Fall 2016
Philosophy Newsletter
Brynn received her B.A. from Davidson College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before joining the faculty at UAB, she worked at Beloit College in Wisconsin and Emory & Henry College in Virginia, where she taught a range of classes, including bioethics, environmental ethics, and contemporary problems of justice. Brynn’s research and teaching interests are in applied ethics and social/political philosophy. She has published in Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Economics and Philosophy, and she recently delivered a TEDx talk on the absence of multi-dimensional people of color in children’s literature. Her research focuses on whether and to what extent public social justice goals should constrain private individual family decisions, such as what we owe our parents, whether to have children, where to send those children to school, and even what children’s books to purchase. She is thrilled to be living in Birmingham with her son, Ben, a three-year-old elevator aficionado who has already developed a deep affection for the Humanities Building hydraulic lift.