Shannon Dea

Notable work and positions

University of Regina - Dean of Arts and Professor of Philosophy
University Affairs - Columnist, Dispatches on Academic Freedom
University of Waterloo - Former Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies

Biography

Shannon Dea is dean of arts and a professor of philosophy at the University of Regina. She previously spent many years as a professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo, where she also directed the Women's Studies program and received a 2018 Distinguished Teacher Award. Her research and teaching span the history of philosophy - particularly early modern philosophy and classical pragmatism - as well as the philosophy of sex and gender, academic freedom, and equity in higher education. She is the author of Beyond the Binary: Thinking About Sex and Gender (Broadview, 2016) and numerous articles and book chapters, and she writes the monthly column Dispatches on Academic Freedom for University Affairs, a Canadian higher-education publication, in which she has written both as a faculty member and, after becoming a dean, about the changing shape of academic freedom for senior administrators. She is principal investigator on a SSHRC-funded project developing academic freedom protections for precarious and minoritized scholars.

Career highlights

• Dean of Arts, University of Regina Oversees the Faculty of Arts while continuing to research and write on academic freedom.
• Dispatches on Academic Freedom University Affairs · Monthly column examining academic freedom issues in Canadian higher education.
• Beyond the Binary: Thinking About Sex and Gender Broadview Press, 2016.
• Distinguished Teacher Award University of Waterloo, 2018.