Margret Grebowicz

Dr. Margret Grebowicz is the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Emory University and has held faculty positions at institutions including the University of Silesia (Poland), the University of Houston-Downtown, and Goucher College (Baltimore). Her research focuses on environmental imagination, gender and sexuality, animal studies, and French philosophy post-1968. She has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship in Poland and a Leverhulme Trust fellowship in the UK.

Grebowicz’s work bridges academic philosophy with public-facing scholarship, appearing in outlets like the New Yorker, Atlantic, and Sierra Magazine. She serves on the executive board of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and is founding editor of Duke University Press’s Practices series. Her recent books explore themes such as human-animal ethics (Rescue Me), wilderness and climate change (Mountains and Desire), and marine ethics (Whale Song).

• Education: PhD (2001), MA (1999) in Philosophy from Emory University; BA (1994) in Philosophy and German from University of Texas at Austin.
• Awards: 2024 Weiner Professorship, 2022–23 Marc Sanders Media Fellowship, 2020 Center for Philosophical Technologies Residency.

Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to environmental ethics, combining field philosophy with public writing to address societal and ecological challenges. She is actively involved in editorial leadership and advancing public philosophy through media engagement.