BIANCA M. WAKED
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I am a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy under the supervision of Kate Manne (chair), Willow Starr, Julia Markovits, and Teresa Blankmeyer-Burke. During the 2025-2026 academic year, I will be a visiting student at the University of Victoria studying with Audrey Yap.

My research draws together feminist philosophy, the philosophy of disability, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Broadly, I am interested in clarifying oppressive social structures, with an eye toward cross-movement solidarity and political liberation.

I was awarded a Mellon Graduate Fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities for the 2024-2025 focal theme of "Silence." My research has also been funded by a four-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2019-2023). 

I completed my Master of Arts in philosophy from McMaster University under the supervision of Wil Waluchow and Violetta Igneski.

You can find my c.v. here.

PictureA person in a black tank top pulls back their long brown hair while sitting on a windy beach. (Tangier, Morocco)



contact me at bmw237 [at] cornell [dot] edu
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