California State University Bakersfield
Anne Waters, J.D., Ph.D.

AMERICAN INDIAN WRITER PHILOSOPHER POET LAWYER INDIGENIST WOMANIST

1806 Arizona, N.E. phone: (505) 265-3912
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA 87110 email: brendam234@aol.com



Current Position: Faculty, California State University,
Bakersfield Philosophy and Religious Studies Department
Phone: (661) 664-2292
Currently Teaching: Metaphysics 340; Native American Religion 330;
Introduction to Philosophy 100; Logical Reasoning 102;
Current Research: American Indian Metaphysics & Epistemology



Doctoral Theses:

Doctorate of Philosophy Morality, Law, and Politics: Reproduction & Surrogacy
Juris Doctorate: "Framing The Constitutional Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment"



Education:

Ph.D. Philosophy, Purdue University (Dissertation Scholarship)
J.D.  The University of New Mexico Law School [Dean's List]
M.A.  Philosophy, Purdue University {Continental, Analytic}
A.M.  Philosophy, Washington University at St. Louis {Analytic}
B.A.  Philosophy, The University of New Mexico [With Distinction]



Specialization:

Philosophy:
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Ethics
  • Critical Race and Gender
  • Social-Political
Law:
  • Jurisprudence
  • Constitutional
  • Civil Rights
  • Family
  • Feminist
  • Critical Legal Studies
  • Post Modern
Women Studies:
  • Theory of Race
  • Gender
  • Class
  • Indigenism
  • Womanism
  • Feminism
Ethnic Studies:
  • American Indian
  • Native American Religion
  • Native American Philosophy
  • Critical Race and Gender
  • Global Indigenous Sustainability



Competence:

Philosophy: Analytic-Pragmatic-Continental-History-Law-Logic-Value Theory
Law: International-History-American Indian-Ethics-Biomedical-Family
Area Studies:
Women Law-American Indian-Race, Class, and Feminism-Sustainable Development
Ethnic Natural Resources-Population-Land-Labor-Health-Economics-Sovereignty
Indigenist Reproduction-Development-Resource Acquisition-Nations States Relations



Books:

Breaking Ground: American Philosophy Anthology
co-editing with Leonard Harris, Scott Pratt
Blackwell: Boston, 2001
American Indian Thought: An Academic Philosophy Reader
co-editing with John H. DuFour
Blackwell: Boston, 2001
(Journal) Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Special Issue on Intersections of American Indian Women and Feminism/Womanism
co-guest editing with M.A. Jaimes Guerrero
Indiana Press: Indianapolis, 2002
American Indigenist-EuroAmerican Metaphysics and Epistemology
Contract Under Negotiation with J. Collier
AltaMira Press, Division of Rowman & Littlefield



Articles in Books:

"That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory" in Women of Color and Philosophy,
Naomi Zack, ed. Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
"Homelands and Families," "Journeys of the Mind," and "Wewoka, Oklahoma," in Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology,
Will Roscoe, ed., St. Martin's Press, 1988.



Reprints

"Journeys of the Mind," in Making Face, Making Soul/Hacienda Caras: Creative & Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color,
Cherrie Moraga, ed., Spinsters/Aunt Lute Press, 1990.



Articles in Journals

"Surrogacy and Reproductive Responsibility,"
in National Women Studies Association Journal, 1989.



Encyclopedia Entries

"Native American Women and Reproductive Rights"
in Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights.
"Indigenist Feminism"
in Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Lorraine Code, ed.; Routledge, 2000.
"Sustainable Development"
in Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Lorraine Code, ed.; Routledge, 2000.



Book Reviews

"Tribal Epistemologies by Helmut Wautischer,"
in Anthropology of Consciousness, 1999.
"Genuine Risk by Martha Osborne,"
in Teaching Philosophy, 1984.



Works in Progress

"Emergent Space: Indigenist American Thought and Disability"
submitting to Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Special Issue on Women and Disability, Eva Kittay, Anita Silvers, and Susan Wendell, eds., Indiana University: Indianapolis 2001.
"Cornelius and Marx: Economic Wealth or Economic Biocide?"
To be presented at the 2000 Eastern Division American Philosophical Association Meeting, Boston.
"American Indian Identity, Time, and Sovereignty: A Tribute to Vine Deloria,"
Presented in part at 1999 Pacific Division A.P.A. Meeting in Berkeley, California.
Under Revision:
"Indigenist Womanism/Feminism: Theoretical Considerations"
"Being Well: Linear Religion or Holistic Spirit"
"Indigenist Philosophy: Political Dialogues"



R E F E R E N C E S

Dr. William McBride, Purdue University, West Laf, Indiana (Diss. Director) [Sartre]
Dr. Leonard Harris, Purdue University, West Laf, Indiana (Diss. Comm.) [Africana]
Dr. Nancy Tuana, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon [Feminist]
Dr. Naomi Zack, State University of New York, Albany [Critical Race]
Dr. Scott Pratt, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon [American Indian]
Dr. M. A. Jaimes*Guerrero San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA [American Indian] [Feminist]



Courses Taught

Graduate Philosophy:
  • Kant and Post Modernism
  • Graduate Seminar Methods
  • Masters Thesis Seminar
  • Law and Morality
  • Racism & Sexism
  • Feminist Theory
  • Philosophical Methods
Undergraduate Philosophy:
  • Critical Thinking
  • Elementary Logic
  • Formal Logic Methods
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Professional Ethics
  • Medical Ethics
  • Business Ethics
  • Ethics & Value
  • Ethical Theory
  • Moral Problems
  • Philosophy of Technology
General Honors:
  • Philosophy and Law
Women Studies:
  • Introduction to Women Studies
  • Contemporary Feminist Theory
  • Women and Work
  • Reproduction and Feminism
  • Racism, Sexism, and Classism
Cultural Studies:
  • Native American Studies
  • American Indian Religion
  • Introduction to Cultural Studies



Graduate Courses Taken

Purdue Analytic:
  • Greek Phil
  • 20th Cent Lang
  • Phil of Mind
  • Freedom of Will
  • Kant's Aesthetic
  • Symbolic Logic
Purdue Continental:
  • Social and Political Phil
  • Phenomenology
  • Marx /East European
  • Hermeneutics
  • Contemp Ethics
  • Phil of Social Science
Washington Univ Analytic:
  • Epistemology
  • Pragmatism
  • Hume
  • Ancient
  • Theory Ethics
  • Feminist
  • Phil of Law
  • Symbolic Logic
  • Phil Psychology
  • Phil of Language
  • Mod Metaphysics
  • Social /Political
Univ New Mexico Law School:
  • History
  • Contracts
  • Torts
  • Property
  • Criminal
  • Writing
Univ New Mexico Law School:
  • Constitutional History
  • Constitutional Law
  • Feminist Jurisprudence
  • Supreme Court Decisions
  • 1st Amendment
  • Civil Rights
  • Mediation
  • Family Law
  • Trial Practice
  • Administrative
  • Jurisprudence
  • Reproductive
  • Legal Clinic
  • Internship Court Clerk
  • Mediation Divorce Court Clinic



Honors & Awards

Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, The University of Arizona
U.S.A. Philosophy Delegate, Russian Federation and Hungary
Pergamon Press, NWSA Dissertation Scholar in Honor of Ruth Bleir, 1st Recipient
University of New Mexico Law School,  Helen Steiner Memorial American Indian Law Scholarship
University of New Mexico Law School, Graduate Office Scholarship
Purdue University, Black and Ethnic Minorities Doctoral Fellowship
Purdue University, Women Studies Teaching Scholarship
Washington University,  University Fellowship
Washington University, Philosophy Teaching Fellowship
University of New Mexico Graduate with Distinction
University of New Mexico Danforth Nominee, Philosophy and Education
Phi Sigma Tau (Philosophy Honors)
University of New Mexico Honors Scholarships



Professional Activities

1999 Chair, American Philosophical Association Committee on American Indians in Philosophy.
April 1999 Philosophy Workshop Participant, Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
1998 to Current President, American Indian Philosophy Association.
1998 Faculty  Advisor,  Aboriginal Philosophy Association, Lakehead University, Ontario, Ca.
1998 APA  Roundtable Discussion on Indigenous Philosophy, 20th World Philosophy Congress.
April 1996 Organizing Committee on American Indians in Philosophy,  [Comm. Approved 1998].
1997 to Current Editorial Board, Radical Philosophy Association Journal,
1997 to Current Editorial Board, Ayaanwaamizin: International Journal of Indigenous Philosophy.
1997 Appellate Judge, Moot Court, Univ. of New Mexico Law School, Albuquerque.
1996 Judge, "Miss Indian World"  Gathering of Nations Pow-Wow, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1995 to 1997 Chair, Cultural Studies Committee, Albuquerque T-VI Community College.
1994 to 1997 Assessment, Honors, Cultural Studies Committees, Albuquerque T-VI C.C.
1995 Judge, "Miss Indian World"  Gathering of Nations Pow-Wow, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1995 Citizen  Ambassador and International Philosophy Delegate, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Budapest.
1996 and 1997 Participant, National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education.
1993 to 1995 Co-Chair T-VI Cultural Studies, and Mediator, Mediation Committee, Albuq. T-VI CC.
1993 Charter Faculty  Advisor, Women's Philosophy Association, The University of New Mexico.
1991 Act.ing  President, UNM  Graduate Student Association, The University of New Mexico, Summer.
1988 Program Committee, Society for Women in Philosophy, Midwest Region.
1985 to 1986 Women Studies Committee, Purdue University.
1983 to 1984 Assistant to Director,  Women Studies, The Univ. of New Mexico.
1984 Conference Coordinator &  Film  Director, "Multicultural Feminist Studies: Theory and Practice" University of New Mexico.
1984 Evaluation and Faculty Selection Committees, Women Studies, The Univ. of New Mexico.
1983 to 1984 Coordinator, Women Studies Seminars, The University of New Mexico.
1982 Graduate Admissions  Committee, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, St. Louis.
1981 to 1982 Coordinating, Faculty Selection, and Media Committees, Women Studies, Washington University.
1981 to 1982 Library Consultant and Newsletter Writer, Women Studies, Washington University.
1980 Coordinating Council, and Constitutional Task Force, National Women Studies Association.



Presentations

1999 and 2000 Four Presentations at APA Eastern and Pacific.
April 1999 "Introducing American Indian Philosophy," Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Haverford College.
April 1999 "ReWriting American Philosophy:  The Paradigm Shift," APA  Pacific Division, Berkeley, California.
April 1999 "Identity, Time, and Sovereignty:  A Tribute To Vine Deloria," APA Pacific Division, Berkeley, California.
April 1999 "Linear Religion and Holistic Spirituality," APA Pacific Division, Berkeley, California.
February 1999 "Indigenist Feminism," University of Oregon.
1999 "Broadening the Scope of American Philosophy," Society for the Advancement American Phil, U of Oregon.
February 1999 "American Indians and NonTraditional Students: Surviving Higher Education," University of Oregon, February.
1999 "Broadening the Scope of American Philosophy," Philosophy Dept, University of Central Florida, Orlando.
February 1999 "Indigenist Feminism," Women Studies Colloquium, University of Cental Florida, Orlando, February.
November 1998 "Broadening the Scope of American Philosophy.," The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
August 1998 "Indigenist Philosophers of the Americas and Global," Twentieth World Congress, Boston, Massachusetts.
August 1998 "American Indian Gender and Identity,"  8th International Association of Women Philosophers, Boston.
1998 "Verbatim and Data: A Dialogue of Indigenist Philosophy," Lakehead Univ, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Ca.
1998 "Ethics of Decision Making in  Urban Native American," Medical and Health Sciences BioEthics, Lakehead Univ.
1997 "The Need for an APA Committee on Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas," APA Eastern Division Meeting.
1997 "Engendering Rationalities of Colonial Languages," Women Studies Speaker's Series, Lakehead U, Ontario, Ca.
???? Chair, "Law and Indigenous Peoples," Indigenous Rights, Political Theory and Reshaping of Institutions Conference.
1997 Australian National University, Canberrra, Australia, August.
1997 "Evaluation of  Cultural Studies," National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, Orlando, Florida.
1997 Keynote Speaker: "Affective and Cognitive Epistemology," EnGendering Rationalities Conf, U of Oregon, Eugene.
April 7, 1997 "Freedom and Representation in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,"  University of Southern Mississippi.
March 8, 1997 "Teaching Native American Philosophy," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Conference, The University of New Mexico, and The Native American Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1997 "Native American Philosophy," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1997 "The Future of the Women Studies Programs," New Mexico Statewide Womens'  Conference, University of New Mexico.
1996 "Situating Identity Hegemony in Academia," Aboriginal Peoples International   Conference, Lakehead University.
1996 "Situating Hegemony, Difference, and Identity," Native American Philosophy Conference, Highlands University, New Mexico.
199? "Creating a Cultural Studies Program" 9th  Nat'l  Conf on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education,  TX.
December 1994 "Ethics, Reproductive Technology, and Law" Albuquerque Comm Coll  Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, NM.
April 1993 "Hegemony Re-Visited," Philosophy Department, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Maryland.
January 1993 "Global Health Issues," Philosophy Dept., Univ. of Toronto, Canada.
1992 "Colonization, Identity, and the Law," Southwestern People of Color Law Conference, University of Tucson, AZ.
April 1992 "Surrogacy and Reproduction," Phil. Dept., Arizona State University, Phoenix.
August 1991 "Expanding Reproduction Rights Through State Constitutions," North AmeriSociety for Social Phil, Colorado Springs.
April 1991 Poetry Reading, The Univ. of New Mexico Law School, Albuquerque, N.M.
1990 "Baby M, Surrogacy, and Legal Method," Department of Philosophy, The Univ. of New Mexico, Albuq.
June 1989 "Surrogacy and Reproductive Responsibility," National Women Studies Association Conf, U of Md, Towson.
1988 "Cultural Justifications of Separatism:  Oppression, Health, or Politics?," SWIP Carleton College, Northfield.
October 1988 "Surrogacy and Reproductive Responsibility," Dept  Phil Coll Series, Purdue U, West Lafayette, Indiana.
1988 "Reprod Tech:   Privacy  Rts vs Parental Duties," Women in the Year 2000 Conference, Indiana U-Purdue U.
1988 "Surrogacy and Reproductive Responsibility," Society for Women in Philosophy, Michigan State University.
1985 "On Positive Marginality:  Global Feminism and Indigenous Struggles," Purdue U International Conf On Women.
1984 "Who Should Be Teaching What?  Moral Considerations of Jobs and Teaching," NWSA,  Rutgers, New Brunswick.
April 1984 "Comments on de 'Beauvoir, Marxism, and Mothering' by Alison Jaggar and William McBride, and 'Feminist Humanism vs. Gynocentrism' by Iris Young," Simone de Beauvoir International Conference, U of  Pa,  Pittsburgh.
Fall 1984 "On Multicultural Teaching," The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1984 "Multicultural Issues in Women Studies," UNM Women's Studies Conference, The U of New Mexico, Albuq.
June 1983 "Separatism and Womens' Health," National Women's Studies Conference, Ohio State U, Columbus, Ohio.
July-August 1983 Multicultural Women Studies Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois, July-August.
Fall 1982 "Separatism:  A Feminist Perspective on 'Shared Epistemic Privilege'," SWIP , Indiana University.
Spring 1982 "Racism and Sexism in the Classroom:  A Methodology of Teaching," Women's Studies Coll, Wash Unive.
1981 "Comment:'Gender Differentiation and Male Domination: Chodorow, Hartsock, and Harding' by   Iris Young," SWIP.


Dr. Anne Waters
Lecturer, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department
California State University, Bakersfield
9001 Stockdale Highway
Bakersfield, California   93311
(661) 664-2292

Cal State University Bakersfield
Email: Joe Cisneros, Web Development