Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir

Prófessor

Sérsvið / rannsóknasvið

Heimspeki Nietzches, feminísk heimspeki, heimspeki líkamans, náttúrunnar og lífsins, þverþjóðleg jafnréttisfræði.

Samstarfsaðilar í rannsóknum

Sjá ferilskrá

Námsferill

Curriculum vitae
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.

Education:
Dr.Phil. from Humboldt University Berlin, 1993.
M.A. in philosophy from Free University Berlin, 1988.
B.A. in philosophy from Boston University, USA, 1981.

Starfsferill

Academic employment:
2010-: Professor of philosophy, University of Iceland.
1999-2009: Associate professor of philosophy, University of Iceland.
1997-1999: Assistant professor of philosophy, University of Iceland.
1993-1996: Lecturer in philosophy, Rostock University, Germany.

Administrative Work:

2009-: Chair of board of EDDA Center of Excellence in Equality and Diversity, University of Iceland, www.edda.hi.is.
2008- : Chair of board of Gender Equality Training programme, University of Iceland, http://vefsetur.hi.is/get/.
2008-: Member of ethics committee of University of Iceland.
2007- : Member of advisory board of Nora, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
2007- : Member of board of Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion.
2006- : Member of studies-committee for Gender Studies.
2005-2006: Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2005- : Member of advisory board of International Institute of Applied Aesthetics.
2005-2006: Chair of Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2001-2003: Vice-chairperson, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2000-2002: Chair, Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
1997-2000: Member of board of Center for Women's Studies, University of Iceland.
1998-2001: Chairperson of the Equal Rights Committee of the University of Iceland.

Research grants:
2009: Center of Excellence Grant from the Icelandic Research Council for EDDA.
2008: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), study grant for three months.
2003-2007: Nos-H grant (Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities) for the research project "Sexuality, Death and the Feminine".
2004: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Study trip with students, "The legacy of Hegel in critical theory", Frankfurt M., Bochum and Berlin, June, 2004.
1993: Research grant from the Icelandic Research Council, "Feminist critique in ethics and political philosophy".
1992-1993: Research grant from the Center for Women's Studies, University of Iceland, "The Ethics of the Icelandic Women's Movement ("Kvennalistinn")".

Visiting Scholar
2008: Department of Philosophy, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany (April-June).
2007: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (March-May).
2003: Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (March-June).
2003: Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University, (September).

Current research projects:
2010-: Praxeologies of the Body, German Research Foundation (DFG).
2003-2008: "Birth, Death and the Feminine", Joint Committee of the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities (Nos-H).
2006-2009: Public Health Genomics - European Network.

Professional Membership:
IAPH, International Association of Women Philosophers.
The Nordic Society for Phenomenology.
International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
Member of the Academy of Sciences, Iceland.

Membership in societies:
2006-: Boardmember and later advisory boardmember of Framtíðarlandið (Futureland).
2009-: Advisory board (Beirat), Goethe Institut Island.