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CYNTHIA KAUFMAN 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Email: kaufmancynthia@fhda.edu Office Phone: (408) 864-8887

CURRENT POSITION: Chair, Department of Philosophy and Member of the Department of Women's Studies. De Anza College. Cupertino, CA 95014.

EDUCATION: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Philosophy, Ph.D.: February 1991. Thesis Title: Desiring Reason: Reason as an Unavoidable Discourse of Desire.

Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Tübingen West Germany, Philosophy. 1986- 1987.

University of California, Berkeley, Development Studies. B.A.: June 1984.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: De Anza College Cupertino, CA 1991 to Present

Department of Philosophy: Critical Thinking and Writing, Morals and Politics, History of Western Philosophy, Knowledge and Reality, Inductive Reasoning, Critical Consciousness and Social Change, Philosophy of Science. Department of Women's Studies: Introduction to Women's Studies, Challenging Oppression: Focus on Whiteness and Racism. Interdisciplinary Teaching: God, Reason, and the End of Innocence- Philosophy and Art, Comparative World Views- Philosophy and Anthropology, Art and Philosophy of the Landscape- Philosophy and Art, Social Theory- Philosophy and Political Science.

The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA 1990-1991 Member of the Faculty in the Coordinated Studies Area of Political Economy and Social Change.

AWARDS: Foothill-De Anza Chancellor's Recognition Award: 1997 for Women's Studies 2001 for Curriculum Development NYSOD Excellence in Teaching Award 1992

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOK: Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change. South End Press, 2003.

ARTICLES: A User's Guide to White Privilege,Radical Philosophy Review

"The Unforced Force of the More Familiar Argument: A Critique of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Rationality," Philosophy Today v.43, n.4, 2000.

Knowledge as Masculine Heroism or Embodied Perception: A Feminist Reading of Knowledge, Will and Desire in Nietzsche." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy v.13, n. 4, 1998.

"Postmodernism and Praxis: Weaving Radical Theory from Threads of Discourse and Desire." Socialist Review. v.24 n.3, 1994.

REVIEWS AND REPORTS: "Should we ask If Multiculturalism is Bad for Women: A Review of Susan Moller Okin's Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" Forthcoming Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy v.17, n. 4, Fall 2002.

"The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness: A Conference Report." Socialist Review v.26 n.3/4, 1996 (1998).

"Colonialism, Purity, and Resistance in The Piano." Review. Socialist Review v.24 n.1/2, 1994. "Michele le Doeuff, The Philosophical Imaginary" Review. Canadian Philosophical Reviews v. 12, February 1992.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:

"What Does it Feel Like Being White?" Presentation at the Passions of the Color Line Conference. University of San Francisco, 2001

Response to "Language and World: Against Foundationalism in Ethics" by Laura Roberts. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 2001.

"Postcolonialism and Pedagogy." Presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM. 1999. "Building Relations between White Women and Women of Color." Facilitated a Women's Studies Community Retreat. De Anza College. 1997, 1998, 2000.

"Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum." Presentation sponsored by the Teaching Resource Center, De Anza College. 1996, 1997, 1998.

"Why Women's Studies Needed California." Presentation to Women's History Month Celebration hosted by the California History Center, Cupertino, CA. 1996.

CURRENT COLLEGE SERVICE: Women's Studies department chair Multicultural curriculum committee chair Several hiring and tenure review committees Visiting Speakers Series committee Advisor to Students for Justice Advisor to Women's Club Affirmative Action representative District Diversity Committee Equity Collaboration Team Curriculum Committee General Education Review Committee

LANGUAGES: German and Spanish

OTHER SERVICE: Outside reader for Kai Lundgren-Williams' Disseration Defense Committee. Department of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, University of Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. 2001