- Siobhain Lash
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Applied Ethics especially Environmental Ethics and Medical Ethics | Social and Political Philosophy |Information and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics| Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
| Public Philosophy | Business Ethics
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Ethics | Philosophy of Race | Modern History of Political Philosophy
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Philosophy | Tulane University
Dissertation: Popular Environmental Justice Questions: A Philosophical Evaluation
Committee: Chad Van Schoelandt (Director), Caroline Arruda, Oliver Sensen, Danny Shahar
M.A. Philosophy | Tulane University
Thesis: Autonomy, Mental Health, and the Right to the Choice of Suicide
Chad Van Schoelandt and Oliver Sensen
B.A. Philosophy| University of Nevada, Reno
B.A. English with an emphasis in Creative Writing
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Business and Environmental Ethics Research Fellow| West Virginia University
Business and Economics College
Business Ethics (Spring 2023-Present)
Ethics of Information/Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology ( Fall 2023-Present)
Instructor | Tulane University
Philosophy
Ethics in Business (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)
Intro to Philosophy (Fall 2020-Spring 2021)
Community-Engagement
Mellon Fellow Environmental Justice Mentor ( Summer 2021)
Adjunct Instructor | Delgado Community College
Philosophy
Intro to Ethics (Fall 2018-Summer 2020)
Intro to Philosophy ( Spring 2019-Spring 2020)
English
ALIT 99(Fall 2021)
Reading Development 072 (Fall 2018-Spring 2020)
PUBLICATIONS
Siobhain Lash, “Expensive Tastes and Living in the Gulf South: Claims to Compensation” Ethics, Policy & Environment, May 14th, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2024.2354155
Siobhain Lash, “The Green and Gray of Urban Renewal,” in Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works, forthcoming
Siobhain Lash, “Civic Associations and Polycentric Approaches to Environmental Justice in Louisiana.” Constitutional Political Economy, July 15th, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09409-w
Siobhain Lash, "Exploring Environmental Justice Year Round in The Greater New Orleans Area." Public Philosophy Journal 5, no. 1, 2023.
PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY PUBLICATIONS
Siobhain Lash, “TikTok: The Surveillance State and Your Role,” APA Film and Philosophy Blog, May 2nd, 2024.
Siobhain Lash, “The Costs of Climate Change: Is Federally-Funded Relocation Truly the Best, Most
Cost-Effective Option?” Blog of the APA, Aug. 2022.
Siobhain Lash, “Louisiana’s Idiosyncratic Economic Incentive Programs and Cancer/Death Alley,” Blog of the APA, 14 Aug. 2021.
Siobhain Lash, “The Hidden Economics of Environmental Racism in Cancer Alley: An Overview,” Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship, Tulane University, 2021.
Siobhain Lah, “The Nightmare Before Christmas and Moral Responsibility,” Philosophy Now Issue
141, 56-57, 2020.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
Murphy Institute Graduate Fellowship, The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University 2022-2023
Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University 2022
Adam Smith Fellowship, The Mercatus Center, George Mason University 2021-2022
Mellon Graduate Fellowship, Center for Public Service, Tulane University 2020-2022
Summer Fellowship, Mellon Graduate Program, Tulane University 2021
Summer Writing Grant, Mellon Graduate Program, Tulane University 2021
Don Lavoie Fellow, The Mercatus Center at George Mason University Fall 2020
CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, and WORKSHOPS
- “The One Ring and the Alignment Problem in Middle-Earth”
- Popular Culture Association (PCA)-Philosophy
- Chicago, Illinois, March 29th, 2024
- “Expensive Tastes and Living in the Gulf South: Claims to Compensation”
- Southern Economics Association( SEA) 2023
- New Orleans, Louisiana, November 20th, 2023
- “Governing the Environmental Commons: Economic Freedom as a Polycentric Institution for Fighting Climate Change” with Nicholas Reinarts ( Economics PhD Candidate at Middle Tennessee State University)
- Southern Economics Association( SEA) 2023
- New Orleans, Louisiana, November 20th, 2023
- “Limits of Liberal Democracies: Eco-Militarism and the Dangers of Legacy
Energy”- PPE Society Seventh Annual Meeting 2023
- New Orleans, LA, November 3rd, 2023
- “Limits of Liberal Democracies: Eco-Militarism and the Dangers of Legacy”
- 2023 Markets and Society Conference
- Falls Church, Virginia, October 22nd, 2023
- “Applied Research on Markets and Morality” colloquium
- Mercatus Center
- Fair Oaks, Fairfax, VA, July 18th-19th, 2023
- “The Environmental Justice and Political Economic Impact of Investment in Climate Priorities & Energy Transition,”
- Department of Energy and City of New Orleans Communities-Local Energy Action Program Pilot, Workshop Day 2, New Orleans, December 14th, 2022.
- “Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project: A Bargaining Model for Environmental Injustices”
- The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Sixth Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 3rd-5th, 2022.
- This was the same in-progress project:
- “An Environmental Justice Case Study: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana,”
- APA Eastern Division Meeting January 4-7th, 2023.
- “An Environmental Justice Case Study: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana,”
- “An Environmental Justice Case Study: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana”
- Southern Economic Association, November 19-21, 2022
- “An Environmental Justice Case Study: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana,”
- Mercatus Center Markets & Society Conference, Falls Church, VA, October 21-24, 2022.
- “Environmental Racism in Louisiana: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana,”
- 2022 Public Choice Society Conference, March 10-12th, 2022, Nashville, Tennessee.
- “Environmental Racism: Civic Associations and Alternative Institutional Approaches in Louisiana”
- After Justice: John Rawls’ Legacy in the 21st Century Conference, November 5th and 6th, 2021, University of Bucharest.
- o “Louisiana is Unjust. So What?” An alternate title of the same presentation.
§ at George Mason University’s Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, October 21-23, 2021, Virtual Meeting.
o “Louisiana is Unjust. So What?” An alternate title of the same presentation.
§ “The Future as a Present Concern” online conference, convened by the National University of Ireland Galway / Ollscoil Na Héireann Gaillimh, The Irish Philosophical Society / Cumann Fealsúnachta Na Héireann, and the British Society for Phenomenology, Wednesday 1 - Friday 3 September 2021. - TEDx Tulane Talk on “Environmental Justice, Governance, and Civic Associations in Cancer Alley”
- Tulane University, March 16th, 2022.
- “The Nightmare Before Christmas and Moral Responsibility”
o The Popular Culture Association, June 4th, 2021, Virtual Meeting.
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC TRAINING
· EPA Webinar- EPA Tools & Resources Training Webinar: U.S. Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Rubber Used on Synthetic Turf Playing Fields and Playgrounds, April 17th, 2024.
· EPA Webinar- EPA Tools & Resources Training Webinar: Report on the Environment, April 4th, 2024
· EPA Webinar - Wildfire Impacts on Drinking Water, Small Drinking Water Systems Webinar Series, July 25th, 2023. - “Rural Assembly Everywhere: Toward Safer, More Connected Communities,” Rural Assembly, Online, June 28th, 2023.
- “Scholarly Outreach and Equitable Collaboration for Sustainable Impact,” West Virginia University, Wednesday, February 8th, 2023.
· The Social Justice Portal Project, Maroon University , Imagining Freedom Institute, Summer 2022, July 11-15, 2022.
· “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Visions Training,” by Visions Inc., April 2022.
· “Ubuntu Sanctuary: Addressing Soul Wounds in Community Care” by Jinaki Flint, PsyD, Assistant Director for Outreach & Prevention, Counseling Center, Tulane University, February 2022.
· “EDI and Anti-Racism Foundations at Tulane,” Tulane University Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Professional Development Day, 2022.
· “Mellon Grant Writing Workshop” with Annie Phoenix of Rose Water Advisors, Tulane University, December 2021.
· “Decolonizing Methodologies,” with Diana Soto-Olson and Ryan McBride, Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship, November 2021.
· Seminar on Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, American Association of Philosophy Teachers’ 2021, August 9th, 11th, 13th, and 16th, 2021
· PPE Summer Workshop at Chapman University, July 26th-31st, 2021.
· Liberty and Civil Society, Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium on April 10th-11th, 2021.
· “Teach Anywhere” training, Tulane University Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching, 2020.
MEMBERSHIPS - American Philosophical Association(APA)
- International Society for Environmental Ethics(ISEE)
- Public Philosophy Network(PPN)
- Irish Philosophical Society(IPS)
- Southern Economics Association (SEA)