Joel Michael Reynolds

Joel Michael Reynolds (born 1985) is an American philosopher whose research focuses on disability. Their areas of specialization include Philosophy of Disability, Bioethics, Continental Philosophy, and Social Epistemology. They are an associate professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies in the [https://philosophy.georgetown.edu/people/full-time-faculty/ Department of Philosophy] at Georgetown University, a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, a senior bioethics advisor to The Hastings Center, and core faculty in Georgetown's [https://disabilitystudies.georgetown.edu/ Disability Studies Program]. In 2022, they were named a Faculty Scholar of [https://greenwall.org/ The Greenwall Foundation] (class of 2025) in support of their project “Addressing the Roots of Disability Health Disparities." They are the founder of the [https://www.pdcnet.org/jpd Journal of Philosophy of Disability], which they edit with Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, and co-founder of [https://oxforddisabilitystudies.com/ Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, & Society], a book series from Oxford University Press which they edit with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

Reynolds is the author of a number of books, including ''[https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-life-worth-living The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality]'' (University of Minnesota Press, May 2022), ''The Meaning of Disability'' (Oxford University Press, under contract), and ''Philosophy of Disability: An Introduction'' (Polity, under contract). They are also the co-editor of ''[https://www.routledge.com/The-Disability-Bioethics-Reader/Reynolds-Wieseler/p/book/9780367220037 The Disability Bioethics Reader]'' (Routledge, May 2022) with [https://www.christinewieseler.com Christine Wieseler], ''The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability'' (Oxford University Press, under contract) with [https://www.thehastingscenter.org/team/erik-parens-ph-d/ Erik Parens], [https://www.thehastingscenter.org/team/liz-bowen/ Liz Bowen], and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and of a 2020 special issue of ''The Hastings Center Report'', “For ''All of Us''? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge,” also with [https://www.thehastingscenter.org/team/erik-parens-ph-d/ Erik Parens].

They earned their B.A. in philosophy as well as religious studies from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and their M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University. They have received fellowships supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Reynolds previously taught at [https://www.uml.edu The University of Massachusetts Lowell]; They held the inaugural Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and the Humanities at The Hastings Center from 2017 to 2020; and they held the inaugural Laney Graduate School Disability Studies Fellowship at Emory University from 2014 to 2015. At the University of Oregon, Reynolds won the George Rebec Prize for best essay by a philosophy student in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Also in 2009, they won the President's Award from the Robert D. Clark Honor's College for Distinguished Thesis. Provided by Wikipedia