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Rochelle H. DuFord
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Delancey House
616 S. Main St.
Geneva, NY 14456
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Education
2016 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Program in Social, Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy, Binghamton
University, Binghamton, NY, May.
Dissertation: “Considering Global Government: Legitimacy, Human Rights, and Global
Democracy” Chair: Max Pensky
2012 M.A. in Philosophy, Program in Social, Political, Ethical and Legal Philosophy, Binghamton
University, Binghamton, NY.
2010 B.A. Concentration in Philosophy and Political Science, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL.
Areas of Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Critical Theory
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Law (esp. International Law), Ethics
Employment
Spring 2016- Present
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Visiting Assistant Professor of
Philosophy.
Fall 2015
Molloy College, Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy
Farmingdale State College, Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2016 “An Expanded Conception of Sentimental Value,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, DOI:
10.1007/s10790-016-9550-0, < http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10790-0169550-0> (Online First).
Invited Presentations
2014 “Can there be a Government Without a State?” Institute for the Advanced Study of the
Humanities, Binghamton University, October.
Conference Presentations
2017 “The Priority of the Political in the Global Order: Reconsidering Global Justice,” Philosophy,
Politics, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March.
2016 “What is Critical about Political Solidarity?” Critical Theory Round Table Conference,
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, November.
“I'm With Her: Solidarity as the Basis of a Feminist Theory of Global Democracy,” 33rd
International Social Philosophy Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, July.
2015 “The Need for a Concept of Government,” 3rd Annual Philosopher’s Cocoon Philosophy
Conference, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, November.
2014 “Legitimate Global Government,” 8th Biannual Radical Philosophy Association Conference,
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, November.
“Tyranny, Legitimacy, and Global Government,” Critical Theory Round Table, Hanover, NH,
September.
“Loyal to Whom? Liberal Statism and Cosmopolitanism,” Presented on the Global Democracy
Panel at the 72nd Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, April and 8th annual Telos
Conference, New York City, NY, February.
2013 “The Amoral Status of Humane and Humanitarian Laws,” Co-authored with Aaron Bell, 30th
annual International Social Philosophy Conference, Quinnepiac University, Hamden, CT, July;
12th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies, Minnesota Community Technical College,
Minneapolis, MN, June.
“Talking about the Devil: Adorno, Women, and Feminist Practice,” Society for Women in
Philosophy Eastern, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, May.
2012 “Saintly Supererogation and Structural Injustice,” 29th annual International Social Philosophy
Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, July.
Commentator on Serena Parekh’s “Towards a Phenomenology of Global Displacement,” SPEL
Binghamton Colloquium, May.
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record:
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Introduction to Philosophy (2 Sections, Spring 2016)
Environmental Ethics (Spring 2016, Fall 2016)
Cosmopolitanism and Global Ethics
Molloy College
Advanced Medical Ethics (Graduate)
Bioethics in the Contemporary World (Honors)
Farmingdale State College
Introduction to Ethics
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Binghamton University
Markets, Ethics, and Law (Online)
Cosmopolitan Political Theory (Online)
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy (Online)
Methods of Reasoning
Teaching Assistant, Binghamton University
Environmental Ethics
Introduction to Philosophy
Contemporary International Law (Political Science)
Formal Logic
Philosophy of Law
Law and Justice
Fellowships and Awards
2016
Society for Applied Philosophy Grant
2014-2015
Doctoral Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Binghamton
University, Fall.
Dissertation Assistantship, Philosophy Department, Binghamton University.
Honorable Mention, Ford Dissertation Fellowship for Diversity.
Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, Binghamton University.
Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, Graduate Student Award.
2010-2014
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Philosophy Department, Binghamton University.
Professional Service
2016 Section Editor in Applied Philosophy, Diversity Reading List. (diversityreadinglist.org)
2015 Judge, Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl Competition, St. Joseph’s College.
Faculty Sponsor, Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Team, Molloy College.
Minorities and Philosophy Chapter, Founding Member, Philosophy Department, Binghamton
University, 2013-2015.
Distance Learning Coordinator, Binghamton University Philosophy Department, 2013-2015.
2014 Co-Chair, Minorities and Philosophy Resource Development Project, “Philosophy Classroom
Best Practices Document.” (http://phildiversity.weebly.com/)
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Chair of SPEL Graduate Student Professional Development Committee.
2013 President of the Binghamton University Philosophy Graduate Student Organization. 2011-2013.
Additional Professional Experience
2013 Harpur Workshop for Online Teaching Pedagogy, Four Part Series, Training Completed,
Binghamton University, Spring.
2012 Research Assistant to Nicole Hassoun, on “Global Health Impact.” Fall. (http://globalhealth-impact.org/aboutindex.php)
Professional Affiliations
American Philosophical Association
Association for Political Theory
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
Society for Women in Philosophy
References
Max Pensky
Professor of Philosophy
Binghamton University
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607-777-4163
Anthony Reeves
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Binghamton University
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Daniel Koltonski
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Delaware
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Steven Lee
Professor of Philosophy
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Dissertation Abstract:
Globalization has given rise to an interest in the development and normative assessment of
international, or global, political institutions. Often, this literature focuses on three particular
debates: 1) the site and scope of global justice as it relates to international institutional design, 2)
whether and how we should democratize already existing global governance institutions, and 3) the
confluence of criticism and support for the development of a global state. Discussions of the
development of a global state are often situated in the first two kinds of debates, concerning either
global justice or global democracy. However, the debate concerning a global state is situated firmly
in the assumption that the world will perhaps always be organized by principles of Westphalian
sovereignty. This project develops and defends a theory of global government that subverts the
paradigm of preserving external sovereignty in order to focus on assessing and developing
centralized global institutions liable to claims concerning legitimacy. This provides a theory of
global government as capable of protecting human rights, providing a source of legitimacy for
international law, and facilitating popular sovereignty via global democratic mechanisms.
I first argue that government is an independent political entity from statehood—developing
the possibility of a global government without a global state. Then I argue that the no-exit critique
of a global government relies on a false asymmetry between a multi-territory and a single-territory
world. Further, I claim that with the development of a global constitution and centralized structures
for building democratic solidarity, a global government can meet the challenges to global
democratic posed by both capitalist economic power and distance. The overall argument of the
dissertation defends the availability, and desirability, of global government as an option for the
organization of global political institutions, the protection of human rights, the legitimation of
international law, and the implementation of global democracy.
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