Lisa M. Madura

Lisa received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 2023, and holds an M.A. and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research areas include social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, and critical phenomenology.

• Social and political philosophy
• Philosophy of race
• Feminist philosophy
• Critical phenomenology

• Vanderbilt University, PhD in Philosophy, 2023
• University of Nevada Reno, MA in Philosophy, 2016

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Race and Social Ethics at the University of California, Los Angeles, 2023–2026
• Marc Sanders Foundation Philosophy in Media Fellow, 2025

• “The Excesses of Testimonial Injustice,” Social Philosophy Today (2025).
• “Racial Habit” in Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (Routledge, 2023).
• “Hospitality and the Political Economy of Care” in Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).