After graduating from Colorado College, Dr. Juli Thorson Eflin received her PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Eflin teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, and Epistemology. She co-teaches with Dr. David Concepcion Feminist Ethics and Epistemology. She received the Lawhead Core Curriculum Teaching Award in 1999 and the BSU Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011. Recent publications include: “Enabling Change: Transformative and Transgressive Learning in Feminist Ethics and Epistemology,” (with David W. Concepción), Teaching Philosophy, 2009, pp. 177-198; “Women and Cognitive Authority in the Knowledge Economy,” in Knowledge Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by Greg Hearn and David Rooney, Edward Elgar, Publishers, Cheltenham, UK, 2008, pp. 45-58; “Epistemic Presuppositions and their Consequences,” Metaphilosophy, 2003, pp. 48-68. Reprinted in Moral and Epistemic Virtues, M. Brady and D. Pritchard (eds.), Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2003, pp. 47-66. Recent presentations include: “Epistemic Communities: Virtue, Vice and Epistemic Disability,” Bled (Slovenia) Philosophy Conferences, 2012; “Experiencing Feminist Metaphysics and Epistemology,” American Philosophical Association, 2010, Chicago, Illinois; “Virtuous Epistemic Communities,” and “Moving through Epistemic Disability and Epistemic Damage,” 2009, Hypatia 25th Anniversary Conference, Seattle Washington.