Dr. Anna Ezekiel
Instructor
Division of Social Science and Humanities
Dr. Anna Ezekiel is a feminist historian of philosophy whose work focuses on neglected German women philosophers from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her PhD in philosophy from McGill University in 2013 and also has an LLM in international law. Earlier in her life, she studied comparative religions and fine arts. Dr. Ezekiel’s books include Poetic Fragments (SUNY Press, 2016), Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings (OUP, 2026), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism (Bloomsbury; 2023), and Women Philosophers in the Long 19th Century: The German Tradition, ed. Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (OUP, 2021). For the latter volume, Dr. Ezekiel translated philosophical writings by eight historical women philosophers, including Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina Brentano-von Arnim, Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edith Stein, Gerda Walther, Clara Zetkin, and Rosa Luxemburg. For more information on Dr. Ezekiel and her work, see her website at ACEzekiel.com.
“Philosophy is a way of expanding possibilities for living in our world.”