Dr. Dieleman is a philosopher whose grant- and award-winning research focuses on democracy, inclusion, and progress. She is co-editor of The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination (Routledge, 2022) and Pragmatism and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Richard Rorty. She is currently writing a monograph on the topics of deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice.
Dr. Dieleman joined the University of Lethbridge in July, 2023 as the inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership. You can learn more about this national network, spanning five universities across Canada, here. Previously, Dr. Dieleman was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Edwardsville, IL, the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS.
Dr. Dieleman has taught many introductory courses in philosophy and critical thinking (like Ethics and Reasoning and Argumentation). She also has taught courses in the areas of legal political philosophy (like Justice in Global Perspective and Deliberative Democracy), applied ethics (like Environmental Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, and Philosophy of Love and Sex), and feminist philosophy (like Philosophical Issues in Feminism and Contemporary Feminist Theories).
She is a co-founder of and currently serves as the Secretary and Communications Director for the Richard Rorty Society, and she is also on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. She has been the Vice-President of the Illinois Philosophical Association and President of the Canadian Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.
Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her dogs, gardening, travelling, and contributing to her community. She has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, was the Saskatoon Coordinator for The Shoebox Project, and helped manage the Good Dirt Community Garden in Edwardsville, IL.
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