Shadi Heidarifar

Hi, I'm Shadi (SHUH-dee)!

(She/her) I am an Assistant Professor in Bioethics in the College of Medicine and a Graduate Faculty in the College of Graduate Studies at the Roseman University of Health Sciences. My research focuses on taking a virtue approach to social ontology and epistemology. In my dissertation, I argue that bringing moral and epistemic virtues into explaining complex social structures is crucial for comprehensively understanding such phenomena. I have won multiple awards, grants, and fellowships for this project, including the Association for Academic Women’s Emerging Scholar Award and CLAS Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Florida and the Educating Character Initiative Professional Development Grant at Wake Forest University.

As an extension of this theoretical framework, I focus on gendered and ethnoracialized social structures in my empirically informed project, especially in education, healthcare, and technology. For instance, in my upcoming book project, Exceptional Women [tentative title], I focus on all-or-nothing attitudes to women’s healthcare, its result, false consciousness as a structural epistemic vice, and how the healthcare professionals’ unique epistemic situatedness can either help overcome false consciousness or further reinforce it depending on the type of education they receive.

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