Doctorate - Philosophy
Emory University - 2017
Professional Preparation
Master's - Philosophy
Emory University - 2015
Emory University - 2015
Bachelor's - Philosophy, German Studies, and Music
Whitman College - 2010
Whitman College - 2010
Research Areas
Continental Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Art and Literature
Social and Political Philosophy
Publications
Forthcoming "Author's Reply" to Book Symposium of three Commentators on Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 16 - Book Symposium
Forthcoming: “(Un)Making Kinship in the Wake of Family Policing” in Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing: Experiments in Philosophy, Edited by Lauren Guilemette and Ada Jaarsma, Duke University Press. 2026 - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: “Hyland’s Platonic Dialogue with Heidegger’s Conversations” in The Play of Philosophy: Thinking with Drew Hyland, Edited by Lydia Barry and Shane Ewegen, Brill. 2026 - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: "A Question (Un)Concerned with the Feminine: On Ian Alexander Moore’s Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl" in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 15 2025 - Book Symposium
"Thinking the Human(ities) in the Age of AI" in Athenaeum Review 12 (2025): 30-33 2025 - Public-Facing Essay
“Anzaldúa’s Revolutionary Self-Writing” in Politics and Minor Literature: Transcultural Interventions in Deleuze and Guattari’s Account of Minor Literature, Edited by Mukasa Mubirumusoke and Osman Nemli. Boston: Brill 2025 - Book Chapter
"Antigone's (Poetic, Queer) Death: Heidegger, Butler, and Mortality" in Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender: Thinking the Unthought, Edited by Tricia Glazebrook and Susanne Claxton. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2024 - Book Chapter
Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2024 - Book
Awards
Philosophy in Media Fellow - Marc Sanders Foundation [2024]
National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship, Philip L. Quinn Fellowship 23-24 - The National Humanities Center [2023]
American Philosophical Association Diversity Institute Alumni Fund Travel Award (X6) - The American Philosophical Association [2022]
Genice Rabe Travel Award - History and Philosophy Track, UTD [2019]
Minor Teaching Project Grant - Center for Teaching Excellence, Miami University [2018]
Emory Writing Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship - Emory University [2016]
Emory University Laney Graduate School Fellowship - Emory University [2011]
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany (Declined) - Fulbright [2011]
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Summer University Course Grant - DAAD, Freie Universität Berlin [2010]
Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholar - The Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State [2009]
Appointments
Director of Philosophy
[2025–2028]
[2025–2028]
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2025–Present]
University of Texas at Dallas [2025–Present]
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–2025]
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–2025]
Visiting Assistant Professor
Miami University of Ohio [2017–2018]
Miami University of Ohio [2017–2018]
Graduate Instructor
Emory University [2013–2017]
Emory University [2013–2017]
Projects
When Home Isn't: Theorizing the Family Policing System
Monograph in progress“A Critical Phenomenology of Family Policing”
Article in preparationPresentations
"Thinking and Moral Considerations"
Roundtable: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Arendt's Death, University of Texas at DallasHeidegger’s Pedagogical Techniques of Gelassenheit
Heidegger Circle Graduate Student Forum, VirtualFostering Antigone
2025 Edwards Address at Emory UniversityAuthor’s Response to Book Panel devoted to my monograph: Heidegger’s Conversations
Heidegger Circle Satellite session at the 63rd SPEP Conference, Virtual(Em)Placing Conversation
North Texas Heidegger Symposium 40th Annual MeetingAdditional Information
Dr. Katherine Davies is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas where she specializes in continental philosophy and feminist theory.
She received her doctorate from Emory University in 2017 after completing her undergraduate degree at Whitman College. She has been named a Philip L. Quinn Fellow at the National Humanities Center, a Philosophy in Media Fellow by the Marc Sanders Foundation, and an Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholar by the Rock Ethics Institute.
Her publications include a monograph with the State University of New York Press, articles in Research in Phenomenology, Arendt Studies, and Epoché, as well as book chapters in volumes published by Duke University Press, Brill, and Rowman & Littlefield.
Her current research agenda is focused on a book project in feminist philosophy on the family policing system.