
Rosemary Kellison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Director of Philosophy Program
Contact info
- 678-839-5514
- 678-839-4849
- rkelliso@westga.edu
- Technology Learning Center - Room 2245
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Office Hours
Fall 2019 Office Hours:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:40–10:10, 12:20–1:10, and 3:20–3:50
*Current students: Check CourseDen Announcements for additional office hours every other Wednesday as well as any changes in usual office hours.
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Director of Philosophy Program
Biography
Rosemary Kellison studies comparative religious ethics, with special expertise in ethics of war, feminist moral philosophy, and Christian and Islamic ethics. She teaches courses in various areas of the study of religion, as well as feminist philosophy. Her new book, Expanding Responsibility for the Just War: A Feminist Critique (Cambridge University Press, 2019), employs a feminist ethical approach to analyze how we do and do not assign and accept moral responsibility for causing harm to noncombatants in modern war.
Education / Degrees
- Ph.D., Religion, Florida State University, 2013
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Courses Taught
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Course Sections and Syllabi
Spring 2020 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01
- PHIL-3250 (Islamic Thought) Section: 01W
Fall 2019 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-4300 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2019 Sections
- PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: E01
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: E01
Fall 2018 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-3220 (Christian Thought) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2018 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2018 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-4130 (Feminist Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-4230 (Philosophy of Religion) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2017 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-3205 (Theories of Religion) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-3250 (Islamic Thought) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2017 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: E01
Spring 2017 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-3220 (Christian Thought) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2016 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: E01
Spring 2016 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-4130 (Feminist Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2015 Sections
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-3205 (Religious Texts) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- PHIL-4300 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2015 Sections
- PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 01
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 01
- PHIL-2130 (Intro to World Religions) Section: 02
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Publication List
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War: A Feminist Critique. 2019. New York: Cambridge University Press. [View Publication]
"Seeing Power in Just War Reasoning." 2015. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 98.3: 398-427. [View Publication]
"Impure Agency and the Just War: A Feminist Reading of Right Intention." 2015. Journal of Religious Ethics 43.2: 317-41. [View Publication]
"Tradition, Authority, and Immanent Critique in Comparative Ethics." 2014. Journal of Religious Ethics 42.4: 713-41. [View Publication]
"At the Intersection of Scripture and Law: Qur'an 4:34 and Violence against Women." Co-authored with Shannon Dunn. 2010. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 26.2: 11-36. [View Publication]
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Skills and Resources
Comparative Religious Ethics
Ethics of War
Feminist Philosophy