versus Moral Relevance”

Barcelona University, Analytic Group: Lecture Series in Gender, Race, and Sexuality, June 2016

“A Theory of Sexual Rights”

Bled Summer Philosophy Conference, June 2016

“After the Promise”

Brandeis University, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, April 2016

“Sweatshops, Sex, and Survival: Exploitation and the Nature of Consent”

University of San Diego – Conference on Exploitation, April 2016

“Coercion and the Rape Paradox”

National University Singapore,Department of Philosophy Colloquium, January 2016

“The Problem with Sexual Promises”

Nanyang Technological University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, January 2016

“Deception and Sexual Consent”

Ohio State University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, November 2015
Kings College London, Lying and Deception Conference, November 2015
Brown University, Summer Conference, Brown’s Summer Immersion Program, June 2015

“Exploitation and Promises”

Spindel Conference, Memphis, October, 2015
Theoretical Reflections on Exploitation in Practice: a Workshop at the University of Guelph, Ontario, October 2015

PRESENTATIONS (CONTINUED)

“Promises and the Backward Reach of Uptake”

Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado- Boulder, August 2015
Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy, Princeton University, November 2014
Virginia Tech, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, August, 2014
University of Connecticut Law School, Colloquium, Hartford, September, 2014

“Sexual Promises”

Grinnell College, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, February, 2015

“Intentions and Sexual Consent”

Works in Progress Series, Philosophy Department at MIT, May 2015
Dartmouth College, PhilosophyColloquium,, Political Economy Project, March, 2015

“Monogamy Promises as Overreaching Promises”

Princeton University, Problem Promises Workshop, February/March 2015

“Promises to Future Generations”

Time Bias and Future Planning Workshop, Vancouver, BC, March, 2015

“Promissory Obligation: Against a Unified Account.”

Princeton University, Center for Human Values, March 2015
Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, January 2015

“The Moral Problem with Monogamy Promises”

Coastal Carolina University,Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, November, 2015
Bayreauth University, Germany, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, November, 2015
Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, Spring, 2014

“Reasons, Advice, and Slut-Shaming”

The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society/Mind Association, Cambridge, July, 2014.

“Evil, Wrong-Doing, and Concept Distinctness”

With Fred Harrington, at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, August, 2014

“The Three Wrongs of Rape: Against a Unified Account”

Bled Summer Philosophy Conference, Slovenia, June 2014
MIT Workshop in Gender and Philosophy, May, 2014

“Exploitation and the Metaphysics of Harm”

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Main Program, December 2013

“Promissory Obligation and the Uptake Criterion”

University of Missouri – St. Louis, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, October, 2013

“What It Takes to Be Wrongfully Exploited”

Conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory, Institute of Philosophy, London, July 2013

“The Exploitation Solution to the Non-Identity Problem”

Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, Washington, August 2013
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado- Boulder, August 2013
Monash University, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, March 2013
University of Sydney, Department of Philosophy, Seminar, February 2013
Macquarie University, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, February 2013

“What Isn’t Ours to Promise”

University of Leeds, Center for Applied Ethics, Colloquium, May, 2013
University of Warwick, Politics and International Studies Department, Colloquium, April, 2013
Australian National University, Moral, Social, Political Theory Seminar, March, 2013

“The Monogamy Problem”

Colloquium in the department of philosophy at Connecticut College, November, 2013
Seminar (colloquium), department of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, April, 2013
Colloquium in the department of philosophy at Mt. Holyoke College, April, 2013

PRESENTATIONS (CONTINUED)

“Misfires, Pass-Backs, Blocks, and Interceptions: A Metaphysics of Failed Promises”

Seminar (colloquium) for the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Melbourne, March, 2013
Seminar (colloquium) in the department of philosophy at Charles Sturt University, WaggaWagga, March 2013

“Exploitation, Oppression, and Sex Trafficking”

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Panel on Sex Trafficking, December 2012

“When Exploitation is Oppression”

Colloquium in the department of philosophy at Calvin College, November, 2012(invited)
Minorities and Philosophy Group at Yale University, November 2nd, 2012(invited)

“Familial Politics, Cosmopolitanism and Deliberative Democracy” (with Elizabeth Holzer)

Workshop on ‘Cosmopolitanism and Deliberative Democracy,’ Bucharest, December, 2012

“Contextualizing Exploitation”

Colloquium in the philosophy department at Grand Valley State University, November, 2012(invited)
Rocky Mountains Ethics Congress, University of Colorado- Boulder, August, 2012
Women’s Studies Spotlight Series, University of Connecticut, February, 2012(invited)

“In Support of a Restricted Moral Specification for Rights”

American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Main Program, February 2012
Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium, September 2011

“Moral Perpendiculars”

American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Main Program, April 2012
Central States Philosophy Association Meeting, September 2011

“Noxious Markets vs. Noxious Gift Relationships”

Rocky Mountains Ethics Congress, University of Colorado- Boulder, August, 2011

“Organ Sales and the Commodification Objection”

Central States Philosophy Association Meeting, September 2010

“Species Membership and the Veil of Ignorance”

Colloquium at Youngstown State University, November 2009(invited)
Rocky Mountains Ethics Congress, University of Colorado- Boulder, August, 2008

“Teaching Sexual Civility: The moral demands of sex education ignored by conservatives and liberals alike”

Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology, on the theme, ‘Teaching Citizenship and Civility,’ November 2009

“On Justification for the Prohibition of the Slave Contract”

Central States Philosophy Association Meeting, October 2009

“Normalizing Prostitution vs. Normalizing the Alienation of Sexual Rights”

American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009
Youngstown State University, Philosophy Department Colloquium, March 2009
New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Meeting, November 2008

“Abdication, Transfer, and the Alienability of Rights”

Russell V Mini-Conference, Sonoma Valley, March 2009

“The Vulnerability of Men in Polyamorous Marriage”

Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Towson University, Baltimore, November 2008

“Prostitution, Privacy, and Sexual Reciprocity”

Iowa Philosophical Society Meeting, October, 2007

COMMENTARIES:

Comments on Sarah Bernstein’s “Causal Proportions and Moral Responsibility ” –The Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, August 2015

Comments on Mark Jago’s “States of Affairs” – The Midsummer Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, June, 2015

Comments on Elizabeth Harman’s “Morally Permissible Moral Mistakes” –The Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, 2014

Comments on JapaPallikkathayil’s “The Truth About Deception” – The Midsummer Philosophy Workshop, Edinburgh, June, 2013

Comments on Jennifer Szende’s “Beitz and the Problem with a State-Focused Approach to Human Rights” -American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Meeting, December, 2011 (Main Program)

Comments on Todd C. Calder’s "Is Evil Just Very Wrong?” -American Philosophical Association’s Central Meeting, March 2011 (Main Program)
Comments on Amanda Roth’s “Ethical Progress as Problem-Resolution” -Central States Philosophical Association meeting, October 2009
Comments on Rebecca Reilly-Cooper’s “Emotions and Public Reason” -Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2009
Comments on Sarah Kenehan’s “Rawls and Intergenerational Justice” -Central States Philosophy Association Meeting, September 2008
Comments on Jeff Buechner’s “The Case Against the Case Against Perfection” -NJ Regional Philosophy Association Meeting November 2007

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT:

Organizing Workshop on the Public Discourse of Contested Sexual Consent – Small seminar of scholars who will address media discussions of consent policies at universities and in law. We will come up with accessible responses to objection from the public, September, 2016

Appeared on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” to discuss the handling of sexual harassment when traveling abroad, March 18, 2016

Participated in panel on minorities in philosophy, Brown’s Summer Immersion Program, June 2015

Wrote blog entry for Philosop-Her on “Promising Sex” that appears on both the DailyNous and Reddit.

Participated on an online panel of philosophers commenting on the “Ashley Madison” scandal, for the DailyNous.

Lecture/Screening of the UConn Human Rights Film Series, “Daughters of Gardeners,” Fall, 2012

Panel member responsible for explaining the Ethics of Public Representation, Training of Public Board Members: the Department of Regulations and Licensing, Madison, 2010.

Senior Summer School 2007 and 2009: A Private Summer Program for Senior Citizens: I lectured on philosophical topics to senior citizens three days a week for 8 weeks. Examples of topics:“Rumpelstiltskin and the Ethics of Surrogate Motherhood”; “Reproductive Rights and the Octo-Mom”

Co-Authored the Online Module in Animal Ethics for the Research and Professional Ethics Program of LANGURE, headed by Gary Comstock: to be used in a course designed for student recipients of National Science Foundation research grants. Spring 2007.

SERVICE TO THEPROFESSION:

Member of the APA ad hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment (charged with recommending best practices for addressing sexual harassment in the profession), 2012-Present
Referee for the Program Committee for the 2017 Eastern Meeting of the APA
Participated in a panel on minorities in the profession at Brown University’s Summer Immersion Program (with Tommie Shelbie and Eileen O’Neil), Summer 2015
Organized Workshop on “Problem Promises” at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values
Co-organized Conference in honor of Daniel M. Hausman at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, May, 2015
Referee for Philosophical Studies; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Ethics;Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy;Philosophia (x2); Philosophy Compass; Social Theory and Practice (x2); American Philosophical Quarterly; Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT:

Organizer of Parcells Public Lecture in Ethics: Mark Timmons (Fall 2016); Alfred Mele (Spring 2016)
Co-Organizer of Parcells Lecture:Susan Wolf (Spring 2015); Debra Satz (Spring 2014); Thomas Hill (Fall 2013); Nancy Sherman (Spring 2012)
Assisted in the coordination of conference on “Political Violence” December, 2015 at the UConn
Designed and Organized the “Bioethics Film Series” at UConn, Fall, 2015
Assisted in the coordination of conference on “Dominating Speech” November, 2014, at the University of Connecticut Law School
Organized a professional workshop and coordinated related events for the philosophy department’s “Workshop on the Duty to Resist Oppression” September, 2013
Member of Placement Committee, Philosophy Department, 2011 - 2014
Member of two search committees for new hires in the department: 2011-12; 2012-13
Advisor for Undergraduate Bioethics Club, University of Connecticut: 2012 - present
Editor of Philosophy Department Newsletter, University of Connecticut Cogitamus: 2011-2012

TEACHING(GRADUATE SEMINARS):

Sexual Wrongdoing (Seminar for PhD Students): Fall 2016, UConn
Topics in Normative Ethics (Seminar for PhD Students): Fall 2013, UConn

ADVISING:

Dissertation Committees:Dissertation Advising (co-chair of committee): Michael Robillard, Defending 2016; Dissertation Committee Member: Emma Bjorngard, Prospectus Defense, 2016
Honors Thesis Advising: SnigdhaMamillapalli, Spring 2016

TEACHING(UNDERGRADUATE)

Ethics:Spring or fall of most academic years, 2011-Present, UConn
Special Topics: Bioethics: Fall, 2015, Independent Study with 3 Student Fall, 2013, UConn
Philosophy and Social Ethics: 3 Formats (20 student honors class; 30 student class; 320 person Mega Class) Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, UConn
Philosophy and Gender:Mega Class, 320 students, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, UConn
Introduction to Philosophy:40 student class, Fall 2010, University of Wisconsin
Reason and Communication: 40 student class, Summer Session, University of Wisconsin
Contemporary Moral Issues:20 Student class, Spring 2008, 2007, University of Wisconsin

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS

Teaching assistantships at UW-Madison involved leading 3-5 (but usually 4) discussion sections a week, grading a total of 80 students’ work and attending lectures.

Contemporary Moral Issues (Prof. Harry Brighouse)
History of Modern Philosophy (Prof. Keith Yandell)
Ethics in Business (Prof. Lester Hunt)
Reason in Communication (Benjamin Sachs, UW PhD student, now on faculty at St. Andrews)
Introduction to Philosophy (Prof. Larry Shapiro)
Introduction to Ethics (Prof. Carolina Sartorio – held this appointment twice)

PROJECT ASSISTANTSHIP

University of Wisconsin’s Health Science Institutional Review Board: 2008 –2011: My duties as a PA for the HS-IRB involved summarizing health science studies that involved human subjects and recommending IRB approval (or not). I worked primarily with the applications for changes in protocol, continuing reviews, and adverse event reports.