Faculty Profiles
Andrew Pierce
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Justice Studies
153 Spes Unica
apierce@saintmarys.edu
Education
PhD, Loyola University Chicago
MA, Michigan State University
BA, Michigan State University
Research Interests
- Social and political philosophy
- Philosophy of race
- Critical theory
- Pedagogies of community engagement
Courses Recently Taught
- PHIL 110: Introductory Philosophy
- PHIL 220: Introduction to Logic
- PHIL 355: Philosophy of Law
- JUST 250: Introduction to Justice Studies
Professional Experience
- Sacred Heart University, faculty, philosophy
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012
- “Integration without Gentrification,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 35(1). January 2021
- “Whose Lives Matter? The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Contested Legacy of Philosophical Humanism,” Journal of Social Philosophy, (51)2. 2020.
- “Justice without Solidarity? Collective Identity and the Fate of the ‘Ethical’ in Habermas’ Recent Political Theory,” forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy, 26(1). 2018
- “Interest Convergence: An Alternative to White Privilege Models of Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Practice,” Teaching Philosophy, vol. 39 no. 4. 2016.
- “The Myth of the White Minority,” Critical Philosophy of Race. Vol 3 no. 2. 2015.