Department of Philosophy May 2016
University of Maryland
1108B Skinner Hall
College Park, MD 20740
cindywoo[at]umd.edu
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
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Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Legal Philosophy
AREA OF COMPETENCE
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Introduction to Logic, Applied Ethics, Political Economy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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Adam Smith Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2016 - 2017
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Maryland, expected 2016
Dissertation: The Justification and Legitimacy of States
Committee: Christopher Morris (Chair), William Edmundson, Samuel Kerstein, and Dan Moller
Visiting Scholar, University of Edinburgh Law School, 3/2016 - 7/2016
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Australian National University, 6/2014 – 8/2014
M.A. Philosophy, Georgia State University, 2011
Master’s Thesis: Rescuing Hart and Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency
Committee: William Edmundson (Co-Chair), Christie Hartley (Co-Chair), Andrew Altman, George Rainbolt, and Kenneth Ehrenberg
B.A. Philosophy, State University at Buffalo (with highest distinction), 2008
B.A. Political Science & Economics, The Ohio State University, 2006
PUBLICATIONS
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(forthcoming). The Presumption of Liberty and Coerciveness of Law, Jurisprudence.
ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW
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(Under review). On the ethics of redistribution.
AWARDS
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International Conference Student Support Award ($500), 2014
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant ($1500), 2014
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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Enterprise and Markets Fellowship, Snider Center at University of Maryland (27k) 2016 - 2017
Adam Smith Fellowship, Mercatus Center at George Mason University (10k) 2016 - 2017
Moreland Perkins Fellowship, Philosophy Department at University of Maryland (10k each) Fall 2011, Spring 2016
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (non-refereed talks *, invited talks ** )
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"Political Resistance"
Seventh Annual Braga Meeting on Ethics and Political Philosophy, Braga, Portugal (June 2016)
"Law's Function as a Decision-Procedure"
Edinburgh Law School Seminar Series, Edinburgh, UK (March 2016)**
"The Normativity of Decision-Procedures"
University of Maryland Colloquium, College Park, MD (February 2016)*
"The Presumption of Liberty and Coerciveness of Law"
Special Workshop on "Law and Coercion" at The World Congress of International Association for Philosophy of
Law, Washington, D.C. (July 2015)
University of Maryland Colloquium, College Park, MD (September 2015)*
"The Burdens of Expressed Consent Theory"
Cambridge Doctoral Legal Theory Workshop, Cambridge, UK (June 2015)
“Consent Theory and the Liberty Tradition”
Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium, Washington, PA (September 2014)
“Title redacted to preserve anonymous review”
University of Maryland Colloquium, College Park, MD (October 2013)*
Australian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, Australia (July 2014)*
“Rescuing Hart and Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency”
McMaster Legal Theory Conference (Poster Session), Hamilton, Canada (April 2011)
McMaster Graduate Legal Theory Conference, Hamilton, Canada (April 2011)
Georgia State University, Practical Reason Group, Atlanta, GA (May 2011)*
“Practical Authority: Darwall vs. Raz”
McMaster Graduate Legal Theory Conference, Hamilton, Canada (May 2010)
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
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Comments on Dylan Murray’s “Performative Constructivism,” Georgia State Phi Sigma Tau Graduate Philosophy Symposium, April 2010
Participant in Workshop on Legal Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, April 2014
Participant in Workshop on Jason Brennan's "Markets Without Limits," Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets, February 2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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As Principal Instructor
Contemporary Moral Problems
University of Maryland, Summer 2016
Philosophy of Law
University of Maryland, Fall 2014
Introduction to Philosophy
Spelman College, 2010-2011
Georgia State University, Spring 2011
Critical Thinking
Georgia State University, 2009-2010
As Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Logic
University of Maryland, Spring 2015
Why is Killing Wrong?
University of Maryland, Spring 2013
Contemporary Moral Problems
University of Maryland, Fall 2012
Ethical Theories
University of Maryland, Spring 2012
Introduction to Philosophy
Georgia State University, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
University of Maryland, Fall 2013
Political Philosophy
State University at Buffalo, Spring 2008
University of Maryland, Spring 2014
SERVICE
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Department
(Philosophy Graduate Student Association [President] 2014-2015, Colloquium Committee 2014-2016, Chair Search Committee 2012, Department Student Representative to the Faculty 2011-2012)
University
(Representative to the Graduate Student Association, University of Maryland, 2012-2013)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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American Philosophical Association
The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy