Shannon Sullivan

Shannon Sullivan is a renowned philosopher, chair, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her expertise lies in feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy. Sullivan has authored several influential books, including Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (2001), Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (2006), Good White People: The problem with middle-class white anti-racism (2014), and White Privilege (2019). She has also co-edited notable books like Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (2007). Sullivan's recent work explores the impact of oppressive structures on the physical body, drawing inspiration from affect theory and the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and William James.