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Lisa Heldke is a Professor of Philosophy in gender, women and sexuality studies. Her research areas include American philosophy, feminist philosophy and the philosophy of food.

Education
Heldke received her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in Music and Philosophy. She completed her MA and PhD from Northwestern University.

Career
Heldke's research explores the philosophical significance of food. Heldke has authored and co-authored and co-edited numerous titles including The Atkins Diet and Philosophy (2005) which compiled 16 essays taking a philosophical approach to the Atkins and low-carb diets. In 2016, Heldke co-authored Philosophers at Table with Raymond Boisvert. She was on the editorial board for the The Encyclopedia of Food and Agriculture Ethics.

Heldke held the position of the Sponberg Chair in Ethics at Gustavus Adolphus College from 2006-2016.

From 2009-2013 Heldke was the co-editor of the journal Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research produced by The Association for the Study of Food and Society. In 2015 she was named ASFS Fellow.

In 2012, Heldke's article Down Home Global Cooking: Why Cosmopolitanism versus Localism is a False Dichotomy, and How Our Food Can Show Us the Way to a Third Option was published in The Philosophy of Food, edited by David Kaplan.