Overview
Bianca Waked (she/they) is a Deaf Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy currently writing a dissertation on ableism and modal oppression. Her areas of research include Deaf philosophy, philosophy of disability, feminist philosophy (with a particular focus on Arab Islamic feminisms), and the philosophy of language. Areas of interests include the history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of art, and the philosophy of law. She will be a Graduate Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities for the academic year 2024-2025.
In 2019, she founded the APA-Sponsored Diversity Institute “PLUSS” and currently serves as the program director. She is a former Telluride Scholar, recipient of both the Mike Yarrow Adventurous Education Award and the George Lincoln Burr Award, and her research has been generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She holds a B.A. from McGill University (First-Class Honors) and an M.A. from McMaster University.