Julia Gibson

Julia Gibson was the 2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Studies at Queen’s. She was appointed to the Environmental Studies Department of Antioch University New England in 2021. She envisions her research taking shape where the boundaries between feminist, political, and environmental philosophy grow pleasantly and productively murky. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she dig deeper into her research on transformative interspecies justice. Julia did her doctoral work in Philosophy at Michigan State University, writing her dissertation on palliative and remembrance ethics for the dead and the dying of climate change. Before obtaining her MA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado in 2013, she spent two years working at an international salmon conservation organization in Portland. She received her BA in Philosophy and Russian Studies from William Smith College in 2009. Julia has authored publications in bioethics, technology studies, mobilities studies, and animal ethics.