Lee-Ann Chae
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy, Temple University
2025–present
Affiliated Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Temple University
2019–present
Affiliated Professor of Global Studies, Temple University
2020–present
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy, Temple University
2018–2025
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2016–2018
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. in Philosophy, September 2016
Dissertation: War and Peace: Towards a Theory of Just Peace
Committee: A.J. Julius (Chair), Barbara Herman, Calvin Normore, Aslı Bâli
University of Southern California School of Law
J.D., May 2004
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Legal Studies, July 2001
RESEARCH
Areas of Specialization
Pacifism and Just War Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Areas of Competence
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Race
PUBLICATIONS
"What is the Aim of a Just War?" Jurisprudence (forthcoming)
“The Problem with Preparing to Kill in Self-Defense,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 41, no. 4 (2024): 575-589
“Narrowing the Gap Between Anti-Militarism and Pacifism,” The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence 23, no. 1/2 (2023): 104–109
“Talking to Children About War,” Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 1, no. 1 (2023): 52–64
“Trust and Contingency Plans,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52, no. 7 (2022): 689–699
“Hoping for Peace,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98, no. 2 (2020): 211–221
“Pacific Resistance: A Moral Alternative to Defensive War,” Social Theory & Practice 40, no. 1 (2018): 1–20
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Fight Till the End? How to Think About Losing a Defensive War” (under review)
“Civic Solidarity”
AWARDS
APA’s Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize (awarded biennially for best unpublished essay on philosophy of war and peace)
for “What is the Aim of a Just War?”, December 2021
Marc Sanders Foundation Public Philosophy Prize, Honorable Mention, “Talking to Children About War,” November 2018
Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Philosophy Department, 2010–2011
PRESENTATIONS
“Judging Violence”
Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, Social/Political Philosophy Workshop, July 2023
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Normative Philosophy Workshop, July 2023
“Surrender and Defensive War”
Concerned Philosophers for Peace Annual Conference, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (co-hosted by Pellissippi State Community College), October 2023
University of Kansas, PRISM Workshop, May 2022
“Trust and Contingency Plans”
APA Eastern Division Meeting (virtual), January 2021
Center for Humanities at Temple (“CHAT”), December 2019
“Solidarity and Justice”
Manchester Centre for Political Theory (“MANCEPT”) (virtual), The Uses of Solidarity, September 2021
Concerned Philosophers for Peace Annual Conference (virtual), Peace and Hope in Dark Times, January 2021
“#MeToo and Feminist Solidarity”
The Wharton School, Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, Zicklin Center Normative Business Ethics Workshop, May 2019
“Hoping for Peace”
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (co-sponsored by the Department of English and Philosophy, West Point), Warsaw, Historical, Legal, Political and Ethical Aspects of Contemporary Military and Nonmilitary Conflicts, March 2018
University of Utah, The 4th Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, June 2017
Northwestern University, Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (“NUSTEP”), March 2017
“The Value of Trust”
Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference, August 2017
“Trust and Implicit Bias: Corporate Responsibility for Confronting Non-Actionable Discrimination”
INSEEC Business School, Paris, Transatlantic Normative Business Ethics Conference, May 2017
“Peace as a Trusting Relationship”
Northern Arizona University Colloquium, November 2015
“On the Justness of Defensive Wars”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2015
Northwestern University, NUSTEP, May 2013
COMMENTS
On Jake Monaghan’s “A Problem of Violent Crime”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 2024
On Max Khan Hayward’s “Yes We Can! Optimism, Cooperation, and the Rationality of Collectively Self-Fulfilling Beliefs”
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference, October 2023
On Jill Hernandez’s “Atrocity, Speech, and the Cancel Culture Debate”
Trinity College Dublin, Legal Philosophy Workshop, June 2023
On Ned Dobos’ Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: The True Cost of the Military
APA Eastern Division Meeting, Montréal, Author Meets Critics, January 2023
On Emily McGill-Rutherford’s “Feminist Political Liberalism as a Model for Relational Autonomy”
University of Utah, The 4th Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, June 2017
On Wendy Salkin’s “Democracy Within/Justice Without: The Duties of Informal Political Representatives”
University of Utah, The 4th Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, June 2017
On Amanda Greene’s “Political Legitimacy and the Value of Consent”
Princeton University, Princeton Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy, August 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate
Women and War: Feminist Perspectives
Solidarity
Sex and the Political (mixed-level course)
Political Violence
Undergraduate
AAPIs in the U.S.: Race, Diversity, and Identity
Intro to Feminist Philosophy: Sex Discrimination
Ethics of War and Peace (upper division course)
Police and Police Brutality (upper division course)
Sex and the Political (upper division course)
Corporate Responsibility and Ethics
History of Greek Philosophy (upper division course)
Aristotle’s Metaphysics (upper division course)
ADVISING
Dissertation Committees
Jason Cutmore, Formation and Formlessness: On Bildung’s Pertinence and Prospects Today
Manasa Gopakumar, Virtuous Ignorance: The Epistemic Value of Ignorance in a Non-Ideal World
Eli Israel, on trust and sexual consent (in preparation)
Daniel Remer, Medically Objectifying Bodies: Feminism, Power, and Objectification in Medicine
Yining Wu, Anne Conway’s Vital Motion
Caleb Zimmerman, on conscientious objection (in preparation)
Other Graduate Advising
Peter Chansky (MFA in Playwrighting), TBD, Independent Study (Spring 2024)
Alex Paparella, on feminist critiques of nonviolence, Preliminary Exam (Fall 2023)
Julie Cohen (Political Science), “Narrative Resistance Across Black, Indigenous and Palestinian
Contexts: Toward a Radical and Political Imagination,” Independent Study (Spring 2023)
Bryce Herndon, “Radical Hope and Climate Change,” Preliminary Exam (Fall 2022)
Sakura Shinjo (Political Science), Comprehensive Exam in Political Theory Committee Member (Fall 2020/Spring 2021)
Yining Wu, “Solidarity and Violence,” Preliminary Exam (Fall 2021)
Manasa Gopakumar, “Epistemologies of Ideology and Ignorance,” Independent Study (Spring 2020)
Caleb Zimmerman, “Two-Kingdom Dualism: A Metaphysical Grounding for Nonviolence,” Preliminary Exam (Fall 2019)
Jessica Brown, “Sexuality Under Capitalism,” Preliminary Exam (Fall 2019)
Undergraduate Advising
Julia LaFrance, Diamond Peer Teachers Program for "Introduction to Feminist Philosophy" course (Fall 2024)
Micah Jordan, on relational identities and Asian immigrant mothers and their Westernized daughters, Independent Study (Spring 2023)
Emily Beatty, “Choice Feminism and the Patriarchal Hermeneutics of Sexual Relationships,” Independent Study (Spring 2020)
ADDITIONAL PEDAGOGY TRAINING
General Education New Instructor Orientation, Temple, August 2023
Workshop: Inclusive Teaching and our AAPI Students at Temple, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, November 2021
Online Teaching Certification, Temple University, May 2020
Workshop: The Promising Syllabus, Temple Center for the Advancement of Teaching, August 2018
Workshop: Teaching Undergraduate Writing, UCLA Writing Program, September 2014
Teaching Assistant Training Program, UCLA, Fall 2013
Pedagogy Seminar, UCLA Philosophy Department, Fall 2008
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Organizer: Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Public Issues Forum on “Doing Philosophy with Children,” U. Penn., November 2023
Panelist: Future Faculty Fellows (to mentor women and graduate students of color), Temple University, February 2023
Panelist: Diversity in Philosophy, Franklin and Marshall College, February 2020
Mentor: Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy, 2018–2019
Journal Referee: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, Journal of Social Philosophy, Noûs, Philosophia, Social Theory & Practice
REFERENCES
A.J. Julius
Associate Professor of Philosophy
UCLA
Barbara Herman
Professor of Philosophy
UCLA
Cheyney Ryan
Director, Human Rights Program
Senior Fellow
Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Victoria McGeer
Professor of Philosophy
Australian National University
Senior Research Scholar
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Alan Strudler
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania