UCR Philosophy Faculty

Georgia Warnke (Ph.D., Boston University)
Professor of Philosophy
Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities
HMNSS 1607
(951) 827-2830
georgia.warnke@ucr.edu

Georgia's research interests include critical theory, hermeneutics, democratic theory and issues of race, sex and gender. Her latest book is After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Recently she has written articles on Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. Recent graduate courses have focused on Habermas, Hans-Georg Gadamer and issues of identity. Undergraduate courses include courses on political philosophy, feminism and Marxism.

Recent Awards:

• John Medlin Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 2004-2005



• Faculty Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, Spring, 2003

Sample Publications:

Books and Collections:

• "Race, Gender and Antiessentialist Politics" in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005
  
  
• "Interpretive Democracy" in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2005
  
  
• "A Hermeneutics of Gender” in Stoller Silvia, Veronica Vasterling and Linda Fisher, eds., Feministische Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik, Orbis Phaenomenologicus Neue Folge Perspectiven, Vol. 9, 2005
  
  
• "Markets, Democracy and Educational Vouchers” in Stephen Cullenberg and Prasanta K. Pattanaik, eds., Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market: Essays in Economics and Philosophy, 2004
  
  
• "Literature, Law and Morality" in Bruce Krajewski, ed., Gadamer’s Repercussions: Philosophical Hermeneutics Reconsidered, 2004
  
  
• "Rorty’s Democratic Hermeneutics", in Charles Guignon and Richard Riley, eds., Richard Rorty, 2003
  
  
• "Hermeneutics and Constructed Identities", in Lorraine Code, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer,2003.
  
  
• "Children and Ian Shapiro’s Democratic Justice", The Good Society, 2002
  
  
• "Social Identity as Interpretation" in Ulrich Arnswalt, ed., Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer, 2002
  
  
• "Hermeneutics, Ethics and Politics" in Robert Dostal, ed., Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, 2002

Complete List of Publications