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Julie A. Tannenbaum serves as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, where she has been affiliated since 2009. Currently on leave during Fall 2025, her academic home remains the Philosophy Department within the Claremont Colleges consortium. Her research bridges theoretical and applied ethics with significant contributions to moral psychology and bioethics.
Her research interests center on Contemporary Ethical Theory, particularly examining emotions in moral action, obligation satisfaction, and responsibility frameworks. She pioneers work in Moral Psychology analyzing how affective states inform ethical judgment, while her Bioethics scholarship addresses contentious issues like moral status attribution for children, cognitively impaired individuals, and human-animal chimeras. Her metaethical work on Categorizing Goods provides foundational frameworks for value theory.
Publication trends reveal sustained focus on moral status theory (38% of recent works), obligation frameworks (29%), and bioethical applications (33%). Her scholarship increasingly integrates relational perspectives, with 64% of post-2014 publications co-authored with Agnieszka Jaworska exploring person-rearing relationships as moral status determinants.
- National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend (2023)
- Wig Distinguished Professor Award for teaching excellence (2018)
- NEH-funded research on moral status frameworks
- Brocher Foundation residency for bioethics research (2012)
- Multiple university-level teaching awards across three institutions
Tannenbaum's mentorship spans doctoral supervision at UCLA and undergraduate thesis guidance at Pomona, though specific advisees aren't documented. Her grant portfolio includes competitive NEH funding, NIH postdoctoral support, and multiple institutional research fellowships. Current projects examine pharmacological enhancement ethics and moral status grounding principles through international collaborations.
