Shadi Heidarifar, PhD, MA

Education:

• PhD – Philosophy, University of Florida
• MA – Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
• BA – Philosophy, University of Tehran

Biography:

Dr. Shadi Heidarifar joined the Roseman University College of Medicine (RUCOM) in the Fall of 2024 as the Assistant Professor in Bioethics in the College of Medicine and a Graduate Faculty in the College of Graduate Studies. She has won multiple awards, grants, and fellowships for her graduate research, including the Association for Academic Women’s Emerging Scholar Award and CLAS Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Florida and the Educating Character Initiative Professional Development Grant at Wake Forest University. She focuses on student-centered learning, promoting intellectual and moral growth. With the Educating Character Initiative Grant, she is developing a non-Western AI ethics curriculum for non-humanities students.

Dr. Heidarifar research focuses on taking a virtue approach to social ontology and epistemology. As an extension of this theoretical framework, she focuses on gendered and ethnoracialized social structures in her empirically informed project, especially in education, healthcare, and technology. Her research is reflected in her upcoming book project, Exceptional Women [tentative title], where she focuses on all-or-nothing attitudes to women’s healthcare, its result, false consciousness as a structural epistemic vice, and how the healthcare professionals’ unique epistemic situatedness can either help overcome false consciousness or further reinforce it depending on the type of education they receive.

Teaching Areas and research interests:

• Bioethics
• Feminist Bioethics
• Women’s Healthcare
• Ethics of Technology
• Data Ethics
• Data Feminism
• Virtue Ethics
• Virtue Epistemology
• Character Education
• Feminist Philosophy

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications:

1. Heidarifar S. From gender segregation to epistemic segregation: a case study of the school system in Iran. J Philos Educ. 2023;57(4-5):901-922. doi:10.1093/jopedu/qhad068

_{Last updated: 08/27/2024}