Fellows, Jennifer J.

PhD (University of British Columbia)
MA (University of Calgary)
BA (University of Calgary)

Jill Fellows is a faculty member in the philosophy department at Douglas College. She is also a Media Fellow of the Marc Sanders Foundation. She is a co-editor of a collection of essays examining technology through an intersectional feminist lens entitled Gender, Sex and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide (published by Canadian Scholars Women's Press). The book explores topics from menstrual tech to dating apps, from baby bottles to the gendering of virtual assistants.

She received her MA in Philosophy at the University of Calgary where she wrote a thesis on Personal Identity with reference to Alzheimer's Disease and Dissociative Identity Disorder under the supervision of Dr. Brian Grant. Her BA was also in Philosophy, with a minor in Anthropology. She earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Alan Richardson. Her dissertation, entitled "Making Up Knowers: Objectivity and Categories of Epistemic Subjects" aimed to defend objectivity as an epistemic ideal against those, like Richard Rorty and Lorraine Code, who argue it is an ideal best discarded. She defended objectivity in terms of the categories of epistemic subjects communities who hold the ideal of objectivity tend to create.