Draft:Karen Detlefsen

Karen Detlefsen is the Vice Provost for Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also Professor of Philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences and Affiliated Faculty of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women.

Education and career
Detlefsen earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, an MA from the University of Western Ontario, and a BA in English and Philosophy from the University of Calgary. . She has been an American Council of Learned Societies fellow.

In 2021 Detlefsen was named vice-provost at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research
Detlefsen works on early modern philosophy, with particular specialization in the role of women in philosophy and the philosophy of education and of science.

Selected publications

 * The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy (edited with Lisa Shapiro). Routledge. 2023.


 * Women and Liberty, 1600-1800: Philosophical Essays (edited with Jacqueline Broad). Oxford University Press. 2017.