Education:

Dr.Phil. from Humboldt University Berlin, 1993.
M.A. in philosophy from Free University Berlin, 1988.
B.A. in philosophy from Boston University, USA, 1981.

 

Academic employment:

2010-: Professor of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2014-2015: Jane and Aatos Erkko Professor, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.
1999-2010: Associate professor of philosophy, University of Iceland.
1997-1999: Assistant professor of philosophy, University of Iceland.
1993-1996: Lecturer in philosophy, Rostock University, Germany.

 

Administrative Work:

2016: Member of Academic Board of Berggruen Center for Philosophy and Culture.
2015: Member of Academic Advisory Board Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
2015-2017: Coordinator of Erasmsu+ project www.genderandphilosophy.hi.is
2014: Chair of Gender Committee of FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies).
2014-: Member of editorial board of SATS. Northern European Journal of Philosophy.
2013-: Board member of FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies).
2013: Review Panelist, Norwegian Research Council.
2012-2014: Coordinator of preparation group for a joint Nordic MA in feminist philosophy.
2012-2014: Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland
2011: Member of editorial board of Wagadu: A Journal of Transnationa Women´s and Gender Studies.
2011-2013: Project Manager of NOS-HS (Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences) funded project „Gender, Power and Violence: Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Inquiries into War, Conflict and Crisis.“
2010-: Member of Wissenschaftlicher Beirat of Nietzsche-Studien.
2009-2014: Chair of academic board and member of steering committee of EDDA Center of Excellence, University of Iceland.
2008-2012: Chair of board of GEST, United Nations University Gender Equality Training programme, University of Iceland.
2008-2011: Member of Ethics Committee of University of Iceland.
2009- : Vice-member of board of the Icelandic Academy of the Sciences.
2007- : Member of advisory board of Nora, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
2007- : Member of board of Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion.
2006- : Member of studies-committee for Gender Studies.
2005- : Member of studies-committee for Religious Studies.
2005-2006: Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2005- : Member of advisory board of International Institute of Applied Aesthetics.
2005-2006: Chair of Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2001-2003: Vice-chairperson, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
2000-2002: Chair, Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
1997-2000: Member of board of Center for Women’s Studies, University of Iceland.
1998-2001: Chairperson of the Equal Rights Committee of the University of Iceland.

 

Grants:

2015: Icelandic Research Council grant for research project „Feminist Philosophy Transforming Philosophy“
2105: Erasmus+ grant for Gender and Philosophy, see www.genderandphilosophy.hi.is
2012: Nordplus grant for preparation of joint Nordic MA in feminist philosophy.
2011: NOS-HS (Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences): „Gender, Power and Violence: Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Inquiries into War, Conflict and Crisis“.
2009: The Science and Technology Policy Council in Iceland (Rannís) for EDDA Center of Excellence.
2008: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), study grant for three months.
2003-2007: Nos-H grant (Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities) for the research project “Sexuality, Death and the Feminine”.
2004: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Study trip with students, "The legacy of Hegel in critical theory", Frankfurt M., Bochum and Berlin, June, 2004.
1993: Research grant from the Icelandic Science Council, “Feminist critique in ethics and political philosophy”.
1992-1993: Research grant from the Center for Women’s Studies, University of Iceland, “The Ethics of the Icelandic Women’s Movement (´Kvennalistinn´)”.

 

Visiting Scholar:

2010: Center for Humanities, University of Utrecht, Netherlands (October-November)
2008: Department of Philosophy, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany (April-June).
2007: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (March-May).
2003: Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (March-June).
2003: Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University, (September).
2003: University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (September).

 

 

Professional Membership:

IAPH, International Association of Women Philosophers.
The Nordic Society for Phenomenology.

 

Membership in societies:

2006-2014: Member of board Framtíðarlandið (Futureland).
2009-2014: Advisory board (Beirat), Goethe Institut Island.