Alexis Shotwell

Alexis Shotwell (b. 1974^[1]) is a Canadian philosopher, currently employed as a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she is cross-appointed with the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Philosophy.^[2] She was educated at University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD), Dalhousie University (MA) and McGill University (BA), Shotwell has also taught at Laurentian University.^{[citation needed]}

She works in social philosophy, political theory, and feminist philosophy, especially on questions of moral complicity.^[3] She is also the lead researcher for a project on the history of AIDS activism in Canada.^[4]