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Lisa Guenther is an American philosopher and activist. She is well-known for her efforts to take philosophy to extraordinary settings. Guenther has a significant interest in solitary confinement, prison torture, reproductive injustice, and the carceral state.

Education and career
Guenther received her bachelor's degree from Bishop's University, and her doctorate from University of Toronto. She is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Research areas
Guenther specializes in feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and political philosophy. Her book has been described by the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews as "a liberation manifesto in struggles against captivity".

Public philosophy
Guenther's work with inmates on death row in Riverbend maximum security prison in Nashville has received considerable media attention. In her interview with The Boston Review she describes her efforts as being grounded in a new understanding of what philosophy is: "I now approach philosophy as a radical democratic practice of collective sense-making." The Chronicle of Higher Education in its profile of Guenther called her "radical advocate for prison reform."

Category:Philosophers who work in prisons