About me:
Shannon Sullivan is Professor of Philosophy and Health Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She works in the intersections of American pragmatism/philosophy of the Americas, continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, and critical philosophy of race, especially critical whiteness studies. In addition to numerous essays, she is author or editor of ten books, including Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism (2014), The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression (2015), White Privilege (2019), and Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives (2021). She currently is working on a book on Wilhelm Reich and the biopsychosocial experience of joy.
Good White People was named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and a Ms. Magazine Must-Read Feminist Book of 2014. It also was awarded The Society of Professors of Education 2016 Outstanding Book Award.
For more information on her publications, please see her academia.edu webpage.
Education:
Ph.D. Philosophy, Vanderbilt University 1994
M.A. Philosophy, Vanderbilt University 1992
B.A. Philosophy, Trinity University (TX) 1988